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HP Palm has issued a casting call for some upcoming commercials showing off the Broadway, Manta, and Topaz devices. As far as we can gather, the Topaz will be Palm’s first webOS tablet, and the Mantaray and Broadway names had been dug up in the in the webOS 2.0 code. Though the Braodway is probably…
Those of you who have been waiting anxiously for a version of the HTC Evo with a slide-out keyboard won’t have to wait much longer; a Radio Shack flyer says it’ll be coming out January 9 for $149.99 on a two-year contract. That price lines up with what we’ve seen over at Best Buy. You…
Not to be left behind by the more established mobile platforms, like Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry, the Windows Phone Facebook app now supports Places, letting you check in to specific spots based on your GPS coordinates, and share where you are with your friends online. Windows Phone wasn’t entirely left in the dark for social…
We’re kinda-sorta expecting Sony Ericsson to launch the Hallon, Anzu, and Play at CES next week, but what about their Mobile World Congress plans? Well, that time last year they launched the X10 Mini Pro, an adorably tiny device with a surprisingly good keyboard, and based on a few pictures, it looks like they’re ready…
It looks like Microsoft’s strategy of buying developers is starting to pay off already; unofficial stats counters show the official Windows Phone Marketplace is up to 5,000 apps, which at least competes with, if not surpasses Palm’s webOS Catalog. To be fair in the comparison, Microsoft was able to churn out a lot more phones…
Apple and a handful of iPhone app developers, like Pandora, Paper Toss, the Weather Channel, and Dictionary.com are under legal fire for sending personal information to advertisers without the consent of app users. Jonathan Lalo is seeking class-action status for the suit, which claims that information like location, age, gender, income, ethnicity, sexual orientation and…
Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Brothers, says that the battery life on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is still not quite up to snuff, citing “a few hours”-worth of juice in its current state. As a result, he’s expecting the launch to be pushed to March or May from our previously expected February timeframe. Of…
They say necessity is the mother of all invention, and I’d be hard-pressed to think of a greater necessity than to stay immobile and comfortable on the couch while remaining adequately refreshed with ice cold beer. In that spirit, one enterprising couch potato has modded his mini-fridge to dispense one of four different beers, which…
The Motorola Spice made its first official appearance in Brazil, bearing a striking resemblance to the Palm Pre form factor. There was obviously a lot of interest in a phone that had the same kind of smooth curves but ran Android instead. The entry-level specs would have turned off anyone looking for the best of…
Some pictures from a Sony Ericsson test account have been found on Picasa which are not only of an unfamiliar phone, but are taken by an unannounced handset as well. The phone taking the pictures is the LT15i, packing an 8 megapixel camera. It’s probably the code-named Anzu, but even that is up in the…