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According to the UK smartphone sales data from Mobile Today, Sony has overtaken HTC to become the second Android phone company in the country. It is said that the Japanese giant has moved half a million phones over the summer, which is more than HTC’s 440,000 units. Samsung is still far ahead, having managed to…
AT&T is selling smartphones at a record pace this holiday shopping season. According to CEO Ralph de la Vega, the carrier has already sold 6.4 million handsets in the first two months of the quarter. This would give AT&T its second best quarter of all time and would increase its yearly sales to a whopping…
It’s always nice to receive unsuspected packages, and that’s exactly what Motorola and Verizon are doing today. As a reminder that the Droid RAZR HD and Droid RAZR MAXX HD are set to receive their Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates, packages were sent out. Sent in a rather large box (for its contents), the package…
Google has been on an application updating rampage for the past couple of days. On Monday, Google updated Gmail for Android, and on Tuesday iOS saw updates Gmail and YouTube. Today, Google Now, Google Voice, and Google Translate, and My Tracks all have updates waiting for them. That said, we’re more interested in the Google…
We have great news for all you hipsters and collectors of unique items. Etsy on its blog announced the availability of a new Android app just in time for shoppers ahead of Christmas Day. The app highlights the sites’ more than 17 million item marketplace, while also bringing options to easily browse all the shops…
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt discussed the current state of patent litigation between Apple and Google’s partners. Schmidt noted that the relations between Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and Google’s CEO Larry Page are civil and productive, likening the relationship between the two parties to a state model,…
While we still wait to see Sony’s next flagship device, the company unveiled some rather unimpressive phone. The new Xperia E is an entry-level Jelly Bean device with hardly impressive specs that include a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7227A processor, 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen and 3.2-megapixel camera with auto-focus. In addition, Sony emphasizes the device’s “outstanding HD…
Good news for those of you in the States waiting to get your hands on the Oppo Find 5. It’s heading your way and will be available for $499 sans any contracts. A dedicated website, oppousa.com, is now live listing the glorious specs sheet along with the list of compatible operators – T-Mobile, AT&T and…
The existing Samsung Galaxy Pocket S5300 is the cheapest Android smartphone in the company’s portfolio and it’s also available in a dual SIM variant. However, both devices (single and dual SIM versions) run Android 2.3 Gingerbread which may soon not be a “good enough” option even for the emerging markets of the world. To “solve”…
Google I/O 2013 is officially a go, as the dates for the developer conference have just been announced via the +Google Developers page. Thousands of people will be hitting the Moscone Center West to see what Google has in store. Google I/O 2012 was by and far the most popular conference, as not only did…