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Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman explained how powerful smartphones and the app explosion can be, as he said the first Yelp app on the iPhone in 2008 fundamentally changed its business. Prior to that app, users could be directed to Yelp via Google searches or could go directly to the site to learn about the latest…
If you’ve been dying to get your hands on the BlackBerry Style 9670 but didn’t want to sign a long-term contract to get your hands on the flip-form BlackBerry, you’ll be happy to know that the device will be coming to Boost Mobile July 20 for $199.99. That’s not a bad price when you consider…
AT&T has just announced that it will be the exclusive carrier for the Sony S2 dual-screen Android tablet. The device is running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and features two 5.5-inch 1024 x 480 touchscreen displays. Under the hood, the Sony S2 packs an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor. While the S2 is labeled as a “4G”…
Google’s mobile operating system Android has been in the headlines recently, and not for what new innovative features are due to arrive in the next version dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich or because of a new highly popular app. Because of Google’s lack of patents in the mobile industry, companies who opt to use Android to…
RIM just finished wrapping up their annual shareholders meeting. The tidbit of most interest to everyday consumers was that seven BlackBerry smartphones are due to land in the next couple of months. Co-CEO Jim Balsillie said that there would be several devices “within rapid succession” in the next month. The Bold 9900 is on track…
While it’s easy to assume that everyone has a smartphone and can browse the web with ease, there are still millions (or billions) or people around the world still on a feature phone. Facebook wants those users to be able to poke each other too, so its Facebook for Every Phone app makes it easier…
Well, you can say a lot of things about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer but you can’t say the man doesn’t have a sense of humor. At a recent Microsoft partner event, Ballmer acknowledged that Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been the smash hit the company had been hoping for. “Phones, we’ve gone from very small to…
Starting tomorrow, we’ll be at the MobileBeat 2011 conference in downtown San Francisco and there’s still time for some last-minute tickets if you want to be a part of the action. With multiple thought leaders in the mobile industry, MobileBeat is a great way to see what’s coming down the road, check out the next…
Just a few weeks after the last one landed, Apple iOS 5 beta 3 is now available to developers and it brings a few new features. The major new things in iOS 5 like the notification bar and the Twitter integration came out with the original beta and the second one brought things like WiFi…
Over the years, I’ve owned more smartphones than I care to count. From BlackBerry to webOS to Android, I’ve had just about every platform in my pockets – often two or more at a time. However, there was one smartphone and platform that has remained with me regardless of the other devices I’ve carried –…