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Amazon has a stock of refurbished Kindle Fires up for grabs on their site. The 7″ e-Reader/tablet hybrid is the second best-selling tablet behind Apple’s iPad, and at the extremely discounted price of $139 is a no-brainer for anyone who has an investment in Amazon’s ecosystem. The Kindle Fire allows you to consume Kindle Books…
The original Samsung Galaxy S, the one that made the Korean company one of the biggest smartphone makers, won’t get its serving of Ice Cream Sandwich. Rather, as we reported before, Sammy will release a “value pack” for the phone, offering many of the Ice Cream Sandwich features, including Face Unlock, launcher improvements and the…
Rogers Wireless will likely be the first Canadian carrier to offer the shiny new HTC One X. Unfortunately (or not – depending how you look at things) they’ll offer the dual-core model, the one that gets its power from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 processor. It’s still super fast but nothing says you’re super geek like quad…
Rovio is one crazy company that knows how to keep its customers happy. Just after launching Angry Birds Space, the Finnish mobile games publisher released another update for Angry Birds Rio. There’s a total of 12 new levels included, though in order to access them you’ll have to finish all levels and collect all fruit.…
If you still like the HTC Evo 3D (considering that there are now better devices on the Now Network) and has nothing against Sprint, now’s the time to act. Wirefly is offering the 3D-enabled Android smartphone for free with a two-year contract. The deal is good for both new customers and those upgrading, so even…
We have (almost) good news for Orange Samsung Galaxy S II customers in the UK. You will get your serving of Ice Cream Sandwich, but you’ll have to wait for April (and we don’t know when exactly in April you’ll get it). Yeah, you’re probably sorry you’re not on Three which customers are already running…
Starting today, Amazon is pushing out version 6.3 of its Android software to the Kindle Fire. This latest update adds several new features including book passage and note sharing, book extras, movie rentals and other performance enhancements. The new sharing feature lets readers select their favorite passage and share it with other Kindle users who…
As happy as I am with my switch to the iPhone, the thing I miss the most about Android is the amazing quality of Google Maps on it. Well, Google has just released the 6.5 version of Maps for Android and it’s packed full of features and improvements which make me jealous. One of the…
Cellular customers in Europe will soon be paying less for roaming charges incurred while roaming in other European countries. A preliminary deal has been struck between the European Parliament and representatives of the Council and the European Commission that will set EU roaming rules that carriers must abide by starting July 1st. The agreement will…
The HTC Vivid is one of the first smartphones in the US to get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update on AT&T and while most users will be content by being on the latest version of the OS, they’ll likely be more than happy with the vast performance increase. The guys over at VentureBeat…