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Mobile phone carrier Vodafone Australia has just announced the upcoming availability of LG’s latest Prada phone on its airwaves.
The new Prada Phone by LG 3.0 is expected to arrive on shelves at the wireless operator sometime in April this year.
Although it has confirmed the phone’s landing, Vodafone... |
14 February 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Nokia N9 has got a taste of Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system not too long ago, and is now showing some more of it in the video embedded above.
Some info on the progress registered with the porting of Ice Cream Sandwich to this mobile phone emerged only a few days ago, and more on the m... |
14 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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A new flavor of Minecraft - Pocket Edition for Android is now available for download via the Android Market, with a nice range of enhancements for all users to take advantage of.
The new flavor of the title, the mobile version of the popular Minecraft game, brings along the possibility to choose between a Survival ... |
14 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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A new version of the popular benchmarking tool Quadrant is available for download for devices running under Google’s Android operating system.
The new application flavor brings along a series of great enhancements compared to the previous version, such as support for multicore application processors and for t... |
14 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Google and Motorola are now one step closer to finalizing the proposed acquisition and merger that were announced last year.
On Monday, both the European Commission and the US Department of Justice announced that they approved of the deal.
The European Commission has announced that it had cleared under the EU Me... |
14 February 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Australian mobile phone users will soon be able to purchase a new high-end Android-based smartphone on the airwaves of local carrier Vodafone, namely the Samsung GALAXY Note.
The handset has already been rumored to be on its way to Australia, and now all is official, as Vodafone has confirmed via its Twitter accoun... |
14 February 2012
03:50 GMT |
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The paradox of the HP TouchPad continues as USA Today has some fairly strange things to share with the world, things that may not leave Android tablet makers very enthused.
USA Today's internal app has been downloaded many times since its release, but the ratio of Android vs. TouchPad downloads is the interest... |
13 February 2012
08:25 GMT |
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One of the things that the recently leaked RUU for the HTC Endeavour has made available for the world is a deep look at the HTC Sense 4.0 UI coming from the Taiwanese handset vendor. The smartphone is expected to become official as soon as this month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but those who would lik... |
13 February 2012
08:11 GMT |
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HTC Endeavour, the yet unannounced HTC handset that made it to the headlines as HTC Edge last year, is expected to become the first quad-core smartphone from the Taiwanese mobile phone maker. There have been a variety of rumors on its availability and hardware specs, and many have just been confirmed cour... |
13 February 2012
02:52 GMT |
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One of the mobile phones that LG Electronics is expected to bring to the market in the next several months is the LG Optimus Vu, a handset already teased on an official page on the vendor’s website.
The smartphone will land on shelves with Google’s Android operating system on board, and will feature a ... |
11 February 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Mozilla has just delivered a new update for the popular Firefox for Android browser it has available for owners of devices powered by Google’s mobile operating system.
The new update arrives shortly after the final version of Firefox 10 for Android was released, and is mainly meant to fix a series of issues t... |
11 February 2012
07:41 GMT |
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In two weeks’ time, the first smartphones in the world to pack quad-core application processors will be unveiled, and HTC is expected to make official the very first of them. Rumor has it that the Taiwanese handset vendor will launch its quad-core HTC Endeavour smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelo... |
11 February 2012
05:15 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is gearing up for the release of a series of great new devices later this month, during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The handset vendor has already started to send out invitations for the launch event, which will be held in Barcelona on February 27th.
Whi... |
11 February 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Motorola DROID 4, the latest addition to Verizon’s popular DROID lineup, comes to the market with 16GB of internal memory, yet users won’t see in it more than 8GB. The handset went for sale at Verizon yesterday, featuring a price tag of $199 on contract (though some retailers have it available for much le... |
11 February 2012
01:37 GMT |
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Even though 3D hasn’t really managed to catch on in the PC or HDTV markets, a small company known as teXet tries to make it popular in the tablet space. teXet plans to achieve this with the launch of the TM-7025, a 7-inch Android tablet that is now running on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, with the promise of Ice ... |
10 February 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Google is getting into the hardware business, at least that's the latest rumor. And no, this isn't about Motorola or Android, it's actual Google-branded hardware, a "home entertainment system" that would stream music from the web and keep your device in sync.
It is very likely that it will stream vide... |
10 February 2012
08:43 GMT |
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It looks like analysts really are enthusiastic about the chances of tablets, with Transparency having even issued an official announcement in which it makes predictions regarding the next four years.
