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Motorola Milestone Coming To Spain With Orange

Milestone Droid Being Offered In Spain Via Orange, Can They Get The Localization Right?
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

The Motorola Milestone (known as the Droid in the United States) is Motorola’s flagship Android device, and now, it’s coming to Spain again, this time, with a carrier. The popular Android device was previously sold in Spain directly from Motorola unlocked, but now, they’re selling it with a contract from [...]

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Samsung Announces Galaxy S Smartphone

New Smartphone Features Huge 4-inch Super OLED Screen, 1GHz Processor, DLNA Compatibility
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

The CTIA trade show is going on this week in Las Vegas and early in the show, Samsung has made a splash by announcing their Galaxy S smartphone in a press conference. Although it’s early, the phone is looking like it’ll be a pretty awesome addition to Samsung’s (sometimes) weak [...]

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Swype and Samsung Omnia II Set Guinness World Record for Texting

World Record of 35.54 Seconds Set by Franklin Page, Immortalized in a Commercial]
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

Showing off its prowess as a touchscreen entry tool, Swype and Samsung have announced in a press release that they have set a new Guinness World Record for texting on a touchscreen phone. The honors of holding the position of the world’s fastest touchscreen texter goes to Franklin Page, a [...]

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Novatel Wireless Unveil The NovaDrive, A Cloud Based Storage Service

Unlimited Cloud Based Storage, Along With 256 Bit Encryption & Remote Wipe Now Available For MiFi Users
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

One of my favorite devices, and also the one that keeps me productive when out and about is the MiFi. Here in the US you can pick one up with either Sprint or Verizon Wireless. The MiFi devices are identical (aside from the exterior color) between both carriers and should [...]

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Kyocera Zio Android-Powered Smartphone Announced

Zio Smartphone Delivers Android On The Cheap
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

For the first time in recent memory, Kyocera has news about a new smartphone product.  The mobile device manufacturer has re-entered the smartphone market thanks to the popularity (and price) of the Android mobile OS, officially announcing the Kyocera Zio Android Smartphone earlier today.

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Jolicloud OS Makes The Switch From Mozilla To Chrome

Jolicloud OS Ditches Mozilla Prism In Favor Of Google Chrome For Web Apps
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

If you are a netbook user and have not yet checked out the Jolicloud OS, you may want to give it a quick look or two. Just to offer a quick explanation about what Jolicloud is, it is a Linux based operating system that is built on Ubuntu. It favors [...]

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Mozilla to Stop Development on Firefox Mobile for Windows Phone 7 & Windows Mobile

Mozilla Not to Develop Firefox Mobile for Microsoft Mobile Operating Systems
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

According to a blog post by Stuart Parmenter, Mobile Team Technical Lead for Mozilla, Mozilla has made the decision to halt development of Firefox Mobile for both Windows Mobile and the upcoming Windows Phone 7. Mozilla has previously shown an interest in Microsoft’s mobile platform as Firefox Mobile for Windows [...]

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32GB microSDHC Card Coming from SanDisk for $199.99

SanDisk Announces World’s First 32GB microSDHC Card; Future Windows Phone 7 Owners Shed a Tear
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

SanDisk is the first manufacturer out there to launch a 32GB microSDHC card and we can only congratulate it for that accomplishment. If you ask me it was time we moved up to 32GB since our smartphones, and smarter cameras, are going to be able to do more and more [...]

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Archos 9 PC Tablet Get A Refresh

Archos Updates The Archos 9 PC Tablet, Now Sporting a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z515 Processor]
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

Archos has silently offered an update on their Archos 9 PC tablet and as a little perk they have kept the price the same. Of course, the update was only for one piece of the hardware — the processor. So keeping the price the same sort of makes sense in [...]

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iPhone to Get Opera Mini Mobile Internet Browser Soon?

Opera Mini Already Submitted for Apple App Store Approval; Mobile Safari Drunk in a Bar]
By on Tuesday, 23. March 2010

If Opera Mini and Mobile Safari would have been real people, one would be almost celebrating right now while the other would be drunk in a shady bar even though it’s still morning/afternoon depending on the time zone from where you’re reading this. Luckily they are just software solutions for [...]

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