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According to a new study done by the University of Rhode Island on 204 college students last spring, 56% of students have received a sexually suggestive image on their mobile phone, 78% have received a sexually suggestive text message, and two out of three students have admitted that they’ve sent sexually suggestive texts. To break…
We’re less than 1 month into the second half of 2011, so it’s time for analysts to start making predictions about what’s going to happen by the time January 2012 rolls around. One figure we’re always waiting for the bean counters to release is how many smartphone units are going to be sold. We’ve made…
MoboTap, a company that you’ve likely never heard of, are the brains behind the Android web browser “Dolphin”. They’ve recently announced that version 6.0 of their browser has been released, and it comes with a new user interface that you can check out in the video below. The key feature of this new version however…
When HP (some would rather say Palm) announced the Pre3 back in February of this year, which is over 5 months ago for those who are counting, the specification sheet said it would come with a single core 1.4 GHz processor. That no longer appears to be the case according to phone Arena, who discovered…
It’s a story that many who are familiar with the wireless industry have heard time and time again. Asian companies like HTC, Huawei, and ZTE start out as mere handset makers who supply devices to operators who then go on and slap their logo on the bodies of said devices, along with a slew of…
It goes without saying that not all Android handsets are created equally. You can pick up a smartphone made by a no brand Chinese vendor for less than $150, or you can import the dual core beast that is the Samsung Galaxy S II for over $700 and have one the fastest mobile phones currently…
When it comes to building mobile phones for the American market, if you’re a handset vendor supplying devices for either Sprint or Verizon you typically go with Qualcomm for CDMA chipsets. They’ve been powering CDMA devices for as long as anyone can remember, mainly due to the fact that they invented the standard back in…
Apple’s latest beta of their next version iOS, due to be released this fall, has been discovered to feature an AirPlay enabled version of FaceTime. Now if you’re not a user of Apple products, you probably have no idea what the hell that even means. AirPlay is Apple’s proprietary way of wirelessly streaming audio and…
Motorla was the first hardware vendor to ship a device running Google’s Android operating system optimized for tablets known as Honeycomb. Their tablet, called the Xoom, wasn’t really all that popular, and for good reason. It weighed more than the iPad, was thicker the iPad, and most importantly Android 3.0 wasn’t up to snuff compared…
Today is a historic day for America because you fine people are finally going to get access to Spotify. Looking to reciprocate the European gesture of good will, Google has announced that they’ll be bringing their live traffic feature in Google Maps to 13 additional countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel (ummm…