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HTC Incredible spotted with its covering off and a Verizon Wireless tattoo on its back

11 March 2010, 3:53 pm by: Kelly Hodgkins
Images and details on the HTC Incredible have emerged from the depths of Android Forums today. Most notable is the loss of the bright orange backing which has been replaced with a matte black covering emblazoned with a Verizon Wireless…

Verizon Wireless CTO hints at data plan tiers

11 March 2010, 12:59 pm by: Andrew Munchbach
It’s inevitable, tiered data plans for mobile devices are coming.  It’s a reality that wireless providers and consumers are soon going to have to deal with. As phones add more features and become more data-centric, they tax wireless netw...

Does Adobe Flash actually outperform HTML 5?

11 March 2010, 11:01 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
The battle between HTML 5 and Flash wages on with the discovery of an interesting report comparing the CPU usage of HTML 5 and Flash on both Mac and Windows platform. In the midst of all the smack talk about…

Verizon Wireless makes the $249 Casio G’zOne Brigade official

11 March 2010, 9:09 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
Available today from Verizon Wireless is the long awaited Casio G’zOne Brigade. The Brigade keeps the rugged good looks of its G’zOne predecessors but shakes things up by debuting as a horizontal clamshell instead of the traditional flip...

Opera Mini 5 hits Android Market

11 March 2010, 6:43 am by: Andrew Munchbach
Our friends from Norway have dropped a little present in the Android Market — especially for all you Opera fans — as Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is available for download starting… now. Opera’s next generation mobile web browser packs…

Motorola to ditch Google and use Bing search and maps in China

11 March 2010, 5:01 am by: Michael Bettiol
It’s no secret that Google and China aren’t exactly BFFs at the moment, but now Motorola has thrown its hat into the foray in a rather large way in order to protect its own interests and presumably make a nice…

Apple Mac Pro refresh coming Tuesday?

11 March 2010, 3:07 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
Apple fans waiting to scoop up the latest and greatest Mac Pro have been drooling at every rumor and waiting patiently for these half-truths to come true. Circulating today is yet another rumor to get those technology taste buds tingling…

More gestures coming in the next iPhone OS?

10 March 2010, 2:31 pm by: Andrew Munchbach
We know, we know, you’re sick of future iPhone OS rumors… but one more couldn’t hurt right? The folks over at 9to5Mac have been exploring the new iPhone 3.2 beta 4 SDK, and have found a few files that could…

February search engine market share number are in, more of the same

10 March 2010, 12:09 pm by: Andrew Munchbach
Today, ComScore released its search engine market share numbers for February 2010, and to be honest, there wasn’t much movement. Google and Bing both gained a little ground: Google’s market share rose 0.1 percentage point from 65.4% to 65...

Verizon Wireless touts the benefits of a MiFi-connected Apple iPad

10 March 2010, 10:20 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
A leaked internal memo reveals that the nation’s largest carrier is trying to jump on the Apple bandwagon by encouraging its employees to push its MiFi device as an accessory to the upcoming iPad. The idea itself is worthy of…

Google Apps Marketplace open for business(es)

10 March 2010, 8:09 am by: Andrew Munchbach
There are two sides to the proverbial “cloud coin” for small business owners. You can view cloud services, like Google Apps, as a time and money saver, allowing you to focus on your core business as opposed to IT needs.…

Verizon Wireless and Skype integration explained through animation

10 March 2010, 6:00 am by: Andrew Munchbach
Last month, Verizon Wireless and Skype announced their exclusive partnership in the U.S., along with their plans to bring Skype’s popular VoIP calling and messaging service to your Verizon cell phone. Now, through the miracle of animation ̵...

Cisco dumps its WiMAX base station and modem business

10 March 2010, 3:05 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
Clearwire may be optimistic about the growth of WiMAX in 2010 and beyond but network hardware manufacturers are a bit more bearish on the 4G wireless technology. Last month, Alcatel Lucent announced it will be scaling back on its WiMAX…

T-Mobile HTC HD2 unboxing

9 March 2010, 2:19 pm by: Boy Genius
One of our T-Mobile connects just blessed us with some HTC HD2 unboxing shots. With a looming release date, it should help cut down on some of your healthcare costs. You know, for those of you that have been hyperventilating since the…

Samsung Galaxy Spica now available from Rogers, will get 2.1 update

9 March 2010, 12:05 pm by: Michael Bettiol
As was widely expected, Rogers today announced the immediate availability of the Samsung Galaxy Spica. The carrier’s fourth Android smartphone, the Galaxy Spica offers a 3.2″ AMOLED HVGA capacitive display, 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-F...

Apple to be the Android killer? Windows Phone 7 Series the Savior?

