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PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak conducted a driving directions test between Apple Maps, Google Maps, and the crowd-sourced Waze app to see which of the three performed best at least in his own area: California. It turns out that despite the controversy surrounding Apple’s contender, Apple Maps actually bested Google and Waze in Dvorak’s…
According to a report from N4BB, T-Mobile will be releasing the BlackBerry Q10 sometime in May of this year.The rumor comes to us courtesy of a Blackberry rep at a local BlackBerry Experience Forum, where he confirmed the above rumor. While T-Mobile has announced that it would be offering the BlackBerry Z10 upon release in March, the only U.S.…
Niantic Labs, who is more recently known for the Android-only augmented reality game, Ingress, has just released Field Trip for iOS. Niantic Labs is a division of Google, where it released Field Trip for Android last September. Field Trip is a virtual tour guide that will do most of the work for you. If you…
With the official release of the Android-based Ouya console on the horizon, the official game store has now gone live, claiming that any app uploaded through the developer portal will be available when the device starts shipping to its Kickstarter backers. Developers who have previously uploaded apps are in for a bit of a headache,…
AT&T has confirmed that its HTC One X will be getting an update that will include Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The update will be rolling out OTA today, and will bring with it several updates and some new features to play with. Included in the update are some new apps from AT&T, including AT&T Locker,…
AT&T recently released a video showing what it takes to keep users like yourself connected to a mobile network. This isn’t your normal trip to the city, though. The video below is shot in Alaska, where maintaining a network is anything but a walk in the park. In short, nothing in the video below looks…
Owners of the DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX are in for the Jelly Bean treatment today,via a new update which adds the functionality of Jelly Bean while gutting most of Motorola and Version’s infamous bloatware. The update has not begun OTA deployment yet, but can be installed manually. We’re still not sure when it will…
AT&T today sent out new press releases that talks about its LTE expansion in some new places. The second largest cellular provider in the United States has checked off the following cities on its LTE list: Brunswick, Georgia Evansville, Indiana Savannah, Georgia Expanded areas of Hampton Roads, Virginia The Death Star has been on a…
Samsung is teaming up with one of India’s largest conglomerates, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), over a $100 LTE-enabled phone that will be launched in the world’s second most populous country. The move comes on the heels of RIL’s plans to launch a 4G network in India when it will need few phones to offer to…
LG announced (press release in Korean is here) the third iteration of its Optimus LTE smartphone in its own backyard. The device isn’t that much different from the previous version, sporting the same 4.7-inch 720p IPS screen and 2GB of RAM. In addition, it also packs a dual-core processor clocked at 1.5Ghz, LTE connectivity (obviously),…