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Things aren’t looking so pretty for Clearwire as its founder and chairman, Craig McCaw, resigned just a few days ago prior to Sprint’s announcement this morning that it wouldn’t purchase the company’s debt. Clearwire had been trying to raise capital, and rumors had been cropping up for months regarding how the WiMax carrier would do…
Best Buy is introducing a “Buy Back” program, so aptly named because the retailer will buy your gadgets back if and when you want to upgrade to something newer. Did you buy a hot new Android device three months ago only to feel a bit let down when a new one was announce just three…
Instagram has undoubtedly been a tremendous success since its release a few months ago. In fact, it was one of our top picks for the best iOS apps of 2010. While it has made it much easier for social networking fanatics to share photos across multiple platforms, it looks like it’s taken on a new…
Samsung users might be getting a little frustrated with Android 2.1 Eclair – if they’re even aware of the software version differences – so Sammy is cranking away at a simple upgrade method for its users. Of course, with Android 2.2 Froyo, users will be able to store apps to their SD cards, access Adobe…
Samsung has made a killing with Android as it makes up one-third of all shipments of Google devices worldwide. To be more precise, 34% of Android devices shipped had the Samsung name on them, which is a giant leap from early last year. With little to no real smartphone presence – or at least smartphones…
LTE devices for Verizon will be here soon! And of course, the first of many we’ll see are the HTC Thunderbolt, which we’ve been hearing plenty about, and the Samsung SCH-i520 – not so popular for now. These Android devices are pretty promising, especially the sexy Thunderbolt we’ve seen so much of, and they’ll also…
An NES emulator has been ported over for Windows Phone 7, and from the looks of things it runs perfectly fine, but we might not be seeing it for the Marketplace any time soon. Matt Bettcher ported an NES simulator over to Windows Phone 7 successfully, and it runs at 10-20 frames per second on…
Apparently it doesn’t take much to call a new smartphone an “iPhone beater” these days – or at least according to the Russians. A new Android device made by ZTE and AFK Sistema, called the A918, was presented to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and features a GLONASS GPS system. Apparently the GPS system is 93%…
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather spend New Year’s Eve with friends or a special loved one than being packed like a sardine in New York City’s Times Square. It’s cold, there are way too many people, and the streets and subways are just jam packed with tourists making an escape nearly impossible…
Have you ever wished that your iPhone could measure and document the electrical activity of your heart? What might have sounded like a dream just a few years ago is now a reality. The new iPhonECG system is a new app that uses a case that connects to the iPhone (demonstrated in the video below…