ZTE Skate, the Chinese mobile maker’s latest smart phone, has rolled into Mobile World Congress. It’s the follow-up to the ZTE Blade — better known in the UK as the Orange San Francisco — and continues the company’s trend for making affordable Android devices that are more powerful than their price tags imply. ZTE claims …
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24 February
Minecraft digging its way on to iPhone and Android
Minecraft is digging its way on to your phone. The word-of-mouth smash-hit world-building game will be arriving on Apple iPhone and Android mobile phones some time this year. Minecraft is a Java game that’s already sold more than a million copies, despite having no publisher or advertising and still being in beta. It was developed by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” …
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23 February
Nexus One Gingerbread Android 2.3 update is being pushed out this week
Nexus One owners aren’t being left out of the Gingerbread update fun. Google is pushing out its latest Android software to the handsets this week, bringing them bang up to date with the latest features. Well, almost all of them. The Nexus One might not have sold in its millions, but many of the people who bought it have stayed …
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23 February
Cell phones and health? A debate worth having
If you cover the wireless industry, you’re never far from the ongoing debate over whether cell phones are harmful. And the debate usually goes something like this: the scientific community produces a study that explores the issue, and then the wireless industry rushes to interpret that study to its advantage. Such was the case with a report published yesterday in …
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23 February
Some Samsung Omnia 7 phones getting bricked by Windows Phone 7 update
Microsoft has pushed out a minor update to its Windows Phone 7 OS that appears to be bricking some (but not all) Samsung Omnia 7 smart phones. Amid concerns from users, Microsoft has provided details of how to fix the problem, while promising a new, working update within a few days. MobileCrunch explains that according to angry tweets from users …
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23 February
Google releases final Honeycomb SDK
Developers looking to create apps for the newest Honeycomb version of Android can now grab the final SDK from Google. Honeycomb’s logo Google The search giant released the software development kit for Android 3.0 yesterday, offering several new features that developers can incorporate into their mobile apps with the goal of publishing them directly to Google’s Android Market. This final …
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23 February
Samsung Galaxy S 4G gets carrier billing
In addition to accessing faster network speeds, T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S 4G will also get another kind of access. Phone owners who purchase movies and TV episodes through Samsung’s Media Hub will now be able to lump those fees in with their monthly phone bills. Carrier billing is a convenience that ties phone-related expenditures to a service plan rather than …
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23 February
Two months later, the Nexus One gets Gingerbread
More than two months after making its debut with the Nexus S, Gingerbread is finally coming to the Nexus One. Readers may recall hearing back in December that the HTC handset would see Android 2.3 within a “few weeks.” The same time frame was given more than once, ultimately resulting in a few months’ wait time. However, the official word …
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23 February
Dialed In 163: Mobile World Congress recap (podcast)
Mobile World Congress 2011 is over, and the gang’s back together once again, but before we say adios to MWC, we thought it’d be good to recap some of the highs and lows of the show. Plus, Nokia may have signed on with Microsoft and Windows Phone 7, but the Finnish handset manufacturer says it’s still committed to Symbian. We …
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23 February
Nexus S Android 2.3.3 update disables Facebook contact syncing
One of the most useful social features on Android handsets is the ability to sync your Facebook friends with your device contacts, so they all appear in one place. Nexus S users have a shock in store when they download this week’s Android 2.3.3 software update though: it disables the feature. What this means is you’ll only be able to …
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