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After purchasing Palm in July, HP is reportedly working on new webOS hardware – to go along with the new webOS 2.0 screenshots that we see here. Earlier this summer, we saw a hint of the Palm Pre Plus 2 on a leaked Verizon roadmap and caught a glimpse of webOS 2.0 devices in the…
We all know that driving and texting while driving can be dangerous but many of us do it anyways because the convenience just seems to outweigh the risks. A new study from the Governors Highway Safety Association is contemplating the nuclear option to wipe out this problem: banning all cell phone use, even with hands-free…
The Mondrian was an HTC codename discovered earlier this year in a leaked Windows Phone 7 ROM. Details on this Windows Phone 7 handset have been sparse, but thanks to a series of advertisement videos from JP Incorporated, who presumably did the music for the ads, we now know that the Mondrian is headed to AT&T. Based upon…
Last night I was playing around with a Nexus One when I saw that there was an OTA update available for it. The update, FRG83, looks to have an updated set of Google Applications, but there’s not much else that’s noticeable. Those of you with rooted Nexus Ones may want to hold off before updating…
If you hang out at mobile tech sites like ours, you’ll often hear that companies like Motorola or Samsung are “ruining” the Android experience with a custom user interface layer. It’s often said that Google should do more to ensure that handset makers don’t monkey with the Android experience. Well, that’s not going to happen…
As Windows Phone 7 is ready to launch, HTC, a hardware partner for Microsoft for the new OS, says it won’t be adding its famous Sense UI to its devices at launch. Or at least, it won’t be a complete version. We’ve already seen some of the HTC devices that will be packing Windows Phone…
It looks like Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will have native tethering support in the operating system but it will be up to the carriers to determine how much it will cost, or if it’s enabled at all. The news came out of the Windows Weekly show on the TWiT network (which is pretty cool stuff,…
Put this one under “crazy-awesome technology that will probably never leave the research/prototype stage”, but Stanford researchers have found away to apply carbon nanotubes in a thin, flexible, paintable film that is able to generate enough power to keep an LED going for ten minutes. Not much for mobile applications just yet, but it’s a…
The magical fairies dropped off a Motorola Droid X with Android 2.2 on it and a near-final build of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and you know we had to show if off to you dear readers. We all know that Flash is a contentious issue in the smartphone space thanks to Apple’s belief that…
While we sit around and wait for Sprint WiMax to do its thing in New York City, it looks like Clear is already on its game offering services in the city. Now you can sign up for data cards and little WiFi hotspots and enjoy 4G data speeds from devices like the iSpot or the…