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We knew the day would come: Google Voice now lets you port your mobile number into its service. That means you can now pay to turn your cellphone number into a Google Voice number. As we mentioned before, there are a few costs involved – $20 to port and whatever termination fee your carrier will…
At CES 2011, all the rage was NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core chips and all the smartphones and tablets that would feature the new hardware. As we’ve been reminded before, NVIDIA went over the benefits of having dual-core processors in our smartphones and showed off some games and videos. Naturally, the results were impressive and we…
It seems like January 23 is a big day for AT&T. That’s the day when its trade-in program starts and its new text messaging plans commence. It’s also the day when AT&T will offer free MicroCells to its top 7.5% of customers who may have horrible building coverage. While it doesn’t seem fair that such…
A few days ago we reported the changes to Sprint’s Premier plans and options. The information came from a forum where a user spoke with Sprint customer service, and details of the plans were outlined. Sprint is now making it official and says that the changes will take effect starting April 1. Here are the…
AT&T is going to start a phone trade-in program starting Sunday, January 23 according to some leaked documents. Customers who want to purchase a new phone can bring in their old ones for credit toward a new device, or they can take a check or donate the money to charity. I’m not sure what kind…
Last week we saw the unveiling on the new iPhone 4 made strictly for Verizon. The CDMA Apple smartphone is nearly identical to its GSM cousin in every way, except for two things – it doesn’t have a SIM card slot for obvious reasons, and the seams of the antennas are different, pushing the silent…
LG is breaking out a new edition of its Optimus series, the Me P350. The phone is available for all to see on LG’s official Facebook page and features a “vibrant color range.” It looks like the handset is going to target entry-level smartphone users and ought to be priced accordingly. As you can see…
We mentioned not long ago that Skyfire managed to pull in another million dollars with its iPad app, much like it did with the iPhone version. Not too shabby for just three weeks in the app store at a relatively pricey $4.99 a pop. It just goes to show you how much users want their…
Skyfire, one of our top iOS apps for 2010, has been doing quite well for itself. The app has been satisfying the iOS user’s craving for Adobe Flash videos on iOS devices despite Apple’s assurance that lack of Flash content wasn’t a big deal in its mobile Safari browser. What Skyfire does is simple: it…
NPolls, a marketing research company, has just conducted a poll of a thousand iPhone and iTunes users and came to a relatively surprising conclusion. It seems that nearly a third of all the respondents have never purchased music on iTunes. Perhaps it isn’t so surprising considering the availability of streaming music services, torrenting sites and…