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If you’re a gaming fan on AT&T and felt saddened to see the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play land at Verizon, fret not. The Android smartphone with a dedicated gaming pad is coming to your carrier. It looks just like the CDMA variant, but it comes in two colors – black or blue. Awesome, right? You’ll…
AT&T has just announced that it will be the exclusive carrier for the Sony S2 dual-screen Android tablet. The device is running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and features two 5.5-inch 1024 x 480 touchscreen displays. Under the hood, the Sony S2 packs an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor. While the S2 is labeled as a “4G”…
Evernote for Android has just been updated with a new tablet interface, and the ability to create rich text notes. Surprisingly, many of these new features hit the Android version first, and will become available for iOS soon – it’s usually the other way around. Evernote users on the Android platform, especially for those using…
Google Voice users will be happy to know that spam calls will be blocked automatically by Google thanks to a new Global Spam Filtering feature. There is nothing more annoying than getting telemarketer or debt collector calls on your new Google Voice number because it either belonged to someone else before, or the number shows…
The HP TouchPad 4G has just been announced for AT&T, and this version will be sporting a 1.5GHz processor, which is a pretty nice bump up from the 1.2GHz processor that the Wi-Fi-only model uses. It has 32GB of internal memory and GPS and Wi-Fi capabilities, too, so it’s a pretty solid piece of hardware…
For those of you who rely on PayPal, especially on the iPhone, you’ll be glad to know that the mobile app for the iOS smartphone has been updated. PayPal has been listening to customer feedback, and brings the following updates to the mobile app: All app features displayed on one page Transaction history details are…
The HTC Status, otherwise known as the ChaCha, will be available from AT&T for $49.99 starting July 17 (which is what we’d been expecting). It’s not a bad deal for those who want a pretty simple smartphone, but capable of serving the needs of the most hardcore Facebook addicts. The HTC Status has a dedicated…
Over the years, I’ve owned more smartphones than I care to count. From BlackBerry to webOS to Android, I’ve had just about every platform in my pockets – often two or more at a time. However, there was one smartphone and platform that has remained with me regardless of the other devices I’ve carried –…
The HTC Thunderbolt was the first 4G LTE device for Verizon, packing Android 2.2 Froyo and tons of other goodies for early adopters. However, it wasn’t without its bugs and issues. A recent over-the-air, or OTA, update started to roll out over the weekend, and it promises to fix a number of these problems as…
The Apple iPhone has had many uses in the medical industry, and it looks like it will continue to make advances in the field as MIT researchers have just developed a way for the smartphone to detect cataracts. The CATRA system, developed by the Camera Culture Media Lab at MIT, is an iPhone attachment that…