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Here’s one for mobile developers. With jQ.Mobi, a new open source mobile development framework, you can quickly create HTML5-based sites and apps using familiar jQuery-based functions. Touted as 2.5X faster than desktop jQuery and much smaller to download (only 3K vs. 36K), JQ.Mobi is made with particular focus on delivering an “identically high quality user…
Want to the 3G-enabled Asus Transformer Prime? Well, you can forget about it – Asus said it won’t release a 3G version of the existing Transformer Prime tablet. According to FocusTaiwan, “no such product exists on its [Asus’] current roadmap.” Now you could hope that the upcoming version of the tablet turned notebook, Transformer Prime…
Canada’s Telus will get the LTE-based Samsung Galaxy Note and the carrier already prepared a page dedicated to the big smartphone/tablet device. Unfortunately, the mentioned page doesn’t say anything about the launch date or price. We are, however, pretty confident most folks will get this bad boy on a three-year customer agreement, since its off-contract…
Late last year ASUS announced the Transformer Prime, the first Android tablet to use NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 chip. They said it would ship before Christmas, and it did … but in numbers so small that you can’t really say that it sold in any significant volume. What’s holding things up? Some folks…
Let me preface this by saying I hate cases for my phones. While great for protection and the accident prone, most cases just cover up the beauty behind a handset that took over a year to make. iPhone 4 users knows what I’m talking about. Still, I had to do something with my new Galaxy…
Airbnb has just released an Android app and a mobile website in order to help you find places other than a hotel to crash. I’ve been digging through the Android app for a while now and I have to say that I’m pretty darn impressed with the look and feel – this is a gorgeous…
Samsung didn’t cause much of a stir in mobile this CES, as we only saw a few repackaged devices we’ve already seen before. While that’s all fine and dandy, many are already expecting what Samsung has been working on over the past year and just when we will be seeing the Galaxy S III. While…
You’ll often hear from people that the iPhone is just better than Android because it’s more polished, beautiful and the app environment is better but the counter to that is that Android gives you more flexibility and power. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak still considers the iPhone the best but even he’ll admit that Google and…
Huawei used the CES in Las Vegas to show the world it can make high-end smartphones, demonstrating its pretty solid Ascend P1 and Ascend P1 S devices. We were especially impressed with the P1 S model, since it was announced as the world’s thinnest dual-core Android smartphone. The P1, on the other hand, is slightly…
With tablets increasingly getting adopted by retailers all around the world, the question is when the standard POS terminals will be pushed back to history. And while we’re still far from that point, some savvy companies experiment with new technologies, improving the shopping experience along the way. The problem, however, may turn to be communication…