Friday, March 25, 2011

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Google withholding Android 3.0 Honeycomb from developers

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:06 AM PDT

Google has restricted the access to version 3.0 Honeycomb of its operating system to large manufacturers that have a special agreement with the company to produce tablets running Honeycomb. This means that developers and smaller companies will not be able to put Honeycomb on devices of their choosing, including porting it to phones.
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RIM announces BlackBerry OS and Android app support for PlayBook tablet

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:42 PM PDT

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that it will release two optional application environments for its upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook that will allow it and future BlackBerry Tablet OS devices to run older BlackBerry OS smartphone Java apps and Android 2.3 applications.
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iPhone, iPad get secure browser from Good Technology

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:33 PM PDT

Good Technology has announced that its Good for Enterprise product will now include a secure web browser for iPhones and iPads. The secure web browser allows mobile users to access intranets and other web-enabled enterprise applications such as management dashboards, IT monitoring portals, wikis, and document repositories. The secure browser is compatible with Microsoft Exchange platforms. It is available now with the Good for Enterprise suite for phones and tablets with iOS 4 or higher.
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Video: HTC EVO 3D (Sprint) live video first look

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Here's a first live look at the newly announced HTC EVO 3D for Sprint, the first smartphone in the U.S. to offer a quarter HD resolution touchscreen display at 4.3-inches in size. The EVO 3D sports a dual-core 1.2GHz processor and, of course, a stereoscopic camera and matching display for glasses free 3D photos and video on the go.
Watch the video here.


HTC Merge global Android phone for Alltel hands-on

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:10 PM PDT

We got some hands on time with the new HTC Merge, which was recently announced for Alltel, and have put together a photo gallery of it along with some initial thoughts on the design.
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Live look at Verizon's Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY PlayStation smartphone

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:40 PM PDT

As promised, we got some hands-on time with Verizon Wireless' version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY gaming-centric smartphone.
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HTC will open up development support for Scribe pen

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:32 PM PDT

HTC has said that it will open up development access for the Scribe pen-based technology that is used with its upcoming Flyer and EVO View 4G Android tablets. The Scribe pen allows users to interact with the touchscreen in a whole new way. Instead of the dumb stylus from yesterday's tablets, the Scribe pen has a pressure sensitive tip that can impact the way the input is recorded on the tablet. Developers will be able to use this sensor for their own apps. HTC has not announced when developer support for Scribe will arrive, but we imagine it will be sometime after the tablets hit the market this spring.
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Apple iPad set to get Boxee's TV video-stream app

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:10 PM PDT

Just like the internet creeped its way onto our cell phones (thank Heavens!), the web is about to infiltrate our televisions, as well. Along with the news that Apple's AirPlay could come pre-loaded on TVs as early as this year, and the recent launch of Google TV, it was only a matter of time until someone finally stepped in and said, "Hey Apple, Google: there's an app for that." On that note, Boxee has confirmed plans to release an iPad app that will enable video streaming to PCs, TVs, and Macs loaded with Boxee software. Boxee VP Andrew Kippen said that the technology will be "kind of like AirPlay, but not quite," with no further specifications as to what that might entail. No word yet on pricing or availability on the app from Boxee, but we'll keep you posted.
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Cricket's LG Optimus C: up-close and personal

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:36 AM PDT

We got a chance to get hands-on with Cricket's LG Optimus C at the 2011 CTIA show in Orlando. As its name suggests, the Android 2.2 Froyo-powered smartphone is based upon LG's popular Optimus One smartphone. This is Cricket's first LG smartphone, and it is styled a bit differently than its Optimus One siblings.
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Motorola confirms ATRIX audio issues, releasing software update soon

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:11 AM PDT

Motorola has confirmed that reported issues with the voice quality on the ATRIX 4G are, in fact, a legitimate concern and is looking into the issue. Motorola has also announced that it will be pushing out a software update soon for the ATRIX.
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Clearwire CEO on AT&T: they'll beat you up, then buy you

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:55 AM PDT

Clearwire CEO John Stanton, once the founder of VoiceStream (now T-Mobile), has become one of numerous critics to publicly hammer AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Stanton called the deal "a huge challenge to competition in the industry." Of course, Clearwire should be concerned, as Sprint, Clearwire's biggest customer, will fall into last place behind Verizon and AT&T should the deal get approval.
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Android, BlackBerry updates available from U.S. Cellular

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:44 AM PDT

U.S. Cellular has announced the availability of software updates for its Samsung Mesmerize Android smartphone and BlackBerry Curve 9330 and Bold 9650 smartphones.
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HTC HD7S Windows Phone 7 smartphone for AT&T hands-on preview

