Thursday, August 11, 2011

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Windows Phone 7 gets Minesweeper, Sudoku games with Xbox LIVE features

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:22 AM PDT

Tired of intense, 3D games with deep story lines and hours of gameplay? Well, Microsoft has announced a new pair of games for the Windows Phone 7 platform that should bring back many memories of time wasted on Windows 3.1. Available now in the Windows Phone Marketplace, Minesweeper and Sudoku have come back just in time to get you through that upcoming semester of philosophy classes.
Read the full story here.


HTC signs partnership with Beats Audio; companies bob heads in unison

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:56 AM PDT

Smartphone maker HTC has announced a new partnership with Beats Audio, the headphone company led by Dr. Dre and producer Jimmy Iovine. It is said that the deal will result in a line of HTC smartphones with high-end sound later this year.
Read the full story here.


T-Mobile to charge overages with lowest-tier data plan

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:34 PM PDT

T-Mobile has touted its data plans as unlimited for the past few months, since instead of charging overage fees when you reach a certain usage limit, the carrier would instead slow down your connection speeds until the next billing cycle. This policy applied to the minimum 200MB data plan all the way up to the high end 10GB plan. It looks like T-Mobile might be changing its tune with the 200MB plan, though, as a leaked document outlines plans to charge overage fees for those on that plan.
Read the full story here.


Kyocera Echo Gingerbread update gets rebooted, sans bricking this time

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:12 PM PDT

Ten days ago Sprint and Kyocera announced the roll-out of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the dual-screened Echo smartphone. Unfortunately, a number of issues immediately cropped up with the update, and the update left many Echos bricked and lifeless. Consequently, Sprint and Kyocera pulled the update and stopped seeding it. Here we are ten days later and Engadget has learned that Sprint has restarted the roll-out of the update today, without the bricking issues of course. The roll-out is expected to start slowly, and will eventually reach all users within the next few weeks. The question is, though, will you take the chance this go-around and risk your precious Echo getting bricked once again?
Read the full story here.


HP permanently drops TouchPad's price by a Benjamin

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:18 PM PDT

Following this past weekend's sale of the HP TouchPad tablet that took $100 off the sticker price of both the 16GB and 32GB versions (or more if you knew where to look), HP has gone ahead and made the price drop permanent. A message from HP's SVP of the Personal Systems Group in North America Steven DiFranco was sent to retailers informing them of the price drop, and HP's own webstore has relisted the TouchPad at the lower price point.
Read the full story here.


Vodafone UK cancels pre-orders of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:40 AM PDT

The Next Web is reporting that in light of the recent preliminary injunction blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the European Union, Vodafone UK has preemptively canceled pre-orders of the tablet.
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Video: Samsung Exhibit 4G (T-Mobile) video review

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:01 AM PDT

The Samsung Exhibit 4G is a mid-range Android smartphone with features that would have been top of the line only a year ago. It has a 3.5-inch, WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) display, and is powered by a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor. Refreshingly, it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a pared-down version of Samsung's TouchWiz interface. This, coupled with the fast processor, allows the Exhibit 4G to perform admirably, especially for its target market. The 3 megapixel camera leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to speed of image capture and autofocus, but it is equipped with a LED flash for low-light pics. The Exhibit 4G is well-built and feels nice in the hand thanks to its soft touch coating on the back. You can pick up the Exhibit 4G from T-Mobile now for about $99.99 on-contract.
Watch the video here.


Press Release: BOINGO BRINGS SWEET WI-FI TO MORE KRISPY KREME LOCATIONS

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 10:56 AM PDT

From the Las Vegas Strip to the Shores of Lake Michigan, Boingo Expands Managed Wi-Fi Restaurant Portfolio Across Western U.S.
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Sprint teams up with McAfee to offer security for smartphones

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 10:36 AM PDT

Sprint has announced a new partnership with McAfee that will provide Sprint customers with the option to purchase McAfee's Mobile Security and Family Protection software for their Android smartphones. Customers will be able to access the software suites directly from the Sprint tab in the Android Market or from within the Sprint Zone app.
Read the full story here.


AT&T's first 4G LTE phone to show up by end of this year

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:56 AM PDT

Despite launching its next-generation 4G LTE network in five markets this summer, AT&T has revealed that it will not be introducing an LTE-equipped smartphone until closer to the end of the year. It will instead only offer USB modems and mobile hotspots in the markets that it is launching LTE, much like the way Verizon Wireless only offered USB modems for its LTE network launch at the end of last year.
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HTC's first phone with NFC to show up in China

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:28 AM PDT

HTC has announced that its first smartphone to be equipped with NFC capabilities will be hitting the Chinese market. The Stunning, as HTC has chosen to name the device, will support China UnionPay's mobile payment system.
Read the full story here.


VUDU dodges Apple's 30 percent cut with HTML5 app

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT

On-demand streaming video service VUDU is taking a similar approach to Amazon's Kindle Cloud Player to get around Apple's in-app subscription and purchase policies. VUDU's new webapp, formatted for the iPad, presents the service's streaming video options without having to split any revenues with Apple.
Read the full story here.


Motorola open to Windows Phone 7, still

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:27 AM PDT

At a technology conference appearance, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha reiterated statements he made last year that the company would be open to the Windows Phone 7 platform. This time though, he makes it clear that Motorola wants the same sweetheart deal that Nokia has with Microsoft if it is to venture into the Windows Phone 7 world.
Read the full story here.


Samsung Galaxy Xcover is first Galaxy smartphone to play dirty

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:21 AM PDT

Samsung has released a litany of Android smartphones and tablets under the Galaxy branding since it was introduced last year, but it had never released a rugged model that combined its Xcover rough and tumble phones with the Galaxy smartphone heritage. That seems to have changed with the announcement of the aptly named Galaxy Xcover for the German market.
Read the full story here.


News360 looks to personalize your news with version 2.0 for Android, iOS tablets

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT

Popular news reading app for Android and iOS tablets News360 is seeing a major update to version 2.0 today. With the new version, News360 gains the ability to personalize a user's news feed with relevant articles culled from more than 5,000 sources from around the world.
Read the full story here.


Nokia withholding N9 from UK as well

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:45 AM PDT

It was revealed yesterday that as per Nokia's new plans to go all-in on Windows Phone in the U.S., it would not be bringing the recently announced MeeGo-powered N9 to American shores. While this made a bit of sense for the U.S. market, it is now believed that Nokia will do the same for the UK, though the UK has been much more supportive of Nokia smartphones in the past.
Read the full story here.


Nothing's sacred; Apple goes after Motorola XOOM in Europe as well

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:24 AM PDT

After suing the heck out of Samsung for what it feels is infringement on its industrial design and trade dress with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, Apple has now aimed its guns at Motorola and its XOOM tablet. Buried within the lawsuit that Apple filed in Germany against Samsung is a complaint against Motorola for its design of the XOOM.
Read the full story here.


NVIDIA offers another look at new Samsung Galaxy R smartphone

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:50 AM PDT

The Samsung Galaxy R smartphone made its official debut last week, and this week we have been treated to another look at the upcoming device - thanks to NVIDIA. The Galaxy R sports a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor as opposed to the Samsung Exynos dual-core processor found in its bigger brother, the Galaxy S II.
Read the full story here.


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