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How quickly the world changes. Nielsen said that a higher percentage of consumers prefer Android for their next smartphone over the Apple iPhone or Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. This is especially interesting because the iPhone reined supreme in Nielsen’s last survey in September of 2010 but things change. According to the latest figures, 31 percent…
The Motorola Xoom was launched with much fanfare but another analyst is indicating that it could be a flop or, at best, a disappointment when it comes to sales. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry estimates that Motorola make between half a million and 800,000 Android Honeycomb tablets but it has only sold about 5 or…
In a statement released to PC Magazine, Microsoft confirmed it does not store the location history of a handset. The Redmond company confirmed the location service on Windows Phone does use the location of your handset for search and other services such as the web-based Find My Phone. With Find my Phone, Windows Phone owners…
Sprint hasn’t been shy about what it thinks of the proposed AT&T, T-Mobile merger and it expressed displeasure again as the carriers filed for a spectrum license transfer from the Federal Communications Commission. In a note, Sprint Senior Vice President Vonya B. McCann wrote: “Today’s filing only reinforces the significant risks presented by AT&T’s proposed…
You may have saw the research which found that the Verizon 4G LTE network was faster than the Sprint 4G WiMax network (at least in New York). Well, Sprint is firing back and saying this is hooey. The report found that the Verizon 4G LTE network averaged 9.1 Mbps down, 5.28 Mbps up with a…
Sprint is already working on an NFC payment system for 2011 and this will enable users to use their phones to “tap to pay.” The news comes via Bloomberg and it shows that the Sprint NFC payment system should be released before its rivals roll out competing solutions. Who’s trying to compete? Well, just about…
The introduction of the EVO 3D was the first glasses-free 3D phone from Sprint but it also included the first dual-core processor from industry giant Qualcomm and it is really pushing the fact that is uses an asynchronous architecture where each core can run at independent frequencies to conserve of battery life. NVIDIA has the…
Today Sprint announced the next generation of the EVO line, and the HTC EVO 3D is all sorts of sexy. Nothing could really steal the show from Sprint today, right? Well, the 3D-centric handset just landed on HTC’s site – sporting a GSM radio. While it’s believable that HTC will have a GSM version of…
Amazon’s Android app store looks to be chugging along quite well, and went live for a short time today, only to be pulled immediately. That didn’t stop AndroidNews.de from grabbing a couple of screenshots, which show some exclusive titles, and some existing applications that undercut the Android Market’s official prices. Not everyone was in love…
Opera just launched its own in-browser app store for Opera Mini and Mobile but that didn’t sit well with GetJar and the largest independent app store has ejected Opera Mini from its store. In a blog post set to go live soon, GetJar clarified the move in a message to PaidContent: The simple problem is…