Verizon got a jump on CTIA today by announicng that the Android-powered Samsung Stratosphere. Arriving on October 13th, the Stratopshere will be Big Red’s first 4G LTE handset with a QWERTY keyboard. Other details include Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1GHz processor, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 5-row QWERTY keyboard. Looking …
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October, 2011
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10 October
Get 5 indie games (Android, iOS) for 99 cents
Game bundles for PCs and Macs are a dime a dozen. The best ones, like the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle I wrote about last week, share a portion of the proceeds with a worthy charity. But here’s something you don’t see every day: an app bundle for smartphones. The Corona Indie Bundle comes with five games for Android and iOS. Purchased separately, they’d cost …
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10 October
Mobile devices driving nearly 7 percent of Web traffic
Mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular among U.S. consumers for accessing the Web, according to data released today by market researcher ComScore. Some 6.8 percent of Web traffic originated from “non-computer” devices in August, compared with 6.2 percent at the end of the previous quarter, ComScore said. Mobile phones accounted for 4.4 percent of that traffic, while tablets made up …
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10 October
Sony SMP
Now playing: Watch this: Sony SMP-N200 2:45 Sony’s SMP-N200 has all the trappings of a killer streaming-media box. The spec sheet is filled with excellent services, especially on the video side, including Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu Plus, and Vudu. Unlike the Roku 2 XS, it’s also DLNA compatible and does a decent job handling your local digital media files, including …
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10 October
WD TV Live (2011) review: Full stream ahead
Following the success of the WD TV Live Hub, Western Digital has now introduced the diskless version in the new WD TV Live (2011). The new Live adds a couple more killer features, namely built-in Wi-Fi and support for the Spotify music-streaming service, to the already long list of services and file formats handled by its predecessors. And all for …
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9 October
AT&T to usher in split
Your mobile device could soon go the route of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The work side of the HTC Inspire. AT&T AT&T today unveiled AT&T Toggle, a service that allows you to create two separate and distinct identities on your smartphone or tablet. The first would be a personal account where you can freely browse the Internet, text your …
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9 October
Nexus Prime video leaks to YouTube
Days before Samsung’s Mobile Unpacked Conference, a video has hit the web claiming to be the Korean manufacturer’s “Nexus Prime” smartphone, running Ice Cream Sandwich. (Screenshot by CBSi) The phone will run Google’s latest version of its Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, intended to combine its divergent Android smartphone and tablet offerings into the one operating system. What is …
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9 October
Ice Cream Sandwich screenshots leak
Hot on the heels of a leaked video claiming to be Samsung’s Nexus Prime, screenshots have surfaced alleging to be Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of the Android operating system. (Credit: Mobilissimo) The images, hosted on Romanian website Mobilissimo, confirm Ice Cream Sandwich as being version 4.0 of the operating system and that the upcoming Samsung phone has the …
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9 October
Google, Samsung cancel 11 Oct event
update Google and Samsung have issued a statement cancelling their 11 October event, which is expected to be the launch of the Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich. Both companies have sent out an announcement stating that they have decided to “postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall”, claiming that “it is just not the right time to announce …
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9 October
Free texts to hurt carriers’ bottom line?
Apple plans to launch a new platform Wednesday that could put a big dent in wireless carriers’ bottom line. Introduced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, iMessage lets users on iOS devices chat with one another like they would send a text message. Like the BlackBerry Messenger, iMessage allows them to bypass the SMS text-messaging network–along with carriers’ texting …
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