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The ever elusive white iPhone 4 has been making strange appearances in different retail systems lately, and now it looks like it’s up on AT&T’s online account manager, too. We initially thought that the ivory Apple smartphone would become available for Verizon since it was up on the carrier’s site the day it was announced.…
HTC filed a trademark in Europe for the word ‘Sensation’, leading many to believe that HTC is developing a skin for its rumored Android tablet. The name “Sensation” is similar to HTC’s popular Sense UI and could be an alternative name used to differentiate its tablet line from its smartphone line. The trademark filing lists…
Earlier today, Florian Mueller, founder of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, presented new evidence of copyright infringement in Android’s source code. His accusation focused on two sets of files found in separate locations within the Android source code tree. The first set is comprised of seven files (PolicyNodeImpl.java, AclEntryImpl.java, AclImpl.java, GroupImpl.java, OwnerImpl.java, PermissionImpl.java, and PrincipalImpl.java) that are included…
At CES 2011, all the rage was NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core chips and all the smartphones and tablets that would feature the new hardware. As we’ve been reminded before, NVIDIA went over the benefits of having dual-core processors in our smartphones and showed off some games and videos. Naturally, the results were impressive and we…
Following-up on saying that they had an open mind about Windows Phone, rumour has it Sony Ericsson has one in the works for 2011. Google seems to have wooed pretty much every smartphone manufacturer (including Sony Ericsson) with the Android OS, but Microsoft has been equally successful at garnering initial interest for Windows Phone 7,…
More iPad 2 goodies have been dug up from the developer’s iOS 4.3 beta. We’ve more or less confirmed that the next iPad will have twin cameras, but what kind of quality? Not as great as you might think. As you can see, a little slice of code for K94, what tipsters say refer to…
The rumor on the street is that Nokia will finally launch a seriously specced smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s the N9 which is said to come with Intel-made 1.2GHz processor. From what I’ve understood, we could be talking about their Moorestown platform which is basically a smartphone system on a chip…
We’ve seen a lot of the first beta of iOS 4.3, the operating system to ship on Verizon’s iPhone 4 on February 10, but the second beta confirms suspicions of another product altogether. The thumbnail pictured here is used for previewing backgrounds on an iPad in iOS 4.3, and includes icons for FaceTime, Camera, and…
We’ve seen the Desire get its HD sequel and we were pretty impressed, but it looks like HTC just isn’t through with their Desire line just yet. The picture above may actually be what will be the HTC Desire 2. What basically looks like a black Nexus One with a front-facing camera, the Desire 2…
An iOS 4.3 beta was released to developers recently, and plenty of them started doing some deep digging to discover what’s new in the coming software version. Within the beta, a file folder called “Media Stream” was discovered, and more folders within that, like “Photo Stream.” It appears as though these features are going to…