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In a recent survey done by the folks at eMarketer, they discovered that America’s adults are now spending more time with their mobile device than they are with newspapers and magazines. An average adult spends 65 minutes a day staring into their smartphone’s screen, versus 26 minutes for newspapers and 18 minutes for magazines. In…
Khaled Salameh and the folks who run WinRumors have discovered a nasty Windows Phone bug whereby a simple text message can force a device to reboot and then make the messaging application unusable. We don’t know how to replicate this bug, and that’s a good thing, because WinRumors said that they merely want to let…
It’s all well and good that Nokia is trying to resurrect their glory days by partnering with Microsoft and releasing Windows Phones, but until they step foot in America then nothing they do matters. That’s the sad truth of the situation. We already know that T-Mobile is going to make an announcement tomorrow saying that…
Once upon a time, over a decade ago, to get online your computer needed to make a phone call to an internet service provider who would then give you access to the world wide web at an abysmally slow 0.05 megabits per second. Since your computer could dial any number to connect to the web,…
Earlier this year, on May 26th to be precise, Google announced Google Wallet and their intent to render your current wallet totally useless. It took a few months, but on September 19th the service became available to the public. In order to use it however you needed to be a Sprint customer using a Google…
Earlier this month ASUS announced that the Transformer Prime, the world’s first tablet to feature the quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, has begun shipping out to retailers and that customers would be able to pick one up in time for the holiday season. Now we’ve yet to review one, but we did publish a…
Last week we reviewed the LG Nitro HD for AT&T, one of AT&T’s first smartphones to support 4G LTE, and we gave it a 7 out of 10 because thought it was an incredibly average device. On paper the Nitro HD should be absolutely amazing thanks to the 1.5 GHz dual core processor under the…
When LightSquared first announced their plans to build a $7 billion LTE network that they would sell access to via a wholesale businesses model, we were ridiculously excited. That was back in July 2010. Here we are, about to enter 2012, and LightSquared’s plans have changed so drastically that we’re having doubts that they’ll even…
Smartphone makers, for the most part, don’t like it when you fiddle with their devices. They work hard to craft a user experience that represents their brand. When the hacker community starts messing with that, the cease and desist letters start flying. Now Nokia lets people play around with their Maemo/MeeGo powered devices, but then…
Several weeks ago we heard some murmurs that Panasonic was looking for a public relations firm to handle an as yet to be announced entrance into the European smartphone market. Today they’ve made the news official. Panasonic has just announced that they’ll start selling Android smartphones in Europe as early as March 2012 with a…