Archive for July, 2010 - Page 15

Three UK Now Offering Free Samsung Galaxy S [Android Greatness Comes To Three, Tariffs Start At £35 For Two-Years]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

Great news for those of you in the UK who are looking for a subsidized Samsung Galaxy S Android phone. Carrier Three is now offering the Android superphone for free. All of their tariffs go for two-years (24 months) and [...]

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R4 And Other Flashcards Outlawed In United Kingdom [A Big Victory For Nintendo As Tools For Pirating Nintendo DS Games Are Outlawed In England]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

Good news for video game developers and publishers, bad news for would-be pirates in the United Kingdom. The government of the UK has banned the import and sale of R4 cards and other flashcart cards that allow play of pirated [...]

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T-Mobile myTouch 3G HD May End Up Being The HSPA+ Capable Smartphone? [The List Is Growing, The T-Mobile HSPA+ Capable Phone May Be The HTC Vision or the myTouch 3G HD]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

And just like that, the shortlist of possibilities for the yet to be announced HSPA+ capable phone from T-Mobile has grown. Earlier today we mentioned how the term “vanguard” was spotted by viewing the source code for the T-Mobile website. [...]

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Apple Safari 5.0.1 Now Available For Download [Apple Rolls Out Safari 5.0.1, Latest Update Adds Browser Extensions & Extension Gallery]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

Coming off a fairly busy day yesterday, Apple seems to be taking it easy with one release today. Or at least one release so far, but then again its still early in the day. As for what we are seeing [...]

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US Government Now Requires Manufacturers To Label Conflict Gadgets From Congo [Gadgets Made From "Conflict Minerals" Now Required To Be Labeled, But It May Have Negative Effect On Congolese People]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

With popular coverage, you may have heard of the so-called “conflict diamonds” in Africa. You may also be aware of alleged human rights issues in high-tech plants in China. But are you aware that your gadget may also be made [...]

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Lumigon Android Smartphone Still Coming To The US, Release Date Announced For October 20th [Lumigon T1 Android Smartphone Gets A US Release Date, Will Feature 3.2" Display, 1GHz Freescale CPU, 5MP Camera, Android 2.1]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

Its been a little while since we last heard of the Lumigon T1 smartphone. That said, it seems like the whole vaporware idea may need to be tossed out because Lumigon has taken to their official Facebook page and offered [...]

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Cincinnati Bell Getting Motorola XT720 In August [Android's Invasion Of The Regional Carrier Continues, XT720 Brings Its Tumor To Cincinnati Bell's Network]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

Sort of deja vu for us here at TFTS. I just wrote about Cellular South offering the Android 2.1 update to the HTC Hero owners on their network. At the end of the article, I waxed poetically about the regional [...]

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Motorola Continues Antennagate; Launches New Ad Touting “No Jacket Required” For The Droid X [Apple Dragged The Droid X Into Antennagate, But Motorola Fires Back With New Droid X Ad]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

Motorola has decided not to take a back seat approach to the whole antennagate incident and have fought back with a full page ad in todays issue of the NY Times. And we must say, its an ad that is [...]

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Sprint Gets First Customer Gain In Three Years [Sprint Posts Impressive Q2 Numbers, Low Churn Rate, 111k New Accounts]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

The past few years haven’t been kind for Sprint. Despite offering some of the lowest monthly plans and having some exclusives on desired phones like the Palm Pre – they’ve been shedding customers for years. Well, that all changed for [...]

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Cellular South HTC Heroes Get Android 2.1 [Don't Forget About Regional Carriers, Cell South's Customers Get Eclair Update]

By on Wednesday, 28. July 2010

Despite being ‘just’ a regional carrier mainly focused in the American South, the customers of Cellular South seem really happy and loyal to their carrier. Cellular South and HTC are repaying that a bit as HTC Hero users on Cellular [...]

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