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Sony Ericsson just announced the release of its Xperia arc S and Xperia neo V, which are now available for purchase in the U.S. at the Sony Store. Both devices were recently updated to the latest Android operating system Gingerbread 2.3.4 that brings improvements to Sony Ericsson’s unique Facebook inside Xperia. Other noteworthy features for the…
Apple today has officially released its latest iTunes offering (version 10.5.1), which brings in a new $24.99-per-year iTunes Match service. With iTunes Match, users can subscribe and receive the ability to re-download songs on other devices like an iPhone or iPad. This is something Amazon’s Cloud Player has been doing for awhile now. iTunes Match is…
Sprint has just announced it’s moving away from offering unlimited plans for all devices but phones starting today. The shift will take the form of new tiered data plans that are in-line with what’s available for AT&T and Verizon. Sprint will be issuing 6GB for $50 per month and 12 GB for $80 per month…
It looks like Lenovo has been hard at work developing a new 10.1-inch Android tablet rocking Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and a quad-core Tegra 3 chip. Information on whether this slate will release this year at the company’s home country of China or beyond is a little fuzzy at the moment. Besides that, the 10.1-inch tab…
More evidence of Google working on a music store has arisen. Based on this batch of new screenshots, this feature looks like it will be merged into the the Market and Music app. Almost every industry expert expects Google will launch on November 16 as another mini store of the Android Market. Several pages in the…
Remember that cool “face unlock” feature in Android Ice Cream Sandwich Google unveiled at its Galaxy Nexus launch event in Hong Kong? Well, to no one’s surprise, the feature isn’t all that secure after all. The way this thing is suppose to work is users set their phone to recognize their face, when done they…
Adobe has finally shut the door on all future Flash for mobile operations. The software company today announced the last feature release (version 11.1) for Android and other mobile platforms. This without a doubt is horrible news for those of you out there who depend on this functionality for websites which don’t provide alternative viewing options…
Today is a special day, people – Motorola will be launching its latest device, the Droid RAZR, at 11:11 am. Oh yes, as precious minutes begin to tick away, now is the time to salivate over this slender beast of a phone (check out our review of the Motorola Droid RAZR here). Many folks will probably…
Today, Nvidia posted some pretty good quarterly earnings that were ahead of what analyst expected. This news comes after the company’s announcement of its beastly Tegra 3 quad-core processor, that will be jammed into the world’s first device to carry it, the Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime next month. The chipmaker reported earnings of $178.3 million,…
Pandora CTO Tom Conrad unveiled an interesting tidbit that explained how half of Americans don’t pay for music. Conrad mentioned that his company plans to capitalize on this statistic by monetizing the vast majority of listeners who pay little or nothing per year for music, this was said today at GigaOm’s RoadMap conference in San Francisco. He then broke down…