The Android Market has been open for long enough that people have become used to its look and feel. But, that may soon change. New photos have popped up that show a refreshed Android Market design. The photos come from an Android user with access to one of Motorola’s unreleased Android-powered Motorola Sholes smarpthones. The…
Dell Mini 3 – iPhone’s brother from another mother?
A couple of years ago, any handset that looked like the Dell Mini 3 would have been derided as an iPhone clone or knockoff or rip(off). Today, we’re past all that iPhone look-a-like nonsense. The iPhone helped change the face of the smartphone market, and it makes sense that touchscreen slates with heavy app-emphasis look…
Sprint announces HTC Touch Pro2 for $349.99 on September 8th
CDMA customers are probably all too familiar with having to wait months for the hottest GSM devices to become available on Sprint or Verizon. Today, we learn that your wait is almost over. Sprint has gone official with the HTC Touch Pro2’s CDMA variant, announcing that the Pro2 will be available September 8th for $349.99.…
Apple bringing iPhone to other US carriers next summer?
iPhone hopefuls still waiting for Apple to bring the iconic smartphone to other US carriers may soon get their wish. With AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity agreement widely believed to end in 2010, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster believes that Apple will bring the iPhone to other US carriers in the summer of 2010. The move, says Munster,…
Surprise! Most Americans Support Texting While Driving Bans
Concern over motorists distracting themselves with text messages has grown over the past couple years. So much so that US senators have proposed a nationwide texting-while-driving ban. But, how does that sit with the American people? According to a new survey from Nationwide Insurance, 80% of surveyed Americans indicated that they would support legislation that…
iPhone accounts for nearly all handheld WiFi hotspot access in US!
Now here’s an interesting little factoid gleaned from a new research report from JiWire. It seems that, when it comes to connecting handheld mobile devices, cafe WiFi hostpots across the US serve darn near all of their wireless bits and bytes to the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS (which runs on the iPhone and iPod…
HTC Concept Store opens its doors in Philippines
HTC’s making another push into the retail space with the opening of its newest HTC Concept Store. The new store in Quezon City, Philippines follows in the steps of HTC’s Customer Service Center in Malaysia, which opened last year. The stores serve as retail locations, warranty repair centers and product demos to HTC fans lucky…
Texting and driving in Utah could land you in prison
US states are slowly adopting new regulations that make it illegal to send text messages while driving. Study after study has shown that texting from behind the wheel is dangerously distracting. Sometimes, it’s distracting enough to cause a major car accident. Sometimes, people die. Apparently, back in May, Utah passed legislation that makes texting while…
IM+ 3.4 Bringing Voice Recognition Tweets to iPhone
Whether you’re a Twitter fanatic with thumbs calloused from tapping out 140-character tweets, or just looking for a more convenient way to tweet your thoughts, there’s an iPhone app for you. Or, rather, there will be an iPhone app for you. IM+ 3.4, one of the iPhone’s more popular multi-service instant messaging clients, will soon…
Waze looking to beat Google with active crowdsourcing
Before Google announced their street-level (arterial) traffic feature for Google Maps, Waze was on the mobile scene with their innovative crowd-sourcing service that leverages the power of the “crowd” to determine traffic flow and give drivers a heads-up on speed traps/cameras. But, then, of course, Google jumped in and wanted to play the street traffic…