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Verizon customers looking to walk into a store and get a Galaxy S III on Tuesday will be sorely disappointed. According to MobileBurn, Verizon has pushed the retail launch date back by two days to July 12th. The company updated its website with this new launch date and provided the following statement: “As it sometimes…
While RIM Ceo Thorston Heins continues to talk rosily about RIM’s future, the dire state of the company is becoming all too real for employees in its Ottawa headquarters. According to a report in the Ottawa Citizen, RIM is curtailing summer vacations and telling workers they must work six days a week. This big push…
According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon is working on a smartphone to compete with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android phones. Foxconn is reportedly working with Amazon on the phone, but the details on the hardware are not yet known. Besides working on the manufacturing and design, Amazon is supposedly trying to beef up its patent…
The Samsung Galaxy S III is starting to roll out in the US, and unlike most Android handsets that ship with a mediocre camera, the Galaxy S III has an 8-megapixel shooter that makes the handset one of the best Android camera phones on the market. To see how the S III compares to the…
Sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that Apple may start to mass produce a 7-inch tablet this fall. Component suppliers are allegedly prepping to start producing the tablet in September. An earlier report from the Wall Street Journal said Apple was testing a smaller iPad and this latest leak suggests the…
As noticed by The Verge, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is no longer available for sale from the Google Play Store. Instead of being able to buy the Nexus at its lowered $349 price tag, the phone is now listed as coming soon. Google does not give a reason why the Nexus is no longer available,…
Get your trigger finger ready as the zombie apocalypse is coming soon to your Android device. Starting tomorrow July 3rd, Android owners will be able to join their iOS friends and blow away post-apocalyptic, virus-infected zombies thanks to Madfinger’s Dead Trigger. Dead Trigger is a first person shooter whose primary objective is to kill zombies…
After a long wait, Verizon Wireless finally announced that the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE will go on sale starting this Thursday, July 5. The Incredible 4G LTE was first unveiled earlier this year and includes the following specifications: 4-inch super LCD qHD display 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with autofocus, LED flash, BSI, f/2.2 and 28…
On Friday, Apple won its second legal victory over Samsung in less than a week. US District Judge Lucy Koh agreed with the Cupertino company that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus infringes on Apple’s patents. Apple successfully convinced the judge that all four of its patents are valid and that Samsung infringes on at least one…
TechnoBuffalo pitted Siri on an iPhone 4S running iOS 6 against Google’s new Android 4.1 voice assistant running on a Galaxy Nexus. Jon Rettinger asked the two voice assistants common questions like what’s the weather and who won yesterday’s baseball game. The two platforms take different approaches to the feature, with Siri asking more questions to…