Carrypad: Meego "demolishes" Android 2.2 in JavaScript test
Employing a play-on-words from Wednesday’s Ars Technica article — titled “Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks” — blog Carrypad has put MeeGo through the same Sunpsider …
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Motorola CHARM specifications
Wednesday, T-Mobile and Motorola officially announced an Android 2.1 handset named the CHARM. While the press release was nice, it did lack a certain level of detail …
AppBrain Fast Web Installer, push Android applications from the web to your phone
One of the killer features demoed at Google I/O, on Android 2.2, was the OS’ ability to install pushed applications right from Google’s Market website. …
comScore: Android gains 4 points in U.S. smartphone market share, Samsung top overall OEM
Today, analytics company comScore released their report on the “leading mobile original equipment manufacturers and smartphone operating system platforms in the U.S. according to their …
iPhone 4 bursts into flames, burns hand
One of our very close AT&T sources just sent us in these images. Yes, it’s a fried iPhone 4. Apparently a customer brought the phone …
Apple iPhone developer boasts: $1,400 in revenue from iAds in one day
iPhone developer Jason Ting has a hot app. He is the first to market with an application that will activate the iPhone 4’s built in …
Samsung Captivate to launch on AT&T July 18th, $199
AT&T has just announced that the Samsung Captivate — Ma’ Bell’s version of the Galaxy S — will be available for purchase on July the 18th (T-minus …
Ubuntu shoehorned on to Nexus One
If you really love Linux, and are a Nexus One owner, nexusonehacks.net has a tutorial for you. The site’s founder has managed to get Ubuntu …
T-Mobile U.K. iPhone 4 pricing gets pictured
Pocket-lint was sent an image that appears to detail exactly what T-Mobile U.K. customers will have to pay for a shiny new iPhone 4. T-Mo …
Daring Fireball: Microsoft sold 503 KINs
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a “well-placed” source who informed him that Microsoft sold a mere 503 KINs before the handset was given its end-of-life papers …
White iPhone 4 gets un-boxed and photographed
Do black gadgets make you feel gloomy? Does pure-white better suit your bubbly personality? If you’re an iPhone user, and white is your thing, we’ve got a …
AT&T statement: software defect is the upload bottleneck, fix in the works
AT&T has officially released a statement about why some users have been experiencing sub-par (and we do mean sub-par) upload speeds over the past several …
Motorola CHARM is official, exclusive to T-Mobile USA this summer
Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday, we saw the Motorola Charm get the blurry picture treatment, and today, Motorola has made its existence and destination official. Formally …
Ars Technica: Android 2.2 JavaScript performance "destroys" that of iOS 4
Ars Technica just pitted Google’s Android 2.2 against Apple’s iOS 4 in a JavaScript benchmark test…and Ars isn’t mincing words with their results. In a …
BlackBerry 9300, 9670, and 9800 shown on video
This is more like it, a little something new and different for the legions of BlackBerry faithful. Salomondrin has gotten his hands on three, count …
Do Android developers outnumber iPhone developers?
Do Android developers outnumber iPhone developers? If you believe this survey of 401 mobile developers than yes, yes they do. Vision Mobile, a “market analysis and …
Motorola Charm gets photographed, to hit T-Mobile soon
TmoNews has gotten their hands on an image of the Android-powered Motorola Charm which, by all accounts, appears due to land on T-Mobile in the …
Adobe demos Flash 10.1 running on DROID X
In a brief blog post, and two-plus minute video, Adobe, Inc. demoed Flash 10.1 running on the yet-to-be released Motorola DROID X. Adobe Sr. Technology …
AT&T throttling upload speeds?
Rumors are starting to fly around the the interwebs about the alleged throttling of upload speeds by everyones favorite wireless carrier AT&T (note: sarcasm). Users are reporting …
iPhone 4 carrier unlock looms, dev-team making progress
Dev-team member MuscleNerd gave an update — via Twitter — on the carrier unlock progress of the iPhone 4…and so far, things are looking up. …
HTC sees profits jump 33%, revenue 58% year-over-year
The WSJ is reporting that Taiwanese handset maker HTC saw Q2 unaudited net profits rise 33% in 2010. Some key metrics from HTC’s Q2 include: …
CDMA BlackBerry Curve 9300 crosses FCC's desk
It looks like the FCC has just released the approval documents for the next iteration of the BlackBerry Curve, the 9300. Packing a CDMA radio, …
Apple nixes 10% restocking fee on iPhone 4 returns
Computerworld is reporting that Apple has temporarily suspend their standard 10% restocking fee for returns of the iPhone 4. Computerworld writes: An AppleCare support representative who …
Apple stores opening early for second iPhone 4 launch on the 7th?
We’ve heard whispers that Apple stores might be opening early at 8AM on July 7th for a second iPhone 4 “launch”.
Nexus One Froyo update gets update, FRF91 available OTA
A few days ago, Google officially released Android 2.2 (Froyo) Build FRF85 to its army of Nexus One owners. Yesterday, Google began making a small update to …
Apple releases statement about iPhone reception, fix due in "a few weeks"
Apple has released a statement regarding reception issues with the iPhone 4. The statement, which is in letter format, cites the “formula” Apple uses “to …
HP finalizes Palm acquisition
Today, HP announced that it has officially completed the acquisition of Palm. The former Palm business unit will continue with webOS development under the leadership …
Samsung to cut AMOLED power consumption by 50%, double lifespan by end of 2011
Display-centric blog oled-display.net is reporting that Samsung’s mobile display division will double the lifespan of its much sought-after AMOLED displays (from 50 kilowatt hours to …
UPDATED: Apple and AT&T hit with first iPhone 4 class action lawsuit
Giz got their hands We got our hands on an official court document that details the first (of we’re sure many) class action lawsuits that …
HTC EVO 4G software updates resume
The folks from HTC just sent us a note informing us that the over-the-air software update for the EVO 4G — that was pulled yesterday …
