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For as long as I can remember, gaming nerds have been hoping for a PlayStation phone. After all, Windows Phone 7 is appeasing Xbox users, and the iPhone has a number of excellent games. Now, it looks like PlayStation fans are going to get a little loving, too. What you see above, as the controller…
Smartphone adoption is growing rapidly if you hadn’t noticed. In fact, smartphone adoption is growing so rapidly that 19% of all phones shipped today are smartphones. This is expected to grow even more, and much faster than it took to get where we are today. Smartphone shipments have gone up 12% since the first quarter…
We have yet to see many compelling Android applications made with Adobe’s Air yet, but a new app called Skytunes might just change our perspective on that. Skytunes is a new Android app that allows you to listen to your home music collection from your PC to your phone from anywhere. There are a few…
Barnes & Noble is bringing some flair to the normally boring e-reader space, as the Nook Color features a 7-inch color touchscreen, still runs the Android OS and it will be able to run a variety of apps. The Nook Color will cost $249 and it can be preordered here and it’s an interesting take…
If you’re sporting an Android phone with version 2.1 on it, you may have been a little annoyed that the new YouTube application update didn’t initially make it to your particular version of Android OS. Luckily, the guys over at XDA have worked some magic and made the updated available to 2.1 devices! In order…
The great picture-sharing application for Android, Pixelpipe, has had a small upgrade to version 2.2.2 which includes the ability to resume interrupted uploads. As soon as the app opens again, the upload will resume right where it left off. Wireless connections aren’t what you’d call a permanent or consistent thing, so this is a particularly…
Garmin and Asus are calling it quits next year, and that may allow Asus to revisit Android to make a smartphone worth buying. According to rumors, Asus may be putting Windows Phone 7 on the back burner to focus on Google’s mobile OS. We know Asus has been working on a Windows Phone 7 device…
Here we go again with Nexus Two rumors. Fresh rumors of a Nexus Two have resurfaced, but this time around it won’t be sold exclusively from Google. Carphone Warehouse and Google have allegedly inked a deal to sell the Nexus One follow-up, running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and will be available for the holidays. I find…
It looks like Verizon may be trying to refresh their entire Droid lineup with an HTC Droid Incredible HD offering, as we’ve already seen the Droid 2 Global, the Merge, and the Droid X SE. We may be looking at a Droid Incredible HD — possibly the HTC Desire HD for Verizon — right here,…
The CherryPad, a cheap, sub-$200 Android tablet, was turning heads for being able to deliver the Android experience at such a low price. Folks jumped right on it and were waiting for the CherryPad tablet to start shipping in early to mid-October. Well, it’s almost Halloween and the CherryPad still hasn’t shipped out. What gives?…