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Apple is expected to announce a new iPhone later this year and while no one agrees whether it’ll be called the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, pretty much everyone following the rumors that have been trickling out know that A) It’ll pack the A5 processor found inside the iPad 2 B) It’ll have an 8…
Cricket, one of the smaller operators in America with just a bit over 5.4 million customers (the population of Finland), has just announced that they’ll be offering the Android 2.2 running Samsung Indulge. Packing a 3.5 inch screen with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels, it isn’t exactly the best way for you to…
Hacking your Android smartphone started out as something people did in their basements because they thought it was cool and geeky. Now the scene includes damn near everyone and they do it because they want the latest version of Android on their handset and they also want to free themselves from the ridiculous, often terrible,…
Earlier this week Apple took the veil off iOS 5 and went through 10 features out of over 200 that are due to arrive on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch this fall. Many mobile enthusiasts were quick to point out that much of what was shown off has been done on other platforms. Take…
Culture, which many philosophers, creatives, and political leaders have tried to define since the dawn of man, is under attack. Thanks to a generation that was raised to believe that they’re entitled to damn near everything they want, and a society that doesn’t accept the fact that life produces both winners and losers, the social…
Zynga, who is quickly building themselves a reputation as a leader in the mobile games area, has just launched “Hanging with Friends” for iOS. It’s a modern take on the classic game of Hangman that many school children play today, or at least we still think they’re allowed to play since the potentially violent associations…
Earlier this year the mobile industry stood in disbelief as they read the news of AT&T’s planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. If approved, it would mean that America would have just 1 operator using GSM technology, and their only real competitor would be Verizon Wireless, who offers remarkable quality of service, but is also…
Something important is going to happen at the end of this month. Newspapers and magazines currently offering iPad and iOS applications that require you to pay for a subscription via a method other than iTunes will get kicked out of the App Store. You read that right, Apple wants to not only take 30% of…
The GSMA may not get a lot of press love as an organization, but they’re responsible for not only holding the largest wireless trade show of the year (Mobile World Congress), but also inventing and maintaing the standards that power over 80% of the mobile phones currently being used today. Their CEO, Rob Conway, has…
If you want a smartphone with a ridiculously fast mobile broadband connection, and you crave a device with a large screen that’s also so sharp you’ll spend all day looking at it in awe, then there really is no better choice today than Verizon’s Samsung Droid Charge. Sure, it doesn’t pack the latest dual core…