9 March 2010, 10:01 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
Apple’s patent lawsuit against HTC may be much more far reaching than initially thought. According to a report at CNN’s Fortune website, Apple’s lawsuit has Android handset manufacturers shaking in their boots with many hiring legal...

Amazon planning to overhaul the Kindle’s browser?

9 March 2010, 8:17 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
A job posting for a position within Lab126, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon that focuses on the Kindle, suggests that Amazon may be developing a new web browser for its popular e-reader. In an “it’s about time” maneuver, theR...

BACKFLIP headed to TELUS, DEXT headed to Bell, QUENCH a mystery

9 March 2010, 6:28 am by: Michael Bettiol
A few days ago when we learned that Motorola is going to bring its complete line-up of MOTOBLUR handsets to Canada, we didn’t know which carrier was to be getting which handset. In the span of a couple days however,…

HTC Supersonic shown off in video, leaves us drooling and wanting more

9 March 2010, 3:25 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
In a mere few months, the HTC Supersonic has gone from being a name on a list to the star of its own home video. Spotted on YouTube is a short, sweet, and dark video that shows the HTC Supersonic…

Verizon: LTE trial speeds “faster than we’ve ever suggested”

8 March 2010, 2:10 pm by: Andrew Munchbach
Usually, when an ISP posts service downlink and uplink speeds, you have to take them with a grain of salt. Like a 20 MPG rating on a Hummer H2, your real world results “may vary.” It is, however, a great…

Apple continues to refine App Store…

8 March 2010, 11:37 am by: Andrew Munchbach
…and we use the word refine very loosely. In the last 30 days, Apple has dropped the App Store ban-hammer on applications that display images of scantily clad women and Wi-Fi scanning/stumbling applications. The bare-naked ladies were removed b...

Energizer Duo USB charger software has trojan on board

8 March 2010, 8:34 am by: Andrew Munchbach
The Duo seems to have been a failed experiment for battery maker Energizer in more ways than one. Sales of the USB nickle-metal battery charging station never really took off, and now, via a press release, the company has announced…

T-Mobile branded HTC HD2 and Nokia Nuron snapped in the wild

8 March 2010, 5:55 am by: Michael Bettiol
Last night was easily the best night of the year for the celebrity-crazed paparazzi. It also turned out to be a pretty darn good night for the smartphone paparazzi as well for two upcoming T-Mobile handsets were given the star…

Windows Phone 7 appears on video

8 March 2010, 3:14 am by: Andrew Munchbach
Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel was ambushed spoke with CNET on a quaint San Francisco sidewalk this week about Windows Phone 7 Series. Among the topics covered were Microsoft’s commitment to improving the developer experience with Windows Pho...

TELUS Motorola MILESTONE Review

7 March 2010, 10:25 am by: Michael Bettiol
It’s been out in Canada for a little under three weeks now, but the Motorola MILESTONE has already proven itself to be quite the popular handset thanks in part to all of the Canadians watching American TV and witnessing Verizon’s…

Motorola BACKFLIP now available from AT&T

7 March 2010, 6:11 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
Starting today, AT&T customers with a penchant for Android can point their browser to AT&T’s website or hoof it to their local AT&T store to snag the Motorola BACKFLIP. Now available for a mere $99 after rebate and a two…

Moto’s iDEN Opus One is the i1, will have MOTOBLUR

6 March 2010, 10:27 am by: Michael Bettiol
Remember the Opus One, the Android-powered iDEN handset from Motorola we scooped and then spec’d just before Christmas? Well apparently it’s going to be made official sometime in the next few weeks (hello, CTIA!) and will feature one adde...

Skype pulled from Nokia’s Ovi store in the US, Verizon Wireless to blame?

6 March 2010, 8:44 am by: Kelly Hodgkins
Skype users that own a Symbian-powered Nokia handset will have to go the extra mile to install Skype on their handset. As noticed following Wednesday’s debut of Skype in the Ovi store, Skype is reportedly not available for Nokia owners…

Verizon already training some employees on Nexus One?

6 March 2010, 5:34 am by: Michael Bettiol
We don’t have a whole lot to go on, other than a couple of emails that were bounced around by some curious customers and some rather knowledgeable reps, but it certainly looks to us as if Verizon has begun training…

Sony to launch a multimedia tablet and the long-rumored PlayStation phone in 2010?

5 March 2010, 3:31 pm by: Kelly Hodgkins
According to a rumor from the Wall Street Journal, Sony may be taking aim at the Apple iPhone, the Apple iPad and Microsoft’s Zune Phone Windows Phone 7 Series with two upcoming multifunction, multimedia-centric devices. Sony is reportedly deve...

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