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comScore is showing off their survey numbers for December through February, and of the 30,000 U.S. smartphone owners surveyed, a solid 33% had an Android handset of some kind. That lines up nicely with other recent data that puts Android as the top mobile OS in America, as well as the UK. Samsung was the…
Any Americans hankering for a GSM version of the Incredible 2 coming soon to Verizon are in luck; up here in Canada, Bell Mobility just launched an HSPA-capable HTC Incredible S, going for $99 on a three-year contract, or $499.95 outright.As a part of the launch, Bell also introduced some new mobile TV offerings –…
Samsung, LG, HP, HTC, RIM, and Motorola have all jumped into the tablet market with both feet, and Sony Ericsson won’t be too far behind, apparently. Sony CEO Howard Stringer revealed that they would be releasing an Android tablet running 3.0 Honeycomb by the end of the summer in the U.S. market. If Sony Ericsson…
Google has updated Android Voice Search to work with the language known by fourth-graders the world over: Pig Latin. Sounds like an April Fool’s joke? Guess again buckaroo, the feature is actually in there. Just go to Settings, Voice input and output settings, Voice recognizer settings, Language, and scroll all the way down to the…
Some Sprint training promotions show the WiMAX-enabled Samsung Nexus S is going to be released on April 18. The Samsung Nexus S 4G isn’t really that different from the original: it’s got the same 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 5 megapixel camera (plus secondary front-facing camera), 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, Wi-Fi b/g/n with…
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, also known as the PlayStation phone, has gone on sale across Europe and Asia today with “an additional 6 markets over the next 2 weeks”, which one would assume includes North America. Countries in the launch include the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Hong Kong, and…
Google is apparently working on a facial recognition app that would pull up personal information (within careful privacy controls, of course). The software has already been used in their Picasa web photo service to tag friends and family in various albums, and may eventually find its way into Goggles to link to Profiles. Now, this…
To follow up on the brief glimpse of BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.1, the application has been leaked for everyone to try out. If that wasn’t enough, OS 6.1 itself has leaked for two upcoming BlackBerry handsets, and someone has extracted updated versions of App World, Podcasts, Radio, News, Facebook, and Visual Voicemail. We’re expecting to…
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo recently launched this great commercial for the Touch Wood SH-08C that involved a giant xylophone in the woods, and a ball with some momentum. Every time the ball strikes a lower step, it adds a note to “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” by Bach. It’s a unique, peaceful piece of marketing, ripe…
RIM’s next full-touchscreen slate handset has been spotted in various roadmaps, and once with dead screen, but today we get to see the BlackBerry Monaco alive and running. According to the source, it may launch as the BlackBerry Touch, likely in an effort to get away from the Storm family and the negative stigma created…