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Another day, another report saying Android is taking over the world. For good or for worse, Google’s mobile operating system has set the world on fire and has matched and outgrown the competition in a very short amount of time. According to the latest report from Canalys, Android has capture almost half of the global…
If you were saving your $100 to buy the Thrill 4G on AT&T, you’ll be disheartened to know that you may have to wait a few more weeks for the glasses-free 3D phone to hit. A leak out of Radio Shack says the handset won’t be coming for another three weeks or so. According to…
The Sprint roadmap we saw last week has been updated with a few new devices. On top of the phones we’ve already seen, like the Samsung Conquer and the BlackBerry Torch 9850, the LG Optimus Black (listed as the LS855) and the Samsung M930 (a slider we had caught a glimpse of not long ago)…
It looks like Kyocera’s unique dual-screen Android handset, the Echo, has been hiding away a near-field communications chip as well as Wi-Fi calling capabilities. Kyocera is officially listing features for the upcoming Gingerbread 2.3.4 update, and beyond NFC and Wi-Fi calling (presumably over the UMA standard), there are a few other additions. An upgrade to…
HP TouchPad users grew impatient yesterday as HP promised an update to the tablet at the end of July. Good things come to those who wait, it seems, as the update has just started rolling out today. Sure, it’s a day late, but better than never, right? HP’s head of developer relations Richard Kerris had…
We’ve been expecting the iPhone 5 to launch this September, hopefully coinciding with the release of iOS 5. All rumors point towards a September launch, but a new rumor sets it in October. It makes a little bit of sense if Apple plans to hold its usual music event in September as it did last…
Apple has successfully kept Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1, the latest Android tablet from the South Korean manufacturer, in Australia. The two companies have been in the throes of legal battle for a few months now in several different countries. Apple decided to escalate its case against Samsung, and the latter relented and…
Nokia has just announced the 500, their first 1 GHz smartphone. It’s going to run the latest version of Symbian, known as Anna, have a 3.2 inch screen with a resolution of 640 x 360, 5 megapixel camera, quadband GSM/EDGE support, and pentaband (850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz) 14.4 Mbps 3G support, meaning it’ll effectively have high speed…
LG’s so called “remote customer care services,” which includes a pre-loaded Remote Call application and the LG FOTA (Firmware Over-the-Air) system, will now be made available to users worldwide, following the initial roll-out in Korea. This new offering — the company’s press release proudly states — makes LG the first mobile phone manufacturer to offer…
I guess this is a joint gig of Vodafone, HTC and Microsoft to release an update for the HTC-made Windows Phone 7 device – Trophy, which is getting slightly improved software as we speak. No it’s not the big Mango update — rather we’re talking about something significantly smaller, made to address hardware related issues…