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| Oct 31, 2011 | Music App Developer Smule Raises $12 Million | Smule, the music app developer behind I am T-Pain and others, has raised another $12 million in funding, according to a recent SEC filing. We’ve confirmed the funding with the company. The round was led by Shasta Ventures and Shasta partner... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Orange To Bring Sharp 3D Android Phone To Asia And Europe | Is this finally the beginning of Japanese Android phones being made available outside their home market? Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo yesterday announced it has inked a deal with French telco Orange to bring a Sharp Android han... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Size Does Matter: Android Mini-Tablet Projects Display Up To 100" In Size | There are pros and cons to everything in this life, technology included. The more power you have packed into a device, the clunkier it usually is. If it’s cheap, it’s probably buggy. With mini-tablets, portability costs you screen size, whi... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Microsoft Patent Describes Detachable Dual-Screen Device | We have mixed feelings about dual-screen devices. The dual-screen Kyocera Echo landed rather flatly, despite its unique form-factor, and though we’re excited to see Sony’s folding S2 tablet up close, we’re still hesitant about all those hin... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Apple Files Second Complaint Against HTC, Asks To Ban Imports | It’s been a good year or so since Apple and HTC were originally duking it out in the court room over Android patent infringements. The case has gone rather quiet since its original filing, until today when the ITC posted a new complaint fil... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Gameloft Gives Away 3 Android HD+ Titles This Weekend | Happy weekend, everyone! Yes, I know there’s still an entire unending work day ahead of us, but Gameloft is looking to start the transition into weekend mode sooner rather than later. Thus, we have Gameloft’s crazy “Three4Free” giveaway, wh... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Target Slaps Ridiculously Low Price Tags On The Samsung Droid Charge and LG Revolution | Everybody wants a 4G-capable phone. That’s a given. The only issue is that, like all new technology, they cost a pretty penny, especially from good ol’ Big Red. As in, way more than we’re used to seeing on any smartphone (most high-end hand... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | MobileCrunch Is Moving, But Just Down The Block | A bit over 3 years ago, I applied for an internship at CrunchGear on a whim. I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into.
As luck had it, the powers that be liked my style. I wasn’t even too sure I’d hear back regarding the intern po... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Sprint To Finally Launch The Motorola Titanium On July 24th? | Remember the Motorola Titanium? No? Don’t worry: it’s been over two months since Sprint announced it. That’s, like, a million years in the gadget world.
For those who need a recap (I did!), the Titanium is a super-rugged followup to last ye... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Android 2.3 Gingerbread Headed To The HTC Droid Incredible 2 | If you’re a proud owner of the HTC Droid Incredible 2, get ready: your weekend just got a bit sweeter. Android 2.3 Gingerbread is on its way by means of an OTA update, and should bring with it all the goodies of Gingerbread, and then some. ... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Daily Crunch: Desert Surveillance Edition | At Last You Can Fabricate Your Minecraft Creations
The Gem Hsin Topaz Speakers Do Multifunction Right
Scientists Create Microscopic, Lens-less Camera
This Case Lets You Attach An SLR Lens To Your iPhone
The Gem Hsin Topaz Speakers Do Multif... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | LG Struggles Through First Half Of 2011, Cuts Smartphone Sales Target By 20% | LG has thrown in the towel, as it were, on its original goal to sell 30 million smartphones in 2011. After having delayed the worldwide launch of it’s beastly Optimus 3D smartphone, and losing its smartphone boss to Apple’s South Korean uni... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Motorola Continues Locked Bootloader Policy On Droid 3 (For Now) | Listen up, hackers. This one’s for you.
Motorola’s Droid 3 is finally out and about in all of its tech spec glory, but one thing’s missing: an unlocked bootloader. That’s right, Motorola’s gone and done it again, locking Droid 3 owners in a... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Heads Up! TechCrunch Will Look A Little Different Next Week | Next week we’ll be rolling out significant enhancements to TechCrunch. A new design and a new logo will be the first thing you’ll notice. But behind the scenes we’ve made significant changes to the other end of TechCrunch as well – the admi... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Motorola (Re)Posts Droid 3 Tutorial Videos | Where have we seen this video before? It was released today, but is still… oddly familiar.
