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Safari Books Online updated its mobile web site with several key features, including sharing, categorizing, and usage analysis, earlier this week. For those not familiar with the service, Safari Online Books is an online bookshelf service that provides customers with online and mobile access to Safari’s vast catalog of books The new and improved mobile website (m.safaribooksonline.com) now includes…
LG Optimus 7, formerly known as the E900, was previewed and detailed by the Korea Economic Daily. According to the report, the Optimus 7 will feature a 3.8-inch touchscreen display, 1GHz processor, 16GB of on-board storage, and a 1500mAH battery. It had been previously spotted with DLNA support and a 5-megapixel camera. Hardware-wise, there are…
Apple relaxed its application submission guidelines for its app store and everything has gone wild west on us. Previously rejected apps are being approved left and right and the most high-profile ones to hit the app store allow you to use Google’s voice calling service on your iPhone. Over the past few weeks, we have seen several third-party…
Earlier, a rumor out of TechCrunch suggested Amazon was launching its own App store for the Android platform. Hot on heels of this exciting information is a second rumor that suggests Amazon is also working on an Android tablet to complement this supposed app store. The details are sketchy and they come from a single…
Good news for Kindle owners, Amazon confirmed today that it is developing a version of its popular Kindle app for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook. Amazon boasts of a catalog of over 700,000 titles that are now accessible on the your BlackBerry tablet device. The eReader application from Amazon will let you browse, download, and read…
RIM jumped head first into the tablet market today at DevCon 2010 with its BlackBerry PlayBook. Based upon the QNX OS, the BlackBerry PlayBook is a feature rich mobile device that includes the following specs: 7inch LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support BlackBerry Tablet OS (QNX) with support for…
Toshiba jumped head first into the mobile phone marketplace when it launched its Windows Mobile-powered TG01 smartphone, one of the first handsets to feature Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. The TG01 had a short lifespan and was superseded by another Windows Mobile offering, the TG02, early this year. Now in September, we have yet another Toshiba offering, the TG03, spotted…
Verizon confirmed the launch details for the R2-D2 edition of the Motorola DROID 2. The Star Wars branded handset will be available starting September 30th for $249 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year customer agreement. The Star Wars branding, though irresistibly geeky, will cost you an extra $50 over the $199 price tag of…
After purchasing Palm in July, HP is reportedly working on new webOS hardware – to go along with the new webOS 2.0 screenshots that we see here. Earlier this summer, we saw a hint of the Palm Pre Plus 2 on a leaked Verizon roadmap and caught a glimpse of webOS 2.0 devices in the…
A leaked internal document suggests T-Mobile may be bringing a UMA-like feature to its Android handsets. For those not familiar with UMA, it is a feature found on T-Mobile’s handsets that allows a user to place a VoIP call via WiFi when cellular service is not available. UMA lets you use your T-Mobile number to place the call,…