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In an about face, the International Telecommunications Union has expanded the term 4G to include WiMAX, LTE and HSPA+. Previously, the ITU had established WiMAX 2 and LTE-Advanced as the only networking technologies worthy of the 4G name. As a result of this decision, WiMAX, LTE and HSPA+ were considered to be 3G technologies. Despite…
While this is exciting for only so many users out there in the world, but the source code for Android 2.3 Gingerbread has been officially pushed into the AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Soon we will begin to see some solid modifications and custom ROMs for the release, and the Nexus S won’t be the…
Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS has finally gotten real, well, at least for those of us with a Google Nexus S in our pockets. Of course, that’s all going to change in less than a day, when Best Buy officially kicks off sales of the Nexus S through all their brick-and-mortar and online stores. But, is…
Google and some students from the University of California sent a batch of Samsung Nexus S smartphones up to around 32,000 meters in coolers attached to weather balloons to take some awesome pictures and gather gyroscopic data from the phones. The seven Nexus S units took about three hours to get up there before popping,…
For months and months, Apple and the iPad had a virtual stranglehold on the tablet computing space. Armed with undeniably sleek industrial design, the proven iOS mobile operating system, a huge display and a battery the size of a small planet, the Apple iPad ushered the world into casual computing on tablet devices designed for…
We’ve been seeing an awful lot of the LG Star recently, and today it has gone official – for South Korea, anyway. At least one local managed to get some time with the Optimus 2X SU660 to compare it with the iPhone 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S, and as you can see in the…
If you’re like me, you like the idea of Windows Phone 7, but still have no intention of giving up your Android phone to make the switch. Thankfully, with a new theme, you can make your Android phone homescreen work and look like the Microsoft MetroUI that is used on WP7. Now you can get…
The Google Nexus S is only a few days old but we’re already hearing word that there might be some problems trying to fulfill demand with the originally-promised specs. In particular, it looks like the Russian version of the Samsung Android superphone will have Super Clear LCD screens instead of Super AMOLED displays. This likely…
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…