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Apple recently rejected a long-awaited update for loyal Sparrow users that added iOS 6 and iPhone 5 compatibility to the app. It apparently violated Apple’s App Store policies for what features can be compatible with iOS 5. “We managed to get a rich text edition [and] the keyboard appeared without the user [having] to tap…
Oh HTC. It’s sad that a company with truly great hardware is heading down the same path as RIM did. (Hasn’t that sloppy mess flatlined yet?) HTC announced its monthly sales for October and the news is quite abysmal to say the least. In 2011, the vendor sold NT$44 billion ($1.5 billion) worth of smartphones.…
Word on the street according to ChannelNews is that Samsung is in the process of giving its logo a facelift in an attempt to change the way people think of the brand. The goal is to apparently remove the perception from consumers that Samsung is just an “Asian brand.” I don’t know about you, but I…
Results from a study conducted by Strategy Analytics have revealed that for the first time ever, owner loyalty toward the iPhone has declined. The study shows that 88 percent of iPhone owners in the United States plan to buy another Apple smartphone in the future. In Western Europe, that number is at 75 percent. Both…
Apple, the company that is famous for attracting long lines to product launches like the iPhone or iPad at its retail stores worldwide, is in the news today for a similar reasons, but with a twist: the length of those lines, for once, were actually below many expectations. “The turnout for Apple’s release of the iPad Mini…
It’s the iPad mini launch day and people, particularly those who work for damage coverage and repair companies for gadgets, are wasting no time filming and uploading a drop test between the iPad mini and its competitors. That’s exactly what SquareTrade did. The drop test is already up on YouTube and it pits Apple’s iPad…
SellCell.com, a website service that allows you to find the best buy-back deal for your phone or tablet, released new statistics about tablet trade-ins. It particularly revolves around Apple’s recent unveiling of the fourth-generation iPad and new iPad mini. Since that announcement, it turns out iPad trade-ins have skyrocketed up 500 percent. The Apple iPad…
What was once touted as a great feature from Apple that blew away the competition is now being bested by Google. iTunes Match is a feature for iCloud users that will scan all the music in your library if it’s been imported from external sources and match that music with what iTunes offers and basically…
Google is bumping up the specs on its Nexus 7 tablet ever so slightly today. Originally planned as an announcement as part of an event Google was holding in New York City, the message is now being communicated via a mere online blog post thanks to Hurricane Sandy’s wrath. There’s no physical changes to the…
Just in time for Halloween is the Slash Monsters game for iOS from Fishing Cactus. It’s not totally Halloween-themed, but this game does feature plenty of undersea monsters slowly approaching you and it’s your job to slice ’em. It’s somewhat like Fruit Ninja, except there’s a legitimate themed background instead of a wooden board and…