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Nothing makes my heart skip a beat quite like seeing pictures of shattered smartphone screens – or worse, seeing it happen in action. I’ve been lucky so far, but it’s good to know that Gorilla Glass, the alkali-aluminosilicate glass the iPhone 4 uses, is covering more smartphone displays these days. The Samsung Galaxy S line…
If prepaid broadband usage is your thing, and you secretly yearn for truly unlimited plans, perhaps you’ve been anticipated that Virgin Mobile Broadband2go plan we recently uncovered. Currently, you can get 100MB of data for $10 all the way up to 5GB of data for $60 with options in between. Starting tomorrow, however, you can…
Back in early 2007, Steve Ballmer laughed out loud when asked about the iPhone and its potential as a business device. Ballmer said that not only was it the most expensive phone on the market, but that it wouldn’t appeal to business users because it didn’t have a keyboard. Fast forward three years later where…
Have you ever heard the unbelievably fast clicking and clacking of smartphone keyboards inside of a Journeys or during the trailers before a Twilight movie? If you thought teens were fast at texting, you should meet Melissa Thompson, a 27-year-old British woman who just smashed the Guinness World Record for the fastest text message ever.…
As Google continues its rise to smartphone platform domination with Android, being available on over 20 handsets with every major carrier, the problem with its openness has become evident: if you leave your platform wide open, you’re leaving it open to bloatware and crapware from the carriers. Unlike Apple, who convinced AT&T not to brand…
Paranoia has run rampant amongst Republican U.S. senators when word of Huawei becoming a potential supplier of telecommunications equipment for Sprint got out. The problem with Huawei gaining any advancement in the U.S. telecommunications market is in its dealings and business with militia groups from Iran and in China. Apparently, according to the senators, doing…
The din of Verizon iPhone rumors rages louder, and now word is that Apple and Verizon are ironing out the details for the popular smartphone. First, we heard that there would be a surge in hiring to accommodate for a really big launch of some kind, one of Apple iPhone proportions. Then, a Verizon executive…
Remember that hot Samsung Galaxy Tab we told you about a few months ago? The one sporting Android? Yeah, that’s the one. It looks like it’s already out in the wild for testing, and it has been spotted in a land down under. That’s right, the TouchWiz packing, Android tablet is already floating about, which…
You paid good money for them, but Apple still wants to own your jailbroken iPhone, iPod touch and/or iPad. Aside from voiding warranties on jailbroken its popular iDevices, Apple is now looking to disable them, too. Steve Jobs & Co. have filed a patent that will allow Apple to identify and disable hardware that has…
The beauty of having a camera on your Apple iPhone is twofold: you can capture candid moments wherever you are and it’s likely that picture quality will be pretty good considering the camera on the Apple smartphone is one of the best you’ll find on any handset. However, sometimes we miss some of the better…