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There’s quite an interesting rumor floating around pertaining to the next version of Android, Ice Cream, or Ice Cream Sandwich, as we’ve heard in the past. According to this rumor, Ice Cream will not only be for phones and tablets – it may have a great deal to do with Google TV, too. The rumor…
Several weeks ago, Twitter for iPhone was updated with a number of new features. Perhaps the most prominent and undoubtedly hated feature was the QuickBar, which quickly earned the Twitter hashtag #dickbar. It was permanently stuck on your main timeline showing you trends you didn’t really care about – trends that were typically generated by…
Chances are that if you buy a smartphone towards the end of this year, and most certainly in 2012, it’ll have a little chip inside that handles near field communication or NFC. Right now NFC is used for simple tasks like reading a tag, so instead of having to take a photo…
HTC just dished out some invites to UK journalists for an event on April 12, with only the ominous directive “to see what’s next”. There’s some crazy liquid metal T-1000 stuff going on there, leaving us only with our imagination as to what is concealed below the surface. We’re seeing the HTC Pyramid pretty clearly…
It was at the MIX10 conference when the Windows Phone team showed, for the first time, the application platform and tools that developers would use to build applications and games for Windows Phone 7. A year later they have some impressive numbers to share: Developers: 1.5 million people have downloaded the Windows Phone Developer Tools,…
There’s a rumour floating around that RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke in Toronto yesterday and announced that BlackBerry Messenger and “other services” would be coming to iPhone on April 26, followed-up with a new notification system for BBM on iOS in the summer. The fact that the rumour originated from some random dude on a…
Verizon’s planned launches for the next two months have leaked out in a spring roadmap. Some of the highlights include the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the Motorola Droid Bionic, the LG Revolution, and the Samsung Galaxy S 2. Also making an appearance is the Casio Commando (a ruggedized Android handset), the Samsung Charge (a.k.a. Stealth),…
While most device manufacturers these days try and cram as much support for social network integration into their smartphones, lots of folks would rather just have a simple way to manage the data on their device that’s separate from their various online personas. When Microsoft introduced the Kin, one of the most…
Although it still lacks some basic features, Windows Phone 7 is steadily approaching the capabilities of the incumbent platforms. Obviously Microsoft doesn’t want to miss NFC boat and in that sense we were not surprised to learn they will be integrating contactless payments in their mobile platform in the near future. Apparently Bloomberg has two…
We know that the upcoming WWDC conference will be all about Apple’s software platforms – with no iPhone 5 likely until Fall – and some drips and drops continue to leak out about what we can expect from iOS 5.0. A new report suggests that we will be seeing some strong Siri voice recognition technology…