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The Amazon Kindle is the most popular eReader on the market and is consistently at the top of Amazon’s best-selling list. While reading is the Kindle is excellent, it is not always convenient to lug the Kindle around. As a result, Amazon has opened up its Kindle eBooks to smartphones, tablets, and desktop PCs via…
Wind Mobile is gearing up for the holidays with their second Android device, the Alcatel Tribe OT-981. It runs 2.1, has a 2 megapixel camera, 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G. It’s a portrait-slider with a full QWERTY keyboard not unlike the Motorola Spice that Mobilicity launched yesterday. On top of that, Wind Mobile…
A recent SEC filing by Dell revealed the unexpected information that the head of Dell’s mobile communications group, Ron Garriques, is leaving the company effective January 28, 2011. Garriques will stay on as a consultant for the remainder of 2011. Dell confirmed today that his leaving is the result of a larger company reorganization that will integrate…
Mobilicity announced that the Motorola Spice would be coming out in Canada yesterday, and just in time for opening up their new markets (like here in Ottawa) tomorrow, they gave us a bit of a sneak peek. For $200 without contract, the Motorola Spice offers a 3″ QVGA touchscreen, 3 megapixel camera, Android 2.1, and…
The HTC Merge decided to show itself off briefly on Verizon’s website earlier today, but the keyboard-toting Android phone was quickly pulled for some reason. Maybe Big Red was just testing it out to ensure that when it debuts, everything will go as smooth as possible. After all, the Merge could be announced later tonight…
Damn you Nexus One, getting all of these fancy new Android updates so frequently. Yet another OTA update is beginning to hit the device, and though it’s not Android 2.3 Gingerbread, it does contain, “important bug fixes and security patches.” As we await impatiently for the release of Gingerbread, the Nexus One is obviously the…
Google has just updated its Sky Maps for Android app and it has added the ability to see what the sky looked like at different moments. That’s right folks, Sky Maps for Android now has time travel. According to Google: Have you ever wondered how the sky was back in 1900? How the sky looked…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak caused a few waves today when an interview has him saying that Android will win the smartphone race over the iPhone. Well, it turns out Wozniak was misquoted. Engadget spoke with the man and Wozniak said that he expects Android “”to be a lot like Windows … I’m not trying to…
While Android developers are receiving new guidelines for the Market to give it some overall polish, we can’t help but wonder what new features Google has in store for the end-user. We’ve heard whispers of many different things that may debut with the soon to be released Gingerbread update, but which ones will make the…
Buoyed by the success of the Apple iPad and Android devices, the tablet market is supposed to hit 100 million units by 2013, according to research from DigiTimes. According to the research: Smartphones, tablet PCs and notebooks will all become the mainstream terminal devices in the mobile Internet market in the future with smartphone shipments…