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In a survey cross-referencing smartphone use with ethnicity, Nielsen found that Hispanics and Asians were the most likely to own a smartphone (45% each), followed by African-Americans (33%) and finally Caucasians (27%). In terms of those recently buying handsets, Asians have been buying the most of the last six months (60%), then Hispanics (56%), African…
It looks like football player/reality show star Ocho Cinco already has one of the most highly-anticipated devices of the year, as he has been tweeting photos of the upcoming Motorola Xoom Android tablet. In a few tweets which have been removed, Ocho Cinco said the Motorola Xoom Android tablet is really nice and that Motorola…
Tomorrow is the big unveil for Android Honeycomb, and like I said before, I wouldn’t be surprised if Google had something else up their sleeve for the event. Well, that just may be true, as it seems as though the search giant may be officially announcing their online Android Market and cloud-based music service, Google…
In a move that puts it in direct competition with Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook, Google is hopping into the check-in game with the latest version of Google Maps for Android, as you can now automatically check-in using Latitude. In a blog post, the search giant said the new version of Google Maps offers things that…
It looks like Google is bringing its Instant Preview feature to the mobile platforms, as we’ve seen this on the iPhone Safari browser and the Android Webkit browser. If you don’t know, Google Instant Preview is the online service which gives you a quick look at the links you’re about to click on when you…
Google is preparing to give us a deep look at Android 3.0 Honeycomb tomorrow and the company’s bigwigs are already saying that this is the most significant platform update since the little, green robot debuted. The folks at Mobilized sat down with Matias Duarte, who is the man responsible for the new user interface on…
It’s been nothing but bad news for the Samsung Galaxy Tab the past two days. First, it was discovered in an earnings call that Samsung didn’t actually sell two million units to consumers as reported just a few days ago. The misreporting caused even more drama when it turned out that a Samsung executive was…
AT&T is launching the HTC Inspire 4G on February 13 for $99.99 with a two-year contract, which isn’t a bad price at all for the Desire HD-esque Android smartphone. We first caught a glimpse of the “4G” capable HSPA+ device at CES 2011, but it was hard to draw any conclusions based on what we…
Yesterday we reported that Samsung Galaxy Tab sales figures might have been exaggerated, and that executive Lee Young-Hee was quoted as saying sales to actual consumers were “quite small.” Today we’re learning that that’s not what she said at all, and you’ll hear it in the audio clip below. Instead, she said that Samsung Galaxy…
It looks like the i1 won’t be the only Android smartphone Motorola has made/will make for the iDEN networks. Thanks to the Argentina-based GrupoAndroid we have the image above, which clearly shows a Droid Pro-like device made for Nextel. Aside from a different radio, the so called (and still not officially announced) i1Q has different…