Oh, that’s right, it was leaked about a month ago, and then abruptly pulled by Motorola. The star of the show, Motorola’s Droid 3, made its way onto ... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Motorola Droid 3 Hits Verizon's Shelves For $199.99 On-Contract | Even though Verizon tried to pull a fast one on us by skipping pre-order altogether, we were still accurate when we originally pegged the Droid 3 arrival for today, July 7. That’s right folks, the Motorola Droid 3 is available now from Veri... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Nokia Pledges To Support MeeGo For Years | MeeGo, once a highly anticipated OS intended to go head to head with iOS and Android, now finds itself on just one phone, and although it hasn’t been said outright, it seems unlikely there will be many more — if any at all. Still, those of ... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Swype CEO responds to jailbroken iPhone ‘hack’ | Swype (the unofficial version) comes to the iPhone
Nearly every time I see Swype CEO Mike McSherry, I ask him a simple question: When will the popular mobile text-input system arrive on the iPhone? He shrugs it off, noting that they’ve actu... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Apple Loses Preliminary Injunction In Amazon "App Store" Scuffle | Judge Phyllis Hamilton, who is presiding over the Amazon-Apple “app store” war, certainly meant it when she said she would “probably” reject Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction. And that’s exactly what she did. Hamilton earlier ref... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Nintendo Denies Move To iOS/Android Platforms | The decision to bring Pokemon to iOS and Android this summer seems to be final but Nintendo would like to remind you that although the made the Pokemon franchise great, the games are actually built by the Pokemon Company (of which Nintendo ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | comScore: Android Still Leads The Pack While RIM Continues To Slide | Well, what do you know? Android is still on top, with a 38 percent U.S. market share in May, according to comScore’s latest numbers. This should come as no surprise, as we’ve been hearing the same story for the past few months. Android lead... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Virgin Mobile To Switch Up Plan Prices, Drop $10 Monthly BlackBerry Fee? | Earlier today we received word from a tipster that Virgin Mobile will be switching up its plan rates in the near future, likely sometime this month.
The new rates add $10 to the price of the 300-minute plan (was $25, will be $35), $5 to the... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Sony's S1 And S2 Tablets Caught Posing For Glamour Shots | Since their announcement, we’ve been keeping a hawk eye on the S1 and S2 tablets from Sony. Both running Android (3.1 Gingerbread most likely), the S1 is a 9.4-inch wedge-style tablet while the other takes a page out of the Kyocera playbook... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | The Droid Bionic Might Finally Be "Coming Soon", For Real | When Verizon and Motorola announced the Droid Bionic back at CES, we swooned a little. Dual-core, 512 MB of ram, LTE support, on a 4.3″ display? Yes please!
Then months passed.
Then it was supposedly canceled.
Then it was un-canceled, but t... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Microsoft Aims At Samsung To Continue Milking Android Cash Cow | Remember that somewhat confusing equation that left Microsoft with 5x more Android dough than Windows Phone profits? We already detailed the situation, but for those of you who missed it, Microsoft holds patents on certain facets of Android... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Rumor: 15 Million Apple iPhone 5s Set To Ship In September | While rumors surfaced a couple weeks back suggesting that Apple had two new iPhone models in the works, at least one thing is for sure: Pegatron Technology, a notebook maker in line to supply parts for the upcoming iPhone, has been given a ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | HTC Status and LG Thrill 4G To Hit AT&T This Month? | Sometime in the last year or so, the carriers picked up a bad new habit. They’d announce that they were getting a phone, talk all about the specs… but then give no indication of when it might actually be available. Maybe it’s because they d... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Leaked: Nokia 700 "Zeta" Press Photos | Man, Nokia has had one hell of a time keeping details surrounding the Symbian-powered Nokia 700 (or “Zeta”) under wraps. First, the name and specs leaked last week; just a day later, real world photos found their way online.
