While there were several enticing models in the leaked HTC 2010 roadmap yesterday – it’s about time someone released an Android-based candybar with QWERTY, for instance – the most interesting was undoubtedly the HTC Bravo. The company’s first Android device to use a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, perennial leak grabbers ai.rs have managed to find [...]
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Users of Android-based smartphones now have access to an app that provides a service unattainable from any of the 100,000-plus offerings in the iPhone App Store. Porn.
MiKandi, a Seattle, Washington start-up, is offering its eponymous app not through Google’s own Android Market, but from its own website, downloadable free when accessed through the Android browser.
Google, [...]
Nokia has confirmed the availability of its latest Internet Tablet, the Maemo 5 laden N900 in the US market. The launch comes after almost a months delay and amidst rumors of revised launch dates for the device.
The first Nokia device based on its latest Maemo 5 platform, the N900 is the company’s flagship smartphone. Although [...]
Shares of GPS device makers Garmin and TomTom plummeted today through a combination of their quarterly results and the launch of Google Maps Navigation. Following both low guidance for Garmin’s next quarter as well as poor results from TomTom, shares for the two fell 16.4 percent and 20.8 percent respectively and remained low through the [...]
Japan went crazy over the iPhone when it made its debut in summer last year, but China as another big Asian market for Apple seems to react differently. The iPhone officially launched in China today, offered by China Unicom, one the country’s three big cell phone carriers. But our friends over at major Chinese news [...]
