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Think you’ve had your fill of Angry Birds with Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, and Angry Birds Facebook? Think again as Rovio has just announced the next Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Space, is a little over a month away from release on multiple mobile platforms. Information on Angry Birds Space is…
We’re just a few weeks away from one of the best sports events out there and March Madness will be filling up TV screens and streaming for free on many computers. If you want to watch games on your smartphone though, you better be prepared to pay a few bucks. This is a bit of…
Samsung’s flagship device has always been the Galaxy. Nokia has the Lumia 800/900, HTC has the Sensation/Incredible, and Apple has the iPhone. But what about Motorola? Last year at the Consumer Electronics show they announced the Atrix, their first dual core smartphone. Roughly 10 months later it was replaced by the Atrix 2, which didn’t…
Gigabyte will soon unveil a new Android phone – GSmart G1355. What makes this device especially interesting is that it sports both a big screen and two SIM card slots. Usually dual SIM devices (not just smartphones) come in smaller packages, so this is an exception rather than rule. However, the fact that it rocks…
If Instapaper and Read it Later doesn’t work for you, you may want to try out Readability. The web-based service that basically clears a web page to leave just its content while allowing you to bookmark it is pretty popular and will soon get a mobile component that works on two of the most popular…
Yeah we know Sony Xperia S is heading to 3 of UK’s largest operators — including Orange, Three and O2 — but who can wait? If you want to be among the first ones to get the fancy smartphone, you can already pre-order your unit from BuyMobilePhones, which is offering it with a number of…
Android will rule the world, we already know that. However, we were still surprised to read NPD’s findings that suggest smartphones running Google’s mobile platform will reach a penetration rate of 80% of total smartphones in Africa, India and China by 2015. NPD defines low-cost Android smartphones as those running Android 2.2 (Froyo) or 2.3…
For a company that took a great mobile OS like webOS and let it whiter and die, HP sure has a lot to say about mobile OS strategy. When speaking at HP’s global partner summit in Las Vegas, CEO Meg Whitman told attendees that Google’s acquisition of Motorola would cause Android to move from an…
Motorola was dealt a major setback today when a German court ruled that most of Motorola’s products infringe on Apple’s slide to unlock patent. This patent covers the process of swiping on an image to unlock a device. According to a report at FOSS patents, the ruling is a permanent injunction that Apple could choose…
Swype, the unique software keyboard for Android, released a beta today with support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Galaxy Nexus owners and anyone else lucky enough to be running ICS at this point now have another alternative to typing on Android’s stock keyboard. In addition to Ice Cream Sandwich support, the beta version of…