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Uh oh, it looks like T-Mobile has been caught fabricating camera specs on its new smartphones. According to Consumer Reports, the fourth largest wireless provider in the United States wasn’t being all the way truthful with the shooters on its myTouch and myTouch Q devices. Both handsets hit the market earlier this month, and are…
Android has been known for being incredibly vulnerable to malware threats, but a new study from Kaspersky shows that the problem is getting worse instead of better. From Q1 to Q2 2012, malware threats targeting the platform nearly tripled from 5,441 to 14,923 — that’s over the course of just three months. Almost half, or…
In another mobile payments study, Juniper Research predicts that these transactions will rise nearly fourfold over the next five years to more than $1.3 trillion. The report titled “Mobile Payments Strategies: NFC, Remote Purchases & Money Transfer 2012-2017” found that growth would primarily be driven by sales of physical goods by both remote purchases and…
There’s no question we’re all overly dependent on our smartphones. If you use your smartphone on a daily basis (which you probably do) and you say that you aren’t dependent on it, you are just flat out lying to yourself. Well just in case we wanted all the specifics on just how obsessed we are…
While we don’t have official figures, we know Nexus 7 is selling like hot cupcakes on a cold winter day. The fact that Google and/or Asus are quiet about the numbers doesn’t stop us (and anyone else) from speculating. By using the data from the supplier chain, tech-thoughts is trying to estimate how many Nexus…
According to AhHa Insights, weight loss and exercise apps are the most heavily downloaded health titles among US users, comprising 60% of total downloads. iPhone owners use their apps more often, with the performance of the top 150 apps in the AppStore “far outpacing” the performance of the top 150 Android titles. The research company…
Apple is continuing its dominance in the tablet market, according to the latest numbers tallied up by IHS iSuppli. The firm found that the Cupertino based company extended its lead in the slate business shipping about 70 percent of all tablets in the second quarter of this year. Indeed, these are impressive numbers, but they…
Thanks to the wide adoption of smartphones, social networking is quickly making the jump to mobile. According to eMarketer estimates, by the end of this year, nearly 82 million US mobile users will use a social networking site on their phone at least monthly. In other words, that’s more than a quarter of the total…
Last week, Nokia ran a poll asking users to choose their favorite input method on a mobile phone. The choices were number keypad, QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen and voice commands. You would think touchscreens will rule the day all around the world but you would be wrong. Sure enough, Americans love them more than the rest…
According to the latest ABI Research’s report titled “Facial Recognition for Mobile Devices”, almost 20% of smartphone shipped this year will include facial recognition capabilities. What’s more, in five years’ time, shipments of smartphones and tablets with the technology will increase to 665 million annually. At the moment, only Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and…