Are you wearing your “green” today? If you’re not, you should be – you wouldn’t want to risk the wrath of drunken St. Patrick’s Day celebrators pinching you repeatedly for not respecting the booze-fest that is St. Patty’s Day. And, if you have an iPhone, you won’t want to be caught without these Top 3…
HTC Desire going Silver for AT&T?
If you’re not quite feeling the graphite-colored HTC Desire that has been making the rounds for the past few months, we’ve got some potentially good news for you. The folks at xda-developers have posted up a pic of an HTC Desire with a Silver color scheme. It’s not yet known if this color will be…
Sprint confirms Google Nexus One!
The rumors were true. Sprint has just contacted us to let us know that the much-ballyhooed, but rarely purchased Google Nexus One has just been confirmed for the Big Yellow network! With T-Mobile and Verizon partnered up for Nexus One-love since the get-go, AT&T recently confirmed to be grabbing the Android 2.1-powered smartphone, this news…
Apple bans screen protector films for iPhones, iPods, Macs (oh my!)
Say you’re a world-renowned consumer electronics maker and you’ve got more gadgets running around the world than the US has citizens. You’d probably welcome the glut of protective cases and screen protecting films that accessory makers are selling to protect the “shininess” of your devices. Well, Apple doesn’t follow traditional lines business practices. To prove…
A closer look at Windows Phone 7 Series and Microsoft Office Hub
If you’ve been keeping up with Windows Phone 7 Series, you probably already know that the mobile operating system’s completely re-thought start screen is its greatest weapon against the grid-based, app-filled homescreen designs that have been proliferating throughout the smartphone space for the past few years. So, we thought we’d give you another look at…
Verizon luring feature-phone users to smartphones with early upgrade offer
Verizon is looking to court feature-phone users in an effort to bring them over to the smartphone side of life. At least that’s the latest word on the mean streets of the mobile blogosphere. A newly leaked Verizon memo outlines Big Red’s plans to offer current Verizon feature-phone users a chance to get early upgrade…
Microsoft: Cut and paste doesn’t make the cut for Windows Phone 7 Series
As we start to learn more and more about the truly innovative and paradigm-shifting Windows Phone 7 Series platform, the more we start to become disappointed with what we’ll be seeing on the initial release. First, the HTC HD2 got the WP7 cold-shoulder. Then we heard that non-native apps would not be able to multi-task,…
Microunity sues the entire mobile industry over obscure patents – HTC, Google, Apple, Samsung, Nokia, AT&T, LG and more!
Patents are big business. Just ask Microunity. The obscure “tech” “company” (read: patent troll) has up and filed a far-reaching patent infringement lawsuit against all the biggest players in the mobile space. Microunity’s lawsuit, filed today in a Texas court, reads like a who’s who of influential actors on the US mobile stage – the…
A look at how Windows Phone 7 Series handles online photo albums
Microsoft is banking their future on cloud-based services and integrating those services seamlessly into their products. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, handles online photo albums with ease. The yet-to-be-launched mobile operating system will succeed the ancient Windows Mobile platform with a sleek new user interface paradigm and a focus on cloud-connectivity. One of the…
Video: A look at Windows Phone 7 auto-rotating screen and icons
Auto-rotation is nothing new. Almost all smartphones these days have accelerometers integrated into their hardware, allowing them to detect orientation (landscape or portrait) changes – that allows them to automatically rotate the screen when the user rotates the handset. But, not all smartphones do auto-rotation the same way. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, concentrates…