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I’m hanging out at the App Nation conference in San Francisco and Nielsen just released some interesting data from its upcoming mobile playbook. The company said that smartphones now account for 36% o the U.S. market and it will only take a few quarters before smartphones make up the majority of the market. The biggest…
GetJar has just unveiled a major revamp of its mobile website and the world’s largest independent app store is going to integrate some social networking features thanks to Facebook Connect. If you don’t know GetJar, it’s a large app store which provides tons of free apps to BlackBerry, Java, Android and other smartphones and feature…
LG said it will start cranking out its own custom ARM processors for its smartphones and this could mean that some cooler phones from LG in the near future. According to Mobile Burn, LG will be using the ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A9 processors to craft these custom chips. What’s the advantage? Well, you can tailor…
If you were excited to get your hands on the HP TouchPad with webOS, you’ll be happy to know that the tablet has just passed through the Federal Communications Commission and this indicates that it’s not too far from being launched. The HP TouchPad is an exciting tablet that brings the goods when it comes…
We are probably just a few weeks away from the much-awaited Apple iTunes cloud service but don’t expect it to be free. According to a report from CNET, the Apple iTunes cloud service could come with a yearly fee to help pay for bandwidth and licensing costs. If Apple did this, expect Google to follow…
We’re just a few weeks away from the Google I/O conference and you know that Android will be a featured player. The latest rumor suggests that we’ll be getting Android 2.3.4 at the conference with baked-in video calling. The rumors come from a tweet from “someone who works with Samsung,” and it says: “Just had…
There’s a new dog fighting Android app that is causing quite a stir and even Michael Vick is calling it out. Of course, it’s actually a trickier issue than it’s made out to be. “I’ve come to learn the hard way that dogfighting is a dead-end street,” Vick said in a statement. “Now, I am…
Amazon is facing some legal heat from Apple of the use of the word “app store” but it is using an unlikely piece of evidence to get the lawsuit tossed out: Steve Jobs. Amazon is trying to get the lawsuit tossed out because it believes that the term “app store” is generic and shouldn’t be…
How quickly the world changes. Nielsen said that a higher percentage of consumers prefer Android for their next smartphone over the Apple iPhone or Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. This is especially interesting because the iPhone reined supreme in Nielsen’s last survey in September of 2010 but things change. According to the latest figures, 31 percent…
The Motorola Xoom was launched with much fanfare but another analyst is indicating that it could be a flop or, at best, a disappointment when it comes to sales. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry estimates that Motorola make between half a million and 800,000 Android Honeycomb tablets but it has only sold about 5 or…