Today, another ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Best Buy Whips Out Toshiba Thrive Inventory Ahead Of Schedule | When I sat down with Toshiba executives about a month ago, they promised that the Toshiba Thrive (once known as the Toshiba Tablet) would hit shelves in mid-July. So imagine my surprise when I found that the Thrive was already for sale at a... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Rumor: T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide To Hit Shelves July 27? | Even though someone in T-Mobile‘s media relations department is banging their head against a desk, we’re really glad to see all the leak love this morning. First, we got a sneak peek at some internal documents promising a July launch for bo... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Apple Tries To Get Rid Of Samsung Copycats Once And For All | Rather than tap dance around the problem any longer, Apple is trying for a slam-dunk style win against Samsung in their never-ending patent war. In other words, Apple has filed for a preliminary injunction against four of Samsung’s hottest ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Samsung Component Sales "Flat" | Samsung, the former Korean powerhouse, has been busy suing Apple and now we probably know why: their LCD sales are flat and they are attempting to combine their LCD and semiconductor business to reduce accounting loss.
Rumor has it that App... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | HTC Marvel Spotted Passing Through FCC With Support For T-Mobile's HSPA+ Network | If you’re a big fan of the HTC Wildfire S, you’ll be happy to know that its T-Mo-friendly counterpart is making its way through the FCC as we speak. Dubbed the HTC Marvel, speculation suggests that the phone will sport a 3.2-inch screen and... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Motorola Droid 3 Gets Leaked From 360 Angles | Verizon has yet to officially announce Motorola’s Droid 3, but we expect to see that announcement cross the wires in a matter of hours. In fact, we reported along with other sites that the phone should hit shelves on July 14, with pre-order... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | CrunchGear Week In Review: Independent Edition | Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear:
Weekend Giveaway: Toshiba 47-inch TL515 Series 3D LED TV
Starbucks Merges Their Two iOS Apps, Lets You Gift Your Friends Coffee From Your Phone
Warn Friends And Foes With These Nine Ap... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | Nokia Says Sayonara To Japan – Again | That was a long sayonara: in November 2008, Nokia decided to pull the plug on their Japan operations, at the same time announcing they will re-enter the market with their luxury sub-brand Vertu. They started offering those phones (and the s... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | Samsung Drops One Of Its Many Law Suits Against Apple | It’s looking like Samsung and Apple got a bit carried away there for a while. Apparently the web of litigation surrounding the mobile giants has become too complicated for Samsung, who has chosen to drop one of its counter-suits against App... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Samsung To Apple: You Say "Copyist," We Say "Competition" | The saga continues, but at least this time we get to giggle at the tech giants’ use of sarcasm.
Entangled in a patent battle with Apple, Samsung has switched up its approach to the copycat case, dropping two patents and adding another four.... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Foursquare Finds Its Way To Windows Phone 7 | Ah-hah! There we go. Just days ago we were pointing out how strange it was that Foursquare still didn’t have a proper Windows Phone 7 application (especially as Microsoft had touted Foursquare around as a partner since the very beginning), ... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 25K Apps | Clearly the Android Market is growing rapidly, and there’s no reason to even mention the Apple App Store, which just breezed by the 100,000 iPad app marker. But we can’t leave the little guys out, especially when their growth is also relati... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | RIM responds to employee letter calling for major restructure | BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has taken the unusual step of responding to a letter recently posted online by an anonymous employee, urging the company to make drastic changes to its strategy and management and comparing the workplace ... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Daily Crunch: Fiend Edition | Hot Cool Box: Thanko’s USB Mini Fridge Doubles As Heater
Starbucks Merges Their Two iOS Apps, Lets You Gift Your Friends Coffee From Your Phone
IBM Takes Another Step Towards Reliable Phase-Change Memory
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 8.9 Hits The FC... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | U.S. And U.K. Latest Victims Of Nokia's Online Store Shutdowns | We already know that Nokia has started shutting down some of its online stores, such as those in Spain, France, and Finland, but we didn’t expect to see the U.S. and U.K. web outlets close so soon after.
