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The iPhone 4 is a thing of beauty. Its industrial design and use of glass and steel sets it apart from other smartphones, but although it looks solid and feels well-built in the hand, it also gives its user a sense of delicacy. And unless you’re extremely careful or you just don’t care about your…
A smartphone is a great companion for every trip. There are a number of apps that can make your travel easier, whether it’s about finding a place to stay, monuments and historical sights to see, or learning more about the city/place you’re visiting… there’s (usually) an app for that. Here are some apps I’ve found…
The legendary iPhone Dev-Team’s MuscleNerd got his hands on the early release of iOS 5 yesterday, and has already jailbroken it. Cydia and any apps, like MyWi and iSSH, are all working with “not too many surprises” in the process. On the more official side of things, iOS 5 includes a new app caklled Reminders,…
Today at the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a new service called iCloud that works across all of their products, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers. Pictures, music, everything is paired up across all devices. Take a snap with your iPhone, and it’s automatically pushed out to your Mac. iCloud will hold onto your last…
Apple’s WWDC event is next week, and we’re expecting to see tons of big things coming out of Cupertino. What sorts of things, you ask? Well, for starters we’re seeing a big push into the cloud, or Internet-based storage and services. Apple will be calling its services iCloud – pretty original, right? We’re hearing things…
Toshiba has just taken the wraps off of its Android Honeycomb tablet, the Thrive. There will be three versions of the tablet when it debuts in July, starting at $429. We first saw this tablet back at CES earlier this year and we walked away very impressed. Featuring pretty much any spec you’d expect for…
I’m live here at the Qualcomm Uplinq conference and HP’s Jon Rubinstein just said something interesting during the morning keynote: HP would be willing to work with “special companies” to deliver webOS on non-HP devices. When HP bought Palm last year for more than $1 billion, many (including yours truly) believed it would take the…
With dual-core all the rage in smartphones and tablets these days, one would think that these powerful CPUs would have some breathing room before the next best thing came out. Well, NVIDIA has other plans in mind and have shown off its quad-core processor, Kal-El. Not only does this powerful system on chip hold four…
Citi Analyst Walter Pritchard says Microsoft is earning a licensing fee of $5 per Android device made by HTC. This adds a bit more context to the patent agreement the two mobile giants reached last month, and according to the report, Microsoft is looking to nail other Android smartphone manufacturers with a similar agreement for…
It’s a huge day for Verizon Wireless users, as there are four new quality smartphones available. The Motorola Droid X 2, LG Revolution with 4G LTE, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and the HTC Trophy with Windows Phone 7 are all available now. Let’s take a quick look at each. LG Revolution The LG Revolution is…