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SquareTrade, a company that offers insurance for your consumer electronics gear, recently recorded a video showing what happens when you drop a Samsung Galaxy S II and an Apple iPhone 4S from waist height, shoulder height, and then screen first, all on concrete. The results shouldn’t be too surprising considering that the Samsung Galaxy S…
In a little over 9 hours Motorola will start live streaming their announcement of a new product dubbed the Droid RAZR. We have a rough idea of what it’s going to bring to the table. It’ll have a large screen, possibly 4.3 inches, and said screen will have an ultra sharp resolution of 1280 x…
Microsoft researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a completely new way to interact with your smartphone called “PocketTouch“. The name is incredibly apt since it describes a system that allows you to control a device while it’s still in your pocket. Using a capacitive element that’s placed on the back of your smartphone, you…
Earlier this month we were deeply saddened to report that Steve Jobs lost his battle with cancer and passed away at the age of 56. All the conversations around Android versus iOS versus Windows Phone seemed rather pointless in comparison to the death of a man who possessed such incredible vision. Now that it’s been…
There’s no other way to say this: Wow. Apple has just issued a press release saying that they’ve sold over 4 million iPhone 4S units just 3 short days after launching it. On top of that, 25 million people upgraded to iOS 5 in the same time period. Many of you who experienced the painfully…
Steve Ballmer is a man facing an incredible uphill right now. He needs to prove that Microsoft’s latest attempt at penetrating the mobile market is actually going places. The partnership with Nokia will do plenty to help the world take notice of Windows Phone, but these days unless you’ve got a fancy ad campaign pushing…
Verizon Wireless is set to introduce two Android smartphones next month that are pretty much guaranteed to make geeks from sea to shining sea jizz in their pants. First up, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which we’ve been hearing rumors about for quite a few months now. It’s going to be the first smartphone to run…
What better way to promote a new mobile wallet service than by sending a swarm of marketing people to stores and then having said marketeers offer to pay for strangers’ purchases? That’s exactly what Google recently did in New York and San Francisco, and guess what? It works. People flipped out, and rightly so, because…
Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy S II have sold more than 30 million units since first launching at the 2010 Mobile World Congress. To put that into some perspective, that’s happened over a span of 20 months, so that’s an average of 1.5 million units sold every month. The original Samsung Galaxy S was incredibly…
Apple’s newest hotness, the iPhone 4S (check out our review!), has become Samsung’s latest target in the never ending spat between the two consumer electronics giants. Last week we reported that Samsung was seeking to prevent the iPhone 4S from being sold in France and Italy. This week they’ve added Australia and Japan to that…