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In March, Spaceport.io released part one of its study of HTML5 performance on iOS and Android and concluded that iOS smokes the competition in this regard. Today, it released part two, which compares HTML5 performance on mobile devices to the desktop web. Spaceport.io found that on average, the very best smartphones run HTML5 content 8x…
The makers of Wallee, the original iPhone and iPad wall mount, are out with another Kickstarter project that dramatically improves upon the first design. The Wallee M is a case that can attach to the included mounting disk effortlessly with its built-in magnets so you can mount your smartphone on virtually any surface. The video…
Verizon Wireless is unveiling a new app today exclusive to Android called Viewdini. It’s a search engine that aggregates video content from a number of services such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, mSpot and Comcast’s Xfinity and showcases featured content that samples from each of them. The peculiar part is that this isn’t an app coming…
ZTE, best known for being one of the biggest mobile phone manufacturers in China, recently launched the Score in the United States. Well, it looks like the company isn’t getting off to a very good start. It just confirmed a security hole in the device that could potentially allow others to remotely control it. The…
About three weeks after Spotify released a native iPad app for users on its premium plan, Sony is out with an iOS app for its own competitor: Music Unlimited. Sony’s Music Unlimited is a subscription service like Spotify or Rdio that gives you endless access to its streaming library of over 15 million songs if…
Amidst all the chatter from Verizon Wireless about being the first major carrier in the United States to offer shared data plans for families this summer, T-Mobile is taking a radically different approach. In a blog post, senior vice president of marketing at T-Mobile Andrew Sherrard made his views perfectly clear: shared data plans are…
The free Weather Channel iPhone and iPod touch app just got its first major redesign since launching in 2008. It’s gotten several feature and design improvements over the years, but the app is taking a leap forward in looks and function with today’s version 5.0 update. Launching the app reveals the standard splash screen followed…
Featured at CES 2012, the SpareOne has officially hit the market as a simple mobile phone that can last for 15 years — yes you read that right — on a single charge. No, unfortunately the SpareOne is not a smartphone, and in fact it can’t even really be considered a feature phone. All you…
Last week, as you’re probably aware, news vastly spread about how Siri on the iPhone 4S not-so-secretly recommended the Nokia Lumia 900 as the best phone using data from Wolfram Alpha. As of yesterday, it appears Siri has flip flopped worse than presidential candidates at GOP debates and now informs users upon request that the…
Since iMessage first came out as a feature in iOS 5, a few people reported having trouble with using it. Specifically, when they send a message, they get a confirmation that it was delivered when in fact it wasn’t. Since the release of Messages beta, a Mac app coming in stable form with OS X…