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The folks over at Nanapho.jp, a foreign Windows Phone news publication, did some digging on a Nokia Lumia device to find Nokia’s diagnostics app, which is accessible via the terminal. There, they found different tests for “LTE TX” and “LTE Band Lock.” The latter is for choosing which LTE band the hardware should use and the…
A new report from the mobile advertising company Fiksu found that Apple iPhone app downloads have increased 83 percent from last year and iPhone owners are downloading roughly 5 million apps a day. The mobile advertising company Fiksu published the results of its research on what it calls App Store Competitive Index, Cost per Loyal…
What do you get when you mix the only tablet to successfully compete with the Apple iPad and the only well-known operating system for tablets? A Kindle Fire running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, of course. That’s what user Jackpotclavin of the XDA developers forum did. He released a pre-alpha of the ROM and it’s been…
Hacker ‘chpwn’ introduced Spire a few days ago, his own unique hack to get Siri on older, jailbroken iPhones and unlike previous Siri ports, this one is completely legal and free of any copyrighted binaries. Unfortunately, it’s not very useful to most consumers, since it requires a bit of technical work. Here’s the process. Spire…
Windows Phone passed a very important milestone for the platform this week, as there are now 50,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Though still far behind iOS and Android in terms of number of apps and market share of app downloads, Windows Phone is beginning to prove itself as a capable operating system in…
Rumor has it Apple will release the iPad 3 on February 24, 2012 in honor of Steve Jobs’ birthday. Asian manufacturers are apparently working up a sweat trying to prepare the third-generation iPad for that date. If true, we’re just two months away from a shiny new iPad. February 24th is slightly under one year…
Dropbox released version 2.0 of its Android app this morning, and it’s a complete revamp of the last version. The update includes a total redesign of the app as well as plenty of welcome features for faster and easier file management. Dropbox did a fantastic job with the new design. It’s simple, clean, and it’s…
Are you happy with your iPad? If you said “yes,” you’re not alone, as a survey from the Software Usability Research Laboratory testing customer satisfaction for the Apple iPad, 83.65 percent of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with the tablet. The survey covered a range of other topics involving the iPad such as how user friendly…
Verizon announced that it will soon release a software update for the Galaxy Nexus and it hopes to relieve concerns from users over the device’s poor signal strength. Brenda Raney, a spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless, said the software update will “adjust the signal strength indicator to more closely match other Verizon Wireless devices.” Doesn’t that…
The makers of the YouMail visual voicemail app released a fresh new calling tool in the Android Market today. It’s WhoAreYou, and this creatively titled app answers that question by bringing visual caller ID to smartphones at last. There’s a number of handy features in WhoAreYou. The main one, of course, is seeing who called.…