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The latest numbers from NPD are out and it shows a familiar theme: Android and iOS are growing while BlackBerry is sliding. The NPD report found that 52 percent of smartphones sold in the United States last quarter were powered by Android. That’s actually quite a staggering figure and it shows how Google’s approach of…
After HP killed webOS and put the TouchPad on a deep, deep discount, I couldn’t help but feel like a sucker. You see friends, I did pick up a TouchPad about a week and a half ago … for $400. It was definitely a bad decision in hindsight and it also made me realize that…
Well, HP quickly pulled the plug on HP and it liquidated its webOS TouchPad by offering the tablet for as low as $99. The device is sold out in many places, so we want to know if you bought one? I actually bought one about two weeks ago … at nearly full price. While that…
HP is killing off its webOS devices and it looks like the end of the line for the platform. Let’s take a look back at how it came to be and why we’re now looking at the end of the line. Palm was in the smartphone game before it was cool with its Treo lineup…
WebOS is dead. I wondered what HP spinning off its hardware division would mean for webOS and I tried to find a bit of optimism. Well, HP said it is killing its TouchPad and other webOS devices. In the press release where it announced that it is negotiating to buy the Autonomy company, it slipped…
Microsoft has just unveiled a new social location app for Windows Phone and the We’re In app is an interesting way to share your location and coordinate with friends. I think that We’re In is kind of a combination of Foursquare, Latitude GroupMe because you can just use your phone number to sign up and…
Whoa. Bloomberg is reporting that HP plans to spin off its PC and hardware division while also spending $10 billion to buy Autonomy and become an enterprise solutions company. It’s definitely still a rumor but it appears to have some credibility. If HP spins off its hardware, what would this mean for webOS? As you…
Apple is reportedly in talks with China Mobile to bring the iPhone to the world’s largest carrier and Reuters is reporting that Steve Jobs is leading the negotiations personally. Negotiating with carriers is generally not something you’d expect Apple’s CEO to handle but this shows just how important China Mobile could be for the iPhone.…
The general thought is that Android users don’t like to use apps as much as their iPhone counterparts and while that may actually be true, a new Nielsen study found that Android users are heavily into their apps. Android users interact with apps more than they do the mobile web. The report said that Android…
We have a soft spot for Windows Phone because we believe that it is a fresh take on mobile computing but it has been a major flop with consumers so far. Still, there’s some neat information in an infographic from KnowYourMobile which shows that the most popular handset so far is the Samsung Focus, followed…