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Remember when T-Mobile unveiled one of its latest tablet offerings, dubbed the SpringBoard? Well, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier has just announced on its website that the Huawei-made device will be officially launched in retail stores on November 9th. T-Mobile didn’t elaborate on pricing information, unfortunately. The Huawei Springboard is a 7-inch tablet that runs the latest version of Android…
T-Mobile has announced the pricing and availability of the long awaited HTC Radar 4G. We all knew this day would come, especially when a road map of Magenta’s upcoming phones leaked. The Radar 4G is a beautifully designed smartphone that looks and feels great, checkout our hands on with the HTC Radar here. This will…
Sprint has just announced it will carry the Samsung Transform Ultra, a phone which The Now Network had unveiled a month ago on its prepaid brand Boost Mobile. The phone packs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with Sprint ID, and includes a 1GHz processor, 3.5-inch HVGA display, and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It’s pretty much identical to the…
News about Motorola’s secret device dubbed the Droid RAZR (or whatever it’s called this week) recently had pics leak out to the public, now the device has gotten its specs outed. This mythical phone will be released on Verizon Wireless, and Motorola is rumored to be announcing it to the masses next week around the same…
Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has finally been closed, the company recently announced. The plan is for Skype to become a new business unit within Microsoft, with Skype CEO Tony Bates becoming the president of the newly created Skype division. Users should expect for Microsoft to integrate Skype into a variety of its products, including mobile. Discussing plans of the future after joining forces…
In a recent study conducted by Xyologic, results show that in 2012 Apple will no longer have the advantage when it comes to app downloads, the Cupertino-based company will be surpassed by Android. The study was taken last month, showing Apple holding its lead with 1.45 billion app downloads in that month vs 0.64 billion…
The latest study conducted by Nielsen shows that 40 percent of people use their tablets and smartphones while watching TV. This survey illustrates how users are increasingly multitasking when it comes to multimedia, and justifies a lot of the work DirecTV is doing with smartphone and tablet linking to their set-top boxes. All of this information…
LG looks to be setting up for a release of its new dual-screen handset dubbed the Doubleplay, to be sold by T-Mobile. A few months ago we reported about this same phone once it appeared in the wild, but with a black keyboard instead. Besides having a secondary display to supplement the main 320 x…
Samsung has decided to ratchet up the level of competition with Apple. The South Korea-based company will attempt to trump its iPhone 4S rival by offering up its popular Galaxy S II smartphone for just two bucks without a service contract (yes, you heard correct). This likely stems from Apple’s recent rejection of Samsung’s settlement offer,…
In the latest infographic created by [x]cube Labs, shows 79 percent of people out there use their smartphones to help them shop. The survey tracks some new interesting habits in shopping regimens illustrated by today’s consumer using data pulled from “various research reports”. Of that 79 percent, 70 percent of the consumers use the smartphone…