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If you’ve been lusting after the entry-level Samsung Gem, you’ll be happy to know that you can now pick up the Android-powered handset for about $30 when you sign a new contract with U.S. Cellular. If you don’t recall when it landed on Alltel, the Samsung Gem is a modest Android phone with a 3.2-inch…
The Windows Phone 7 NoDo update has been rolled out to many Microsoft devices but the company is pleading for users to wait for the official update instead of hacking around to get it. On its blog, Microsoft says about the Windows Phone 7 NoDo update: As an engineer and a gadget lover, I totally…
The folks at Pixable have just put out a new Photofeed app and the new version of the photo-viewing program adds support for Flickr and Instagram, in addition to its Facebook foundation. The Photofeed iPhone app is aimed at giving you access to your friend’s photos and that’s it. Why? Well, some people love to…
This one’s a few days old but I wanted to touch upon it because I think it’s pretty neat. New York City recently opened up its databases to mobile app developers and it has crowned some of its winners of its second BigApps competition. What entails a winning app? Well, there’s some innovative stuff like…
Microsoft’s MIX conference is just a week away and rumors suggest that we’ll be seeing a new version of Silverlight which will make it possible to play Windows Phone 7 games on your Xbox 360. WinRumos has a source which is saying that Silverlight will definitely be coming to the Xbox 360 at the MIX…
For those of you wondering what version of Android the Sprint EVO View 4G table would launch with, you can rest assured because the carrier is promising that it will land with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. When we first saw the Sprint EVO View 4G at Mobile World Congress as the HTC Flyer, the 7-inch tablet…
It’s not much of a surprise, but a new Symantec report suggests that baddies are increasingly targeting mobile devices like your shiny smartphone and tablet. The report was actually pretty scary, as Symantec says that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are also under attack, in addition to the traditional means like e-mail phishing…
The Daily iPad newspaper app is an attempt by News Corp to bring publications to the tablet age but how is the subscription service doing? Well, it’s too soon to make a final judgement but the early returns don’t look that great. On Forbes, an author speculates that The Daily iPad newspaper was downloaded 500,000…
When Google Books first came out it was rightly seen as not being quite as good as its competitors like the Amazon Kindle and the iBooks app because it lacked some basic features like having a landscape mode. Well, the Google Books iOS app has just received an update and this includes a few small,…
We’re looking at a crowded tablet field with the iPad 2, Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Motorola Xoom but which one is the best? Well, according to a report by Consumer Reports, the Apple tablet bests them all. “So far, Apple is leading the tablet market in both quality and price, which is unusual for…