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AT&T and LG released the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the Phoenix smartphone, which we know as the carrier’s version of the LG Optimus One. Unfortunately, it’s not over-the-air (OTA) update, and you’ll have to actually connect your smartphone to the PC to get the latest version of the platform. You can get all the…
Amazon has once again updated its Kindle app for Android with few tweaks here and there, as well as some bug fixes under the hood. Version 3.4.0 is smaller to download, while also including page numbers. As a result, you’ll be able to track your reading progress using numbers that match the real book. Not…
Chinese handset vendor Huawei is trying to make a name for themselves in today’s hypercompetitive smartphone market. Similar to how HTC started out by making devices for operators who would then slap their logo on the front of HTC’s hardware, Huawei is trying to become more than just another handset ODM. They want to do…
You’ve probably read about a number of different companies and organizations adopting iPads to boost their productivity or streamline operations. Samsung has been struggling to make its tablets equally appealing though it still has a long way to go to reach iPad’s figures. Their latest gig involves teaming up with Verizon Wireless and Phoenix Suns,…
MediaTek isn’t exactly a household name, but they’re a huge player in the mobile processor space. Like many other chip vendors, they don’t build their own chips, instead they design them and then have factories pump them out. This is an industry standard practice that everyone (Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, NVIDIA) does. Now MediaTek chips aren’t…
Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel got up on stage and said that they’ve signed two hardware partners to use their new Medfield smartphone platform. What made us actually care about this announcement instead of just rolling our eyes, because Intel has been promising to enter the smartphone market every…
We’re playing around with the Samsung Galaxy Note for At&T and our full review will be coming shortly, but I think we should show you what the deal is with that stylus or, as Samsung likes to call it, the S Pen. Samsung says that this is one of the most advanced styluses in the…
European antitrust regulators granted Google its blessing to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Google is now one step closer to getting complete access to Motorola Mobility’s expansive portfolio of 17,000 patents with the hope to better defend Android from frequent infringement lawsuits. This marks a major milestone in the acquisition process. Since Google would…
Reuters is reporting that the Department of Justice has approved the $12.5 billion merger of Google and Microsoft. This decision follows closely on the heels of the EU which also rubber stamped the deal today. The DOJ concluded that this acquisition and the two others it was reviewing, were “unlikely to substantially lessen competition.” They also…
We just got our hands on the review version of the Samsung Galaxy Note for AT&T (check out our first impressions here) and there’s no doubt that this is a large phone. It’s tough to convey how large it is though, so we wanted to offer a few comparisons to popular devices to help your…