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Since October 2009, BlackBerry has slowly but steadily been losing sales on America’s top carrier, Verizon Wireless, to Android handsets (mostly Motorola, but also LG and Samsung). This probably isn’t a huge surprise to anyone who has seen Verizon’s aggressive (and awesome) Android marketing; in fact, Verizon would go so far as to say as…
A handful of Motorola Droid users were seeded with Android 2.2.1 the other day, and despite some difficulties pushing it out on the Droid X due to the night-time battery manager turning off the radio, Motorola has sorted out the deployment and will be unleashing the update tonight. Froyo officially hit Droid X handsets in…
A report out of Digitimes suggests HTC is planning to ship 60 million handsets in 2011, a three-fold increase over 2010. In a summit held in Taipei, the Taiwanese manufacturer reportedly informed the executives of over 100 parts suppliers of this manufacturing goal. The suppliers were warned in advance that they should be prepared to deliver the…
Nexus One owners who bought their device via Vodafone may be getting the Android 2.2 update as we speak. It’s not a full Gingerbread upgrade, but something worth looking forward to, nevertheless. The process is conducted over-the-air, requiring no software installed on your PC or Mac. Here’s what Vodafone had to say about it: Google…
Presuming your child has an Android-powered smartphone and that you want to watch his SMS… there’s an app for that. It’s called SMS KidTracker and it comes from the same company (DPL Mobile) that made the controversial Secret SMS Replicator app. This application is basically the same, only this time the pitch is slightly differently.…
The mysterious PlayStation Phone (PSP) we’ve seen popping up left and right has finally sat still enough to get some benchmarks out of the thing. We know the Android gaming phone has been floating around is a prototype, so we’re hoping that the benchmark scores that come with this will get a bit better when…
In the fall, Google included its priority inbox with Gmail for Android so that you could (in theory) get right to important e-mails without having to sort through everything else. Today Gmail on Android has tweaked priority inbox just a little bit, so that you have a dedicated view for only important items, the option…
If you’re like me, you like the idea of Windows Phone 7, but still have no intention of giving up your Android phone to make the switch. Thankfully, with a new theme, you can make your Android phone homescreen work and look like the Microsoft MetroUI that is used on WP7. Now you can get…
You’ve been drooling over the Notion Ink Adam for quite some time now, perhaps losing sleep refreshing its blog page every few seconds, and now you’ll finally be able to reserve one with your name on it. Of course, we pretty much knew yesterday that this would be happening. Apparently, your chances of grabbing one…
Dell Streak owners who took the plunge and bought their device unlocked are likely already enjoying Android 2.2, and even the ones on contract likely shoehorned the updated OS into their half-smartphone half-tablet mythological beast. For those who aren’t rich nor tech-savvy and waiting for an official update from Dell and AT&T, some internal e-mails…