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With all the AT&T and T-Mobile hullabaloo, it’s easy to forget that the former is still planning on launching its LTE network this year. More specifically, the carrier plans on launching its 4G LTE network this summer – you know, the real 4G and none of this we-want-to-pretend-HSPA-plus-is-4G stuff. Hopefully we AT&T customers will start…
Some very interesting things happened with 10 of the world’s biggest smartphone makers in Q1 2011. The likes of Apple, Nokia, RIM and Samsung have performed in ways we couldn’t have imagined just three or four years ago. And now that the quarter is over and each of the companies have all the numbers in,…
AT&T’s potential acquisition of T-Mobile has been stirring up a lot of controversy lately, and yesterday the U.S. Senate hit executives from both companies with some hard-hitting questions. Why is the merger necessary? Aren’t AT&T and T-Mobile direct competitors? AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and T-Mobile CEO Phillipp Humm dodged most of these questions and fed…
You know what I love about Apple commercials? They often show what you can do with the gadgets, rather than tell you what you can do or what kind of screen or processor it has. Wanna check into your flight or buy a cup of coffee with your iPhone? Sure, there are apps that can…
It seems that just about every platform out there has been hit with location and privacy concerns. First, it was Apple and its iOS platform for the iPhone and iPad. Users were shocked to discover that the iPhone and iPad 3G took detailed location information and stored the data within the iOS devices, then transferred…
Google has just announced Android 3.1, an update to the Honeycomb tablet OS that was first seen with the Motorola Xoom, and guess which device is getting it first? It only makes sense that the Xoom will, so other Honeycomb users will have to sit and wait until Google announces the availability of the new…
The first step to solving your problem is to admit that you actually have a problem. It took damn long enough, but Google is finally openly addressing its Android fragmentation issues, and it is forming a group that will create a set of new guidelines to help get rid of this problem. Electronista reports: The…
Google is moving right along as it just announced the Android Open Accessory Development Kit, which basically allows developers to create apps that will interface with accessories. Apple has been doing this for quite some time now with the iPhone and iOS, sort of like apps that work with dedicated accessories like Nike’s embedded chip…
You didn’t think Apple iTunes would steal all the thunder, did you? Android Market now supports movie rentals, many of which are just $1.99. Like iTunes, you have 30 days to watch a movie once you’ve rented it, and 24 hours to complete a movie once you’ve started playing it, which is fair and pretty…
We’ve live at the Google I/O event in California this morning, and Google is dropping all kinds of Android news and figures. This morning we learned that there are now over 200,000 apps in the Android Market, which puts it just nicely along with the speculation that it might overtake Apple’s iTunes App Store by…