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I keep hearing about Windows tablets. Steve Ballmer got up on stage with an HP slate at last year's CES, and nobody was particularly impressed. Now we're hearing rumors that he'll give it another shot this year, perhaps even revealing a bit about Windows 8 (I don't think that's likely, given that we do...

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Rumors of the elusive iPhone "nano" circulated almost two years ago and seemed to die quietly then, unlike Verizon iPhone rumors which continued until the device actually came into existence and launched this week. The same fate might be taking its toll on the iPhone nano as rumors, w...

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Samsung's MWC 2011 presentation is this Sunday, at 6PM Central European Time (midday for those on the American east coast). We already know it will feature a dual-core evolution to the Galaxy S smartphone and we know for a fact there'll be at least one new tablet on show. Pocket-lint is today filling i...

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Verizon Wireless customers are mere days away from having the privilege to pre-order iPhone4s. Verizon will offer a CDMA EVDO version of the iPhone 4 starting February 10, thus signaling the end of Apple's iPhone exclusivity deal with AT&T. Existing Verizon Wireless customers will be able to...

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Apple Inc. has started manufacturing a new version of its iPad tablet computer with a built-in camera and faster processor, said people familiar with the matter, The new iPad will be thinner and lighter than the first model, these people said. It will have at least one camera on the front of the device...

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Just for the record: an $800 price tag on the Motorola Xoom - the first tablet PC running Android 3 (aka Honeycomb) - is way too high. Details are leaking out today, via a post on Engadget, that Best Buy will start selling the Xoom on Feb. 24 for $799.99. And it appears that there will be some tiered pricing...

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T-Mobile USA has done this before -- offering all of its phones for free under a limited-time promotion. But the timing of this one is particularly interesting, on the Friday and Saturday following the long-awaited Feb. 10 launch of the iPhone 4 on Verizon. The Bellevue-based wireless provider tod...

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In the continued investigation of the mysterious Windows Phone 7 phantom data usage, Rafael Rivera has managed to beat Microsoft to the punch and proclaim Yahoo email as the culprit. The mysterious 'phantom' data appeared earlier this month, using excess bandwidth on a users phone, leaving some c...

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BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) released the first BlackBerry smartphone running its "BlackBerry 6" mobile OS just six months ago, but the company is already hard at work on the next major BlackBerry OS device software update, BlackBerry 6.1. Thanks to a wealth of informati...

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If you just bought a new Verizon phone over the holiday season--before you knew that Verizon was going to carry the iPhone 4--and you feel kind of cheated, Verizon understands. The company is offering up to $200 to users who purchased a Verizon phone over the holidays, when they buy a new iPhone 4 and tu...

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According to information leaked from an anonymous Verizon employee, Motorola’s Xoom, a tablet running the long-anticipated Android Honeycomb, will sell for $800. We got a good look at Xoom during CES this year. It is unique for several reasons. First, it, along with the Droid Bionic and a lineup of...

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This week, a spate of stores reported that an Acer sales executive had predicted the slow death of netbooks as tablets take off. Some took the news as an opportunity to tap-dance on the netbook's grave. But now Acer is saying that it was all a big misunderstanding. Here's a bit of a statement the company...

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There was online excitement earlier today as a video was posted onto YouTube, then swiftly removed, showing parts for what appeared to be an as-yet unreleased iPhone, which has been speculated as the Verizon version or iPhone 5. It was put up by Global Direct Parts, and showed some components on an un...

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Nvidia is set to roll out the next-generation Tegra 3 chip aimed at smartphones and tablets, promising to be even faster than its current processor, which was one of the stars of CES 2011, the dual-core Tegra 2. While Nvidia hasn’t officially announced the processor yet, the Tegra 3′s impending laun...

barney · barney

Sometimes the sheer wrongness of what is posted on the web leaves us speechless. Especially when it’s picked up and repeated as gospel by otherwise reputable sites like Engadget. “Google copied Oracle’s Javacode, pasted in a new license, and shipped it,” they reported this morning. Sorry, but tha...

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ChangeWave Research released the results of a recent study today which asked current mobile carrier customers to predict their behavior in the coming months and focused heavily on Verizon Wireless in relation to other cellphone providers in the United States. The survey, which questioned more...

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Ladies and gentlemen, the day has finally arrived: The Verizon iPhone is officially a reality. No joke: Unlike the past 7.2 billion times the iPhone's Verizon launch was absolutely, definitely confirmed to be imminent, Apple's prized product is actually making its way to Big Red this go-round. Th...

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With iPhone joining the best wireless carrier in North America, and 4G LTE Android devices soon to follow, is RIM’s BlackBerry business due for some heavy turbulence? So, it happened. Today, after years of speculation, Verizon Wireless finally got the iPhone. A lot of armchair quarterbacking is ...