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:17 AM PDT

At the CTIA 2011 event in Orlando, we got the chance to check out HTC's HD7S, the AT&T version of T-Mobile's HD7 Windows Phone 7 smartphone that features a 4.3-inch touchscreen display.
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Ford's MyFord Mobile app focuses on electric cars

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Ford has recently announced the addition of the Ford Focus Electric to its catalog of car models compatible with the MyFord Mobile application for AT&T subscribers. The Focus Electric will be embedded with a wireless connection that allows the car to send and receive information to and from its owner via MyFord Mobile. The application can be accessed via smartphones running iOS, Android, or BlackBerry operating systems or via an HTML5 browser interface that will even be available to feature phones. Within the app, users can check charge levels, locate charging stations, plan trips, lock/unlock doors remotely, find the car with GPS, and receive alerts concerning the car's temperature and overall health.
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ZTE brings Android smartphone, LTE tablet to U.S. market this year

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:36 AM PDT

ZTE, despite being a large Chinese company and having a sizeable market overseas, has long had trouble breaking into the high-end market in the U.S. Many of the phones made by ZTE that are available in the U.S. are low cost, basic phones from which the carrier has stripped the ZTE branding and replaced it with its own. Nevertheless, that may change, as ZTE has said that it will bring a high-end Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone with a 4.3-inch screen to the U.S. this year, named the Style S. ZTE showed off mockups of its latest smartphone at CTIA 2011. The company also expects to bring an LTE tablet with a 10-inch display, two cameras, and a 1.2GHz processor. The tablet is said to be running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. No carriers have been specifically announced, but we should be hearing more as the year goes on.
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T-Mobile G-Slate Android tablet hands-on

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:13 AM PDT

We got some hands on time with the T-Mobile G-Slate while at CTIA 2011 this week. he G-Slate is T-Mobile's version of the LG Optimus Pad we saw at MWC.
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iPad, iPhone demand could drive Apple's revenue sky-high through 2012

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:49 AM PDT

Apple recorded 52 percent revenue growth last year, and that is likely to be repeated through 2012 with demand for its iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone reaching record highs. Last year, Apple sold almost 15 million iPads and over 14 million iPhones in the last quarter. Analysts claim that by the end of this year, Apple's sales could reach over $100 billion. If the growth rates continue, sales could hit $200 billion, which would put Apple ahead of HP in sales, who is currently number one in technology sales (Apple is number one tech company in market cap).
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Apple's iPad 2 to launch in South Korea

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:49 AM PDT

Though there has been speculation about whether the earthquake in Japan would interrupt Apple's production of the iPad 2, South Korea-based mobile carrier KT announced on Wednesday plans to sell the Apple tablet in South Korea next month. KT rival and South Korea's number one carrier, SK Telecom has also been considering selling the tablet. In April, SK Telecom plans to begin offering a number of tablets including the Motorola XOOM, Samsung's Galaxy Tabs and LG's Optimus Pad. No pricing details have been confirmed by KT or SK Telecom.
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AT&T users will join Amazon Appstore party, at some point

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:34 AM PDT

AT&T users have been left out of the Amazon Appstore for Android party, since the carrier restricts installing applications outside of Google's Android Market on its phones. AT&T is aware of the issue and has offered an information form into which users can input their info to be notified about when they will have the ability to install the Amazon Appstore. Interested users can visit www.appstoreaccess.com and input their phone model and contact information now.
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FCC walks the line on AT&T/T-Mobile deal

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:55 AM PDT

AT&T has quite a bit of schmoozing in its future, as FCC officials claim that the wireless giant's chances at getting approval for its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile are slim to none. While a formal evaluation from the FCC has yet to commence, we've already seen a pretty heated response to the deal from Democratic senators, urging the FCC to look closely at the repercussions of this merger. If the AT&T/T-Mobile deal does come to fruition, America's second-place carrier would become number one and represent 42 percent of wireless subscribers nationally, after swallowing up fourth-place carrier T-Mobile.
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Motorola possibly looking at platforms other than Android

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:31 AM PDT

Information Week is quoting unnamed sources that indicate Motorola is developing its own mobile web-based operating system, possibly as a way to hedge its bets on the Android smartphone OS that it has been so successful with of late. When asked for comment, Motorola told IW that the project did exist, but that the company was firmly committed to the Android platform. We would like to note that any work on a such an OS could potentially be part of Motorola's "lapdock" plans for its devices, such as the ATRIX, or could merely be a "plan B" in the event that something drastic happens to the Android platform or the company's relationship with Google.
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Motorola XOOM tablet coming to Cellular South

