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LG has been building up hype for their new glasses-less 3D phone to be shown off at Mobile World Congress, and we even got a glimpse of a live device. Now LG is showing off the hardware through a fog of poorly-translated English in a promotional ad, though we’re still mostly in the dark when…
Sprint is planning an Android handset to combat Verizon’s Droid Pro, by the looks of it. We don’t know much about this Samsung handset, but it’s got the full physical QWERTY keyboard and a portrait-oriented touchscreen. It doesn’t look like there’s any kind of front-facing camera, so I wouldn’t expect 4G on here, but really,…
The iPad and iPhone have become a comfortable home to e-book readers like Kindle, but apparently from here on in, that’s only as long as Apple gets a cut of book sales. It’s been reported that Sony’s upcoming Reader app for iPhone is having trouble getting accepted into the iTunes App Store because their current…
Wireless Dynamics and Visa have teamed up to plug NFC into an iPhone and enable wireless transactions in over 40,000 locations across Turkey. All end-users have to do is attach the accessory, launch the app, and tap their phone on a sensor at the store, and they’ll have paid. Generally you won’t even have to…
In a survey cross-referencing smartphone use with ethnicity, Nielsen found that Hispanics and Asians were the most likely to own a smartphone (45% each), followed by African-Americans (33%) and finally Caucasians (27%). In terms of those recently buying handsets, Asians have been buying the most of the last six months (60%), then Hispanics (56%), African…
We saw a glimpse of the Poynt application running on the BlackBerry PlayBook at CES, but how would you all like an extra taste? Although the app is still a work in progress prior to the tablet’s launch, everything looks polished and functioning; just like the smartphone app for BlackBerry, you can look up people…
RIM’s ongoing negotiations with the government of India regarding lawful interception of BlackBerry data have hit a bit of a roadblock. RIM has already gone on record and said that they can’t access anything on BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, but the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that they still insist that some kind of surveillance…
T-Mobile customers with a BlackBerry Bold 9700 or Curve 9300 may be able to test out a pre-release version of OS 6 through RIM’s Beta Zone. The BlackBerry 9300 is an entry-level smartphone with a fixed-focus 2 megapixel camera, 2.4-inch QVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G. The Bold 9700 is a bit swankier, including a…
Seesmic’s social networking app for iPhone has been updated to 1.2, including a handful of new features. The big one is the ability to post to Facebook Pages that you administrate, but there’s also new language support for Japanese, Spanish, German, and French, and image previews in tweets. They’ve changed how they’ve handled big gaps…
In RIM’s ongoing video series leading up to the launch of their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in March, they’re showing off some of the business capabilities of the device. There’s nothing particularly new to be seen; it’s explained again that enterprise e-mail is wiped from the PlayBook as soon as you un-pair a BlackBerry smartphone. App…