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| | | | |  More owners of an HTC Sensation smartphone are now able to unlock the bootloaders on their devices, the leading handset vendor announced.
Earlier this month, the Taiwanese mobile phone maker started to unlock the bootloaders on its high-end Android-based devices.
The HTC Sensation smartphone model on the European m... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  It looks like India's second 3D smartphone is about to make its debut, as HTC has just confirmed that the HTC EVO 3D will be available very soon for Rs. 35,990 (about $780).
The EVO 3D has a fierce competitor on the Indian market, as LG already launched its Optimus 3D on the market, a few weeks ago.
However, the EVO 3D comes ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Vodafone Australia is yet another mobile phone carrier in the world which started to release the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system update for the owners of a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 smartphone on its airwaves.
The handset is running under Google's Android 2.1 operating system flavor at the moment, after bein... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  It looks like the Motorola DEFY+ will be available in the UK starting next month, Motorola Mobility claims.
Built on the Motorola DEFY's success, the DEFY+ delivers improved performance and new features, water-resistant properties and dust-proof design.
The phone is IP67 certified against scratch... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  No later than last week Foursquare application for Android device received a new look and several new tweaks that made it easier to navigate.
A new update has just been applied to the Android app, which brings even more new features, as well as lots of redesigned screens.
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| | | | |  Motorola Mobility has just announced that availability of the Milestone 3 Android smartphone in Brazil starting this week.
No price options have been revealed for the handset, but Motorola stated that the Milestone 3 will also be available in other countries across Latin America by the end of September.
Obviously, t... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Owners of mobile phones running under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system have now a new application available for them for download, bringing great news reading features on devices, namely Fuse.
The new mobile application is a newsreader developed exclusively for devices running under the Windows Phone operating system, one that already... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  HP might have announced that they planned on killing off the HP TouchPad business, but enthusiasts would just not leave the tablet PC die.
An Android port for the device is now under development, and should soon offer users the possibility to run Google's mobile operating system on it.
The TouchPad was de... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Samsung Wave 3, the latest flagship smartphone that the South Korean mobile phone maker plans on bringing to the market with the bada OS on board, is now official, along with two other handsets from the company, namely the Wave M and the Wave Y.
All three will be put up for sale with the bada 2.0 platform on board, which ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Australian wireless carrier Tesltra is reportedly gearing up for the release of at least two new tablet PCs that would run under Google's Android operating system, one coming from Samsung, and another one from Motorola.
Rumor has it that the company would be set to have the yet-unannounced Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet PC available for purc... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Nokia has already made official its first ever handset to run under the MeeGo operating system, the Nokia N9, and the company announced that it will not launch another similar device on the market, though it seems that enthusiasts are already dreaming at a successor for it.
The Nokia N902 concept phone is one handset that might be able to easily... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Samsung Galaxy S II is not the slimmest smartphone available on the market and it never was. The world's thinnest smartphone is manufactured by NEC and is only 7.7mm thick, 0.8mm slimmer than Samsung's Android flasghip smartphone.
Dubbed MEDIAS N-04C, the handset was launched back in February via Japanese carrier NTT Docom... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  What might become a new BlackBerry smartphone in the more or less distant future seems to have just leaked into the wild, offering us a glimpse at what RIM might soon have in store for us.
What can be seen in the images that emerged into the wild courtesy of Chinese website MaxPDA includes a full-QWERTY BlackBerry device that su... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A new Android-based tablet PC is now available for purchase in India, featuring one of the most affordable price tags any similar device sports, namely INR 9,499.
The new tablet PC arrives on shelves with pretty impressive specs and capabilities, such as its 7-inch WVGA TFT LCD touchscreen display, or the triple-core applicatio... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  While the world prepares to receive the latest 4G LTE Android devices expected to be showcased at IFA 2011, in Berlin, Telstra is about to launch the HTC Wildfire S smartphone on prepaid.
Unveiled back in February at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, the Wildfire S will be available on Telstra Prepaid sometim... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A new tablet PC is now available for purchase in Canada, the Acer Iconia A100, a 7-inch device that runs under Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system.
The new mobile device was already made available for purchase in a series of other markets around the world, and is now up for grabs for Android enthusiasts in Canada as ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Blancspot Media has just announced that its popular Blancspot News application for Apple iOS has been ported on the Android platform.
The interactive news application is a news aggregator that provides users with a cinematic view of global events on their Android smartphones, while on the move.
The applica... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Sony Ericsson has just announced the new winner of their Sony Ericsson Xperia Hot Shots competition in the person of Sabine Lisicki from Germany.
As the winner of mobile phone maker's competition, Sabine Lisicki received a life-changing support prize worth €100,000, the company announced.
Six months ago,... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The mobile division of Electronic Arts, EA Mobile has just announced the availability of the Tetris game for Android devices.
One of the most popular franchises in the world, Tetris was published over 50 platforms and more than 185 countries since its launch in 1984.
The games was created by Russian computer engineer Alexey Paj... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  One month after delivering Android fans living in UAE the Xperia neo, Sony Ericsson decided to introduce another smartphone from the Xperia family, the mini.
The handset will be available starting this week from major electronic stores in the country for a suggested retail price of AED 999 (about $272).
