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Mobile travel guides are nothing new. We’ve seen a number of companies joining this market, both old school players like Lonely Planet as well as new entrants laser-focused on smartphone users. A new company called minube thinks there’s still room for growth here and with their new offering they may be onto something. Instead of…
The next 90 days are going to be absolutely insane for anyone who likes to keep on top of the mobile industry. So much is going to happen in the span of a single quarter that we thought it’d be nice to compile a list of the key major events. Starting in April, AT&T will…
According to comScore, only Google’s Android handsets and the Apple’s iPhone are gaining market share in the US. Other competitors, like RIM and Microsoft, are continuing their downward fall. These latest figures come from a survey of over 30,000 US subscribers who were polled during the three months ending on February 2012. During this time, Android…
A Bloomberg report suggests Amazon is working on an in-app payment system similar to the one found in iOS and Android. The service is being pilot tested by companies like Skimble Inc which sells a physical fitness app in the Amazon Appstore. According to Skimble co-founder Maria Ly, the service would let them sell workout…
It’s no secret that smartphones are becoming the main camera for most people and this is only getting better as we see new devices. We decided to put the Nokia Lumia 900, iPhone 4S and HTC One X through a photo challenge to see which one provides the best camera experience. All of the photos…
Perhaps you can recall the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet line that the aforementioned vendor announced in February and promised to ship in March. Today is April 3rd. Still no Galaxy Tab 2. Samsung finally confirmed today the tablet will be delayed all the way until the end of April, but it is still…
While most of you may be waiting on the upcoming HTC One X and Galaxy Nexus for Sprint, we just got word about the carrier’s other LTE-enabled handset, the LG Viper 4G LTE. If you’re not looking to shell out the big bucks for a new smartphone on Sprint but want all of that LTE…
Render me this, render me that, is this a Nexus tablet, or are we full of crap? Honestly, we can’t answer that one, as the render above looks like any other Android tablet we’ve seen before. While we do know the tablet is very real, we still can’t say for sure that we know anything…
Android Ice Cream Sandwich has been out for more than four months now but it’s still only on 2.9 percent of Android devices out there, according to stats from Google. Android 4.0 adds a lot of features but it also changes a lot of the user interface elements, which can make it difficult for handset…
Photo filter and sharing-service Instagram, which has amassed over 30 million iOS users to date, has officially released the Android version of Instagram onto Google’s Play Store. Users of Android can now apply retro hipster filters to their pictures and share these images to various social networks. While there have certainly been multiple Instagram-like services…