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Kobo’s Vox eReader is getting a sweet update that brings the full Google Play store to the Android-powered device. Customers who apply the upcoming update will be able to download apps from Android’s full catalog as well as music and movies from Google Play. Kobo users will also get to enjoy other Google services like…
New to the list of iOS 6 features that weren’t made prominent at the WWDC 2012 keynote is geofencing alerts in Apple’s Find My Friends app. Location geofencing was first introduced in iOS 5 with the Reminders app. It allowed people to get alerts for reminders they set when they enter a specific location or…
Two pretty sweet deals are taking place right now for the HTC One S Android handset. The device has dropped in price significantly at both Best Buy and T-Mobile, selling for $99.99 and $49.99 respectively with a two-year contract. Note that the sale at T-Mobile will require you to pay $99.99 up front for the…
What many consider the best app for reading through RSS feeds just got better. Silvio Rizzi released Reeder 3.0, an update to the famous Reeder app for iPhone that brings with it new features, a revamped user interface and new gestures. Reeder has never had a problem in the design field and version 3.0 of…
Simply put, Square is revolutionizing the mobile payment industry. For those of you who (somehow) haven’t yet heard of Square, the service allows you to take credit card payments from virtually anywhere by using a free dongle that hooks into your smartphone’s headphone jack. Simply swipe a credit card through the dongle, follow some on-screen…
Those of you who have been patiently awaiting the release of Max Payne Mobile for your Android device can now breathe a sigh of relief. The popular title has officially gone live in the Google Play Store, rocks Tegra 3 optimization, and is compatible for a decent amount of devices for an initial release (this…
LightSquared was supposed to change everything. In the summer of 2010 they announced that they were going to build a nationwide 4G LTE network that they’d then let businesses resell to consumers. To put it another way, they wanted to be a wholesale “dumb pipe”, and the people in charge even used that phrase when…
While we in the United States tend to think of Android in terms of the Galaxy S III and HTC One X superphones, the battle being fought in several other countries is over the low-end devices. In China, arguably the biggest mobile battleground in the world, low-end Android devices rule the roost, propelling Android to…
ARM, the British company that’s responsible for powering pretty much every mobile phone that’s currently in use, has announced a new graphics processor today. Dubbed the Mali-450, it’s being targeted at midrange devices that don’t need the power of the next generation Midgard graphics architecture we should expect to see in 2013 smartphones. While ARM…
Earlier this week Apple showed off the next version of their mobile operating system, iOS 6. It has a ton of tiny features that will probably add up to an impressive update, but there aren’t any stand out features that you can point to and classify as “magical”. Personally, I’m disappointed that multitasking wasn’t addressed…