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Google Maps for Mobile is, without a doubt, the leading geo-location and mapping service on smartphones today (sorry Windows Phone 7 and your Bing Maps). Today at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Mr. Android himself, Andy Rubin, showed the world that the next version of Google Maps for Mobile would come packing some long-awaited…
After weeks of rumors and Google’s CEO bringing it on stage at a conference, the search giant officially introduced its second smartphones, the Nexus S with Android 2.3. As expected, the Google Nexus S is made from Samsung and it essentially seems like a modified Galaxy S with stock Android. On its blog, the search…
Google Maps is present on other major mobile platforms including BlackBerry, iOS, webOS, and of course, Android. Windows Phone, though, ships with Bing Maps only and a version of Google Maps is not yet available. Rather than wait for Google to develop an official version, TechAutos has developed a homebrew version of Google Maps for…
The Droid 2 may be all the Android-powered smartphone you need these days. It’s packed with a speedy processor, the latest version of Android OS, and smartphone features to keep you busy for months to come. Today, we’re seeing that Motorola has apparently endowed the phone with the ability to self-destruct. As in self-destructing by…
Yahoo! News just announced the iPhone 4 as the number one obsession of 2010. It’s not terribly surprising given the attention the Apple smartphone received thanks to the story of its leak back in April, the “Antennagate” issue that caused a media stir and the subsequent whispers of the reason why we don’t have a…
We’re all pretty excited about the upcoming PlayStation Phone and now a tech blog out of Greece has some supposed spy footage of the device in action. As you can see from the video below, the device in question could definitely be a PlayStation Phone made by Sony Ericsson because it kind of looks like…
The Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 to write rules which will eventually take away spectrum from major broadcasters in order to allocate more airwaves for mobile broadband. This is part of the long-term plan by the FCC to avoid a crunch – as more and more people use mobile devices to get on line, there…
Microsoft’s new mobile platform has been out just shy of one month, but Windows Phone 7 is slated for a major update in January according to a recent rumor. It’s almost funny that this is such a big deal, but copy and paste will be coming on board since it was notably absent during release…
There is no better way to kick off the weekend than with a rousing discussion on jailbreaking and piracy. This current round of discussion focuses on the ChevronWP7 unlocking tool which hit the Windows Phone community earlier this week. At the heart of this issue is a camp of people who see the tool as…
When the BlackBerry PlayBook launched sporting some Tron screenshots in the marketing, I had hoped that RIM had scored some sweet promo with the upcoming movie, but it looks like Nokia’s got something better – a cameo of their N8 in the movie, and revealing an exclusive new trailer with lots of new bits that…