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It’s going to be a tablet-filled holiday shopping season and two of the lowest priced models to hit retail shelves are the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. We’ve already seen several close-ups of the Kindle Fire and now some early reviews of the Nook Tablet are starting to hit the wire.…
Finally, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is making an appearance, but sadly, it’s only via an FCC filing. According to the FCC filing, the long awaited Nexus phone will carry Verizon’s LTE service. The phone includes Verizon’s 700MHz spectrum and EVDO / CDMA, as well as the really cool NFC. This is great news because all regulatory issues…
Imagine seeing an advertisement on television boasting about the new 4G smartphones on AT&T. Wow! They sure look cool, don’t they? You head on over to your local AT&T store and pick one up. Just as you are eagerly about to confirm the purchase, you notice some fine print in the contract. It says you…
Just in time for the release of the Kindle Fire and Nook Color, Netflix has released a redesigned Android tablet app that will make getting to your favorite movies and shows easier. This redone app aims to show off more content and it will soon be making its way to the iPad. In a blog…
Sony Ericsson just announced the release of its Xperia arc S and Xperia neo V, which are now available for purchase in the U.S. at the Sony Store. Both devices were recently updated to the latest Android operating system Gingerbread 2.3.4 that brings improvements to Sony Ericsson’s unique Facebook inside Xperia. Other noteworthy features for the…
Android’s momentum is still going strong, as the latest Gartner numbers said the platform had 52.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales to end users for the third quarter of 2011. That’s a rather impressive figure and it’s even more impressive when you consider that Gartner said its market share in this category doubled from the…
Just in time for Black Friday, Amazon is bringing its Price Check app to Android, nearly a year later than its iPhone version. Hey, better late than never, right? As you would expect, the Amazon Price Check app lets you go into a store and see what the price of that item would be on…
We’re a little more than 24 hours away from what should be a major event for Google Music but a report suggests that the music-buying service may launch without two of the major music labels. CNET’s Greg Sandoval reports that Universal Music Group has signed on to the deal but Google Music will be missing…
Bought a Sony Ericsson smartphone in 2011? Wondering if it’s ever going to get upgraded to that brand new shiny version of Android that Google showed off in October? Martina Johansson, from the Sony Ericsson Product Blog, is here to answer your questions and save the day: There have been a few questions here on…
The unfortunate truth of today’s world is that many of you are job hunting. Potential employers, looking to hire someone who doesn’t spend Friday to Sunday double fisting drinks at seedy underground clubs, are increasingly opting to do some online research about their potential hires. This made Michael Devine uneasy, so much so that he…