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HTC just introduced the Salsa and ChaCha at Mobile World Congress 2011 and these Facebook phones will be coming to AT&T soon, according to the carrier. The Salsa and ChaCha can be called Facebook phones because these Android-powered devices have a dedicated button for the social network. The idea is that whenever you’re looking at…
The long nightmare may soon be over for Nexus One users, as Android Gingerbread may be coming very, very soon. When he’s not blowing up MacBooks, Greg from MobileCrunch has been hearing from Googlers that the Gingerbread update will definitely be coming out over the air within the next few days. We’ve heard these rumors…
The Apple App Store subscription service may be a boon for newspapers and magazines publishers but not all content companies are happy with the 30% cut that Apple will be taking from subscription services on iOS. Rhapsody is already saying that it won’t abide by this fee and that it may have to drop iOS…
Apple has introduced a subscription service for its App Store and this will offer app makers and publishers a way to reach the more than 100 million iOS users on a recurring basis through the App Store. The move will give Apple a 30% cut of subscription services sold through the App Store and it…
While Microsoft is trying to propel interest in Windows Phone 7 by talking about the looming update (check out our video of it) and signing a deal with the world’s largest handset maker in the world, not everyone in the mobile industry is bullish about the smartphone platform. Executives from Verizon and Motorola downplayed Windows…
Microsoft talked about its Windows Phone 7 update at a keynote in Mobile World Congress and the company was kind enough to give us the same demonstration that it delivered there. Currently, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices can’t do true multitasking, as apps hibernate in the background and wake up when you go back to…
I’m sure you’ve already checked out our hands-on video of the just-announced HP TouchPad webOS tablet but we couldn’t resist getting another taste of the webOS tablet at Mobile World Congress. The HP TouchPad webOS tablet has a 9.7-inch display, a 1.2-GHz dual-core SnapDragon processor from Qualcomm, 512 MB of RAM, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera…
HTC wasn’t going to let Motorola, Samsung and LG have all the fun with Android tablets, as the company just announced the Flyer and we couldn’t wait to get a close look at it. The HTC Flyer Android tablet packs a 1.5 GHz single core processor, an aluminum unibody construction, a 7-inch screen with a…
So, when Nokia decided to back Windows Phone 7, it looked like MeeGo was going to suffer a not-so-noble death. Well, don’t tell that to Intel, as the company is still planning to support the platform and it showed off a developer reference tablet at Mobile World Congress 2011. I hate to be super critical…
While LG officially announced the G Slate at CES 2011, we didn’t get a chance to see the thing in person … until now, that is. We got our hands on the LG G Slate, which will also be known as the Optimus Pad, and the 9-inch tablet may be something special. The company made…