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The Motorola Spice made its first official appearance in Brazil, bearing a striking resemblance to the Palm Pre form factor. There was obviously a lot of interest in a phone that had the same kind of smooth curves but ran Android instead. The entry-level specs would have turned off anyone looking for the best of…
What does it take to be a successful app? When it boils down to it, I think you just need to deliver what the people want in a technically proficient way. This is exemplified by the Bible.is app hitting more than 1 million downloads in about five months. The Bible app is available for the…
We know that HTC is preparing a smartphone for the Verizon 4G LTE network and the ad picture in this post indicates that it could be called the Thunderbolt 4G. We have previously seen this device when it was code-named Mecha and some thought it would be called the Incredible HD, but this ad sends…
Samsung has had success with its Galaxy S series of smartphones and its popular tablet, selling millions of each device during 2010. Now, the manufacturer is going to try its hand at the digital media player market with the future launch of the Samsung Galaxy Player (YP-GB1). Samsung confirmed today that it will be introducing…
T-Mobile is going to be blowing up in 2011 with HSPA+ expansion – perhaps even double the current theoretical speeds we’re not seeing – and along with it will come some pretty sweet new devices. There are already smartphones that support the super fast data network, like the G2 and myTouch 4G, and USB modems,…
I was super excited to see that the Samsung Galaxy S was received Android 2.2 Froyo but my bubble was quickly burst when I realized it was Canada-only for now. Ah well, at least our friends to the north will get some new life out of their smartphones. The Galaxy S Captivate and Fascinate can…
Some pictures from a Sony Ericsson test account have been found on Picasa which are not only of an unfamiliar phone, but are taken by an unannounced handset as well. The phone taking the pictures is the LT15i, packing an 8 megapixel camera. It’s probably the code-named Anzu, but even that is up in the…
After the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad versions, VLC is about to hit the Android Market. According to the lead developer in the project, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the popular media player will be available for the Android-powered devices in “just a few weeks.” Apparently, VLC for Android was made possible through various improvements found in the Gingerbread…
Motorola Droid 2 owners may be jealously looking at their Droid 2 Global and Droid Pro comrades as they swipe through the fancier-lookin’ MotoBLUR 3.0 UI, but that’s soon to change. Actually, we’ve no idea when will MOTO launch a firmware update, but we do know it’s now possibly to run the latest version of…
As part of what seems as the “out-Shazam Shazam” strategy, SoundHound announced free unlimited music recognition of its music search and discovery application. Until now, users of the free version of SoundHound have been limited to five music IDs per month. As far as I’ve understood, the new unlimited free offering is for the iOS…