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While we know that the upcoming Android Gingerbread won’t have minimum hardware requirements, it may be a different story for Honeycomb, Google’s tablet-optimized version of Android. With rumors that the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core CPU will be the design reference for Honeycomb, it may end up actually being a requirement. There’s also rumors that the…
While some of you are waiting until next year to even consider a tablet, be it an Android tablet, the next iPad, Playbook, or the mysterious WebOS tablet, some of you have already jumped the gun. There aren’t too many decent Android tablets out there right now, but the ViewSonic G Tablet. It’s got innards…
Hot on the heels of Samsung’s Froyo trickery earlier this week, we see a confirmation that the Epic 4G update is “on hold” for an unknown amount of time. We’re not terribly sure when any of the U.S. Galaxy S phones will receive the OS upgrade, but it’s more than disheartening to keep having it…
With the rumors that Honeycomb will be Android 2.4 instead of 3.0, there’s even more evidence to confirm this now. While this can be, and has been faked, it’s beginning to look a whole new shade of real. With their Honeycomb tablet expected to debut at CES 2011, we’re wondering if Motorola will just be…
A gaping hole in the security of the Windows Phone Marketplace has been illustrated by one developer who has found a way to bypass the digital rights management of apps, and load them directly to another phone or computer with no problems. This is kind of funny, considering how tightly Microsoft is handling microSD memory…
So, going through the system settings to check for an update on your Android phone isn’t working, eh? Well there’s another way to find out if your phone has an update waiting for it, and it’s as easy as dialing a number combination on your phone’s dialer. From your Android phone’s dialer simply enter *#*#checkin#*#*,…
It looks like Microsoft’s strategy of buying developers is starting to pay off already; unofficial stats counters show the official Windows Phone Marketplace is up to 5,000 apps, which at least competes with, if not surpasses Palm’s webOS Catalog. To be fair in the comparison, Microsoft was able to churn out a lot more phones…
Apple and a handful of iPhone app developers, like Pandora, Paper Toss, the Weather Channel, and Dictionary.com are under legal fire for sending personal information to advertisers without the consent of app users. Jonathan Lalo is seeking class-action status for the suit, which claims that information like location, age, gender, income, ethnicity, sexual orientation and…
It looks like the China Mobile-bound BlackBerry 8980 is just about ready to launch. RIM has released a device simulator so that developers can test out their apps on the unannounced smartphone. The simulator itself doesn’t show a new rendering of the device (like this one dug up in the desktop software), and the OS…
It was back in October when Opera Software along with 31 other companies joined Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) and now they’ve released their WAC-ready (1.0 specification) widget runtime platform for the Android platform. This alpha release of Opera’s widget runtime for Android allows developers to get a head start in developing the next step in…