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While most people I know that use Twitter on their smartphones use third-party clients, the official app hasn’t stopped chugging along. Today Twitter updated its application on iOS and Android with a few new goodies that may have you switching back. Maybe. While the updates in the Twitter app aren’t necessarily groundbreaking, they should make…
I’m a firm believer that every mobile user wants security but they don’t want to take the steps necessary to achieve that. I don’t blame them either, as the PC model of security has left a bad taste in all of our mouths. I recently met with the head of NQ Mobile and the company…
I’m a huge horror movie and game fan, so when I saw that the Dark Meadow was going to be released on Android as a THD title, I was pretty excited. We’ve been playing with the game on both the Asus Transformer Prime and the HTC One X and have walked away pretty impressed with…
We’re big fans of the Taptu social news reader and the app just received an update which brings multiple new features. In particular, the app now has support for the iPad Retina Display and it also sports a variety of new features. If you’re not familiar with Taptu, it allows you to “DJ” the news.…
Verizon Wireless’s roadmap for handsets coming out late summer and early fall this year has leaked. The folks over at BGR got exclusive information about most, if not all of Big Red’s flagship smartphone releases for the remainder of 2012, as these devices should put a huge grin on the faces of Verizon customers. Lets…
I’ll never forget 1996. The winter that hit New York that year was absolutely ridiculous. The city basically shut down due to the epic snowfall that happened seemingly overnight. My friends and I had snow ball fights that resulted in some serious injuries, we built tunnels that homeless people then proceeded to urinate in, and…
LG has finally announced its Optimus LTE in Europe. The first market to get it is Germany, where currently three major operators — O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile — are offering LTE services. The version of the device, marked as P936 and called LG Optimus True HD LTE, is pretty much the same as the one…
Acer has started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Iconia A100 tablet, with users around the Interwebs reporting their device is prompting them to “take action.” After the process is done, this 7 incher runs software build 1.014.00_WW_GEN1 with a kernel version of 2.6.39.4+. We’re not sure whether some Acer/Iconia-specific things are included…
There’s a new (almost) must-have app for Android tablet owners out there. Called LilyPad HD, it is said to be the first floating instant messaging app for Android tablets. In other words, you will be able to keep an eye on your instant messaging activities, even while watching a YouTube video, surfing the web or…
If you own the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, you may be frustrated by the limited number of available games optimized for your phone’s built-in gamepad. While Sony Ericsson (now just Sony) tried its best to convince many major publishers to release such titles, the fact is that most games rely exclusively on touchscreen controls. Enter…