The small and compact ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Three weeks after Research in Motion announced its new range of BlackBerry 7 devices and the smartphones are already available from most carriers in Canada.
BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 9810 and Torch 9860 were announced in the first week of August and have been priced differently in Canada, depending... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A new version of the Nokia 3D World Gaze mobile application is now available for download for all devices running under Symbian^3 or newer flavors of the mobile platform.
The new application release brings along a wide range of features and enhancements, the release notes show.
Among them, we can count pinch zooming and a new... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is reportedly gearing up for the release of a new high-end Android-based mobile phone on its airwaves, one that might arrive on shelves under the name of DROID Prime.
Manufactured by Samsung, the new device will bring along the first taste of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, if some of t... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The design arm of ALTEN Group, Calsoft Labs has just announced it has reached an agreement with Freescale to certify Adobe Flash Player on i.MX51 applications processor platform.
Under agreement, Calsoft Labs will be allowed to commercially distribute Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on Freescale's i.MX51 development plat... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Three new Fujitsu mobile phones available via NTT Docomo carrier have been gifted with AuthenTec's AES1750 smart fingerprint sensor.
The docomo PRIME series F-09C, docomo STYLE series F-10C and docomo SMART series F-11C waterproof phones incorporate AuthenTec's AES1750 smart sensor for multiple touch-powered... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  If you live in Norway and you were keen on learning when the new Windows Phone Mango mobile platform from Microsoft might be released on shelves in the country, you will certainly be happy to learn that this might happen in about one month from now.
Dubbed Windows Phone 7.5, Mango is expected to make its official debut on the loca... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Another Samsung Android smartphone has just appeared in the wild courtesy to the popular NenaMark benchmark.
Codenamed Samsung SHV-E120L, the device is equipped with a single core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, which is complemented by the latest Adreno 220 GPU (graphics processing unit).
The phone is li... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Symbian Anna is currently rolling out on mobile phones that landed on shelves with the Symbian^3 platform on board, bringing along a nice range of enhancements, some of which are related to the handset's browser, while others improved the emailing capabilities of devices.
The new OS flavor comes around with the new Nokia Browser (V7.... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  LG is close to marking another world's first, as the company announced it will demonstrate an OpenGL-based 2D to 3D game conversion engine for smartphones, at IFA 2011 in Berlin.
According to LG, the 3D Game Converter application will be included in the first Maintenance Release (MR) of the LG Optimus 3D smar... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Later this week during the IFA 2011 conference in Berlin, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is expected to bring to the market a new Galaxy Tab device, one that would be only a little larger than the original tablet PC.
Supposedly dubbed Galaxy Tab 7.7, the tablet PC was spotted in Samsung's Unpacked application t... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  After upgrading its office solution for Android smartphones, Quickoffice has just announced that Quickoffice Pro HD for Honeycomb tablets has updated with new features and performance improvements.
With the new custom-build application for Honeycomb tablets, users are provided with a single-screen, multi-pane document ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  LTE (Long Term Evolution) connectivity might have been the only feature that Samsung's flagship Galaxy S II missed before, but things have already changed.
The South Korean mobile phone maker unveiled to the world an LTE-enabled flavor of the device, one that also packs upgraded hardware specifications when compared to the alrea... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Owners of a Motorola ATRIX smartphone on the airwaves of wireless carrier Telstra in Australia will soon be able to upgrade their devices to a new version of Google's Android operating system.
The wireless services provider is currently gearing up for the release of Android 2.3 Gingerbread for the handset, and aims at ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  This fall, another CDMA carrier in the United States should make the Apple iPhone available for its customers, namely Sprint, and the move seems to have been confirmed via an internal memory from the company.
It has been long rumored that Sprint too will receive the new iPhone 5 from Apple, but no solid proof of that emerged ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  One of the first African handset manufacturers, Mi-Fi has just launched five new budget Android smartphones, the Mi-A100, Mi-A150, Mi-A160, Mi-A350 and Mi-A300.
According to Mi-Fone, all devices will be available on the market starting with September at select retail stores in African countries, including Kenya, South Afri... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Korean handset manufacturer LG and National Geographic have just announced a partnership that will bring 3D content to users.
According to LG, all content will be shot with the Optimus 3D, the world’s first glasses-free full 3D smartphone with the tri-dual architecture, by several famous photographers.
Under ... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to launch its first Windows Phone Mango-based devices as soon as this week, and the HTC Omega is expected to be one of them.
The smartphone has made it to the headlines quite a few times before, and it seems that it should not be too long before HTC makes it official as... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | |  In an attempt to bring back the former glory of its products, Nokia is struggling to fill the technological gap with its rivals.
However, the partnership with Microsoft, which is meant to bring Nokia's phones among the most popular on the market once again, won't be enough.
It appears that Nokia continues to... (read more) | | | | | |
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| | | | | Roughly two weeks ago, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the release of a software update for its Symbian^3-powered smartphones, namely Symbian Anna, and the OS upgrade is available now in more countries around the world.
Initially made available in a number of a little over 17 countries, the software update can be accessed at the moment by users in more than 7 new countries too.
The list of markets where the Symbian Anna OS upgrade was made available now in... (read more) | | | | | |
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