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Nexus S 4G users for Sprint, get your thumbs ready. Swype, possibly the fastest text-input method for Android, is coming to your smartphones. With Swype, you’ll be able to crank out e-mails, text messages and more without having to lift your finger off the keyboard. Instead of typing individual letters, you swipe through them to…
Motorola recently announced the Defy+, which looks more or less the same as the original, but has a 1 GHz processor instead of 800 MHz. We had an inkling Motorola was working on a successor to their last tough smartphone, so no huge surprise there. The Defy+ will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and like the…
Apple and Samsung aren’t exactly what you would call the best of friends. Despite Apple paying Samsung millions, most likely billions, of dollars for components every year that find their way inside many of Apple’s portable products, Samsung obviously competes with Apple in the consumer electronics game. Recently Apple successfully managed to get sales of…
Earlier this month the roadmap for Verizon’s fall lineup was leaked and in it was a device called the HTC Vigor. Said device is supposed to be a replacement for the HTC Thunderbolt, which is rather odd since the Thunderbolt is barely 5 months old, so for it to reach end of life that fast…
Fusion Garage, the same company that was supposed to come out with a tablet called the JooJoo pad back in Spring 2010, but then failed to ship anything to customers and was subsequently forced to returned their money, [Editor’s Note: The JooJoo did ship. It wasn’t good, though.] announced two devices yesterday: the Grid10 tablet…
Hot on the heels of Google announcing that they’re going to spend $12.5 billion on acquiring Motorola Mobility, Samsung has just picked up one of, if not the, most knowledge minds in the Android community: Steve Kondik, better known as the guy behind CyanogenMod. The work that he and his contributors have done on Google’s…
We were honestly not very sure what to expect from the Fusion Garage Grid10 because the company’s previous tablet effort, the JooJoo, was not worth writing home about. After spending some time with the Android-ish Grid10 device, I think it’s clear to say that it’s better than you’d expect but it will still face numerous…
Looks like Google is going to try its darndest to not play favorites with the recent Motorola acquisition. According to Andy Rubin, the recent purchase of Motorola won’t give it first dibs on the Nexus line. Rubin affirms that there’s a process behind who gets to be the next Nexus manufacturer. We have this strategy…
Our friends over at Hunch have put together an infographic about what your platform of choice says about you and, in general, it says that iPhone owners have more money, are well-traveled and are early adopters. Android users are generally more pessimistic, like The Walking Dead and are younger than iPhone users. Of course, this…
Ever since we first got word of TabCo, we’ve been a bit intrigued as to what it will be bringing to the table(t). Well, the cat is out of the bag and guess who it is? It’s Fusion Garage – the makers of the late JooJoo tablet. We must say that it’s been a well-played…