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 07:07 AM PDT

Cellular South has announced that it will carry the Motorola XOOM Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet starting next month. Instead of the 3G (soon to be 4G) version that Verizon Wireless carries (take a look at our full review), Cellular South will be offering the Wi-Fi only version, and pairing it with a free Novatel Mi-Fi 2200 wireless hotspot with the purchase of a hotspot data plan. The XOOM will cost $599.99 and the hotspot plans start at $19.99 per month for 3GB of data usage.
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Press Release: Voice2KoreaDebuts on AT&T and T-Mobile USA as the First Pay-As-You-Go International Calling Service

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:40 AM PDT

Voice2Korea Opens New Era in the United States-to-South Korea International Calling at Low Rates Through U.S. Major Cellular Networks -- AT&T and T-Mobile USA
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Color social networking app sees lots of green; experience still gray

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:39 AM PDT

A new app from Color Labs, simply titled Color, has generated quite a bit of buzz this morning, which is no surprise with that $41 million-dollar check hanging out of the company's pocket. Sequoia Capital, in collaboration with Bain Capital and Silicon Valley Bank, shelled out the largest amount of money its ever invested in a pre-launch site, even more than it spent on another Sequoia start-up you may have heard of: Google. I don't mean to lead with dollar signs, but to me, $41 million in venture capitalist funding is way more shocking than Color's functionality.
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Android for the air: Aircell introduces the Smartphone

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:36 AM PDT

Aircell has introduced the first smartphone designed for airborne use by pilots and cabin personnel, the ambiguously named Smartphone. Running an unidentified version of Android, the Smartphone has a 3.8-inch touchscreen as well as a standard dial pad.
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Apple's Jobs personally rejects iPhone radiation app

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:32 AM PDT

It has been reported that Steve Jobs himself has specifically rejected an app from the Apple App Store that is designed to measure cellphone radiation from phones such as the iPhone 4. In typical Steve Jobs brevity, the request was met with a quick email denial that read "No interest." Tawkon, the developer of the app, has released it on other platforms such as Google's Android and RIM's BlackBerry. The app has been released to jailbroken iPhones instead of through Apple's App Store.
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RIM pulls DUI checkpoint apps from BlackBerry App World

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:20 AM PDT

In reaction to the request from senators this week that Apple, Google, and RIM remove applications from their app platforms that inform users of DUI checkpoints, RIM has done just that. BlackBerry users will no longer be able to circumvent DUI checkpoints by pinpointing them on their smartphones. The senators praised RIM for its quick response. As of now, no word on whether Apple or Google intend to the same.
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Samsung Apps hits 100 million downloads milestone

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT

Samsung has announced that its Apps market for mobile and TV applications has hit the 100 million downloads milestone in less than a year since its debut in June 2010. Samsung Apps launched alongside with the Wave smartphone that runs Samsung's own bada operating system and now there are over 13,000 applications available in the Samsung Apps market. To celebrate the milestone, Samsung is having a contest with a weekly draw from March 25 to April 30, 2011. Anyone who downloads an app from Samsung Apps is entered to win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet, Galaxy Player, USB sticks, or vouchers for apps in the Samsung Apps store.
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Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7 NoDo update site

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:58 AM PDT

Microsoft has released a new website designed to help users of Windows Phone 7 devices figure out when their phone will get the long awaited NoDo update that includes copy and paste among other things. The site, called Where's my phone update?, explains the three stage process to receiving the update. First, the update gets tested by the carrier, then Microsoft can take up to 10 days to deliver it to phones, and finally it may take weeks for the update notification to hit all the phones on the carrier. Microsoft hopes that this tool well help users understand what to expect when getting software updates. The site is live now for both U.S. and international users.
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Sprint allows SouthernLINC to roam on iDEN network

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:47 AM PDT

PhoneScoop is reporting that SouthernLINC, a small regional carrier based out of Atlanta, GA, has signed a roaming agreement with Sprint Nextel that will allow SouthernLINC phones to roam on the 800MHz band that Sprint uses for iDEN. SouthernLINC will have access to push-to-talk and data services and will be able to complete nationwide push-to-talk calls from within its home area. It plans to introduce new rate plans that will take advantage of the nationwide roaming. We will have to see how long this lasts for SouthernLINC though, as Sprint has already announced that it plans on shutting down iDEN in the future and using the 800MHz spectrum for other purposes. The roaming deal is said to take effect in April.
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Android tablets gets popular anti-virus with AVG Mobilation

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:37 AM PDT

Popular desktop anti-virus suite maker AVG has released an updated version of its protection software for Android devices that now supports tablets. Named AVG Mobilation, it offers similar features to its desktop counterpart, with a few tweaks and features specific to the mobile platform.
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