Dell Streak owners should be getting a new and improved tablet experience thanks to an Android 2.1 update out on September 1 from O2, according to The Really Mobile Project. In a blog post from the site on Monday, Ben Smith, a public sector management consultant, wrote that owners would be able to upgrade to …
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31 August
Samsung Messager Touch lands at Cricket
Cricket Wireless, the little carrier with big plans to go national, added yet another handset to its lineup Tuesday. The Samsung Messager Touch comes hot on the heels of the Android-powered Sanyo Zio, which had its formal introduction last week. The Messager Touch isn’t a smartphone, but it offers a slider design with a full keyboard, messaging and multimedia features, …
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31 August
Palm WebOS 2.0 beta available to developers
Though we’re still waiting to see what comes out of the HP-Palm merger, Palm’s still plugging away on WebOS and released some new information about WebOS 2.0 on Tuesday. The news mostly affects developers, as they can now download a beta version of the WebOS 2.0, but Palm also gave us a glimpse of what’s to come and we’re pretty …
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31 August
LG E900 with Windows Phone 7 could pack 1.3GHz Snapdragon processor
LG has been making some impressive noises about a new range of smart phones, and the latest leak is of a Windows Phone 7 which could be carrying a mighty 1.3GHz Snapdragon processor. Polish website Android.com.pl published pictures and videos of the LG E900, which has a 3.7-inch capacitive TFT LCD display and is said to be carrying a 1.3GHz …
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31 August
Netflix for iPhone: Tap That App
Now playing: Watch this: Stream Netflix on your iPhone 2:14 Hulu Plus may have been the first major entertainment app to stream television shows and movies on Apple’s iOS 4, but now it’s facing stiff competition from Netflix for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, which has also now taken up residence in the App Store. So how is Netflix’s streaming …
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31 August
First official look at T
T-Mobile G2 T-Mobile It appears that the first official images of the forthcoming T-Mobile G2 have found their way online. And I like what I see so far. Besides looking very polished in its T-Mobile branding, the phone features a spacious four-row slideout QWERTY keyboard and an optical trackpad, in addition to the four soft buttons across the bottom. Given …
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31 August
Nokia C6
The C6 was only recently picked up by Vodafone, but more details have emerged about the C6-01, which you may be able to buy by the middle of September, after this year’s Nokia World. There have been conflicting reports, but we think the C6-01 might have the Symbian 3 OS upgrade, as claimed by Mobile Geek Inc, rather than keeping …
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31 August
Karaoke + rhythm game = Lyric Legend
Best known for its social music- and lyric-finding service, TuneWiki launched a new venture Tuesday in the form of a game with a slightly different take on music discovery. Lyric Legend is a free app that combines aspects of a karaoke and a rhythm game into one visually stimulating package. I downloaded the app onto an iPhone 3GS to give …
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31 August
Samsung Epic 4G now available from Sprint
Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Epic 4G (Sprint) 3:24 If you’ve been waiting for the Samsung Epic 4G, it can now be yours, as Sprint’s second 4G smartphone hits the streets Tuesday. The Epic 4G will run you $249.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. However, you can also pick up the phone at Best Buy …
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31 August
PapayaMobile launches Android App of the Day
PapayaMobile Papaya is best known for its mobile social platform dubbed PapayaMobile, which offers a variety of features from gaming to chat to photo sharing. Unlike many others in the space, PapayaMobile recently elected to abandon support for the iPhone OS in favor of focusing all of its efforts on Android apps. The benefit of this is the open-source nature …
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