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The T-Mobile G2 has only been officially available since last week and it’s already receiving an OTA software update. This isn’t just any ordinary that you’d see shortly after a device is released to help battery life and performance, the new update enables a mobile hotspot feature and WiFi calling for the G2. We’d gotten…
Anyone up for a game of Croquet!? I am! New from the developers at Inblosam, comes a new croquet simulation for iOS and Android… and yes, it works just fantastic on your iPhone, iPad, and any Android handset of your choice. North America side, croquet has long been a backyard game, mostly for the kiddies…
We’ve got the rumor of the week for you Android fans. It looks like the Gingerbread SDK may drop sometime next week, and will allow us to see exactly what Google has been working on all these months! While this is a rumor, we can’t help but get our hopes up. The month of October…
Samsung has delayed its unveiling of the new Galaxy Tab in South Korea. The new Android tablet would have been announced to the media on October 14, but Samsung is delaying the event “to equip the device with better localized applications for the domestic market.” It must be a huge bummer for the folks in…
Oracle and IBM are teaming up to collaborate on a fully open source version of Java and the move could have major impact on Google’s Android mobile operating system. IBM and Oracle will be collaborate on OpenJDK and this is expected to be where the companies focus its efforts. InfoWorld has a great breakdown of…
ZTE, a Chinese original design manufacturer who creates gadgets that they then sell to other companies who do nothing more than slap their name on it, some may go so far as tweak the colors, has launched a tablet called the “Light” in Beijing. Information is scarce at this point, or is horribly mangled thanks…
Vodafone’s Spanish division will join the Samsung’s Galaxy Tab distribution network and offer the device to its customers. The Android-powered tablet is still not available for purchase, but you can pre-order it for 199 EUR on an 18-month contract. As you know, the Tab is one of most desired products on the market today with…
INQ, a company that’s a small division of the huge global operator Hutchison, builds feature phones with smartphone features deeply integrated. Last year they launched several devices in the UK that had Facebook, Twitter, MSN and even Skype built in. They were cheap, but the user interface was playful and indeed easy to use. Now…
If you are thinking of switching to T-Mobile for the new G2, you have a couple of options to choose from when it comes to actually obtaining the device. The best way, it seems, is to grab the thing from Amazon, as it’s only $99 on a new two-year contract. The deal is quite a…
Motorola has been rumored to be working on a NVIDIA Tegra 2 Android phone and, as with the original Droid, it may be the first phone to ship with the newest Android version, Gingerbread. Motorola was first to get dibs on Android 2.0 when it launched with the Droid and that tradition may just continue…