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Apple might be giving users less incentive to use web apps saved to the home screen in favor of dedicated iOS apps downloaded from the iTunes store. A recent report says that web apps that are opened from the iPhone’s home screen perform significantly slower when compared to opening apps in the Safari browser. The…
The launch dates and prices for a bunch of tablets at an anonymous major U.S. retailer have snuck out. First up is the Motorola Xoom (likely the Wi-Fi-only model), supposedly launching on March 17 for $649, though we’ve heard 27th. and $599 elsewhere. Then there’s the BlackBerry PlayBook due for March 27 (not April 10)…
The end is near. The end of waiting for the HTC Thunderbolt to arrive, that is. Apparently, those who had put down a deposit for Verizon’s first 4G LTE Android handset are receiving calls from Best Buy and are getting an ETA of March 17th. Best Buy has been sending out e-mails and calling customers…
Apple released iOS 4.3 today and it brought a host of new features and bug fixes to iPhone and iPad users. However, it looks like iOS 5 might not be too far away as a new rumor suggests that the next version of the mobile OS will be unveiled at a media event in early…
Just in time for the rumors of the iPhone 5 to start heating up, Apple is reportedly starting production on the fabled white iPhone 4. An analyst said the white iPhone 4 is going into production and the GSM versions may ship as soon as April. Sorry Verizon iPhone owners, it looks like you won’t…
What looked like a potential Droid X successor has just fallen into the “disappointing” category. We’ve been hearing rumors of the upcoming Droid X 2, but you won’t be finding it here, as it looks like the picture above only shows a change in the external storage of the existing Droid X. For some reason,…
Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint, says that Clearwire and WiMax are going to be part of its future plans, regardless of the direction it takes. There was a bit of tension between the carrier and the WiMax service provider when the two disagreed on WiMax fees. The drama stirred up by the press was furthered…
Once again, but with feeling … We’ve heard that T-Mobile and Sprint would merge to create a super third carrier to compete with AT&T and Verizon before but a new report from BusinessWeek suggests the deal may be on track. The report says Deutsche Telekom (the parent of T-Mobile USA) is in discussion with Sprint…
An anonymous source from Marvell says they were actually working on the BlackBerry PlayBook for six months before RIM ditched them and went with Texas Instruments and their dual-core 1 GHz OMAP 4430 processor instead. Previous rumours along this vein suggested that RIM missed a Christmas launch exactly because of this reason. Unfortunately, the tipster…
A report last week surfaced that suggested the Atrix 4G was being throttled by AT&T Wireless. According to the report, AT&T is capping data speeds at 300 Kbps which is much slower than the iPhone which boasts of speeds of about 1.5 Mbps. This is unusual as the Atrix 4G features an HSDPA radio that supports…