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Hey, the Android 2.2-powered Dell Venue / Thunder is alive after all. Korean service provider KT went official with the device, confirming a 4.1-inch AMOLED display with a slightly-curved Gorilla glass screen and Android Gingerbread, but few of the other specs came out; we can only assume that it still has a 1 GHz processor…
Once upon a time, three mighty clans of assassins fought for the right to unbox the Nexus One – the most sacrosanct of Android phones the world over. A year has passed, and in that time their fiery passion for technology has only multiplied. Today those deadly warriors of the night battle again, only for…
Mac users will be happy to hear that the official BlackBerry Desktop Software has been update to 2.0, including the Wi-Fi music sync that has been on PC for awhile, a device switch wizard so when, for some some reason, get another BlackBerry instead of an iPhone, and the ability to sync pictures and videos…
ooVoo has just launched a their first mobile video chat client for Android, letting up to six users on the same call at once. That alone doesn’t make it a significant competitor to Qik, though – it also has a lot of technology on the backend that allows it to handle large video conference calls…
Wind Mobile up here in Canada just went public with some excellent promotional plans yesterday. Until December 24, you can sign up for the Holiday Miracle plan, which includes unlimited data, Canada-wide calling, US long-distance, global texting, caller ID, and voicemail for $40/month. If you’re looking for something more lightweight, you can scrap the long-distance,…
Hey, you blogophiles – the oh-so-popular Posterous service has just launched a client for Android, following up on the recent release of their iPhone app. With the new app, you can post to multiple sites with all of the relevent tags and categories, attach pictures and video taken with your phone’s camera, and geotag a…
Google and some students from the University of California sent a batch of Samsung Nexus S smartphones up to around 32,000 meters in coolers attached to weather balloons to take some awesome pictures and gather gyroscopic data from the phones. The seven Nexus S units took about three hours to get up there before popping,…
HTC’s head honcho Peter Chou said in an interview yesterday that they’re expecting to launch LTE-capable handsets in the U.S. in the second half of 2011. We were under the impression that Verizon was launching their LTE network and handsets very soon, and MetroPCS has already been live with 4G for a couple of months;…
Some of you Android users out there may have noticed that the Facebook application has been updated in the Market. What new features does it include? Well, push notifications for when you get a new wall post or direct messsage, and real-time chat with your friends who are online. Chat is a huge addition, and…
We’ve reviewed a flurry of Windows phones already, like the Optimus 7, the HTC Surround, and the Samsung Focus, but believe it or not there’s still a few we have yet to check out. One such example is the LG Quantum, which breaks the trend of pure touchscreen slates in the Windows Phone 7 launch…