Saturday, May 28, 2011

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Video: Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY (Verizon) video tour - part 1 of 2

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:56 PM PDT

Sony Ericsson's Xperia PLAY is the first PlayStation certified mobile phone to hit the market. This means that it will have access to a host of gaming titles, including ports of older PlayStation games. The version for Verizon Wireless has Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread (not 2.3.4, so no video chat in Google Talk) without any customizations as found on the European version. More importantly, it features a slide-out gaming pad, complete with two touch-sensitive pads to simulate analog sticks. The PLAY is powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and has an Adreno 205 graphics chip.
Watch the video here.


Android users like apps, when they are free

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:48 PM PDT

A new study on the Android Market reveals that there are 72,000 paid apps in the store, compared to the 211,000 paid apps in Apple's iTunes App Store. The interesting part of the study though, is how many apps are actually selling in Google's Android Market.
Read the full story here.


Video: LG Revolution (Verizon) 720p HD video demo

Posted: 27 May 2011 11:47 AM PDT

Here's a demo 720p HD video shot with the camera on the LG Revolution, LG's first LTE 4G device for Verizon Wireless. The Revolution's main camera offers 5 megapixels of resolution, and the phone comes equipped with 16GB of internal storage to ensure that there's plenty of room for your photos and videos.
Watch the video here.


Amazon puts a bevy of 4G phones on sale to celebrate Memorial Day

Posted: 27 May 2011 11:08 AM PDT

Online retailer Amazon is having one of its blowout weekend specials for Memorial Day, and has put a bunch of 4G phones one sale for a significant discount off of their regular prices.
Read the full story here.


Microsoft earning more from Android than Windows Phone

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:01 AM PDT

According to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, Microsoft could be making a significantly larger amount of revenue from sales of Android phones than from its own Windows Phone platform.
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Both sides of House of Representatives dislike AT&T, T-Mobile deal

Posted: 27 May 2011 09:26 AM PDT

During a panel hearing for a House of Representatives subcommittee, executives from both AT&T and T-Mobile had to defend the proposed merger of their respective companies to a crowd of lawmakers who did appear to favor the idea.
Read the full story here.


Samsung launches Chrono flip phone for U.S. Cellular

Posted: 27 May 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Today Samsung and U.S. Cellular launched the Samsung Chrono, a simple clamshell style feature phone that was built to make calls. You remember what those are, right?
Read the full story here.


SwiftKey releases new Android keyboard with advanced prediction, personalization

Posted: 27 May 2011 09:00 AM PDT

SwiftKey has been a popular choice among users of third-party Android keyboards because of its unique way of predicting the next word that a user will type. The company has taken its prediction to a new level with the release of the SwiftKey X beta keyboard. The new version can now plug into a user's Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter accounts to better learn their typing style and predict words more accurately.
Read the full story here.


Microsoft working to bring tethering to Windows Phone

Posted: 27 May 2011 08:14 AM PDT

One of the features of the older Windows Mobile operating system that did not make it over to the new Windows Phone platform is tethering, despite it being a popular feature among users of the platform. The new update to Windows Phone, dubbed "Mango", will not have tethering either, though Microsoft has said that it is working to bring the feature to the OS in the future.
Read the full story here.


Nokia, CNN form partnership for use of Nokia Maps

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:45 AM PDT

Nokia and CNN have announced a new, formal partnership in which the mobile phone make will provide mapping services to the international news conglomerate. In return, CNN will provide an app for Nokia's smartphone platforms that will give users access to news and video reports, and the ability to submit their own news stories.
Read the full story here.


Samsung Galaxy S II outsells iPhone 4 in UK during May

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:15 AM PDT

According to uSwitch, a company that ranks mobile phones based on sales data and live searches in the UK, Samsung's Galaxy S II was more popular than Apple's iPhone 4 during the month of May. The top slot had been held by the new phones from HTC for a number of months, but Apple claimed it in April. Apparently Samsung's dual-core flagship was too good for UK buyers to resist, and it stole the top slot from Apple in May. This sounds like more good news for Samsung, as it was previously reported that its line of Galaxy S phones were more popular than the iPhone in Japan as well.
Read the full story here.


Microsoft wants higher-priced apps for Windows Phone

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:00 AM PDT

Microsoft has plans to encourage higher-quality, and higher-priced, apps for its Windows Phone platform. Instead of pushing free, or 99 cent apps that are common in other app stores, Microsoft is encouraging developers to produce a better product, and then charge more for it. "I'd rather developers sell fewer than a million downloads and get to a million dollars," said Brandon Watson, director of an apps developer program for Microsoft. "If we can support a higher price point that's good for developers."
Read the full story here.


Nokia plans to blast the market with Windows Phone handsets

Posted: 27 May 2011 06:50 AM PDT

Nokia's executive vice president of smart devices, Jo Harlow, has revealed some of the Finnish company's intentions with Windows Phone devices in an interview. Notably, she says that Nokia intends to release batches of new Windows Phone models at a rapid pace.
Read the full story here.


Senator Franken writes Google, Apple, wants mandatory privacy policy for all apps

Posted: 27 May 2011 06:25 AM PDT

Senator Al Franken has penned a letter to both Google and Apple requesting a mandatory privacy policy for all apps sold in their respective app stores.
Read the full story here.


Nokia commits support for Symbian until 2016

Posted: 27 May 2011 06:00 AM PDT

Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, has reassured the Symbian developer community that the Finnish company will be supporting Symbian until 2016, despite its new focus on Windows Phone as its main smartphone platform.
Read the full story here.


PayPal rains on Google Wallet parade, fires lawsuit against Google

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:50 AM PDT

Right after Google made its big unveiling of its new mobile payment service, Google Wallet, PayPal filed a lawsuit against the search giant. PayPal claims that Google has taken trade secrets from PayPal and used it in the new mobile payment service.
Read the full story here.


RIM claims lawsuit regarding financial statements has no merit

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:48 AM PDT

RIM has stated that a lawsuit filed against it that claims that RIM made false and intentionally misleading statements about its financial future to investors is untrue and without merit. RIM has stated that it will "vigorously defend" itself in court. The lawsuit was filed in New York.
Read the full story here.


T-Mobile G2x will to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread by summer

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:35 AM PDT

According to a tweet from T-Mobile USA's official Twitter account, the T-Mobile G2x dual-core smartphone will be getting an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread by summer. Its not a huge surprise, as we have wholly expected that the G2x would eventually receive an update to 2.3 Gingerbread, but this is the closest thing to a time-frame that we have heard yet. Let's just hope T-Mobile and LG go all out and release version 2.3.4 when Gingerbread arrives, so that users can make good use of the front-facing camera for Google Talk video chat.
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