That’s right folks, Nokia online is ... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | RIM Responds To The Open Letter From A "High-Level" Employee, Doubts Its Authenticity | In response to this morning’s Open Letter from a purportedly “high level” RIM employee addressed to the co-CEOs of the company, RIM sent over the following statement:
An “Open Letter” to RIM’s senior management was published anonymously on ... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Unlocked, SIM-Free Nokia E6 Goes Live On Amazon's Site For $439 | The Nokia E6 saw a $7 price-cut as it became available today on Amazon’s site, listed at $439 instead of its pre-order price of $446. The unlocked, SIM-free phone is available and in-stock, and shipping is free from Amazon. The unbranded No... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Onkyo Latest To Pay Microsoft Royalties Over Android Tablets | Microsoft is on a roll. Onkyo is the latest company to trade Android tablet royalties for access to Microsoft’s patent licensing program. The details of the agreement wasn’t released. This makes Onkyo the third company this week that has si... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | BlinQ Is A Social Channel Guide For Your TV | There are plenty of apps that provide a social ‘second screen’ experience to watching TV, allowing users to check-in to TV shows, share commentary with friends, earn badges and more. But these apps don’t actually combine their social functi... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | RIM Employee To CEOs: "I Have Lost Confidence" | Today a letter slipped out addressed to RIM’s co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. It was written by a “high-level” employee, who BGR claims to have identified and confirmed as the author. The letter is not angry, disgruntled, nor does... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | HTC Status For AT&T Gets Official | We’ve covered the HTC ChaCha’s journey to the States pretty exhaustively, from its debut at Mobile World Congress, to the rumors that it was heading for AT&T, to the last-minute name change from ChaCha to Status (presumably as a result ... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Sprint's HTC Evo 3D Caught Prepping For T-Mo's 4G Network? | HTC’s line of Evo phones have long been Sprint exclusives, and are arguably the number three carrier’s shining stars. Interestingly enough, Sprint’s most recent (and also most awesome) phone, the Evo 3D has been spotted passing through the ... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Microsoft Scares Two More Android Makers Into Paying Up Over Patents | Microsoft loves them some Android. Google’s mobile OS is turning into a major cash source as Microsoft convinces more Android OEM makers to hand over royalties concerning some of Microsoft’s patents. A recent report states that Microsoft ha... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Cisco Brings AppHQ App Storefront To It's 7-Inch Cius Tablet | A year ago today, we predicted that Cisco’s enterprise-focused 7-inch Cius tablet would never ship. It was a reasonable prediction at the time, but it turns out we were wrong. In fact, the Cisco Cius tablet did ship in late March, barely ma... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Flickr Metadata Hints At Possible "Droid HD" In The Works | A picture on Flickr (which I can’t find and therefore can’t confirm) has apparently been spotted by PocketNow with “motorola Droid HD” listed as the camera. Oh my god, it’s a new Droid with a 1280×720 screen, like that in the Nexus Prime an... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Samsung Files ITC Complaint Against Apple, Tries To Ban Imports Of iStuff | They’re at it again folks, and it only gets uglier and uglier. Samsung has filed another complaint against Apple, according to the International Trade Commission website, this time to request an import ban against the iPhone, iPad, and iPod... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | HP In Talks To License webOS — But Who Would Want To? | The fact that HP is considering licensing webOS isn’t exactly news — HP head honcho Leo Apotheker said as much in an interview weeks ago.
What is news, however, is that such licensing deals might already be in their early stages. At least, ... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Nokia 700 Zeta Gets Caught On Camera | Yesterday we reported that Nokia has a few girly-named phones in the works, one of which being the Nokia 700 Zeta. Unfortunately, all we had to lead us down the road to spec discovery was a vague and sparsely detailed spec sheet. Today howe... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Andy Rubin: Daily Android Activations Reach 500,000 | Right around the beginning of May at the I/O event, Google revealed its daily Android activation data, which turned out to be 400,000 Android activations daily. It’s been two months, and now Google’s Android boss Andy Rubin has an adjustmen... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Microsoft Adds Custom Ring Tones To Windows Phone 7 Mango | Along with the 500 features originally announced for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Mango OS, Microsoft today announced the ability to create custom ring tones. Obviously, pre-loaded ring tones will still be available for those of us who enjoy... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Leaked Nokia Roadmap Promises Four New Symbian Handsets In Q3 | Nokia is all about the ladies. With Symbian, we have Anna and Belle iterations, with more girly names to follow in alphabetical order. And of course, who could forget that absolutely ridiculous female-targeted N8 commercial? It’s certainly ... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Did RIM Cancel The Planned 10-inch Playbook? | It seems that RIM might have gotten the memo that consumers aren’t exactly flocking to the BlackBerry Playbook. The same site that broke specs about the 10-incher a few weeks ago is now reporting that it’s been axed. Like killed dead.
