Archives for August, 2011

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Who is Suing whom? (with graphic chart!)

  Thomson Reuters has a very interesting and confusing graphic chart on who is suing whom in the mobile world.     It seems like every week we get a new lawsuit over some insane patent that may be years, or even decades old!  A lot of mobile users are getting tired of the lawsuits …

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iPhone 5 rumor roundup! Release in October!?

  BGR is reporting that one of their “high-level AT&T sources” has it that AT&T VP has confirmed an early October release of the heavily rumored and long awaited iPhone 5.  He apparently also told a group of managers “Expect things to get really, really busy in the next 35-50 days, so prepare your teams …

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Samsung takes supporting developers to the next level! Adds Cyanogen to their payroll…

The big news just keeps on coming, first Google buys Motorola and now Samsung has officially hired the creator of CyangenMod to their ranks. It was not too long ago Samsung pronounced their support for developers by giving away free Samsung Galaxy S2 phones to CyanogenMod developers to help support further Android development on Samsung phones. And from the looks of it, Samsung is impressed with Cyanogen’s work.

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Motogoogle???

According to this article found at Computerworld, it looks like Motorola has been purchased by Google!! What will this mean for Windows Phone 7? Nothing good, that is for sure!! Not only does it add a powerful developing market to Android but it isn’t likely we will see any Windows devices coming from Motorola either.

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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream…..Sandwiches?

With iPhone 5 on the horizon, Google needs to do something to catch/keep our interest in Android and in the highly competitive marker of smartphones aside from new devices the best way to shake things up is a new OS!!! Google is trying just this with Ice Cream Sandwich!

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HTC Aquires Dashwire!!!

HTC has made great strides to allow easier backup and syncing with our devices to a cloud network. The acquisition of Dashwire is a very interesting and possibly blockbuster idea for HTC!!

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Verizon Fall Roadmap….sneak peak anyone?

How about an early Christmas present? We have a sneak peak of the fall lineup from Verizon, and it looks sweet!!! A couple surprises, some next gen and even a couple new players in the deck for us to pick from!

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Google Maps….now with London Transit Maps

I am not sure how many members we have from London here, but Google is looking out for you (and hopefully a sign of things to come). The new version of Google Maps has been released and it has the London Underground and transit maps included in it!!

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Wholesale 4g – From Sprint?!

Another industry first comes out of Overland park Kansas; where Sprint has announced that it will offer wholesale 4G sales. What does this mean exactly? Well it just means that it will allow other ISP or cable companies to use their system to offer 4G services. they will be providing the HTC Detail 3G/4G handset …

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Clearwire Adding 120Mbps “LTE-Advanced” to it’s Holdings

Well what a shocker we have here today! We all knew that Clearwire has been struggling to keep WiMax working properly; and we also knew that they were testing LTE technology at one point in Arizona. But what we did not expect to see was this! Clearwire says that this fall they are going to be releasing LTE-Advanced

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HTC Offical Bootloader Unlock Process

So we were all excited about HTC allowing users to have unlocked bootloaders on their Android devices…Well with that comes a little pain – well to me a lot of pain. HTC released on their Facebook page the official process of unlocking your bootloader. Now it may come to a surprise that…

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[From The Forums] Backup your Android device to a cloud Network (root needed)

Kaos has recently posted about the new cool ability of Titanium backup to save backup files to a cloud server such as Dropbox. Read here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/android-apps-games/145969-drop-box-titanium-backup-titanium-media-server-love.html

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Google Mail upgrade…..the good and the bad!

Google has been updating a lot of their applications lately, but the one that jumped out at me first was Gmail!! If you use Gmail and have an Android phone take a look at what I found over at PhoneScoop:

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Layar Vision….Fun AND Functional!!

Have you ever wanted to post an article your reading from a magazine to Facebook but can’t find it online? Ever wanted to buy tickets to that concert you saw a poster for on the street….IMMEDIATELY?!?! Then read on my friend…..

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Use Too Much Data and We will Choke You off – AT&T

Are you an AT&T user that still has unlimited data? Well AT&T started a new thing today (at least it was confirmed today) that you will start to be throttled as you use their data to its max. AT&T has a few users that max out their data and although they say it is only …