Transparency Market Research believes that the level of annual tablet sales will grow by around 38.8 percent every y... |
10 February 2012
08:11 GMT |
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By the middle of this year, Amazon is expected to release a larger, 9-inch version of the original Kindle Fire tablet, as well as a refreshed 7-inch model, according to one analyst's forecast.
The introduction of the two tablets is expected to raise Amazon’s 2012 Kindle Fire sales from 12 million units to... |
10 February 2012
02:46 GMT |
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The Android operating system has proven to be quite versatile, enough so that Samsung has decided to use it in a series of photo and video cameras.
There was no announcement revealing any such product though.
However, the fact that Samsung has such designs can be inferred from the latest trademark that the company ... |
9 February 2012
09:35 GMT |
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For people who feel fettered by the operating system of their Sony Tablet S, there is now a way to root the device and gain superuser rights.
There are some applications that cannot be installed on Android tablets without superuser access, like custom ROM and certain apps used for backup.
The Sony Tablet S is like ... |
9 February 2012
03:40 GMT |
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The user agent profile for the Samsung GT-P3100 has emerged, answering certain questions that have surely circulated all over the web ever since the rumors about an 11.6-Inch 2560 x 1600 tablet started. Some time after the info about that super tablet leaked, another piece of info came to the Internet's attent... |
9 February 2012
03:13 GMT |
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Angry Birds, the popular game that arrived on mobile devices about two years ago, has just been updated on Android with a new set of levels.
The team of developers behind the application is celebrating the anniversary, and the new levels reflect that.
The mobile game, now highly popular on various platforms out t... |
9 February 2012
02:00 GMT |
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A new flavor of Google Voice is now available for download via the Android Market, bringing along a series of enhancements for users of devices powered by Google’s Android platform.
All those who own devices running under Android 1.6 and up can now download and install the new Google Voice app release, namely... |
8 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Media players might not be as popular as they were just a few years ago, but this hasn’t stopped Cowon from releasing a new PMP model, the Z2 Plenue running Google’s Android OS. Behind that classy looking chassis, the company installed a 1GHz Telechips ARM Cortex-A8 processor which enables it to play bac... |
8 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Chrome for Android has finally landed. It's a pretty big project and it meant rewriting and adapting most of the existing Google Chrome code to the Android platform and the special requirements of mobile devices. While the Android browser already shared several components with Chrome, they were different beasts... |
8 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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LG plans on playing with the big boys on the smartphone market, as the company is preparing for the launch of a new, high-end device, supposedly called LG Optimus Vu. Rumor has it that this new mobile phone will be like nothing else you’ve seen before from the South Korean handset vendor. In fact, it will ... |
8 February 2012
02:34 GMT |
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Samsung is gearing up for a press event in France as soon as March 22nd. The South Korean mobile phone maker has already announced plans for that, but did not unveil what would be launched at the meeting.
However, rumors on the matter have already started to emerge, and some suggest that the vendor might announce ... |
7 February 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Researchers came across a server located in Germany that hosts numerous websites ready to serve mobile malware that targets Android and Symbian users.
Trend Micro experts found a total of 1,351 sites hosted on the server in question, all the websites falling into a certain category. They identified Android Market ap... |
7 February 2012
07:46 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint has a treat for its users these days, with the Nexus S 4G smartphone available for them for free. The smartphone will keep the $0 price tag until February 8th, and those who would like to give it a try should access the wireless carrier’s website to learn more on the matter. Nexus S... |
7 February 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Halliburton, one of the world’s biggest energy service companies, has announced a switch to Apple’s iOS platform for employees, after comparing the iPhone’s benefits to those offered by RIM (BlackBerry devices) and the Google-developed OS, Android. The company plans to phase out thousands of employ... |
7 February 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Swype, the software touch keyboard that offers users the possibility to type faster than usual, is expected to deliver support for the latest flavor of Android, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, in the very near future. In fact, the team of developers behind this application is expected to make the new flavor of the applicatio... |
7 February 2012
01:35 GMT |
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Since the MotoACTV fitness watch hasn’t managed to become the success the company hoped for, Motorola has decided that a software update is required in order to make it more enticing for its clients.
The new update arrives automatically to the MotoACTV once this is connected to a wireless network and brings an... |
6 February 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone carrier TELUS is expected to add a new LG smartphone to its offering in the near future.
However, this is not an ordinary smartphone, and an Android-based LTE-capable device, none other than the LG Optimus LTE that was spotted on LG’s website recently.