Appar... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Apple To Samsung: If You Copy Us, We Won't Let You Build Our Chips (So There!) | Just a couple months ago, Apple and Samsung were basically BFFs. Of course, they were still competitors, but their relationship was symbiotic. Samsung produced the A4 chips that run Apple’s iPhone 4 and the A5 chips found in the iPad 2, and... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | HTC Plans Full-Scale Attack On Mainland China, Looks To Triple Its Retail Presence | Ambitious goals are nothing new to HTC. As last year came to a close, the Taiwan-based phone maker promised to sell 60 million handsets in 2011, three times what it sold in 2010. With a good six months left before we see if that last goal w... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | SearchBBM Helps You Find Long-Lost BBM-Using Friends | A new start-up has popped up out of Tel Aviv called SearchBBM, and it could save BlackBerry users a few bucks on their SMS bill each month. Basically, SearchBBM lets you find other BBM users through Facebook or through their username.
It se... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Nokia CEO: Even If The N9 Is A Success, It'll Be Nokia's Only MeeGo Phone | As the launch of any new platform tends to do, MeeGo’s debut on the Nokia N9 last week sparked a glimmer of hope. Nokia has never been the best at making software that’s as pretty as it is powerful — but with MeeGo’s fancy animations and su... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | T-Mobile: MyTouch Slide 4G Has “Most Advanced Camera Of Any Smartphone”, Coming In July | We knew that the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide was on the way — or, at least, we had a pretty darn good reason to believe as much. Sure enough, it’s the real deal: ol’ Magenta has just painted it up with a proper press release, announcing that ... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | New Details On Google's Next Nexus: Now Known As Nexus "Prime," Built By Samsung | When we reported on the Nexus 4G, Google’s first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, we weren’t sure whether or not it would be a “pure Google” device or a handset made by one of the tech giant’s manufacturing partners. The inside source promise... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | HTC To Unleash The Evo 3D On Europe In July | Glasses-free 3D should be like water, or air: everyone should have access to it. For a couple days, we in the U.S. have been exclusively lucky in that one of the best (if not the best) Android phones of this year launched with us first. If ... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Biohazard Outbreak Survive: This Is How Resident Evil Looks Like As A Mobile Social Game | Survival horror video game series Resident Evil has sold well over 45 million units since the first title came out back in 1996, on various platforms, for example the PlayStation 1, the Nintendo DS, or the iPhone. But there has never been a... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Apple Brings Its Copycat Beef To Samsung's Home Turf | If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off, fly across the Pacific, and try again! At least, that seems to be the plan over at Apple. On Wednesday, Judge Lucy Koh gave a court order rejecting Samsung’s request to check out the iPad 3 ... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Don't Miss Our Mobile First CrunchUp And 6th Annual Summer Party On July 29 | Update: The first batch of party tickets have sold out. Our next set of tickets will be released next week.
“Mobile first.” It’s a mantra we’ve been hearing increasingly. For many developers and startup founders, they start with a mobile pr... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | HTC Evo 3D, Evo View 4G Hit Sprint Shelves Today | The big day is here! June 24 is upon us and that can only mean one thing: glasses free 3D is here, delivered straight from the highly anticipated HTC Evo 3D. The Evo 3D goes on sale today from Sprint alongside HTC’s Evo View 4G tablet.
The ... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | NTT DoCoMo Deal Brings FlyScreen To Millions Of Japanese Android Users | A big (marketing and distribution) deal for Cellogic, makers of the fine FlyScreen mobile application: they’re teaming up with NTT DoCoMo, a big Japanese carrier.
Under the terms of the partnership agreement, NTT DoCoMo and a local Japanese... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | HTC's ChaCha Facebook Phone Gets Rebranded As HTC Status On Its Way To AT&T | Praise be to the phone gods! We no longer have to keep calling HTC’s Facebook phone the ChaCha. BGR confirmed that the HTC ChaCha is headed to AT&T as the HTC Status, and we’re all glad to see one of the world’s most poorly named phones... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Fly Or Die: Can RIM Survive? | Hot on the heels of my scathing diatribe against the once-mighty Blackberry empire, Erick and I explore the current financial and developer situation that has befallen our neighbors to the North. Plus, we have an extra special guest who, as... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Hulu Plus Now Available For (A Few) Android Handsets | Tired of not being able to get your on-the-go Modern Family fix from Hulu just because you’re rockin’ an Android phone rather than an iPhone?
Fret no longer! Hulu Plus for Android has arrived. Sort of.
As is par for the course with video st... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Congresswoman Proposes Bill To Cut Down FauxG Claims: An In-Depth Look | Whose 4G is fastest? If someone asked me, I’d probably say Verizon, but then again, is Verizon’s 4G LTE network really 4G? According to the International Telecommunications Union, it’s not. While both Verizon’s 4G LTE network and Sprint’s W... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Daily Crunch: Bike Path Edition | Quick Bike Hack: Put A Seatbelt Inside Your Tires To Resist Punctures
Hands-On With The Creative ZEN Style M300
The Bracketron All-Weather Soft Case Bike Protects Your Smartphone During Your Ride
The anaPad Is A White Board And Wooden iPad ... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Judge Hasn't Seen "Evidence Of Confusion" In Amazon-Apple "App Store" Suit | Remember that whole trademark tiff between Apple and Amazon over the generic or non-generic term “app store?” Despite going quiet for the past month, the case is certainly not over, although statements made by U.S. District Judge Phyllis Ha... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | iOS 5 Legal Disclaimer Section Includes Mapping Companies That Are… Not Google! | Even though Apple has let Google answer life’s navigational questions for us thus far, it doesn’t mean that Apple wants one of its biggest competitors cashing in on the iPhone and iPad forever.
Speculation surrounding Google Maps getting re... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, Updated Motoblur UI Headed To Motorola Atrix 4G Next Month | For those of you who own the Motorola Atrix 4G, you know that it does all kinds of cool things. For one, it turns into a little laptop when you clip it into its corresponding laptop dock. It’s also the first dual-core smartphone to launch i... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Fly Or Die: Can RIM Survive? | Hot on the heels of my scathing diatribe against the once-mighty Blackberry empire, Erick and I explore the current financial and development situation that has befallen our neighbors to the North. Plus, we have an extra special guest who, ... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | VIDEO: World's First WP7-Powered Nokia Handset Gets Caught On Camera | Sometimes rules are meant to be broken. Hungarian site Technet.hu knows this, and decided to shoot a spy-style video of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop showing off the first Nokia Windows Phone 7 smartphone at a secret event, despite the fact that t... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Sony Ericsson Reveals Ultra-Thin Xperia Ray, Water-Resistant Xperia Active Smartphones | Looks like two new Xperia smartphones are headed out of Sony Ericsson labs and into the wild, with an expectation to launch in the third quarter. We still don’t know much about the handsets, called the Xperia Ray and the Xperia Active, alth... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | The Verizon iPhone Halted Android's Surge. The iPhone 5 Could Reverse It. | Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post titled “Is Android Surging Only Because Apple Is Letting It?“. Not surprisingly, it fired people up. About 1,000 comments later, there was a full-on fanboy war between the Apple and Google sides. But the po... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Mozilla Firefox 5 For Android Goes Live On The Android Market | Mozilla‘s Firefox 5 for Android is now available from the Android Market, carrying over some of the same features as the new desktop browser. Most of the upgrade involved under-the-hood bug fixes and enhancements, but there are still a coup... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | RIM, You’re Done Here | Research In Motion is done. They’ll be bought in the next year or so, their products will roll into whoever buys them – Microsoft, most probably – and they’ll go the way of Nokia, Danger, and countless other mobile platforms. They’ll exist ... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Apple Now Sending Out Cease And Desists To Smaller "App Store" Transgressors | The conflict between Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and many others over the “App Store” trademark is heating up, and one of the consequences seems to be a little more work by Apple to enforce what they feel is their brand. In this case a home s... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Judge Rejects Samsung's Request To Peep Apple's iPhone 5, iPad 3 | Just as we expected, Judge Lucy Koh has rejected Samsung’s request to get its hands on Apple’s iPhone 5 and the iPad 3. She did not rule from the bench this time, as Apple tweaked its complaint the night before Friday’s hearing, adding a ho... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Video: The Nokia N950, Or The MeeGo Phone You'll Never Have | When product shots of the Nokia N9 leaked out on Monday, something caught us a bit off guard. No, it wasn’t that it was runnin’ MeeGo — nor was it the device’s funky Salmon-pink hue. The weird bit? It didn’t have a keyboard.
