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MetroPCS is adding the Huawei Ascend to its line-up of phones for a pretty affordable price given the usual cost of smartphones for pre-paid carriers. The Android 2.1 device will set you back just $179, which isn’t half bad, with smartphone plans that start at just $50 per month. And best of all, as is…
When Microsoft announced the Kin One and Kin Two in the Spring of this year, I had my doubts about its ability to succeed as a Windows Phone device for the younger crowd. It didn’t have a dedicated app store, there were no pre-loaded games and the cost of owning one included the same data…
For those of us who have jailbroken iOS devices, like an iPhone or iPad, news of a jailbreak detection API was a little worrisome when it was dropped a few months ago. But when 4.2 was released, so was the jailbreak detecting API — it was either disabled or removed by Apple for no apparent…
With Android 2.3 just days away from its official release with the Nexus S by Samsung, Google has decided that the Android Market should get redesigned, reworked and re-upholstered, too. Of course, we had a pretty good idea that this was coming as many changes were coming with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update, too, but…
If you didn’t agree with the Yahoo! Top Ten Obsessions of 2010 list containing both the iPhone 4 and iPad – at numbers one and three on the list, respectively – then perhaps this new info put out by Google might make you think twice. For searches in the consumer electronics category, the iPhone 4…
Sprint is gradually making its WiMax network available in more areas this year, and it looks like Denver, Colorado is next on the list. After successful and recent launches in New York City and Los Angeles, the folks of Denver have quite a bit to look forward to. Of course, we all know that these…
At the Wall Street Journal’s D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Jon Rubinstein took the stage to talk about the past and future of Palm’s webOS. When asked about Palm’s focus prior to being acquired by HP, Rubinstein says that a tablet really wasn’t in the works and that the company’s main focus was on phones.…
The Sanyo Taho by Kyocera for Sprint (say that ten times fast) is the first rugged phone that is totally submersible in water. It can survive being under one meter of water for up to 30 minutes without sustaining any permanent damage – perfect for those times when you drop your phone into three feet…
You’ve been drooling over the Notion Ink Adam for quite some time now, perhaps losing sleep refreshing its blog page every few seconds, and now you’ll finally be able to reserve one with your name on it. Of course, we pretty much knew yesterday that this would be happening. Apparently, your chances of grabbing one…
The nice thing about the companies behind some of the most popular mobile applications, like Evernote, is that they get to see some interesting trends in the mobile space. Evernote CEO Phil Libin has seen tremendous growth with his app on the Android platform versus iPhone, and there may be some correlation with handset purchases…