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One of the big beefs with Android is that carriers haven’t made a strong effort to keep its devices on the most current version of the software but AT&T just announced that all of its current Android phones will definitely be getting at least Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The carrier said that the Atrix 4G will…
Apple has just released the next iOS 5 beta to developers and it will be fun to see what new goodies this will bring over the older versions. Interestingly enough, this version is available over the air for those already running the last version of the beta. I’m right in the middle of downloading the…
There’s a neat little infographic coming from the Cloudtalk folk which shows what many of us have known for a while: smartphone users are not using their phones to actually make phone calls that often. According to the data that the infographic was based on, the top five smartphone activities are texting/messaging, e-mailing, social network,…
The Sprint Nexus S 4G is a good way to get a pure Google experience but if you’re like a lot of people, you may have had trouble with the whole “4G” thing. Well, Sprint has heard your complaints and a software update will be rolling out July 25 to fix some data speed issues.…
We’ve been waiting for the Motorola Droid Bionic for about six months now and Amazon has just showed off new pictures of it in a car and desk dock. Could this mean that the elusive 4G LTE phone is finally almost ready to be released? The car dock page doesn’t reveal many details about when…
This patent thing is getting out of control. Lodsys, which has been going after app makers over in-app purchase patents, is acting like one of those dastardly pigs and is going after the Angry Birds maker Rovio. Rovio has seen more than 300 million downloads of the game throughout the world on multiple platforms and…
We all know that touchscreens on smartphones are the greatest things since sliced bread but not everyone knows how these things work. Cricket Wireless created a pretty cool breakdown of how this works in the infographic below, so I thought I’d share it with all you lovely people. I know Cricket had to include resistive…
Microsoft just posted some strong numbers for its fourth quarter with $17.37 billion in revenue and $5.87 billion in profit but don’t look for Windows Phone 7 to be a major contributor. In its official release, the company only mentions Windows Phone a couple of times and these are generally not very positive. One mention…
Patents surrounding Android are becoming a bigger issue everyday and the Oracle, Google suit has the potential to derail the Android train. In the latest legal filing in the case, FossPatents indicates that Google may be willing to settle out of court to make this go away. It’s somewhat of a change for Google, as…
If you’re jonesing for your Google+ fix on your Windows Phone, you’ll be happy to know that an app could be coming this week. Well, maybe. According to a post on the social networking site, the Google team outlined a few new features which may be implemented this week (check out number 6): 1.Ability to…