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U.S. Senator Al Franken, a democrat from Minnesota, published a press release yesterday stating his views on AT&T’s proposal to takeover T-Mobile. He says the “transaction is not in the public interest” and that “it would result in greatly reduced competition, the potential loss of thousands of jobs, higher consumer prices, and less innovation” in…
The Motorola Xoom, the very first device to run Google’s tablet version of Android known as Honeycomb, hit store shelves on February 24th of this year. When Verizon announced it, they said that at some point in the future, most likely during the summer, customers will be able to get a free hardware upgrade that…
Samsung’s Galaxy S II, which reviewers around the world hail as the best smartphone currently on the market, has been noticeably absent from American shores. Yesterday we got a peak at the AT&T version of the device, and it’s been heavily modified with the addition of a QWERTY keyboard. What use are physical keys when…
Yesterday Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows Phone, which the industry calls “Mango”, is finally done. The code is being shipped to handset and operators around the world, and the hope is that devices running Mango will be on store shelves as early as this September. The question on everyone’s mind of course…
Samsung’s wildly popular Galaxy S II, which some argue to be the most powerful smartphone on the planet, has been noticeably absent on American shores. That’s due to change next month according to Shin Jong-kyun, President of Samsung’s Mobile Business and Digital Imaging. Knowing how the big four operators roll though, we expect the Galaxy…
Samsung’s much adored Galaxy Tab 10.1 is set to come to Verizon this coming Thursday for $529. For that amount of dough you get one of the sexiest looking tablets on the market that run Google’s Android operating system, specifically Honeycomb 3.1, and best of all it’ll come with the ability to use Verizon’s 4G…
Two videos have been floating around the internet of an as yet to be announced device known as the Samsung Galaxy R. Think of it as a Samsung Galaxy S II, but with a 4.2 inch LCD screen versus a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus screen, a 5 megapixel camera that can capture 720p video…
Clearwire, America’s WiMAX operator that supplies Sprint with their 4G network and is also facing some serious financial woes, has announced a new piece of hardware, the Clear Spot 4G Apollo. It’s a portable WiFi hotspot, meaning it takes the WiMAX signal that’s hopefully in your neck of the woods and converts it to WiFi…
Mozilla, who we imagine isn’t too happy about losing market share to Google’s relatively new Chrome browser and the fact that Firefox Mobile isn’t taking off as well as they had hoped, has announced a new operating system dubbed “Boot to Gecko”, B2G for short. Now I know what you’re thinking, the market is already…
Facebook’s iPhone app is consistently in Apple’s list of the top 25 free applications download, and for good reason too. The social network has over 750 million active users, there are push enabled notifications so you don’t miss a thing, and who wouldn’t want to check up on their friends when there’s a few minutes…