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It’s been a big day for Facebook, as the world’s largest social network received a new Timeline UI for the iOS app and it rolled out some app updates which may mean the end of things like GetGlue and Miso. One interesting little note from the F8 conference which may have slipped past you is…
Cricket, a wireless service provider, has just announced the launch of the ZTE Score. The smartphone is the first ZTE smartphone to hit Cricket’s network and its the seventh smartphone to be included in Cricket’s prepaid line of phone offerings. This phone is set to hit Cricket retail locations starting September 25. The ZTE Score is another…
There’s a device that’s rumored to be coming out in the near future called the Samsung SHV-E120L. It was first spotted as an entry in a database of the NenaMark benchmarking tool in late August, and now today it’s been found in a South Korean online forum. According to said forum posting, the SHV-E120L, which…
Thanks to the SprintFeed ninjas, we know Sprint will soon add HTC Evo 4G and Kyocera Echo to its End of Life (EOL) list. HTC’s baby has been on the market for almost a year and a half, bringing tons of new subscribers to the “Now” network in the process. The white version will stop…
HTC has officially announced the Raider 4G in Korea. The LTE-enabled device, which will be available through AT&T as HTC Holiday, rocks a huge 4.5-inch qHD (540×960 pixels) touchscreen, dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash on the back, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, Wi-Fi, 16GB of built-in storage, GPS and other…
Aside from the Motorola Electrify, U.S. Cellular will be adding another Android smartphone to its offering in the next couple of days (or weeks). It’s the HTC Hero S, which as far as we see is the carrier’s version of the Kingdom (EVO Design 4G). If that’s true (and we think it is), expect a…
Sony Ericsson released the Android 2.3.4 update for its Xperia Neo smartphone. Aside from packing the Android core changes — including support for Google Video Chat — the Swedish-Japanese handset makers decided to further sweeten the deal by including additional updates under the hood, as well. For instance, this firmware release also comes with: Improved…
Orange is betting heavily on the prospects of contactless payments, powered by NFC (Near Field Communication) technology. In the UK, they will be piloting the service using Samsung’s bada-powered Wave 578, while for its own backyard they’ll use the Samsung Galaxy S II. As far as I’ve understood, they won’t be offering some special version…
Playing games with friends in your/their home = not cool. Doing the same via Facebook = cool. That seems to be the formula behind the success of Zynga, which is the company that pretty much rules the social gaming industry. To be fair, there’s also a convenience factor here and we gotta give it to…
Not sure what was “wrong” with O2’s version of the HTC Sensation when the carrier decided to delay the Android 2.3.4 update thus far. I guess they wanted to test it out thoroughly prior to releasing the new software to the general public… Anyway, the good Sensational news is that the update is now ready,…