The wireless carrier is confirmed... |
6 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The CyonagenMod team has been working very eagerly on custom builds of the Android operating system from Google, one of which is intended for the Nook Tablet.
There is more than one CyanogenMod software project in development, but the one getting attention this time is the CyanogenMod 7.
Aimed at the Barnes & Nob... |
6 February 2012
07:25 GMT |
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Sony is preparing new Xperia smartphones for launch at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, later this month.
The company announced such plans even before the Consumer Electronics Show was over in Las Vegas last month, and is now touting new smartphones for launch in roughly three weeks.
There will be more tha... |
6 February 2012
02:49 GMT |
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webOS is currently moving to open source, and should breathe new life as soon as the transition to this licensing model is completed, HP believes. In fact, the company is convinced that the OS will manage to top rival platforms such as Android and iOS, and says that it already has great advantages of them. In all fa... |
4 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The Kindle Fire is already one of the cheapest Android tablets that one can buy, but those looking for an even better deal can now get Amazon’s slate for $20 less by buying a refurbished unit.
While this definitely isn’t that much of a discount, the good news is that Amazon still offers the usual 1-year ... |
4 February 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Fujitsu isn’t that big of a name in the mobile space, but the Japanese company is looking to change that in the near future with the introduction of a new tablet, called the Stylistic M350/CA2, which is targeting business users.
Design wise, Fujitsu’s new tablet looks pretty much the same as some other e... |
4 February 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is gearing up for the release of a new Motorola device in the popular DROID series, namely the DROID 4, and some more info on the device’s availability emerged recently.
Apparently, Verizon will have it pushed to the market via all channels as soon as February 10th, at le... |
4 February 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Google TV is hanging in there. Google is trying to make the most of it, the platform hasn't taken anything by storm, but the company has managed to convince some more manufacturers to build devices on it.
Existing owners will at least be happy that they've gotten a fairly major update, they are now running... |
3 February 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is trying to lure more developers into coming up with applications for its Blackberry PlayBook, and is offering free devices to those who do deliver software for it. To be more precise, the company is informing Android developers that there are free PlayBook devices a... |
3 February 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Researchers Chris Hessing and Bret Jordan found that an issue present in certain Android builds designed for HTC smartphones could expose 802.1X Wi-Fi credentials to applications that have basic Wi-Fi permissions.
Since Wi-Fi permissions are almost always related to Internet access permissions, a malicious applicati... |
3 February 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has been seizing each opportunity to hit Google’s Android operating system, and a new one emerged only recently.
Earlier this week, the company announced that it chose to deliver no less than 20 free Windows Phones to Android users who have been affected by malware that slipped in the Android Marke... |
3 February 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Canadian wireless carrier TELUS is gearing up for the release of its first LTE-capable devices, and one of them will be the LG Optimus LTE, recent reports around the web suggest.
The handset, a high-end device that packs a 4.5 inch true HD IPS display, is listed on LG’s website as being on its way to TELUS, ... |
3 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Google has just released a new flavor of the Google Docs application for devices running under its Android operating system. Most of the enhancements packed with the new app release were meant for offline use.
The new application release arrives with better management of offline content, including the possibility t... |
2 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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In addition to the already confirmed successor to Samsung’s Galaxy S II, the one that the South Korean mobile phone maker is set to unveil to the world in the first half of the year, we might see another handset launched in the series, one that has yet to receive a formal confirmation. Supposedly dubbed Gala... |
2 February 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Samsung has managed to sell over 700,000 Galaxy Note devices in its homeland country South Korea since the official release of the new device. Galaxy Note was launched in South Korea in November, with LTE connectivity capabilities. The mobile phone maker has confirmed that this number actually shows the sales to c... |
2 February 2012
01:53 GMT |
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Just as initially announced, Xperia S, the new Android-based Xperia flagship from Sony, will arrive on shelves in the UK only in March.
The handset was unveiled to the world during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, and was said to need about two months before making it to shelves.
However, s... |
1 February 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Samsung will not bring the successor of its highly popular Galaxy S II smartphone to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.
The company said so last week, when announcing the financial results for the last quarter of 2011, and has confirmed it once again.
Moreover, the vendor also announced that it p... |
1 February 2012
06:01 GMT |
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After mobile security firm Lookout argued that Android.Counterclank is not a piece of malware as Symantec labeled it, the latter came forward with some new arguments to sustain their initial decision of informing users on the potential dangers. Symantec’s update on the matter reveals that even Google decided t... |
1 February 2012
05:19 GMT |
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