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One of the (few) surprises during yesterday’s big announcement was that Verizon iPhones will be getting personal hotspots. They won’t be alone. According to BGR, it has been “confirmed” that the personal hotspot feature will be rolled out to all iPhones regardless of carrier with iOS 4.3. (Natura...

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Google made a surprise appearance at Verizon’s CES 2011 keynote on Thursday, and it turned out to be the hit of the event. Google provided a 10-minute live demo of Android 3.0 Honeycomb in action, running on the Motorola Xoom tablet. I was sitting in the front row at the event and took this video clip of n...

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A rumour has been floating around the Internet about the possibility to the iPad 2 announcement in the coming weeks. The announcement could be on February 1 to introduce the all new tablet. Kevin Rose, who is usually very accurate with these predictions and rumours, suggests that the iPad 2 announce...

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Verizon's holding a special event on January 11. They're announcing the Verizon iPhone. We're almost certain of it, and here's why: There's been a Verizon event making the rounds—it's next Tuesday, January 11th. The invite has been sent to MG Siegler of Techcrunch and Jim Dalrymple of Loop Insight...

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Word out of CES is that Intel execs revealed their true feelings about Windows 7 on tablets at an event last night. Apparently, they lobbied for Microsoft to make a more tablet-friendly OS. Microsoft said no. In addition to pushing for a new tablet os from the Redmond, Wa company, he also expressed sen...

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Companies have turned to Internet videos to leap ahead of rivals in announcing their new products at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, or at least to create buzz around their launches. Asustek Computer, for example, put out a video on its YouTube channel for the Asustek E...

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Netbook pioneer Asustek Computer unveiled four new tablet devices on Tuesday, including the 10.1-inch touchscreen Eee Pad Slider with the latest version of Google's Android mobile OS, Honeycomb, and the 12-inch touchscreen Eee Slate E121, which has Microsoft's Windows 7 OS. The company is amon...

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Australian blogger and technology enthusiast, Chris Walsh noticed (and tweeted) moments ago that Amazon’s extremely popular Kindle client is now available for WP7. The application is already available on most other smartphone platforms, and whilst its arrival on WP7 might not mean a lot to some...

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We're not exactly sure of the cause of this fancy new issue affecting Apple's super cool iPhone line of cellphones, but apparently you've got trouble come 1/1/2011. According to an explosive stream of frustration-filled tweets on the Twitter microblogging service, when the clock strikes midnig...

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Android users are fuming over a bug in Google's mobile OS that causes SMS messages to be sent to contacts other than the one chosen, or even to an entirely random contact. To make matters worse, a bug report on the Android developer's forum shows that Google has been aware of the bug - for some reason rate...

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With hundreds of thousands of mobile apps already available, you might think that we don't need any more. But you'd be wrong. Even with all of the apps out there for the iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerrys, and other smart devices, we still want -- and need -- more. Here are the mobile...

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New year means a new price for the Verizon-branded Galaxy Tab. Droid-Life has received word from a couple of VZW store employees that the big red network intends to chop a nice $100 chunk off its price for the 7-inch Android tablet. Though this move hasn't yet been made official, the Galaxy Tab should s...

