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Those looking for an Android phone that don’t want to shell out the big bucks should look to the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Mini and T-Mobile Move that were just announced at Mobile World Congress. We’re hearing that both of these devices with hit the US sometime this Spring, and cost somewhere between $50 and…
NAVTEQ announced a great expansion of its LocationPoint ad network with major new publishers jumping on board. Among the partners announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we now find major location-service providers such as Appello, Co-Pilot Live, NAVIGON, Ndrive, Poynt and Telmap, as well as hardware makers like RIM and Samsung – which…
webOS fans who don’t want to wait for the HP Pre 3 or perhaps the Veer may go for the Pre 2 in the meantime. The webOS 2.0-powered device is landing on Verizon Wireless tomorrow (February 17th), when you will be able to grab it for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in Verizon Wireless rebate and…
Like we don’t already have enough Android customization options available from handset and mobile software makers, some carriers want to put their signature on the user’s devices, too. Orange is one such carrier, which used the Mobile World Congress to announce Orange Gestures and “smart” Live Wallpapers. The so called Orange Gestures, which will be…
The Wholesale Applications Community aka WAC announced the new 2.0 specification, which now includes HTML5 and multimedia support. This in turn will enable better widgets and apps that mimic native apps’ capabilities. And that’s like a start, with WAC 3.0 — set to be available in September — promising to include billing support and user…
SPB Software announced a new version of its mobile TV solution – SPB TV 3.0, which is dubbed as an app store-like publishing platform for TV channels. As a result, broadcasters and content owners have the opportunity to distribute existing catalogs and expand their offering to mobile devices. Users in turn get access to a…
We told ya’ Glu Mobile is preparing to launch games for the first Honeycomb tablets and voila – they are (almost) here. The mobile gaming company is using the Big Show in Barcelona to unveil the first games developed specifically for the Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform and optimized on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile super…
NAVIGON updated its GPS navigation application for Android devices. There are two new things — cause only one of them is an actual feature — included in this release. First comes the so called Pedestrian Flashlight function, which means “pedestrians will safely find their way even in the dark,” turning the camera flash on their…
Digital content services provider NewBay launched LifeCache Digital Vault 2.4 to provide music, photo and video cloud services for operators and device makers. LifeCache Digital Vault allows users to go beyond proprietary music clients like iTunes and access their image, music and video files from anywhere. In order to take advantage of the service, users…
Sierra Wireless used the Mobile World Congress to introduce two new 4G mobile hotspots – the AirCard 753S and AirCard 754S, both of which can connect up to five WiFi enabled devices simultaneously to the internet. The former sings along Dual-Carrier HSPA+ whereas the latter with LTE networks. Both products are scheduled for commercial shipments…