Archive for April, 2011 - Page 21

The BlackBerry PlayBook launched his past week, and unlike the other major (non-Apple) tablets, it launched with no cellular versions, with only the WiFi-only model shipping to stores. Tech blogs have been speculating which carriers will be among the first to start carrying 3G and 4G versions of the BlackBerry [...]

The Motorola Droid X2 has yet to be announced by Motorola and Verizon, but, like every other cell phone these days, we already know everything about it. A few blurry spycam photos have leaked out previously, but now we have the press shots which were acquired by website PocketNow and [...]

Do you live down under but have your heart set on the Motorola Xoom? You could import a WiFi-only version from somewhere at great expense, but it now looks like Telstra will be offering the Honeycomb tablet natively with 3G connectivity sometime in the future. Website Ausdroid is reporting that [...]

Although they’re kind of hard to find, in the Android Market are “promotional apps” that Verizon creates for Android devices. They’re for the display Android phones in Verizon stores, and they show off the features of the phone, list the specs, and allegedly even won’t let you quit once its [...]

Google has announced that it will make its Chrome OS notebook available to mass market this summer. Google is reportedly exploring a subscription or lease model similar to mobile phones.

RIM’s annual expo, BlackBerry World, is the one time when the tech world is focused on them. So, you’d expect them to unveil a lot of new products, right? Well, tech blog rumors coming from reliable sources are saying that RIM is changing their plans at the last minute, and [...]

$5 million may be small change for Google, but the repercussions of this lawsuit might result in something more serious for Google and the Android ecosystem. Google–along with other companies–has been fined for allegedly infringing on Linux intellectual property. Is Android next?

According to sources, Google is in talks with European music streaming provider Spotify to possibly power the planned Android music service.

Remember how many people were shocked and offended to discover that the iPhone and iPad were keeping exact details of your location and saving them (unencrypted) to the phone? Earlier this week, Apple received a letter from US Senator Al Franken (D-MN) who was concerned about the possible breech in [...]

The proverbial unicorn of our time has been caught, friends. I speak of course about the white iPhone 4, which was announced last June with the rest of the iPhone 4s, but has been delayed, canceled and rumored to return over and over again for the past 10 months. But [...]