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The Samsung Infuse 4G – and it really makes me cringe to call any AT&T phones “4G” – is going to hit Walmart for the totally arbitrary price of $178.88. Why not a penny more or less? The massive, 4.5-inch screen smartphone with Android has flown mostly under the radar where devices like the Atrix…
Apple recently filed a lawsuit against Samsung for its Galaxy line of phones and tablets for patent, trademark and design infringement. Apple claims, “Instead of pursuing independent product development, Samsung has chosen to slavishly copy Apple’s innovative technology, distinctive user interfaces, and elegant and distinctive product and packaging design, in violation of Apple’s valuable intellectual…
Just when we thought the Sidekick was totally dead, T-Mobile revived the iconic handset with a new manufacturer and new mobile operating system. We first caught wind of the new 4G device a few months ago, but we were skeptical: it’s made by Samsung, it’s powered by Android and it doesn’t even have the swivel…
Apple held its earnings call yesterday and managed to surpass astronomical expectations, but it also set a new bar for itself: Thanks to the iPhone, Apple is now the world’s largest handset vendor by revenue. And it did this just with the iPhone. Nokia, who undoubtedly pumps out the most handsets worldwide, has now taken…
Early we reported that the Verizon iPhone failed to make a real dent in AT&T iPhone sales, but for the month of March it looks like the Apple smartphone took a back seat to the new HTC Thunderbolt, too. What could this possibly mean? Well, anything would be speculation, of course, but it seems that…
We didn’t believe it would actually happen, but when the Verizon iPhone finally arrived, some of us thought that it would make a huge impact on the iPhone landscape in the U.S. Tens of thousands of users would flock from AT&T to Verizon’s more stable network, where dropped calls are a rare occurrence and data…
Skype has just updated its Android app, and it patches a security bug that could have exposed user data and information to third parties. Initial reports surrounding the security issue stated that the application could have been collecting user names, phone numbers, chat logs and a whole lot more. Skype says that it takes user…
Are you wearing your tin foil hat? OK, good, because a security firm recently discovered that your iPhone or iPad 3G – or both! – are recording your every movement and storing it in a secret file, which is then backed up on your computer. Your Apple gadget keeps track of your longitudinal and latitudinal…
Although most smartphones have dedicated mail apps which support Gmail, Google isn’t letting its mobile web app fall to shambles. The mobile web version of Gmail continues to get updates, and this time Google introduced an “undo” action for when you make mistakes. Let’s say you accidentally delete or archive a conversation thread and didn’t…
Nokia has just enhanced its Ovi Maps service with photorealistic 3D images of major metropolitan areas. It’s one thing to look at a colored rendering, perhaps even some distant satellite views, but something that might help the directionally challenged would be 3D modeling to give an even better sense of a location’s area and surroundings.…