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Apple and Amazon have apparently buried the hatchet in the long running dispute over the phrase “App Store”. Apple has relented in its trademark suit, allowing Amazon the rights to use the term ‘app store’ in its Amazon Appstore for Android. Since Amazon began using the name “appstore” for its Android store in March 2011,…
In just a few short months, Amazon’s existing Kindle Fire tablet lineup will be turning a year old, and with that birthday coming up, we’re expecting the company to unveil a refreshed lineup of the tablets that have been wildly popular. The guys over at BGR recently received some new information about the upcoming devices.…
The XO Tablet, which is currently being developed by the One Laptop Per Child Association is coming to Wal-Mart stores on July 16th, according to a blog post from the association’s website. The affordable XO Tablet will begin its launch at Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., and will continue its rollout at other top retailers…
The AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless is adding the ZTE Overture to its smartphone lineup today, offering customers an affordable mid-range Android handset. Aio Wireless is offering the ZTE Overture for $149.99, and can be found online or in Aio Wireless brick-and-mortar locations. Aio Wireless was launched in early May, and offers pre-paid plans with unlimited talk, text…
Motorola was rumored to be holding a private press event on July 11, and early intel suggested the American handset maker would use the occasion to unveil the rumored Motorola X smartphone. Those hopes were squashed today by a report out of Android Community. According to the latest information, Motorola will not hold an event…
U.S. Cellular has a new Windows Phone to add to its smartphone lineup, the Samsung ATIV Odyssey. The device has until now only been available to Verizon customers, and is a mid-range smartphone which runs on Windows Phone 8. The device is available for purchase today online, and will land in stores on July 11th.…
The upcoming HTC 8XT is set to hit Sprint shelves at the end of the next week, July 19th. The HTC 8XT rocks a 4.3 inch WVGA display, 1.4Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, 8 megapixel rear camera, 1.6 megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB storage, micro SD card slot, 1,800 mAh battery, and more. What really makes the…
The hot new HTC Butterfly S may not sport a metal body like HTC One, but it has comparable (read: pretty much the same) specs and a slightly larger 5-inch screen (vs 4.7-inch one). That’s why we’re glad to see it hitting few stores in the US and Taiwan, offering yet another option for today’s…
We know ZTE may be one of the first vendors to launch an NVIDIA Tegra 4-powered smartphone and we tend to think that could be the device you can see on the image above. Marked as ZTE U988S, it may get a new name when it officially launches at some point closer to the end…
Sprint and Samsung have started rolling out an update for the Galaxy S4 that includes a number of changes. The 357MB-heavy download packs several important capabilities alongside few smaller tweaks, including: Ability to move select (though not all) apps from internal memory to the microSD card The addition of Samsung Knox – to make the…