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The Verizon Wireless Palm Pre 2 has been spotted on eBay in a now-cancelled auction. The handset was confirmed by PreCentral to be an actual CDMA Pre 2 with model number, P102EWW. Advertised as being great “for parts”, the Pre 2 has a bad ESN (i.e., it cannot be activated by Verizon) and is missing…
The saga of the Dell Venue Pro continues with Dell reportedly now claiming Venue Pro handsets ordered by the 14th will ship in time for Christmas. This is a radical departure from the previous rumor which suggested the Venue Pro had been pushed off until as late as January 2011 because of “several issues reported…
Occasional gamer is the creator of the Windows Phone game, Impossible Shoota, a classic arcade-style flying shooter. Available in the Windows Marketplace, the game has been downloaded over 26,000. Analysis of the download statistics reveal that HTC, not Samsung as previously rumored, may occupy the top slot for Windows Phone handsets. Over 56% of the…
After seeing what Android 2.3 brought to the table, even the very impressed likely began looking to future releases to satisfy their hunger for new features and refreshed UIs. According to a rumor, the next version of the Android OS, which was expected to be version 3.0 (codename “Honeycomb”), may actually be version 2.4. Who…
A report circulating out of Engadget early this morning suggests the DROID 2 Global and the DROID Pro are being pulled from the shelves of Best Buy. According to the report, Verizon is refusing to activate either one of these DROID handsets when they are purchased from the electronics retailer. In response, the electronics retailer…
Citigroup’s Glen Yeung recently published a research note that says Samsung may have placed an order for NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips that’s worth between $250 million and $350 million. The chips are meant for both tablets and smartphones, and if his numbers are right Samsung may have bought practically all the Tegra 2 chips that…
An analyst over at Barron’s believes that NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 will be the ‘reference design’ for Google’s upcoming tablet-optimized version of Android, dubbed Honeycomb. While this isn’t necessarily confirmed by Google, it’s believable enough. The Tegra 2 chipset sports the dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor and boasts the kind of graphical processing power that only…
A few weeks ago we heard that Windows Phone 7 was getting a massive update this January, but it’s looking more like a minor one than what it was made out to be. The sources apparently labeled the upcoming update as one that could have had Microsoft calling it “Windows Phone 8.” It was a…
After his on-stage appearance at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Jon Rubinstein sat down with John Paczkowski and talked further about the future of webOS. In this second interview, Rubinstein confirmed that webOS will support both LTE and HSDPA+ in the future. I am very excited to [be] getting to LTE and HSDPA+ (two…
Imagination may not be a company you’re familiar with, but they make the PowerVR SGX 535 graphics processing unit that’s inside Apple’s A4 chip, which is at the heart the Apple iPad, iPhone 4, iPod touch and the new Apple TV. In 2008 Apple thought Imagination was so critical to their future that they bought…