For months now,... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Freshly Awarded iPhone Patent Could Mean Trouble For Apple's Competitors | Apple has just been awarded a very important patent that describes changes to the iOS user interface. The patent was originally filed back in December of 2007 as a part of a string of provisional patent applications that go back as early as... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Meet The Nokia N9: A Colorful Slice Of MeeGo Magic | Turns out Greg was right yesterday, PocketNow’s leaked press shot is in fact Nokia’s long awaited MeeGo handset, the N9. The rumor mill has thrown out a few different specs on this device, including a QWERTY keyboard (which is not present h... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Sprint's Premier Club Members Get $250 Price-Cut On HTC EVO 3D | Sprint’s Premier club, the one for all the cool kids, is about to make a select few people very happy. The EVO 3D, which is one of the most sought after phones of the season, will see a nearly $250 price cut with the deal Sprint’s offering.... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Case-mate Goes Crazy, Announces $300 iPhone Case | Do you have an iPhone 4 and $300 bucks to burn? Are you a little bit flashy, and a little bit crazy-roll? Case-mate wants to relieve you of all that stupid extra money you’ve got laying around.
This morning, Case-mate announced a $300 case ... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Sony Ericsson Promises Xperia X10 Gingerbread Update In August | After more than a month-long delay, Android 2.3 Gingerbread is finally headed to the Xperia X10, according to a blog post from Sony Ericsson. Originally, SE had scheduled the update to roll out towards the end of the second quarter, or earl... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Leaked Ad Points To TiVo Apps For iPhone and Android Devices | I heart TV and, in turn, I heart TiVo. Why wouldn’t I? It’s basically a little treasure box of my favorite episodes saved for me to watch at any time I’d like. The ONLY problem I have, and I really mean only, is that whenever I discover a n... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | RIM Pressures Carriers To Approve BlackBerry Phones "No Matter What, With Bugs And Problems" | We all know that RIM isn’t having the best year, but there’s still one little ray of gleaming hope left for the company: forthcoming BlackBerry smartphones. RIM has a new QNX operating system in the works that is set to release in 2012, and... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Are these Verizon's New Tiered Data Plans? | Much like a great book, a roller coaster ride, or a Joss Whedon TV show, we knew that Verizon’s “unlimited” data plans were coming to an early end sooner or later. We just didn’t know when, or how much we (or, at least, those of us not on g... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Motorola Xoom LTE, Droid 3 Spotted On Verizon MAP System | When we happen to catch products on their way through Verizon’s Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) system, it usually means we’ll see those goodies on the shelf faster than you can say “Minimum Advertised Price system.” Today, that same treasur... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Apple-Samsung Patent War Begins To Bore Judge, Execs To Settle Out Of Court? | Apple and Samsung may finally be able to play nice after all, as an Apple lawyer revealed on Friday that ultra high-level executives from both companies have been in talks over the patent dispute. The disclosure relieved no one more than U.... |