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Imagine if you had the ability to browse the web on your smartphone without a data plan, sounds like a fantasy right? Well, Smozzy, a new Android application, plans to turn fantasy into reality by letting users search the Web on their mobile phone without a data plan. But here’s the caveat: The app works only on T-Mobile…
Apple and Samsung have been in a legal tussle for quite some time now, but it looks like Apple still has the advantage as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been banned from sale in Germany. A German court recently decided to uphold its temporary ban on the Android tablet set last month. But that’s…
After the world’s first Android clamshell smartphone, Japanese are getting the first candybar with numeric keypad that’s also powered by Google’s mobile OS. Dubbed Smart Bar, this little fella’ will hit the Land of the rising Sun on September 22nd where interested folks will be able to grab it for ¥29,800 (about $385) in black,…
Google has once again updated its Maps app for Android. Version 5.10.0 doesn’t bring a whole lot to the table – it’s mostly about reviews, allowing you to see places you’ve rated 4 and 5 stars right on the map view. What’s more, now when you’re writing a review, you will be able to attach…
10 days ago we told you CyanogenMod ROM is heading to HP TouchPad and now we see the tablet running Android 2.3.5 with touchscreen drivers, compliments of Team Touch-Droid. Of course, this is hardly the final and stable build and as such is not made for the mainstream users — rather, some knowledge is required…
After Three, we have another British carrier listing the newly announced Samsung Galaxy W on its “Coming Soon” pages. It’s Telefónica’s O2, which haven’t specified the exact launch date, though we think it will start selling during the next few weeks. Hopefully, we (actually those of you in the UK who want the Galaxy W)…
Well what do you know – despite lacking a dual-core processor, it seems Sony Ericsson managed to move enough Xperia Play units to say it is “meeting expectations.” Since we don’t have their figures, we can only speculate what that phrase exactly means. The information comes from Dominic Neil-Dwyer, the company’s head of market development,…
Remember the not-so-loved Pierre Cardin’s 7-inch tablet? When we talked about it, it was shipping with Android 2.2 Froyo on board. No more – the PC-7006 got “G” at the end (so it’s PC-7006G now), which stands for… (guess)… Gingerbread. What’s more, the price went down, from 274.99 GBP (about $438) to 224.99 GBP (about…
A new report from the Yankee Group says that Android piracy is a major problem, Google isn’t doing enough to help police it and that this is having a material impact on developers’ bottom line. “Android apps are living in the Wild West without a sheriff,” said Carl Howe, Yankee Group director of research and…
So after the world was sent in a tissy for a user agent profile that wasn’t even for the Nexus Prime, some of the rumored specs have been reaffirmed, yet again. This time, GSMArena’s tipster has confirmed some of the already known rumored specs, and shared some new ones, including a possible new name for…