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You didn’t think HTC and Samsung were just going to get sued and take it laying down, did you? The companies with a large Android portfolio have signed cross-licensing agreements with Intellectual Ventures and are prepared for a mobile patent war now. HTC and Samsung will now have access to the patent portfolio of Intellectual…
Popular gadget magazine T3 announced winners of its annual Gadget Awards as picked by technology experts from Sky News, MSN, The Telegraph, TechRadar and T3. The devices and/or services selected celebrate the “most innovative, functional, visible and stylish gadgets and technology” of the past 12 months. Without further ado, here are the winners: Innovation of…
T-Mobile announced its Black Friday promotion today and the wireless carrier is going all out with a buy one, get one free promotion for family plans. Starting on Black Friday, customers with a new or existing family plan can buy a featured smartphone and receive a second featured smartphone or an affordable Android handset for…
If you’ve been holding off on grabbing a T-Mobile G2 because you’re waiting for the price to go down, it’s probably not going to get any better than what Target will be offering tomorrow. It looks like the Android handset will be going for just $49.99 starting tomorrow with a new, two-year contract. That’s about…
A nice piece of smartphone just passed through the FCC from HTC and it sports CDMA support and WiMax. Could this be the HTC Knight/EVO Shift 4G that we’ve seen before? The FCC details are very sparse, as it says that the device has support for CDMA, WiMax and is a “Smart phone.” That could…
The iPhone is, not surprisingly, still tops when it comes to smartphone satisfaction, with Motorola and HTC following a close second and third place. A new customer satisfaction survey from ChangeWave shows that the Apple smartphone is still the most satisfying handset available today. Despite its issues with the antenna and concerns about the strength…
Let’s just get this part out of the way, the HTC Desire HD is an absolutely stunning phone. HTC has stepped up their game, brought the world yet another piece of great hardware, and optimizing their already great software, making a solid successor to the original Desire. This follow-up to the original HTC Desire packs…
The HTC Merge decided to show itself off briefly on Verizon’s website earlier today, but the keyboard-toting Android phone was quickly pulled for some reason. Maybe Big Red was just testing it out to ensure that when it debuts, everything will go as smooth as possible. After all, the Merge could be announced later tonight…
Damn you Nexus One, getting all of these fancy new Android updates so frequently. Yet another OTA update is beginning to hit the device, and though it’s not Android 2.3 Gingerbread, it does contain, “important bug fixes and security patches.” As we await impatiently for the release of Gingerbread, the Nexus One is obviously the…
Buoyed by the success of the Apple iPad and Android devices, the tablet market is supposed to hit 100 million units by 2013, according to research from DigiTimes. According to the research: Smartphones, tablet PCs and notebooks will all become the mainstream terminal devices in the mobile Internet market in the future with smartphone shipments…