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A rumor surfaced yesterday that suggests the T-Mobile G2 was receiving an update to enable WiFi hotspot functionality and add WiFi-calling to this premiere Android handset. While anxious customers waited for this important update to arrive, T-Mobile reached out with an official statement of its own that is decidedly ambiguous. “Wi-Fi Calling and tethering/Wi-Fi sharing…
Verizon is reportedly using Android to beef up its network in preparation for an onslaught of iPhone customers. The latest CDMA iPhone rumor assumes that Verizon will debut the device early next year and is preparing now for this highly popular smartphone from Apple. Unlike AT&T, whose network has struggled under the load of millions…
Posterous’ official app for the iPhone is now available in the App store. For those not familiar with Posterous, it is a blogging service that is meant to be easy to use and achieves this convenience by letting you manage many aspects of a blog via email. You can create posts, send images, embed videos, and…
Microsoft launched Windows Phone yesterday with nine handsets and a launch plan that includes 30 wireless carriers worldwide. Now that the press event is over and we have had some hands-on time with all nine handsets, it is now time to wrap-up the event and combine all of our information together into one comprehensive post.…
Apple is reportedly in talks to bring the CDMA iPhone to India. According to the report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple has been negotiating with both Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices for five months. The two wireless carriers operate CDMA-based networks and have a combined subscriber base of about 100 million users. It’s a…
Good news for jailbreakers who passed on Geohot’s limera1n tool and were waiting for greenpois0n to debut. The chronic dev team confirmed on twitter that their jailbreaking tool is now ready to roll. The greenpois0n website has been updated and the executable is now available for download. Currently, only Windows is supported but a Mac…
As expected, Yahoo updated its popular Messenger app for the iPhone and included support for two-way video calling over WiFi or a 3G cellular connection. The new feature supports both the front and rear camera on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G. The iPhone 3GS lacks a front-facing camera but users will be able…
Among all the rumors pointing to an early 2011 launch for the CDMA iPhone, a new report adds a bit of a twist to this oft mentioned handset. This latest report suggests that both the rumored Verizon iPhone and Apple’s next generation handset will not incorporate LTE technology. Rather than LTE, Apple’s fifth generation handset…
A report out of the WSJ confirms that Wal-Mart will stock the Apple iPad beginning on Friday. The retail giant will offer all six models of the iPad and will roll out the tablet devices to over 2,300 stores by mid-November. The discount retailer will be selling the tablet device at its full retail price…
Even the casual observer to the tech scene knows that Apple’s trio of iOS devices are exploding. Sales of the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch are in the millions of millions and as a result, the number of iOS users actively using applications on a daily basis has mushroomed. According to mobile application analytics firm…