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The upcoming PlayStation phone (or straight-up “Play“, if you will) has been caught again under the camera, this time with Sony Ericsson’s Xperia logo staring right back at us. The software running on there is Android 2.3 (as we had seen in previous benchmarks), and looks like it has some of the usual Xperia customizations…
Samsung is starting to leverage Android in their other businesses in the tech world, as today they have announced the SH100 point-and-shoot camera, which pairs up with a Galaxy S handset over the local Wi-Fi b/g/n network so you can preview, zoom, and shoot the camera remotely from your Android phone. Definitely more precise than…
Eye-Fi has announced that they’re going to launch a new mobile feature, that instead of treating your phone simply like a Wi-Fi-equipped camera, as they’ve done with their iPhone app, now you can send your pictures to your phone tablet from your proper camera. Doing so will enable browsing, editing, and saving of the pictures…
RIM has provided another demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook demo to follow up on their comparison with the iPad. This time, they’re showing how various web video formats run smooth as butter in the native web browser, and how the Facebook experience is just like on a desktop, complete with chat and games. Take a…
CES is just getting rolling, and we’ve got our first major announcement: Sprint has gone official with the HTC Evo Shift 4G. It’ll be priced at $149.99 on a two-year contract after rebates starting January 9, as rumoured. All of the rumoured specs panned out, including the 3.6-inch WVGA display, Android 2.2 (including mobile hotspot…
The Pre 2 is the first handset Palm has made since they were rescued from complete deterioration by HP and given what you might call a third wind. Despite the fact that webOS brought a lot of cool stuff to the table when it was introduced two years ago, like live thumbnails in multitasking, gesture…
Motorola’s handset division will officially become its own company tomorrow, as expected. Current Motorola stockholders will get one share of Motorola Mobility for every eight shares they own, which will be followed by a 7-to-1 reverse stock split. Although the split means that they won’t be able to indefinitely suckle on their established infrastructure and…
RIM’s U.S. smartphone market share continues to slowly but surely decline. According to Nielsen’s November data, iPhone continued its lead, which sat at 28.6% (up from 27.9% in June), with BlackBerry taking 26.1% (down from 33.9%), and Android 25.8% (up from 15%). Despite being in third place, Android has attracted the most new purchases in…
An LTE BlackBerry has reportedly been in the works for about the last two years, which is roughly the length of RIM’s development cycle, but a variety of factors have apparently slowed progress to a standstill. Rumour has it that costs for LTE chips are too high for RIM, that 4G is too much of…
If you’ve already gone ahead and taken the plunge on the Samsung Nexus S, there’s a new tweak available that ekes out another 200 MHz or processing power, but unfortunately kills Bluetooth functionality in the process. That’s likely to be fixed in a future patch, if you’re willing to wait. The Samsung Nexus S is…