This bodes well for the Galaxy Nexus: Samsung now sells more smart phones than any other company in the world, reports The Wall Street Journal. That’s right, it’s bigger than both Apple and Nokia. Apple overtook Nokia in the summer, and holding off Samsung until now, but Samsung then sold more than 20 million smart …
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At last, some good news for those long-suffering BlackBerry users — you can now get Spotify on your phone, thanks to a preview version of the BlackBerry app. It’s only a preview at the moment, so you won’t find it on App World, but you can can give it a whirl by going over here. All the features you’d expect …
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Nokia’s new phone is turning out to be almost as badly kept a secret as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus or the Motorola Droid Razr. More info on the Nokia 800 has leaked onto the internet, this time in the shape of some official press shots, reports Pocketnow. The shots provide the best look yet at the smart phone, while also …
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The war of words continues. After Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer slammed Android as being for computer scientists, Android’s Andy Rubin has a choice word or two about Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled virtual assistant. “I don’t believe your phone should be an assistant,” Rubin said in an interview, reports AllThingsD. “Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the …
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We knew Microsoft’s CEO wasn’t exactly the shy and retiring type, but now he’s ripped Android a new one ahead of next week’s Nokia World, reports BGR. Speaking at the Web 2.0 conference, Ballmer said, “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone, but I think you do to use an Android phone.” Fighting words. …
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The patent wars continue. Apple has just won a patent infringement complaint HTC filed last year. It’s just a preliminary decision, but it bodes well for Apple. The decision was made at the US International Trade Commission on Monday, reports Reuters. HTC accused Apple of copying four of its patents relating to, among others, power management and phone dialling. HTC …
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It may or may not be the iPad 3, but Apple has received sample tablets with 7.85-inch screens and the same 1,024×768 resolution as the standard iPad 2, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News, hinting that a smaller model is on the way. Unwired View is also claiming that Au Optronics and LG Display have sent display samples to Apple, …
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What do we have here? Could that be an official shot of the upcoming Motorola Droid Razr? It could indeed. Droid-Life has snaffled the image, which shows the handset from its front, back, and, for the first time, side. And this thing looks slim. The image is apparently from a teaser site put up by US operator Verizon. The Droid …
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Watching television doesn’t help babies learn, and may actually be bad for children under two years-old, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. So bad news if your little one is a fan of Bob the Builder. Wired reports that media, whether in the background or intended to educate, can “have potentially negative effects and no known positive effects for …
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Motorola’s new Droid Razr phone is even thinner than we dared hope — just 7.1mm. That’s more than 2mm slimmer than the iPhone 4S, and according to Motorola, it’s the world’s thinnest smart phone. Now that’s slim. We saw leaks, leaks and more leaks, so we can’t exactly say the Droid Razr is a surprise. The specs are exactly as …
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