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Adobe confirmed that Flash 10 for Android will soon be available for a select number of handsets. The short list of smartphones expected to see this Flash update include the HTC Incredible, the HTC Desire, the Samsung Galaxy S, the Motorola Milestone, the Droid X, and more. Presumably, Flash 10 support will be bundled into…
It was inevitable that a tablet manufacturer like Hanvon would puts its tablet alongside an Apple iPad and challenge the two devices to a duel. The duel is immortalized within a four minute YouTube video that features the two devices competing on browser speed, zooming, YouTube video playback, typing, email, and more. Unfortunately for the…
Chetan Sharma looked at state of the wireless industry in Q2 2010 and calculated that overall US subscription penetration has reached 95%. This figure surpasses 100%, if you remove those customers that are five years old and younger from this equation. Overall, the wireless industry is booming; growing 6% in Q2 2010 alone and 22%…
Sprint Palm Pre and Pixi owners waiting for webOS 1.4.5 may have cause to rejoice as this latest update is supposedly rolling out to handsets starting today. The news came way of Sprint which updated its Pre and Pixi webOS changelog with version 1.4.5 details and confirmed the August 10th release date. For those keeping track, the…
Microsoft’s Mediaroom application may be coming to its Windows Phone 7 handsets, according to a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) that appeared on Microsoft’s accessibility website. The document reveals the existence of the aptly named “Microsoft Mediaroom Client for Windows Phone 7 v1.0”. Though the application is not detailed within the document, we need only look at the…
In its five-year fiscal report for the top wireless carriers in the US, IE Market Research predicted that AT&T will overtake Verizon Wireless as the nation’s largest wireless carrier. The report cites AT&T’s increasing growth rate and Verizon’s falling growth rate for this leadership change which is expected to occur in 2011. Much of this…
Android users who recently updated to version 2.2 were shocked to discover that their once pristine streaming audio now sounds muddy, tinny, and downright awful. This flaw with streaming audio was originally reported in June by Nexus One users who were the first to rock this latest version of Google’s mobile OS. With the debut of…
FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps responded tersely to the joint net neutrality statement issued earlier today by Google and Verizon. Copps crafted a one paragraph statement that re-asserted FCC authority over telecommunications and emphasized consumer rights over corporate interests. “Some will claim this announcement moves the discussion forward. That’s one of its many problems. It is time to move…
Best Buy is reportedly developing a tablet device to compete with the Apple iPad. Best Buy CTO and Geek Sqaud founder, Robert Stephens has used Twitter to shed some light on this new tablet device. Recently, Stephens posted photos of a non-functional prototype tablet that was used to test different form factors, including one with…
Microsoft Research made public several new research papers that shed some light on a project with the codename of Menlo. This top secret project was rumored to be an attempt by Microsoft to develop a novel operating system for mobile devices and these newly published documents confirm this assumption, in part. According to the publicly available…