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Apple Cuts The Cord On DUI Checkpoint-Evasion Apps
Thursday, June 9th, 2011In light of the recent controversy over iOS apps that tip tipsy users on the locations of DUI checkpoints, Apple has made a few tweaks to its App Store Review Guidelines. “Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected,” the revision [...]
Inq Cloud Touch preview
Friday, February 11th, 2011We can’t accuse Inq of having the best timing in the world — the company announced its new Facebook-centric Cloud Touch and Cloud Q phones at about the same time that HP was busy blowing minds with its new webOS range in San Francisco. We’ve gotten to grips with the 3.5-inch touchscreen-equipped Cloud Touch and [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo put through its paces on video
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011The rumored Xperia Neo still isn’t official — we think we’re probably looking at MWC next week for that — but there are enough floating around at this point so that they’re getting tested pretty thoroughly (or, at least as thoroughly as you can test a pre-production device). The latest tidbit comes via a series [...]
MetroPCS LTE Samsung Galaxy Indulge available this week
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Samsung’s MetroPCS LTE phone isn’t called the Forte as we may have previously thought, but the rest of the information we’ve been hearing about the phone for the last few weeks was pretty dead on. Officially called the Galaxy Indulge, the 3.5-inch, Android 2.2 smartphone isn’t quite as well spec’d as the rest of the [...]
Sprint and Samsung prepping a candy-bar-style QWERTY smartphone
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011A trio of images have surfaced online that show Samsung is working on a portrait-style QWERTY handset running Android. Borrowing a bit from the form factor of the long-forgotten Samsung Blackjack, the device seems to feature a screen in the vicinity of 3.1 inches. At this size, we’re looking at HGVA resolution (320×480), which isn’t [...]
HTC leaks suggest big, small, buttonless, and Brew MP-based phones are on the way
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011All things considered, HTC doesn’t do the best job of protecting its roadmap; indeed, the slides that leaked a little over a year ago ended up doing a fabulous job of showing us what was in the pipe for 2010, so we wouldn’t doubt the massive spread that PocketNow published. We’ve got a device that [...]
Sony Ericsson eyes fresh Android start in 2011
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Like many of you, I’ve watched the rumors of a PlayStation Phone spread across the Internet over the last few weeks. After a so-so 2010 for Sony Ericsson, this is exactly the type of device that could cement Sony Ericsson as a top Android contender. That is, if they get it right. Ask any Android [...]
Android in 2011: Bigger, faster, thinner, lighter
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011After taking a few days to decompress and wrap my head around the Android news from CES 2011, I started to notice a couple of trends with the new devices. Not only are these phones getting substantially faster with bigger screens, but they are growing thinner and lighter at the same time. As expected, the [...]
ViewPad 4 Tablet Is Really a 4.1″ Android-Based Smartphone
Friday, January 7th, 2011What’s the definition of a tablet these days? Generally, most tablets are between 7″ and 12″, but ViewSonic has us wondering if that’s the case. The company has just introduced what they’re calling a new tablet at CES. The ViewPad 4 is joining the ViewPad 7 and ViewPad 10. You could probably guess, but the [...]
The power of Google Instant, now in your pocket
Monday, November 8th, 2010Google Instant makes search faster by displaying not just predictions but actual search results as you type. This saves valuable time on a desktop browser, but wouldn’t it be great to have Google Instant on mobile devices, where each keystroke and page load is much slower and you frequently have just a moment to find [...]