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Samsung is adding four T-Mobile smartphones and tablets to the selection of devices that are eligible receive Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich via an OTA update. Upgrading the Samsung Galaxy S II, Galaxy S Blaze 4G, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, and Galaxy Tab 10.1 to ICS have all been added to Samsung’s to-do list. In…
The WWDC 2012 rumors are cranking out fast now that it’s less than a month away. The latest to hit the Internet revolves around what Apple will do with iCloud. For iCloud’s first birthday, it will likely get a wealth of desirable upgrades. Apple is apparently in the process of taking Photo Stream, a current…
It’s been rumored for a couple of years now, but it looks like Apple is finally cutting cords with the competition. 9to5Mac has uncovered that in iOS 6, Apple will ditch Google Maps in favor of a custom-tailored Maps application of its own. Apple is working on a mapping database so it will no longer have…
Since Apple released the iPhone 4S in October, its flagship feature Siri has been able to help tremendously in users’ daily lives with productivity and even offering advice. In fact, I bet you didn’t know it can help you with buying or recommending a smartphone. So what’s the best phone out there? According to Siri,…
As popular as Android has become, there’s no denying Google hasn’t been shy to mimic certain features of iOS over the years. Now an unnamed source is telling Business Insider Google’s latest venture is building a social gaming network for Android to model Game Center on iOS. Since iOS 4.1 in 2010, Game Center has been…
Facebook has announced the App Center, a new way to find apps with Facebook integration in a single place. Before now, there was never a good way to discover quality Facebook apps, whether they were housed on Facebook or utilized some of its APIs elsewhere. Facebook is aiming to change that. The App Center will…
It’s not very often that I get to see products or services from Google that are so beautifully designed. I speak for myself, of course, but I think in this case I can probably represent a majority vote. That is until today because Google just unveiled a totally new update to Google+ for iOS and…
PCWorld went on a bit of an adventure recently to put AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon’s 3G and 4G networks to the test. They traveled to 13 cities across the United States — Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. — and…
New on the list of cell phones US Cellular offers is the Pantech Verse, a green little mobile phone with a good price and decent features. The fact that its named with a word in the English dictionary instead of a random mix of letters and numbers might suggest this is a smartphone, but it’s…
Months of waiting and listening to vague public remarks from AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega have led us to this moment. Finally we have confirmation that AT&T family data plans are coming soon — still vague, but something is better than nothing. Such a plan would allow families already living in an all-smartphone world…