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Close your eyes for a moment and picture a Samsung Galaxy S. Imagine yourself using it. Now replace the TouchWIZ user interface with candy colored icons designed by someone who spent the latter years of their time in University huffing paint cans. Next, replace the Samsung logo with that of LG. What you’re seeing now,…
T-Mobile, one of our favorite operators due to the pricing structure of the plans they offer and their ability to not screw up devices with additional preloaded software, is rumored to be modifying their 200 MB per month data plan. Until now users who were subscribed to T-Mobile’s data packages have enjoyed high speed data…
Samsung’s Galaxy potfolio has more devices in it than we care to count. There’s the Galaxy S, the one that started it all; the Galaxy Tab, which came in a 7 inch version that sucked, a more recent 10.1 inch version that’s the best Android tablet on the market, and an 8.9 inch version that…
Microsoft finished work on the next version of Windows Phone, dubbed Mango, a little over two weeks ago. Between now and the end of the end of this year you can expect to see a slew of smartphones running Mango hitting the market. We’ve seen one already, the Fujitsu Toshiba IS12T, but that’s not going…
About 14 hours ago we reported that Taiwanese handset vendor HTC was going to be announcing “major news today”. Thanks to AllThingsD, we now know what that is. Apparently HTC is going to sink $300 million into Beats Electronics, the same company that makes all that audio equipment with Dr. Dre branding, in an attempt…
Findings from a survey conducted on 500 U.S. based “online shoppers” by Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world’s largest advertising firms, suggests that consumers don’t trust companies like Apple, Facebook, or Google when it comes to mobile payments. In fact, Facebook scored the worst, being trusted by only 12.1% of the people surveyed. Microsoft,…
With a little less than 5 months left until the start of 2012, we’re kind of sad to say that we’ve been duped, yet again, by analysts predicting that near field communication technology, or NFC, would take off and become mainstream. The first, and right now only, NFC enabled Android smartphone on the market is…
LightSquared, the wireless operator run by a hedge fund manager who owns spectrum that’s dangerously close to that of GPS, is in a bit of pickle. Testing was done earlier this summer to see if their planned 4G LTE network would interfere with GPS signals, and the results were downright shocking. GPS reception was knocked…
Earlier this summer we reported that the next two releases of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system are going to be called “Tango” and “Apollo”. Back then we didn’t exactly know what either of those versiosn would feature, but leaks have recently been floating around the internet about “Tango”. Mary-Jo Foley from All About Microsoft has…
Everyone who touches a Samsung Galaxy S II comes to the same conclusion, it’s hands down the best smartphone on the market today. It still hasn’t hit American shores, but that’s due to change over the next few weeks. How does one improve on an already smashing success? By making it larger and faster of…