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Android Ice Cream Sandwich has been out for more than four months now but it’s still only on 2.9 percent of Android devices out there, according to stats from Google. Android 4.0 adds a lot of features but it also changes a lot of the user interface elements, which can make it difficult for handset…
Photo filter and sharing-service Instagram, which has amassed over 30 million iOS users to date, has officially released the Android version of Instagram onto Google’s Play Store. Users of Android can now apply retro hipster filters to their pictures and share these images to various social networks. While there have certainly been multiple Instagram-like services…
Motorola’s RAZR Maxx, affectionally known as the Droid RAZR Maxx in the United States, is arguably the company’s flagship device. It has a dual core 1.2 GHz Texas Instruments processor, 4.3 inch AMOLED screen (which sadly only does 540 x 960 pixels), 1 GB of RAM, and an 8 megapixel camera. What separates the Maxx…
We’re quickly approaching Google Wallet’s 1 year birthday. Announced on May 26, 2011, Google hasn’t exactly accomplished their goal of replacing the various plastic cards you carry with you on a daily basis. Why? At the end of the day it comes down to politics. Who establishes the relationship with the consumer, who gets to…
Samsung’s known for their smartphones and televisions, but did you know that they’re also one of the largest producers of memory and microprocessors? Last summer there was a piece in The Economist that highlighted the fact that 26% of the bill of materials of the iPhone goes straight into Samsung’s pocket. The screen, the RAM,…
Mobile data isn’t free. You know that, we know that, and we thought everyone else knew that, but according to a recent survey that was done by comScore, we couldn’t have been more wrong. They say that 29% of iPhone users in the US connect to the internet using nothing but cellular data. That number…
Nokia issued a press release back in late April 2011 that said they were going to get rid of their Symbian employees. Instead of firing them, Nokia said they’d transfer them to Accenture instead. Why? Because it takes people off Nokia’s payroll, which improves earnings, which makes the stock go up; that and it’s easier…
Last September we heard rumors that NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC, and Panasonic were going to get together to try and take on Qualcomm. The news became official a few months later in December. Here we are, barely at the start of the second quarter of the year, and they’ve decided to call it quits.…
Super-popular game Burn the Rope: WORLDS now has the best price in the world – free (rather than 99 cents). That’s the price of the iPhone version, while the one for iPad costs only a buck (99 cents). This is a limited time offer so you better hurry grabbing the game. Hit the appropriate link…
It was back in 2010 when we told you Fujitsu and Toshiba are merging their mobile divisions to better compete on the market. That plan apparently didn’t work with Fujitsu announcing it has acquired Toshiba’s ownership stake (19.9%) in the joint venture, making the new company a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu with a new…