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It has been a wild ride in the mobile world this year, as the pace of innovation has been going along at blistering speeds. Just think, at the beginning of the year, we were still drooling over the Motorola Droid, Microsoft was dead in the water with Windows Mobile, Palm was still puttering along as…
Samsung’s own operating System, bada, is due for a 2.0 upgrade in 2011, which will host a bunch of new features. The most notable among them is near-field communications, a feature Android recently adopted for 2.3 Gingerbread, but Bada 2.0 will include a lot of other stuff, like multitasking, SDKs for Mac and Linux, FlashLite…
If you’re not excited about the upcoming CES yet, then take a look at the video below because Motorola will be coming out swinging. Yes friends, it looks like we can expect the Motorola Android Honeycomb tablet to make an appearance at the world’s largest electronics show. In the epic teaser video, the company goes…
If 2010 seemed like the year of the 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 2011 could very well be the year of the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, as reports suggest this will be powering a plethora of Android devices next year. Citigroup’s Glen Yeung says that Samsung just placed a massive order of the dual-core…
Cricket Wireless announced a new mobile music service called Muve Music. What’s interesting about it is that it comes included in a wireless rate plan that has been designed specifically for the mobile phone. For just $55 per month, Muve Music customers will get unlimited music, Nationwide Talk, Text, Web and more. The official debut…
Samsung is launching a special version of its Bada-powered Wave smartphone. The Korean company has teamed up with Germany’s most successful football (soccer) club, FC Bayern Munich, to launch the Wave Bayern Munchen Limited Edition. In addition to the special packaging (pictured above), Samsung has also bundled some Bayern Munich-branded mobile apps and content. Included…
Google’s Nexus S, their flagship smartphone meant to show off what Android 2.3 Gingerbread is capable of delivering when it isn’t mucked up by operators and handset makers looking to differentiate themselves, recently started shipping America, but it’s only now coming to the UK. Carphone Warehouse has an exclusive distribution deal and when they first…
Samsung will be integrating the Mobage social gaming platform in its Android smartphones in the coming months. As a result, those with Galaxy and other “made by the Korean giant” Android devices will be able to connect with other gamers, track their status, high scores and so on. And that’s almost all we know at…
The Samsung Intercept for Sprint has been around for a few months now, but users have been left with Android 2.1 until now. A new update for the Intercept will give users Android 2.2 Froyo and all its goodness along with a number of other fixes. In addition to upgrading the software to the not-so-latest…
Even if you’re not impressed with the Nexus S, you should be impressed by the enthusiast developers who have already given the handset a proper rooting, complete with a custom recovery image. At the same time, is anyone surprised that the Nexus S is already rooted and ready for custom ROMs? Unlocking the bootloader of…