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Do you like to jailbreak your iPhone or root your Android device? If so, you better enjoy it while you can. According to the EFF, this practice of jailbreaking and rooting may become illegal again. Back in 2010, the US Copyright office said that jailbreaking or rooting of a handset does not violate Section 1201…
The LG Spectrum is now available for Verizon and we’ll review this 4G LTE smartphone soon but we wanted to give you a few pictures of the unboxing and give some initial impressions. Fundamentally, the LG Spectrum isn’t much different than the LG Nitro on AT&T and that’s not necessarily a bad thing because both…
If you’re out shopping for electronics, you may want to use your smartphone to help you determine what’s the best price. One app to help with this is Decide.com and it has just released its app for Android. Decide.com uses more than 60 terabytes of historical data to help you figure out when the best…
LG has just announced that the Optimus LTE has sold more than 1 million units. At fist glance that sounds like an awesome achievement, but looking at the numbers closely reveals some incredibly lackluster sales. First, the device went on sale in October 2011, meaning it’s been out on the market for 3 months. That…
Evernote for Android keeps getting better. Newly released version 3.5 comes with a number of improvements, including smart titles for notes, the ability to save as you edit, better layout and styling of image attachments, and more. Auto titles come in handy when you don’t set a title to your note. Now, Evernote will create…
Here’s a chance for all of you who want the brand-new Samsung Galaxy Nexus but don’t want to pay a single dime to get it. Verizon Wireless is giving away the world’s first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone to the lucky few users, randomly selected from a pool of Twitter participants. The contest, which requires that…
While we already figured the Samsung Galaxy S III would be announced during Mobile World Congress next month, a tweet from Eldar Murtazin has further confirmed this, along with a few specs of the handset. HD resolution, 12 mpx camera, sw tweaks, android 4 – i like my new phone. Eager to see official announcement…
Google is making some sweeping privacy changes to better integrate its products into a single, unified product and this will also include Android, the company said in a blog post. If you don’t like it, it’s too bad because the privacy changes won’t have an opt-out option. Basically, starting March 1, whenever you sign into…
We’ve covered shopkick before and think it’s a cool way to use smartphone technology to help you shop but the company has just released some new usage numbers and it looks like it is really gaining traction. There are now more than 3 million active users and the service has had 1 billion in-app deals…
Kristen Schaal is back to show the world how she plays Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 with the Xperia Play in a new ad. Still, it’s a bit hard to sit back and watch new ads for essentially the same phone that was saw back in May of 2011. It’s a bit hard to really try…