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Different companies make money using different means. That isn’t going to be a startling revelation for many of you, but let’s recap how Google, Microsoft, and Apple put food on the table. Starting with Apple, they simply sell you physical goods. You buy an iPad, you give them money. You buy your sister an iPod,…
When you buy a tool, let’s say a hammer, you don’t care if a better hammer comes out a few weeks later since both hammers do exactly the same thing. They bang nails into the wall. Phones however are a different story. When you buy a phone you’re not just buying a battery powered lump…
Yesterday was the day for Android fans in Canada, as pretty much all carriers started selling the Samsung Galaxy S III, including Bell Mobility, Mobilicity, Rogers Wireless, SaskTel, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Videotron and Wind Mobile. The prices start at some $150 with the ever-long three-year contract. Alternatively, there’s an expensive phone-only option that will take $600 out…
While everyone talks about Jelly Beans these days, some folks are trying to get Ice Cream Sandwich working on non-Android phones. Take Samsung Wave for instance. It’s a pretty powerful device that rocks a 1GHz processor. Sure, it’s a single-core CPU and it’s not exactly the latest generation one, but it’s still fast enough. Its…
Barnes & Noble has struck a deal with DC Comics to bring their popular comics to the Nook Tablet and Nook Color users. The first batch includes more than 100 of DC’s graphic novels, including various Superman, Batman and Sandman titles, as well as the first storylines from The New 52, which is the initiative…
Just before some of you/us hit the road for the summer holiday, it’s a good idea to fill-up your phone with useful apps. There are so many of them, prompting HighTable to compile a list of the most useful ones and nicely present them in an infographic. As you’re about to see, they divided all…
Click A Taxi is now available in the UK and Ireland, allowing users to book a taxi without making a single phone call. The application — which up until this point was available in Denmark, Norway and Sweden — works both in major cities and small towns alike, and is in that sense different than…
The A5 chip inside Apple’s iPhone 4S has two ARM Cortex A9 processors and a PowerVR 5 series GPU. MediaTek’s new chip, the MT6577, is built the exact same way. According to the company’s press release, their chip will enable handset vendors to build “premium” $199 Android smartphones. The MT6577 also has a built in…
SOS Online Backup launched a new version of its Android app for smartphones and tablets. Available as a free download, the application has two primary functions: My Cloud and Protect. The former provides users with access to all of the files in their personal cloud including those from other devices and computers. The Protect tool,…
Google announced so many things at I/O yesterday that I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around everything they talked about during their keynote. There was one thing however, something they didn’t talk about on stage, that has completely and utterly blown my mind. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which hit the market late…