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Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha laid some hate on the Android Market in a conference webcast yesterday, claiming 70% of their smartphone returns are due to third-party apps negatively affecting performance. Apparently Motorola’s custom Android app suite, Motoblur, has been collecting data about app usage, which has brought them to this conclusion. By the same token,…
We announced yesterday that the HTC EVO 4G for Sprint would be getting Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, early this month – June 6 for the OTA update, and June 3 for those who want to nab it manually. Of course, not everyone who owns an EVO 4G will know to download it manually, hence the…
One of Sprint’s market directors has accidentally let slip in a personal blog that they’ll be selling the 16 GB Wi-Fi only BlackBerry PlayBook tablet starting this Sunday. That’s not a huge deal since it’s already been out for awhile, and most folks are interested in when they’ll be launching the 4G WiMAX model, but…
I’m here at the Qualcomm Uplinq conference and you just know the company is touting its Snapdragon processor. Senior VP Rob Chandhok was confident enough to say that the company’s dual-core Snapdragon CPUs will be able to outperform competitors’ quad-core A9 CPUs. In a wide-ranging interview, Chandhok didn’t mention the competition by name but he…
We’ve known for quite some time now that NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor is the bee’s knees. It has found its way into dozens of Android smartphones and tablets, and for good reason, too: it powers the platform quite well. On the other hand, Intel’s Atom processor might be a shade behind. A video showing the…
I’m live here at the Uplinq conference and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop just got off stage and basically re-iterated what he’s been saying about why Nokia chose Windows Phone over Android. While we’ve heard this before, he did dedicate a segment to the tablet market and essentially said that we shouldn’t expect a Nokia tablet…
Those of you drooling for what’s looking to be the next great Android Honeycomb tablet will be happy to hear Verizon has just gone official with their plans for a 4G LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The tablet is going on pre-sale June 8 for a steep $529.99 on a two-year contract…
At one point or another, we’ve all said that we’d give an arm and a leg for a new toy or perhaps a vacation. But what about giving up a critical internal organ? Apparently, to one 17-year-old boy in China, an iPad 2 was totally worth one of his kidneys. Unfortunately, the kid is now…
In the midst of a site redesign, Motorola accidentally showed off a bunch of upcoming products (or at least some pretty slick concept placeholders). Two phones, both super-skinny touchscreen slates were shown off, called the Zaha and Slimline. A sequel to Motorola’s Xoom tablet is also spotted vaguely in the background, but the real ostar…
T-Mobile announced two new affordable Android smartphones – Samsung Exhibit 4G and Samsung Gravity SMART, both of which should be available later in the month (June 8th?) for less than $100. The first of the two, which we’ve originally spotted in early May, is an all-touchscreen device that promises to bring Gingerbread to the masses.…