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Just a few weeks after the last one landed, Apple iOS 5 beta 3 is now available to developers and it brings a few new features. The major new things in iOS 5 like the notification bar and the Twitter integration came out with the original beta and the second one brought things like WiFi…
For those of you who rely on PayPal, especially on the iPhone, you’ll be glad to know that the mobile app for the iOS smartphone has been updated. PayPal has been listening to customer feedback, and brings the following updates to the mobile app: All app features displayed on one page Transaction history details are…
The HTC Status, otherwise known as the ChaCha, will be available from AT&T for $49.99 starting July 17 (which is what we’d been expecting). It’s not a bad deal for those who want a pretty simple smartphone, but capable of serving the needs of the most hardcore Facebook addicts. The HTC Status has a dedicated…
Android fans, I have some bad news: I finally crossed over to the dark side this weekend and got an iPhone 4 to be my main device. My two-year upgrade came up with Verizon from the original Motorola Droid and I decided that it was finally time to pull the trigger and become a part…
Last year, Apple launched a patent infringement lawsuit against HTC for violating some 20-odd bits of intellectual property. The International Trade Commission stepped in to investigate, and though a judgement on that complaint is set for August 5, Apple has filed at least one more last week. The details of the complaint aren’t disclosed, but…
Samsung Mobile has just lost a key executive, as its CTO Omar Khan will be leaving the company starting next week. Khan is widely considered to be responsible for Samsung making a huge push into Android and he was also kind of the public face for the original Galaxy Tab tablet. Khan is going over…
Over the years, I’ve owned more smartphones than I care to count. From BlackBerry to webOS to Android, I’ve had just about every platform in my pockets – often two or more at a time. However, there was one smartphone and platform that has remained with me regardless of the other devices I’ve carried –…
Although BlackBerry is well-known for immediate e-mail delivery, that speed comes at a cost; as any user will tell you, bigger messages are truncated, and images will generally just show placeholders until manually prompted to load more. Even then, e-mails can hit a maximum size pretty quickly, requiring a desktop computer to see the whole…
The HTC Thunderbolt was the first 4G LTE device for Verizon, packing Android 2.2 Froyo and tons of other goodies for early adopters. However, it wasn’t without its bugs and issues. A recent over-the-air, or OTA, update started to roll out over the weekend, and it promises to fix a number of these problems as…
The Apple iPhone has had many uses in the medical industry, and it looks like it will continue to make advances in the field as MIT researchers have just developed a way for the smartphone to detect cataracts. The CATRA system, developed by the Camera Culture Media Lab at MIT, is an iPhone attachment that…