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We’ve heard plenty about a Motorola Xoom arriving for Sprint, and it seems like it should be coming any day now. Will we find a Wi-Fi model before a WiMax-equipped version comes first? Having both launch at the same time would be ideal, I think, although Sprint really could use the tablet to rope in…
Raise your hand if you’re sick of hearing about the white iPhone 4. The elusive, ivory Apple smartphone has been making headlines since the day it didn’t launch, and rumors of its arrival or why it has been delayed have been surfacing every month. According to BusinessWeek, however, the fairer version of the iPhone 4…
With so many rumors flying regarding the iPhone 5 and its launch date, it seems they all point in one direction: it’s not happening this summer. Or is it? Of course, we really can’t call it a delay since Apple hasn’t announced it yet – and so many people get their panties in a bunch…
Last year, Foursquare and RadioShack were giving 10% discounts to users who checked into the retail location using the location-based service, and up to 20% for mayors. Not a bad deal for Foursquare fanatics. Now the two are at it again with a new check-in special: 20% for first-time check-ins and mayors, and 10% for…
For iPhone owners who want total carrier freedom, the only solution so far has been to jailbreak one’s device and unlock it. Of course, there is also another huge limitation, and that’s the software version an iPhone owners is running, too, since iOS updates tend to break and disable unlock hacks. However, a number of…
Palm and HP fans who have been drooling over the TouchPad might enjoy this: webOS 3.0 beta 1 emulator has been leaked. Just a few weeks ago, we saw the webOS 3.0 SDK released, so it seems that things are coming along just nicely. PreCentral managed to do up a little video of the platform…
It must be tricky business when one of your company’s board of directors members also happens to be CEO of a company that will ultimately compete with yours. And so Steve Jobs, apparently annoyed with Google’s rip-off of multi-touch or pinch-to-zoom, hid iPad development from former board member and then-CEO of Google Eric Schmidt. According…
AT&T has finally decided to give pre-paid customers a reason to use its services with its very first GoPhone smartphone – the LG Thrive. Pre-paid providers like Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile have been offering Android smartphones for some time now, so it’s about time AT&T gives its users some better pre-paid options. The LG…
Recently we heard that Best Buy was withholding iPad 2 stock from customers, and folks who wanted the Apple tablet from the big box retailer were infuriated. It turns out, however, that Apple gave Best Buy its blessing to withhold iPad 2 units for an upcoming promotion. Was that promotion, by any chance, the practice…
The platform wars are raging on, and Android versus iPhone market share articles are being churned out by the dozen seemingly every week. However, one Fortune writer believes that these articles and the market share comparison itself are inconsequential. Why is that? According to Andy M. Zaky at Fortune: For example, suppose Research in Motion…