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After about three months of waiting after the announcement, Rogers has finally started shipping the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate to retail locations. Apparently the delay was due to a shortage of Super AMOLED displays on Samsung’s end, but ain’t that always the story? The Captivate is still available for preorder online for $149.99 (on a…
So you’ve just got yourself a Logitech Revue for Google TV, and you’d rather not use the bulky keyboard/remote that came in the box, eh? Well, you don’t need it, all you really need is the nifty Android app that turns your phone into a remote control for Google TV. It’s free, and available now.…
Ever since we heard the rumor that the Gingerbread SDK may drop sometime this week, we’ve gotten quite a few morsels of information on the impending update. This time around a video of what just might be a new lock screen animation for Android Gingerbread devices. Mimicking older television sets, the animation shows light coming…
The official YouTube application for Android has been updated and is now available as a standalone app in the Android Market, but only if you’re running 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo). There are a ton of features, like portrait and landscape viewing, channel info, commenting, liking, sharing on Buzz, Facebook, and Twitter, in-page viewing (so you can…
In a research note released on Wednesday, analyst Ashok Kumar addresses Motorola’s current financial state and its future prospects in a post-Verizon iPhone market. According to Kumar, Motorola will miss analyst’s estimates for handset sales in Q3 2010. Lower than expected sales are the result of display shortages that slowed production, diminishing sell through of…
Several months ago my 4 year old 15 inch IBM ThinkPad T61 died and I immediately panicked since it was the machine I used to do my job. When it came time to buy a new laptop, the 17 inch MacBook Pro stood out as the best possible replacement due to the super high resolution…
Although we knew T-Mobile will get to sell the Motorola Defy, up until now we didn’t have the exact release date. The Deutsche Telekom-owned operator helped all of us, tweeting the day and price – and it’s set on November 3rd, when interested folks will be able to grab the rugged Android smartphone for $99…
I fully expect that most of you reading this have never heard of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. If you haven’t, feel free to stop reading right here. For those that have, or if you simply wanted to learn more about these so-called Roughriders, thanks for reading 🙂 You still with me? OK! Fans of one of…
On the heels of its BlackBerry product, BuzzCity launched an SDK for Android, allowing developers to embed advertising within their applications and games. With this move, the company is effectively joining the likes of AdMob and Greystripe, which present a tough competition, to say the least. BuzzCity’s “trick” is in their existing distribution channel(s) that…
The T-Mobile G2 hasn’t even been rooted permanently, and it’s already making some headway when it comes to overclocking the CPU. Yesterday we saw that the handset could be reliably overclocked to 1.3GHz, with a possibility of hitting 1.4GHz. Today, the overclock method to get your G2 working faster than virtually any phone on the…