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The Android numbers are in, and as you’d expect, not much has changed. The updated chart still shows Android 2.3 Gingerbread with more than 60%, Ice Cream Sandwich nearing the 20% mark, and Jelly Bean finally making its appearance with less than 1%. Android 2.3 won’t be overtaken anytime soon, as it’s currently holding onto…
Exciting news for those of you out there rocking a CDMA-operated Nexus device, and who are tired of waiting for your fix of the latest version of Google’s Jelly Bean. Today the search giant posted the updated JRO03H (Android 4.1.1) closed binary files, which includes the discontinued Nexus S 4G. A device I wasn’t so…
After repeatedly ruling it out as an option, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins appears to have finally listened to reason and will consider a strategy of licensing BlackBerry 10 to manufacturers. Interested companies such as Samsung, Sony, HTC, and others could choose to release a device running on the BlackBerry 10 platform. In an interview with…
The 4G PlayBook will become a reality next week, according to RIM’s official Inside BlackBerry blog. The oft-rumored PlayBook with 4G LTE connectivity will be making its debut on August 9th, though only our Canadian readers to the north will be able to initially get their hands on RIM’s latest tablet. The LTE PlayBook will come…
Gmail just updated its app for Android with a few more enhancements to all devices rocking Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and up. In version 4.1.2, users can expect added support for 7-inch tablets along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements. From what we’ve noticed, these changes aren’t cosmetic when it comes to…
Last year, Apple filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office that the USPTO today made available to the public. The patent is for a beefed-up Smart Cover that would feature a small, flexible, secondary display in one or more panels of the smart cover to augment the display (room for extra icons),…
Today Sharp reported less than stellar numbers, but to end its earnings report on a high note, it decided to contribute to the Apple iPhone rumor mill. One of the Japanese manufacturer’s top executives decided to spill the beans on the next iPhone, saying the company is making the displays, and plans to ship them…
In just 3 weeks, Archos will unveil its Gen 10 tablet(s) – we’re not sure whether that will be one or multiple devices. Aside from the image above which the company unveiled on Facebook, we don’t know what else to expect. The rumor is that it will support a keyboard dock a la Asus Transformer series,…
We’ve already seen the Huawei Ascend Q back in July and now it got a spot at Cricket’s website. If you order it online, you can get the QWERTY keyboard equipped smartphone for $120 or for $20 more if you do the same from one of Cricket’s physical stores. As you may remember from our…
You’ve probably noticed that iPhone isn’t exactly a loud device. Quite the contrary, if you want to share some song with other people in the room, in most cases you’ll have to connect your beloved smartphone to external speakers or a dock. But what if there are no external speakers around? Enter AudioGlove, a new…