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If ever there was an iconic symbol of the original mobile phone handset, it would have to be the bat wings of Motorola. From the StarTAC to the RAZR, Motorola has been at the forefront of the technology virtually since the beginning. Though Motorola Mobility has been struggling to keep up in...
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Samsung Mobile has been sending around this invite to various media outlets advertising an event for August 29th. The image is entitled Galaxy_S_II_Invite_v2.jpg, which leads many believe that the famed Galaxy S II is almost ready to make...
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Rumor after rumor has suggested that Apple will be releasing a new iPhone at some point in the relatively near future. Depending on who you listen to, the latest iPhone could be announced as early as this month. Now, a new rumor suggests...
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NVIDIA and Samsung announced the latest GALAXY smartphone known as the GALAXY R. This smartphone will feature a 4.19-inch WVGA Super Clear LCD and will utilize the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile super chip. The GALAXY R will run on Android 2.3. In...
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Information about RIM’s first QNX smartphone, codenamed the BlackBerry Colt, have been leaked. The Colt is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2012. This new smartphone is said to have a single-core processor and lack BlackBerry Enterprise Server integration—two key features that are likely to be a disappointment to users....
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Sprint appears to be prepping an aggressive lineup of smartphones for this fall. According to a leaked report, the Now Network will be getting a few new high-end smartphones this fall. We knew the Galaxy S II from Samsung is headed to Sprint, but until now, most reports have called this phone...
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With a name like Conquer, it has to be superb...right? Well, that's the message that Sprint's trying to get across with their latest handset, a WiMAX-enabled smartphone that just so happens to be the carrier's 25th 4G-capable device. It's also the first Sprint 4G phone to launch with an...
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RIM has quite the unveiling this week, and a few of the company's latest are headed to Sprint. RIM and Sprint obviously have a long relationship of partnering with one another, and that's continuing with the release of America's first BlackBerry 7 OS phones. The Bold 9930 and the the Torch...
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Samsung's Galaxy S II was first introduced to the world at Mobile World Congress 2011, and despite the fact that quite a few smartphones have shipped in the months between then and now, Samsung's top-tier smartphone remains a favorite across the globe. In fact, it hasn't even shipped to America yet. With a potent dual-core 1.2GHz processor,...
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Samsung's Galaxy S II was first introduced to the world at Mobile World Congress 2011, and despite the fact that quite a few smartphones have shipped in the months between then and now, Samsung's top-tier smartphone remains a favorite across the globe. In fact, it hasn't even shipped to America yet. With a potent dual-core 1.2GHz processor,...
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AT&T recently revealed its upcoming BlackBerry lineup. In August, the carrier will get the 4G BlackBerry Torch 9810. Later this year, the carrier will also add the 4G BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the 4G BlackBerry Torch 9860. All of these new models will be capable of operating on...
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Good news for Google: the Canalys research firm has found that Google's Android OS dominated the worldwide smart device market in the second quarter. Canalys, which analyzes shipments in 56 countries around the world, found that Android was the leader in 35 of them, leading to the operating system's secure hold on 48 percent market share during...
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Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile have announced that stores are now offering the high-end Android 2.3 Nexus S for absolutely nothing on three different U.S. carriers, so long as customers sign a new two-year agreement. It's available on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, and will be offered free as a...
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MSI announced a new application for Android devices that will let you monitor and overclock your graphics card directly from your smartphone or tablet using a Wi-Fi connection. The new MSI Afterburner App lets users monitor core...
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Sad news that Nokia has fallen from #1 to #3 in smartphone sales, which is something that most intelligent analysts would have said was impossible just five or six years ago. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, and Google delivered Android shortly after, things changed dramatically...
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According to the most recent data from market research guru Nielsen, Google's mighty Android platform stands tallest in the U.S. smartphone space with a majority 39 percent share. That leaves Apple in an almost distant second place with 28...
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EA CEO John Riccitiello said in a quarterly earnings call yesterday that the game console cycle, that is, the 4-5 year long space between console development and launches, is over. Between this and recent statements that physical storefronts will be disappearing in the near future, it sounds...
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Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications has unveiled the first smartphone that will ship natively with Microsoft’s upcoming “Mango” build of Windows Phone which was just release to manufacturers a few days ago, also...
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Without protection, your little 'oopsy' can turn into a costly mistake, that is unless you can take a mulligan. Settle down happy parents, we're not talking about accidental procreation, but precious electronics gear. Bad things happen to...
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It appears that there are more problems to worry about with smartphones than just data protection or simple thievery. Nowadays, even attachment to a gadget is cause for worry. "Watching people who get their first smartphone, there's a very...
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Sprint revealed the phones it will deploy in the fourth quarter when it launches its next-generation push-to-talk service. The new service will be known as Sprint Direct Connect. The new service will be available in a much larger area than...
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Touted as America's first glasses-free 3D-capable 4G device, the HTC EVO 3D features a 4.3-inch, qHD (Quarter High Definition) 3D display as well as dual rear-facing cameras, that can capture 3D images and video. Even if you're not interested in this phone's 3D capabilities though, its specs and horsepower may still be attractive. The EVO...
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