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Pantech unveiled what seems as an awesome Android smartphone in South Korea – Vega X. Its awesomeness comes from few things: It comes with a large 4-inch WVGA touchscreen, There’s a 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 processor under the hood, and It rocks DDR2 memory which is said to be 1.5 faster than DDR1 (used in existing…
NAVIGON updated its navigation app MobileNavigator for the Android platform. Version 3.5.3 adds several new functions, including: Address Click – ability to select an address from any app that supports address export. By clicking on an address, NAVIGON MobileNavigator will be launched to provide turn-by-turn directions. Contacts as Interim Destinations – contacts are now added…
LG recently announced the Optimus 2X, billed as the first dual core smartphone to be revealed to the world. That doesn’t really mean much since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon product to be announced was the Toshiba TG01 and it was a steaming pile of Windows Mobile 6.1 running poop. It was only until we got…
We know that the Motorola Android Honeycomb tablet will be making an appearance in a few weeks at the CES trade show and some more details are leaking out about the potential iPad killer. Trademark filings suggest Moto may have settled on a name: how does “Xoom” sound to you? Reports say the Xoom trademark has…
Samsung has had a huge hit with the Galaxy S series of smartphones. The Android device has sold incredibly well in the U.S. and in South Korea. In just about three months, a million Galaxy S smartphones were sold in South Korea, making it the fastest selling phone in that market. Ever. In the U.S., Samsung has…
Well, what do we have here? It looks like Verizon isn’t messing around with its upcoming smartphones for it 4G network because a picture of a Samsung Android device with LTE capabilities has just hit the web. The Samsung 4G LTE phone could wind up being a beefed up version of the Fascinate but the access…
A few weeks ago, we saw a spy shot of the Sprint HTC EVO Shift 4G enclosed in a rugged case. Today, we have a series of images that show the front, the back, and the lovely keyboard of this side slider. Taking a closer look, we see the standard physical landscape keyboard with optical trackpad.…
Verizon has confirmed what many of us suspected: it will have a Motorola 4G LTE smartphone in the not-too-distant future. The company had previously said that it will offer smartphones for its just-launched next-generation mobile data network but it hadn’t named a handset maker. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless COO…
The ViewSonic G tablet is one of the few Tegra 2-toting Android tablets that you can buy at the moment, but you won’t be finding it at Staples anytime soon. Yesterday we heard that the tablet may have been pulled because of a manufacturing error, but that’s not the case. According to ViewSonic, the G…
Whether officially or unofficially, the Gingerbread version of Android – or 2.3 – is making its rounds. This morning we caught wind of the update readying for the Nexus One – the original Google phone. While the update simmers until it’s ready, which should be in the coming weeks, some clever hackers were able to…