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New images have surfaced of a mysterious HTC tablet from the notorious Twitter handle known as @evleaks. This is obviously a strange sighting considering how much the Taiwanese based manufacturer has struggled in the tablet game. In these leaked photos of the nameless slate, you’ll notice some interesting characteristics like a massive screen, giant chin…
All you cellphone owners who sleep with their handset next to them in bed should take a closer look at the SAR infographic below from tawkon. Tawkon produces a free app for Android that alerts you when the radiation level of your phone climbs to dangerous levels. According to tawkon, the Samsung Galaxy S III…
As the year comes to an end, we decided to wrap up with several “top 2011” posts. Today we’re presenting you with top failures of the year. In no particular order, here are the entrants for the infamous “Top failures of 2011” list: webOS We’re sorry to see HP failing to meet expectations. They were…
Buying a new phone isn’t as easy as it used to be. Back in the day when all everyone did was call and text, it really didn’t matter which device you decided to purchase since everything on the market did the exact same thing. The reason you picked one model over another was styling, size,…
It seems like every day we’re seeing a new mobile music service hitting the streets, so how can a company like SoundCloud stand out from the crowd? According to SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung, the company is going to be successful by focusing on being the social platform for sounds on the web. “In regular life,…
T-Mobile customers jumped ship in large numbers during Q1 2011, perhaps due to the AT&T acquisition announcement in March, but losses seem to be improving for Q2. T-Mobile saw a net loss of 50,000 subscribers in Q2, which is down from 99,000 net subscribers lost in Q1. CEO of Deutsche Telekom Rene Obermann says, ““The…
It’s not quite 1 million, but RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet did reasonably well in the first quarter by selling 500,000 units, alongside 13.2 million BlackBerry smartphones. Besides that, RIM’s first quarter for fiscal 2011 was just about as bad as investors were expecting. Revenue was down 12% from last quarter to $4.9 billion. On top…
Last night an embargo lifted on press reviews of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook, which launches April 19. The vast majority of reviews say that even after spending six months in the public eye, the BlackBerry PlayBook’s operating system isn’t quite ready to compete with the other tablet players. Regardless, most of the final impressions lean…
When your out and about, running around town, and you have some time to kill while waiting in line or commuting, chances are you whip out your mobile phone and start catching up on what’s going on with your friends and around the world. This was always assumed to be the ultimate use case for…
Tomorrow, someone from Apple will introduce the next generation of the iPad and the battle lines for tablets in 2011 will be drawn. What new features will the iPad 2 have? Will this device be able to keep the lead over the slew of Android tablets that will be hitting the market (not to mention…