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I don’t know what it is about a white phone but having a high-end phone in this color does seem pretty cool, so we’re happy to see that T-Mobile will offer the Galaxy S II in white for this holiday season. Other than the different color, there won’t be much different on the new Galaxy…
We know that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was built to unify the tablet and smartphone experience but we haven’t really seen it on a tablet … until now. Well, the good folks at NVIDIA have ported it to the Asus Transformer Prime with its quad-core Tegra 3 chip. It’s only been a few days…
It seems like every day we’re seeing a new mobile music service hitting the streets, so how can a company like SoundCloud stand out from the crowd? According to SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung, the company is going to be successful by focusing on being the social platform for sounds on the web. “In regular life,…
Here we go again. Reports from AllThingsD suggest that the world’s largest social network is working with HTC to build, develop and release a Facebook phone and the project, code-named “Buffy,” is being spearheaded by Facebook CTO Bret Taylor. The details are actually pretty sparse but AllThingsD is promising that it will have a full…
The CTIA and ESRB announced that they will be introducing a ratings systems for mobile apps and this will be revealed near the end of the month. We’ll learn more about what this entails when the ratings system is unveiled Nov. 29 but it will be interesting to see what this will require. For those…
MetroPCS has picked up another Android phone, as users of the prepaid carrier can now pick up an HTC Wildfire S for about $180. If you think that nearly $200 may be too much for a mid-tier device like the Wildfire S, you’d best to remember that MetroPCS doesn’t come with a two-year contract, so…
The government of Pakistan is trying to implement censorship on its telecommunications companies in order to “save” its citizens from obscenities like “sex,” “monkey crotch” and “Jesus Christ.” The plan is currently being delayed after facing some push-back from free-speech advocates but believe it is only a matter of time before it’s implemented. The list…
Amazon is kicking off the holiday shopping season early by offering multiple, high-end smartphones for a penny when you sign up for a new, two-year contract. Additionally, if you get a phone with a hotspot and activate it, then you can get a $100 Amazon gift card. We’re not talking about junk smartphones either, as…
Google’s Android is essentially open and that offers a lot of choice in form factor, carrier, handset maker and it even led to things like the Kindle Fire but that openness also comes with a downside, as McAfee’s latest mobile security report says that nearly all the new instances of mobile malware it saw in…
The U.S. House intelligence committee will be investigating Huawei and ZTE to see if these companies will pose a potential threat to U.S. security as it expands its phone and telecom equipment business. Is this a legitimate look at protecting the nation’s interest or is this xenophobia that will lead to another Red Scare? ZTE…