The Samsung Intensity II is now available online, Verizon and Samsung announced Thursday. The slider phone will be available in stores in the next few weeks. Following in the footsteps of the Samsung Intensity, the Intensity II has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, music player, and GPS. Verizon/Samsung The new model also has an eco-friendly slant. …
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While it’s easy slinging arrows at Apple for its closed and tightly-controlled iPhone App Store, there’s something to be said for its security. Google’s Android operating system has long faced more complicated concerns with its much freer application approval process, its openness to side-loaded apps (installing apps via APK files that you receive through some source other than the Android …
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There’s nothing like a friendly contest to stir the blood, and the CNET 100 was no different. Every day for two business weeks, CNET editors presented their 10 favorite iPhone apps for you, our readers, to endorse with a vote or smack down by averting your eyes. We even gave you a final chance to vote on all 100 submissions, …
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Shoppers perusing Wal-Mart for a cell phone will soon have double the options–that is, a choice of purchasing a prepaid phone on two carriers instead of just one. Wal-Mart’s Straight Talk wireless service, which has previously run only on Verizon’s networks, is expanding to AT&T. StraightTalk is a brand made by TracFone, and is sold exclusively in Wal-Mart stores. AT&T …
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If you’re toting around an iPhone in one pocket and a bulging wallet stuffed with loyalty cards in the other, let us respectfully say this: You’re doing it wrong. With only a bit of legwork, you can lighten your load by scanning or manually adding your cards for your supermarkets, book stores, pet shops, sports stores, and the library, and …
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Business-ratings app Yelp just got a massive dose of competition from a much larger source. Google updated its Maps for Android (version 4.4) on Monday in the Android Market to make its Place Pages business listings more usable. In doing so, Google’s solution for taking business listings mobile resembles Yelp’s Android feature set more than it ever has before. Once …
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For the last two weeks, 10 CNET personalities published their 10 favorite iPhone apps, while you voted on your favorites from the bunch. We call it the CNET 100. Well, friends, we’re rapidly nearing decision time. We’ll give you one final shot to vote for your favorite of our favorite iPhone apps. Tune back in on Wednesday, July 28, to …
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With international ad campaigns, a second “sneak peek” video of its forthcoming BlackBerry OS 6, and several new services–like BlackBerry Protect–BlackBerry-maker RIM has been keeping our attention. The company’s latest is the release of BlackBerry Desktop Manager 6 in a limited beta for Windows computers. RIM hasn’t shared many details about how many beta invitations it’s giving away for the …
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Not all smartphone apps for the Google Voice service are created equal, as we discovered back in September, 2009, when we put each through its paces on iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android phones. On Thursday, Google updated its Google Voice apps for Android–our hands-down winner–and BlackBerry, the runner up. (If you must know, we declared the iPhone experience to be “a …
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Unless you’re an Android developer deciding your next strategic programming move, chances are your brain isn’t attuned to the distribution of operating systems among all Android smartphone owners. However, Google’s periodic pie charts and stacked line graphs reveal some interesting data nuggets, at least for Android fanatics. According to data collected from July 1 to July 15, just about 60 …
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