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The Nexus S 4G from Sprint is a highly-capable Android smartphone and Sprint knows exactly what you want to do with it: fill the Internet up with more cats. In the latest ad, the Sprint touts how the Nexus S 4G can be used to share more pictures of cats and it even says that…
T-Mobile wants its customers to jump on the 4G HSPA+ bandwagon, so it has started a new trade-in program – similar to ones done by other carriers and retail outlets – that gives current users more incentive to do so. The carrier is even accepting devices from other carriers, so if you’ve got an old…
It’s not only individual Apple store employees that are providing exceptional support to the people of Japan after a rocky couple of weeks; Apple will be offering free repairs for iPhones, iPads and other products until June 30 in affected areas. Deliveries are included in the service, but there may be delays (which is to…
The iPhone 4 and Apple’s iTunes App Store have just been awarded new records by Guinness World Records. Oddly enough, this information was revealed in the new Guinness World Records® 2011 Gamer’s Edition, and a bit surprisingly, some of the records that have been set might be putting other video game giants on alert. Here…
When we think of Android devices and tablet sales, we think of Google and its manufacturing partners and the stake they have in the platform. But it’s easy to forget that components manufacturers are a big part of the picture, too. NVIDIA, for example, has provided its dual-core Tegra 2 processor for several smartphones and…
A recent brochure by Ericsson ConsumerLab included a bevvy of interesting figures relating to when consumers use their smartphones. Data was collected over an 18-month period from U.S. users, who would pick their top three situations to use their smartphone, revealing that 65% would in the early evening, 26% at dinner, and 40% in bed…
Love ’em or hate ’em, Pomplamoose can really rock the hell out of the covers that they do. Their arrangements are pretty clever, and they’re clearly musically gifted, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before they gave Angry Birds some of their treatment. The popular game has seeped deep into every crevice…
One app to make its debut at BlackBerry World last week was Unsubscribe. They’ve been getting cozy with desktop e-mail through Outlook and Gmail since late last year, and are now moving into mobile starting with BlackBerry. While any decent e-mail-based marketing not caught by your built-in spam filter will offer an “unsubscribe me” link,…
You nature lovers out there should definitely check out the LeafSnap iPhone app because this is basically an electronic field guide for identifying trees. The really neat thing about this is that it will let you snap pictures of leaves to identify a tree. I tested out the LeafSnap iPhone app this morning on my…
The LG Optimus 2X has found its place in the “Guinness World Record” list for being the first phone with a dual-core processor. Here’s what the official listing says: The first mobile phone to use a dual core processor is the LG Optimus 2X, which was first made available to the public nationwide in South…