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Earlier this month, we got a quick glance at a new HTC handset headed to T-Mobile, but some more official-looking shots of the HTC Amaze / Ruby have just bubbled up. No additional information, like a release date, accompanied these shots unfortunately. From what we’ve gathered, the Amaze is going to be a pretty impressive…
Man, Japan gets all the cool stuff. KDDI au announced recently a bunch of new Android handsets, including the HTC EVO 3D, the Motorola Photon, and this beauty made by Toshiba and Fujitsu. It has a 4.3-inch 1280 x 720 touchscreen, packs a 13 megapixel camera on the back, and is running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread on…
VoIP service provider Rebtel recently ran a study through Harris Interactive on what people used to communicate with friends, family, and coworkers. Around 2,300 folks across the U.S. in a variety of age categories weighed in on their favourite method for keeping in touch, between voice calls, e-mail, instant messaging, through social networks, or otherwise. Although…
At the F8 conference today, Facebook announced a new feature for its online social network, both on the web and on mobile. Timeline now puts your personal history on Facebook into a lengthy, graphically-rich interface. You can highlight major events, drill down into smaller events, and filter what’s shown so you only see one kind of…
Reports from anonymous sources “close to the matter” claim Samsung is getting ready to block sales of the iPhone 5 in Europe, though they haven’t quite settled in which countries they’ll be launching legal action. South Korea is a natural choice, but Europe is apparently in discussions, and would put a significantly larger wrench into…
After plenty of early hints, T-Mobile has announced their plans for RIM’s next entry-level smartphone, the Curve 9360. The Curve 9360 will be available for pre-sale to business customers starting today, and will hit stores starting September 28. A purple version will be hitting shelves on October 12, while the pricetag sits at a reasonable…
LG and Verizon have announced a new, simple slider called the Enlighten. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has a 3.2 320 x 480 touchscreen, 800 MHz processor, a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back, and of course a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It’s not quite the slim Optimus slider announced in Japan, but the reasonable pricetag,…
Quanta has shaved off about a thousand of its Taiwan workforce, likely because of dwindling BlackBerry PlayBook orders. The specifics of how many RIM tablets the manufacturing partner shipped in the first half of the year is undisclosed, but Fubon Securities analyst Arthur Liao says Quanta shipped 1.5 million, while a source told DigiTimes RIM…
The GetGlue entertainment check-in app for iPhone has had a bit of an overhaul, which now provides a more condensed home screen, a new conversation view that only shows the interesting check-ins, and a full graphical leaderboard to see where you stand in relation to your friends’ habits. There are a few smaller tweaks to…
HTC announced the HTC Rhyme today at an event in New York, due for Verizon stores starting September 29. The phone has a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, runs Android 2.3, and the usual stuff like Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G. The most interesting thing about it, though, are all of the…