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We all knew at some point Apple and Proview’s squabbles over who owned the iPad trademark would come down to a bid. Well, there are reports saying that Apple is offering up $16 million (100 million yuan) for the right to use the iPad name in China. Of course, Proview didn’t agree with that number,…
Ready to hear some more new iPhone and iPad rumors? Well, everyones favorite Apple rumor starter, Digitimes, has gotten word that Pegatron Technology has landed orders for a new-generation iPhone to be launched in September and a 10-inch iPad to be launched in the fourth quarter. Pegatron is currently an OEM for the iPhone 4S and…
Virgin Mobile today announced the launch of its first 4G phone, the EVO V. Customers will be able to get their hands on this new handset on the company’s website at the end of the month May 31. The handset will feature some decent specs, including a 4.3-inch qHD display, 1GB of RAM, and a…
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has been on a roll as of late. First, he flat out admitted that customers should expect to see their wireless services prices go up thanks to the company’s botched acquisition of T-Mobile. Second, the AT&T boss expressed his regret of not getting rid of unlimited data plans a lot sooner.…
Research in Motion (RIM) just announced two new hires to its executive leadership team, employing Kristian Tear as COO and Frank Boulben as CMO. This move is apart of new RIM boss Thorsten Heins’ massive restructuring of the company to get rid of some of the “fat on the hip,” as he called it. These…
Hackers rejoice … HTC has released the source code for the wildly popular One X. Yesterday, we wrote how MoDaCo noticed that the AT&T version of the HTC One X ships with a locked bootloader that isn’t unlocked by HTC’s bootloader unlock tool, a revelation that was later confirmed to The Verge by HTC. The…
AT&T revealed additional details about its Digital Life home automation and security platform. The second largest wireless provider in the United States plans to test the new service sometime during the summer, with trials set to go out in Dallas and Atlanta before it launches nationwide. If the company manages to avoid any hiccups along…
Canalys, an analysis and consulting services company, today released to clients its detailed smart phone shipment estimates by country for Q1 2012. In the release, the company found that total shipments in smartphones worldwide grew 45 percent year on year to 146 million units. The most significant part of the stats were the differences in…
Recently, Laptop Magazine sat down with Drew Bamford, HTC’s AVP of user experience, and the HTC exec had some interesting things to say about Sense stacked up against stock Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The latest version of Sense 4.0, HTC’s software for ICS phones, added many improvements that made the custom skin unobtrusive. The…
Walmart is dropping the prices on both the iPhone 4 and 4S in select locations. According to Cult of Mac, a Walmart store out in Edmond, Oklahoma is offering the 16GB iPhone 4S for $114, and The Verge reported this morning that an Austin, Texas Walmart store is offering the 16GB iPhone 4S for $114 as well. These stores…