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Verizon starts teasing R2-D2 Droid 2 details
Verizon’s DroidLanding Twitter account started back up earlier this week, dropping vague clues and toying with the Star Wars faithful. Once used to help promote the Droid X ahead of its launch, the DroidLanding account is now a source to leak R2-D2 Droid 2 details. As some of you may know, the special edition of [...]
New cellphones to feature ‘secretary’ functions
A new technology developed by Toshiba Corp. could turn cellphones into virtual secretaries capable of providing information to help users plot their next move. The technology, which could be available for practical use by the end of this year, enables cellphones to “predict” the user’s actions based on behavioral patterns monitored by such programs as [...]
Smart Phone Sales Way Down in 2009
A new Gartner report indicates that worldwide mobile phone sales to end users grew 8.3 percent in Q4 2009, compared to the same period a year ago. Total sales for the year were down slightly at 1.21 billion units (down 0.9 percent from 2008). But given the huge slump earlier in the year, this is [...]