Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
Apple is in a bit of hot water with the government thanks to some privacy violations committed by popular social networking service, Path. Recently, the photo sharing company was caught with its hand in the cookie jar, as it uploaded users’ address books to its servers without permission and Congress sent a letter to the…
Samsung may have spilled the beans on an unannounced tablet that could be showing up at Mobile World Congress. On the company’s invitation to a Samsung Developer event, it lists known devices like the Galaxy Note and Wave 3 but it also lists a mysterious “Galaxy Note 10.1.” The bigger version of the Note is…
Believe or not, we’re still a quarter or so away from the long-awaited launch of the first RIM device to run the BlackBerry 10 operating system. Well, today, we at least got a sneak peek of what to expect from the Canadian phone makers upcoming OS, thanks to some leaked documents that landed in the…
Verizon today announced the launch of its very own In-Store, Trade-In program for handsets, as it tries a new strategy to keep people coming into the store during a slow time of the year. This news comes after the number one wireless provider in the United States recently brought back its double data promotion. The…
We’ve got great news for all you gamers, HTC is looking to be one of the first manufacturers outside Sony to get PlayStation certification for its mobile devices. Soon HTC smartphone and tablet owners could be able to play Sony PlayStation certified games. This is a huge shift in strategy because only consumers who owned…
Cisco today released its annual mobile data traffic forecast and it estimated that there will be 10 billion mobile connections by 2016. Eight billion out of this astronomical number represents cell phones — a huge estimate when you consider it means the mobile penetration rate will be at roughly 100 percent or more. The real surprise…
Details of a new low-end Samsung device leaked today and it looks like this new handset will be called the Galaxy mini 2. This successor to the Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570 has some subtle changes like a bigger 3.3-inch screen with higher resolution (HVGA), a faster 800MHz processor and 3GB of built-in storage. The mini 2 will also run some…
Verizon is bringing back its popular double data promotion, as users will be able to indulge in 4 GBs of data for $30 and a 10 GB plan for $50. The largest wireless provider in the United States also plans to offer bundles of data and mobile hotspot functionality, such as $50 a month for 6 GBs…
Google is rumored to be launching a cloud-storage service that would compete head-to-head with wildly popular cloud provider Dropbox, SugarSync and others. The search giant’s cloud service will be called Drive and it’ll not only be free to consumers up to a certain size limit but it will also be folded into Google Apps for…
When it comes to explaining the cause of Android fragmentation; we’ve heard it all … or so we thought. Recently, Motorola senior vice president Christy Wyatt voiced her thoughts on the company’s current struggles on delivering new versions of the Android OS to customers, such as Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. To no one’s surprise,…