Editors’ note: Each day for 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. At the end of July, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 …
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21 July
Verizon rolls out updates to LG Ally and Droid X
Verizon Wireless has begun rolling out updates to two of its Android phones this week. Though neither the LG Ally and Droid X will get the much anticipated Froyo update, they are getting a few necessary improvements and features. As the updates are designed to clean things up and give a more unified, polished feel, casual users may not see …
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21 July
Dialed In 135: Welcome, Jessica!
We welcome Jessica Dolcourt to the cell phone team with a slew of news full of Droids, iPhones, BlackBerrys, and a healthy preview of Windows Phone 7. We also go over the week’s reviews and answer a few of your questions. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 135: Welcome Jessica! 38:20 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. …
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21 July
iPhone 4 vs. HTC Desire
Now that the wraps are off the latest iPhone it seems everyone around us is plagued with indecision. Many people we know who had made up their minds to buy an HTC Desire are now wavering, is the iPhone 4’s feature set enough to steer iPhone haters and deserters back to the Kool-Aid? The only way to settle this is …
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21 July
BBC: All TV shows to be delivered in HD by April 2011
The BBC is asking for all shows made for the corporation to be produced in high definition come April 2011. Goodbye standard definition: your time is up. With this in mind, Auntie will add a second HD channel to its line-up in September this year. BBC One HD will simultaneously broadcast everything shown on its flagship channel, BBC One. It …
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20 July
BT jacks up landline prices by ten per cent
BT is jacking up the cost of a landline phone or Internet connection. Your monthly line rental will go up by 50p from the beginning of October, bringing the yearly cost of a landline to £160. The cost of a call will rise to 10.9p from 9.9p, or during the day up to to 6.4p from 5.9p. That 10 per …
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20 July
Droid 2 could be first phone to launch with Froyo
The team over at Droid Life got their hands on a photo of what appears to be a pre-release version of the Droid 2 running Android 2.2 (Froyo). If the the device arrives on schedule next month with Froyo, it would be the first Android handset to launch with the latest version of the platform. The Droid 2 has seen …
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20 July
Jessica Dolcourt’s 10 favorite iPhone apps (CNET 100)
Editors’ note: Each day for 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. Two weeks from now, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 that you, our readers, love the …
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20 July
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T-Mobile has just announced plans to expand its HSPA+ coverage to include nearly 100 major metropolitan areas by the end of 2010. The carrier has traditionally been left behind in the high-speed data race, so it’s good to see that loyal T-Mobile customers will be rewarded for their patience. HSPA+ is currently available in nearly 50 markets, including Austin, El …
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20 July
freesat considering pay TV options, failing to understand the word ‘free’
freesat is a free satellite TV service aimed at people who don’t want to pay for TV, but still want a broader selection of channels than you see on Freeview. Oddly then, freesat has implied it might like to start up a pay TV service all of its own. It surprised us — if you want satellite TV with a …
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