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The Samsung ATIV Odyssey is hitting Verizon stores tomorrow for the price of $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract agreement. This is the first Windows Phone 8 offering from the Korean manufacturer, and it’ll boast some pretty standard mid range features and specs. Features on the ATIV Odyssey include: Super AMOLED Display…
Shutterfly, a photo and personal publishing company, today re-launched its Treat application for iOS. Treat is a mobile greeting card application that directly competes with Apple’s Cards app. The main function of the application is to allow users to customize a variety of greeting cards, and optionally send a gift card, for special occasions. Another…
More photos of the HTC Sense 5 custom user interface are popping up on the Droid DNA. Apparently, there are users with access to this unreleased version of Sense, so more and more screenshots are beginning to leak out. An XDA member, who goes by the name of mdeejay, has just put up several screenshots…
CyanogenMod 10.1 Milestone 1 ROMs are now available for Nexus and Samsung devices. For those of you not familiar with this kind of ROM, allow for me to break down the geek/techie lingo. This Milestone 1 version is an unofficial Android 4.2 build deemed “mostly stable” and good enough for daily use, unlike the Nightly…
Verizon is fresh off another impressive quarter that saw the company bring in 2.2 million retail net customers, of which 2.1M were lucrative retail postpaid connections. The largest wireless provider in the United States seen revenues hit $20.0 billion in fourth-quarter 2012, up 9.5 percent year over year. Big Red also wanted to let everyone…
Path, a social mobile application that helps users connect with their friends, says it plans to shift more toward a “freemium” business model and expand its paid-for offerings in 2013. Path CEO Dave Morin told TechCrunch that the company is looking to mimic a similar formula seen by businesses such as Spotify, Evernote and Dropbox,…
AT&T is living up to its Death Star logo, as the carrier is rumored to be actively pursuing a merger or acquisition of a European phone company. According to The Wall Street Journal, the second largest cell provider in the United States is looking to expand in the European market to gain a competitive advantage.…
Nokia is getting another exclusive perk to its Lumia Windows Phone 8 handsets. The finnish-based manufacturer just released an Xbox game called Blobster for all its users on both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.x devices. Here are the features included in the game: Levels like you’ve never seen before! Amazing level design will have players…
Samsung is expanding its color palette of Galaxy Note II handsets. The smartphone manufacturer has an ad in its home country of Korea, and it shows off two new colors: amber brown and ruby wine. These are much-needed additions, especially since the phablet now sells with the stale colors of marble and titanium grey. The new colors…
If you’re a speed freak who loves to test how fast the network is in your area, then we have good news for you. The official Speedtest.net app is now available in the Windows Phone store (Marketplace). Many of the same features and settings you’ll find in other mobile platforms is present on the Windows…