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We’re just a few months away from the expected announcement, and ultimately launch, of the next iteration of Apple’s smartphone – the iPhone 5. That means rumors ought to slowly-but-steadily start churning out until then. Now we’re hearing that the iPhone 5 will retain the iPhone 4 shape, but will have a bigger screen and…
Last week, we learned that Adobe Flash 10.2 was being prepared for Android and would become available for the Android Market on March 18. That’s today, folks, so definitely keep your eyes peeled for it in the Android Market, where it should be live. Flash 10.2 brings some new features and enhancements to the platform…
The Motorola Xoom is the Android tablet for anyone even remotely considering an Android tablet. It’s probably the only tablet that can even be considered in the running against the iPad, but there is one pretty big catch — it’s extremely pricey unless you want to commit to a contract with Verizon. However, there may…
Remember that Android versus iOS browser speed test we posted about this morning? We updated it with information from the company that conducted the tests, Blaze Software, saying that it wasn’t entirely accurate and may misrepresent reality. Well, we’d like to be a little more clear on that issue. Blaze Software ran a thoroughly flawed…
The HTC Thunderbolt for Verizon is now available from its retail stores, Best Buy, Amazon and others for $249.99 with a two-year contract. It’s the carrier’s first 4G LTE smartphone and it features Android 2.2 Froyo and a powerful 1GHz processor. And of course, you have access to all the apps available on the Android…
Twitter asked third-party developers recently to stop making new Twitter clients, and instead focus their efforts on building a vertical experience for the social networking service, rather than just emulating it. The initial reaction was a bit of anger, and the general knee-jerk response was that Twitter is just being selfish, controlling and a bit…
According to Apple, “If you don’t have an iPhone, well, you don’t have an iPhone.” Powerful stuff, right? The company’s new ad campaign continues to tout the iPhone’s strengths and the wealth of apps available for the handset and platform. Indeed, there are approximately a bajillion apps in the iTunes App Store and close to…
With all the talk about the iPhone getting a better JavaScript engine and an enhanced version of Safari in iOS 4.3, one wonders how well it performs against Android. Well, an independent company decided to put them to the test. The results? Android loaded pages 52% faster than on iOS 4.3, but there are a…
Path is very slowly, but surely rolling out updates to keep up with the times. The photo-sharing application was released late last year, but its feature set was pretty limited. Actually, it was very limited. At a time when Instagram and other photo-sharing apps were allowing users to post their photos to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr…
The HTC Thunderbolt will be launching tomorrow, and I know plenty of you are excited. The Android device that we first saw at CES 2011 will be Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone. So far, reports across the web are looking promising with some testers seeing download speeds in the 6-16Mbps ranges! But just before the…