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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is a great operating system, for the most part. When manufacturers start tweaking it to make their Android devices look different than other Android devices, then things start going to hell. Take HTC Sense for example. I know that some of you like it, but every time I see that…
VIZIO once again issued a press release on the VIZIO Co-Star Stream Player, reminding the world about its Google TV product which was initially introduced at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. The compact device comes with a dual-faced universal remote that has standard numeric keys and a trackpad on one end, and full QWERTY…
These days, everyone and there mama are making devices with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 SoC. LG is also taking part in this trend with NTT Docomo about to start selling the Korean company’s S4-powered smartphone in Japan. The name of the device is Optimus it (model number L-05D), and it’s a solid mid-ranger with specs that…
Canada’s Bell Mobility will start selling the LG Optimus L5 on July 10th. As you may know from our previous posts, it’s a low-to-mid end device which is a part of LG’s L-series smartphones. In other words, it’s nothing special and is more catered towards users on a budget who don’t want to spend a…
Back in February of this year at Mobile World Congress, Huawei announced a device called the “Ascend D Quad”. Terribly name aside, it was positioned as being their flagship device. The standout feature? Huawei’s custom K3V2 chip. Said piece of silicon was supposed to blow our socks off with four of ARM’s Cortex A9 processors…
Samsung’s Galaxy S III, which was announced in late May and then began shipping in Europe in late June, is not only a successful product, according to Retuers it’s too damn popular! The South Korean handset vendor can’t make enough of their 4.8 inch flagship superphone. They’re going to fall about 2 million units short…
On the eve of Google I/O, Apple has won a legal victory again Samsung in a US Court. Late on Tuesday, US District Court Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple a preliminary injunction that would ban the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US. Koh writes, “While Samsung will certainly suffer lost sales from…
We’re pretty sure that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is already in the bag and will be announced at Google I/O tomorrow, but the oversized statue (of sorts) has already made its way to the Google campus. No, there’s no video this time to unveil the next version of the OS this time, but at least…
In busy metropolitan areas, it can be a pain to find a taxi. Every year, the tech elite venture to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, only to be met with hour-long (or more) taxi lines. In San Francisco, waits can be equally frustrating, as there are apparently not enough taxis to go…
Firefox Beta for Android keeps getting better, though it still has a long road to cross the reach the “non-beta” status. In the new version, Mozilla included Flash support and a revamped user interface that should make browsing on a smartphone easier. Then there’s a new start page, as well as “significant performance advancements” under…