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It’s not much of a surprise at this point but it looks like the quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III will be landing at Verizon with just a dual-core processor. While four is larger than two, I wouldn’t be too worried about this change. The news comes from a benchmark from Droid-Life and this indicates that…
One of the most interesting things Research In Motion showed off about BlackBerry 10 was the next-generation keyboard which promises to take virtual keyboards to the next level. Well, an enterprising developer has made a similar product for the iPhone but it will only work on jailbroken devices. The product is dubbed Octopus Keyboard and…
Texting while walking has been banned in the northern New Jersey town of Ft. Lee since March, but officers are now strictly enforcing the measure after three fatal pedestrian-involved accidents this year. Police Chief Thomas Ripoli states that texting while walking is “a big distraction,” adding that “pedestrians aren’t watching where they are going and…
U.S. Senator Al Franken (D – Minn.) has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asking the DOJ to provide information on the practices it uses to request location information from carriers. The move follows news that some law enforcement agencies are requesting this information without proper warrants in place. The Supreme…
Nokia has been making “touch enabled” dumbphones for a while now, but they’ve never actually made dumbphones that have nothing but a touch screen. Enter the 305, 306, and 311, which were discovered by Jay Montano from My Nokia Blog. Starting with the 305 and 306 (pictured above), they’re the exact same device, except that…
Microsoft is set to release a software update either this month or next month to Windows Phone devices currently on the market. Known as Tango, the update adds things like being able to MMS multiple images, forward your calls, turn your device into a hotspot, and there are probably countless under the hood tweaks that…
Last year NVIDIA purchased a company called that specialized in cellular modems called Icera. Why? So they could sell their smartphone chips with built-in connectivity. That combination of CPU, GPU, and 3G/4G is what made Qualcomm as successful as they are today. But back to NVIDIA, they’ve been telling everyone that they’ll have a Tegra…
This is a very important year for Intel. After nearly half a decade of teasing technology publications with promises of x86 based smartphones, 2012 is when said devices will actually hit the market. Take the Xolo 900 for example. It’s already on sale in India, according to benchmarks it decisively kicks everything in the ass,…
When Sprint decided to label WiMAX technology as “4G”, it wasn’t that long until the other operators followed suite and slapped the 4G moniker on their respective networks. Sascha Segan from PC Mag recently had a chance to speak to Chris Pearson, the President of 4G Americas, and he asked him just what the hell…
Since this didn’t came from official channels, we need to list it under our “rumors” section. However, the information comes from the highly informed TmoNews website, which is known as the premium source for everything T-Mobile. According to them, the Magenta carrier will launch BOGO (Buy One Get One Free) deals on Friday, May 18th.…