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A new study from the GfK Group suggests that smartphone owners aren’t loyal to any handset maker but Apple iPhone owners buck the trend slightly. The GfK survey found that 56% of smartphone owners will be keeping their options open when it comes to which type of phone they will buy next. It also said…
Users who have purchased the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 on AT&T may be wondering when they’ll get the Android 2.1 OS update and finally rid themselves of Android 1.6, but it looks like they may have quite a bit of time to wait. Who is to blame, though? According to Sony Ericsson, they are pointing…
Some snooping around the FCC site has given us a glimpse at yet another Android tablet, and this time is coming to us from Creative Labs. Will this be one of the more desirable Android tablets headed to market in the coming months? Or are we going to see this thing hit the wall before…
Yet another day goes by that we’re seeing some more Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 3.0 Honeycomb sightings. For those who have not been keeping up with this Android madness, Gingerbread will be version 2.3 of the Google mobile operating system, and Honeycomb will be version 3.0. Today, we’re seeing some test builds of both…
Apple is gearing up for a legal battle with Nokia over mobile patents and the iPhone maker is reportedly beefing up its legal team. Nokia has sued Apple over various mobile patents and Apple has come back with its own counter suits. This will be the week that the International Trade Commission actually examines the…
Just because Black Friday is over doesn’t mean the deals are. Best Buy Mobile is now offering up the T-Mobile G2 for free on a new two-year contract. That’s right folks, if you’re craving one of the best QWERTY keyboard-toting Android phones available today, it can be yours for free, as long as you’re willing…
We’ve been expecting the HTC Merge to be announced for some time now, and just when it seemed likely that it would happen, it never did. Now with the appearance of a Merge case popping up, the handset has got to be announced sometime soon, right? When we heard of the Droid Incredible’s relaunching party,…
Some of you may have heard of Call of Duty: Black Ops, a first-person shooter video game that has broken records across a number of entertainment sectors by selling $650 million-worth of units in the first five days of release alone. I’ve been slowly but steadily losing my soul to the game on PC, and…
It looks like shoppers were turning to their smartphones this holiday shopping season, as PayPal said mobile shopping grew 310% on Black Friday. PayPal, which has multiple mobile apps for all the major smartphone platforms, also said it saw a 27% increase in total payment volumes on Black Friday. PayPal has said that it expects…
Many of us believe that the Apple iPad and tablets will soon eat into the PC sales market but now Gartner has some numbers to back this up. While the Apple iPad and tablets aren’t going to immediately replace your next PC but it will have an impact on the margins. Full-fledged computers aren’t going…