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As if we needed anymore confirmation about the name of the next version of Android, here you go. Ice Cream Sandwich was name dropped in the Android Open Source Project’s Issues section, practically confirming all previous “confirmations”. While nothing is confirmed until it’s officially announced, there’s little debate as to what Google’s next flavor of…
The white iPhone 4 was finally released last week but there were scattered reports that the ivory version was a tad bit thicker than the original black version, causing some snug cases to not fit. Well, the watchdogs at Consumer Reports say this isn’t the case. According to the consumer advocacy agency: But when we…
After a few short weeks of heavy criticism, Apple is rumored to be releasing iOS 4.3.3 soon to address a location tracking issue. For quite some time now, iPhone and iPad 3G devices had been logging and time-stamping its users’ location information and storing it in a file within its system. That information would then…
Hot off the rumor that Apple will be offering a cloud service under the “iCloud” name, we’re now hearing reports that it will be offering much more than just music. Until now, many expected the Apple iCloud service to be a digital locker for music. You’d be able to access your purchased iTunes tracks on…
If you thought MeeGo was dead in the mobile phone space once Nokia is using Windows Phone 7, you’d be wrong. A session for next month’s MeeGo conference says LG will be showing off “prototype devices” and this could very well include smartphones. This isn’t that surprising, as LG committed to developing a version of…
The last we had heard, the new BlackBerry smartphones coming out (at least one of which will likely be announced next week) would be running OS 6.1, including support for mobile hotspot, augmented reality apps, near-field communications, and a few other goodies. Following that, we’ve been expecting OS 7 (code-named Highlander) to launch sometime early…
When the CDMA version of the iPhone 4 was announced in January, many were certain that it would be a huge hit for Verizon. Disgruntled AT&T customers would flee by the masses and flock over to a more reliable network. Well, it didn’t quite work out that way, and now there are rumors that Apple…
In early June Apple is going to host their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and they’ve already announced that it’s going to be focused on the next version of iOS as well as their desktop operating system, Mac OS X. According to rumors however there’s also going to be a “one more…
The iPhone 5 (or iPhone 4S) hasn’t even been announced yet, much less released, and there are already rumors circulating across the internet about the iPhone 6. According to Japanese news publication Nikkan, Sharp is in the process of re-tooling one of their factories to start building low temperature polysilicon (p-Si) displays. Mass production is…
We are probably just a few weeks away from the much-awaited Apple iTunes cloud service but don’t expect it to be free. According to a report from CNET, the Apple iTunes cloud service could come with a yearly fee to help pay for bandwidth and licensing costs. If Apple did this, expect Google to follow…