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When Google acquired Motorola over the summer, the biggest concern was that the relationship balance would shift away from the other manufacturers. Google reassured us that Motorola wouldn’t automatically be first in line to work on Nexus handsets, and Google ex-CEO (now Chairman) Eric Schmidt recently reiterated the sentiment in an interview. “The Android ecosystem…
We’re only a little more than a week away until we see Samsung and Google take the stage and unveil the next handset in the Nexus family. Dubbed the Nexus Prime, the soon to be announced handset has been rendered by ciccaresedesign and we’d be lying if we said we didn’t hope the handset looked…
In the most redundant statement of the day, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg admitted the company should have taken the iPhone more seriously. He made a slew of other interesting comments about the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Motorola in a recent interview. Nordberg hailed Sony Ericsson’s decision to invest in Android for its mobile handsets, calling…
You might remember that there was talk awhile back about RIM’s well-known instant-messaging client, BBM, would be making its way to Android and eventually iOS. The first signs of such an app have just surfaced, showing the standard BlackBerry Messenger profile page, but not much else. The app icon doesn’t look great right now, but…
We have great news for you Foursquare for Android users out there. The location-based social networking app recently received a pretty cool update with the Lists feature to help share and discover collections of places, among a few other smaller tweaks. This news follows the company’s recent announcement of achieving a huge milestone, passing a cool one…
Owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia phones can rejoice, as CyanogenMod and FreeXperia team has announced CyanogenMod support for multiple Xperia devices. Here’s a list of the following devices that will be supported: 2011 lineup: Xperia arc Xperia neo Xperia mini Xperia mini pro Xperia PLAY Xperia ray Xperia active (when available) Xperia pro (when available) Older lineup:…
Remember the Samsung Stratosphere, one of those devices we’ve seen on Verizon’s leaked roadmap? Well we now have additional details to report about it, compliments of DroidLife which managed to get its hands on two charts comparing Samsung’s baby with some other smartphones. But first, let’s talk about the specs. The Stratosphere is a device…
Presuming you still haven’t grabbed the Apple iPad and for some reason don’t want the Amazon Fire for some reason (too much customizations on top of Android, privacy concerns?), maybe you’ll be interested to grab the HTC Flyer for less. Best Buy is reportedly planning to slash the price of HTC’s 7-inch tablet on October 6th,…
Vodafone UK has started taking orders for the super-thin Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S. The Big Red carrier is offering the device free of charge to anyone willing to commit on a two-year 31 GBP/month plan, which includes 600 voice minutes, unlimited texts and half a gig of mobile data per month. Alternatively, there’s a…
We told you the Motorola Defy+ is heading to the UK and now you can grab it from two phone retailers – The Smartphone Centre and Clove. The former asks 239.95 GBP for the unlocked device with free shipping, while the latter wants few pounds more – 246 GBP, plus you’ll have to pay extra…