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A rumor surfaced yesterday that suggests the T-Mobile G2 was receiving an update to enable WiFi hotspot functionality and add WiFi-calling to this premiere Android handset. While anxious customers waited for this important update to arrive, T-Mobile reached out with an official statement of its own that is decidedly ambiguous. “Wi-Fi Calling and tethering/Wi-Fi sharing…
Grooveshark has updated its mobile music app for Android with a whole boatload, nay, freighterload of new features. Oh, and the iPhone app is back on the jailbroken app store Cydia, if you were heartbroken about it being yanked from iTunes a few months ago. On Android, you can now stream music from playlists of…
Habs fans, it looks like Bell has released a new Montreal Canadiens app for Android, BlackBerry and iOS. It’s no surprise that Bell has come to the table with this, being minority owner of the team and all… and, oh yes, the Canadiens do play in the Bell Centre, right? 🙂 The new app brings…
Verizon is reportedly using Android to beef up its network in preparation for an onslaught of iPhone customers. The latest CDMA iPhone rumor assumes that Verizon will debut the device early next year and is preparing now for this highly popular smartphone from Apple. Unlike AT&T, whose network has struggled under the load of millions…
Motorola Defy, the company’s rugged Android smartphone, is now available in Germany through Phone House. The handset retailer is asking 350 EUR for the IP67-certified device, which actually is not that much considering the specs (and the fact this is a SIM free deal). Alternatively, folks can opt to grab the phone with a contract…
One of the many reasons Twitter is as popular as it is today is the ability to use whatever third party client you prefer to interact with the service. Tweetdeck is one of those clients, and while I’m not personally a fan, hardcore Twitter are highly likely to be using it to dump their random…
Google is taking location and local services seriously and it has appointed Marissa Mayer as the head of this division. Marissa Mayer was VP of search products but she will be overtaking the local and location service part of the company. Google routinely puts Mayer on television and in its public events and you can…
I guess you really do go use Android if you want porn, eh? Don’t worry, the “Porn.” (short for “Pornire, or “start”) button on the Romanian Samsung Galaxy Tab is just a hilarious, if unfortunate, translation for Home, not a shortcut to some bizarre manufacturer-sanctioned adult content portal. Since being discovered, the button has been…
Maybe I’m not good with timing when I hear the word “soon” in conjunction with Android 2.2 Froyo updates, or maybe I’m a little impatient. So when T-Mobile said that Froyo for the MyTouch 3G would be coming “soon” in June, I was thinking maybe it’ll be here in a couple of weeks. Well, weeks…
The rugged, push-to-talk Motorola i1 that has been hanging out on Sprint since the summer is now coming to Canada by way of Telus and their Mike iDEN network. For those who live and die by immediate two-way PTT communication and need a tough phone for an unforgiving workplace, the Motorola i1 will feel exceptionally…