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	Windows 7 Tablets are a Terrible Idea (Preview) I keep hearing about Windows tablets. Steve Ballmer got up on stage with an HP slate at last year's CES, and nobody was particularly impressed. Now we're hearing rumors that he'll give it another shot this year, perhaps even revealing a bit about Windows 8 (I don't think that's likely, given that we do...	barney	0	329	Feb 12, 2011 by barney
	iPhone Nano resurfaces: Apple working on smaller, cheaper model (Preview) Rumors of the elusive iPhone "nano" circulated almost two years ago and seemed to die quietly then, unlike Verizon iPhone rumors which continued until the device actually came into existence and launched this week. The same fate might be taking its toll on the iPhone nano as rumors, w...	barney	0	175	Feb 12, 2011 by barney
	Samsung preparing a 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 2 with Honeycomb for this Sunday? (Preview) Samsung's MWC 2011 presentation is this Sunday, at 6PM Central European Time (midday for those on the American east coast). We already know it will feature a dual-core evolution to the Galaxy S smartphone and we know for a fact there'll be at least one new tablet on show. Pocket-lint is today filling i...	barney	0	198	Feb 12, 2011 by barney
	Verizon iPhone Orders: Let the Madness Begin (Preview) Verizon Wireless customers are mere days away from having the privilege to pre-order iPhone4s. Verizon will offer a CDMA EVDO version of the iPhone 4 starting February 10, thus signaling the end of Apple's iPhone exclusivity deal with AT&T. Existing Verizon Wireless customers will be able to...	barney	4	259	Feb 10, 2011 by Vindicated
	Apple's New iPad in Production (Preview) Apple Inc. has started manufacturing a new version of its iPad tablet computer with a built-in camera and faster processor, said people familiar with the matter, The new iPad will be thinner and lighter than the first model, these people said. It will have at least one camera on the front of the device...	barney	2	234	Feb 9, 2011 by barney
	If it's really priced at $800, Motorola's Xoom won't stand a chance against iPad (Preview) Just for the record: an $800 price tag on the Motorola Xoom - the first tablet PC running Android 3 (aka Honeycomb) - is way too high. Details are leaking out today, via a post on Engadget, that Best Buy will start selling the Xoom on Feb. 24 for $799.99. And it appears that there will be some tiered pricing...	barney	1	217	Feb 9, 2011 by Vindicated
	T-Mobile to offer ALL of its phones for FREE! (Preview) T-Mobile USA has done this before -- offering all of its phones for free under a limited-time promotion. But the timing of this one is particularly interesting, on the Friday and Saturday following the long-awaited Feb. 10 launch of the iPhone 4 on Verizon. The Bellevue-based wireless provider tod...	barney	0	184	Feb 9, 2011 by barney
	Microsoft confirms Yahoo as phantom data culprit (Preview) In the continued investigation of the mysterious Windows Phone 7 phantom data usage, Rafael Rivera has managed to beat Microsoft to the punch and proclaim Yahoo email as the culprit. The mysterious 'phantom' data appeared earlier this month, using excess bandwidth on a users phone, leaving some c...	barney	0	185	Feb 2, 2011 by barney
	BlackBerry 6.1: New Features in RIM's Upcoming Mobile OS (Preview) BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) released the first BlackBerry smartphone running its "BlackBerry 6" mobile OS just six months ago, but the company is already hard at work on the next major BlackBerry OS device software update, BlackBerry 6.1. Thanks to a wealth of informati...	barney	0	126	Jan 29, 2011 by barney
	Verizon Offers $200 Toward iPhone 4 Upgrade (Preview) If you just bought a new Verizon phone over the holiday season--before you knew that Verizon was going to carry the iPhone 4--and you feel kind of cheated, Verizon understands. The company is offering up to $200 to users who purchased a Verizon phone over the holidays, when they buy a new iPhone 4 and tu...	barney	2	257	Jan 24, 2011 by Vindicated
	Motorola’s First Android Tablet to Retail for $800 (Preview) According to information leaked from an anonymous Verizon employee, Motorola’s Xoom, a tablet running the long-anticipated Android Honeycomb, will sell for $800. We got a good look at Xoom during CES this year. It is unique for several reasons. First, it, along with the Droid Bionic and a lineup of...	barney	0	197	Jan 23, 2011 by barney
	Netbooks Not Dead Yet (Preview) This week, a spate of stores reported that an Acer sales executive had predicted the slow death of netbooks as tablets take off. Some took the news as an opportunity to tap-dance on the netbook's grave. But now Acer is saying that it was all a big misunderstanding. Here's a bit of a statement the company...	barney	0	174	Jan 23, 2011 by barney
	New iPhone 5 details leaked (Preview) There was online excitement earlier today as a video was posted onto YouTube, then swiftly removed, showing parts for what appeared to be an as-yet unreleased iPhone, which has been speculated as the Verizon version or iPhone 5. It was put up by Global Direct Parts, and showed some components on an un...	barney	0	183	Jan 23, 2011 by barney
	Smartphones and Tablets to Get Even Faster With Nvidia’s Tegra 3 Chip (Preview) Nvidia is set to roll out the next-generation Tegra 3 chip aimed at smartphones and tablets, promising to be even faster than its current processor, which was one of the stars of CES 2011, the dual-core Tegra 2. While Nvidia hasn’t officially announced the processor yet, the Tegra 3′s impending laun...	barney	0	197	Jan 22, 2011 by barney
	Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android (Preview) Sometimes the sheer wrongness of what is posted on the web leaves us speechless. Especially when it’s picked up and repeated as gospel by otherwise reputable sites like Engadget. “Google copied Oracle’s Javacode, pasted in a new license, and shipped it,” they reported this morning. Sorry, but tha...	barney	0	177	Jan 22, 2011 by barney
	26% of AT&T iPhone users will switch to Verizon (Preview) ChangeWave Research released the results of a recent study today which asked current mobile carrier customers to predict their behavior in the coming months and focused heavily on Verizon Wireless in relation to other cellphone providers in the United States. The survey, which questioned more...	barney	0	204	Jan 15, 2011 by barney
	Verizon iPhone Arrives: Is Android In Trouble? (Preview) Ladies and gentlemen, the day has finally arrived: The Verizon iPhone is officially a reality. No joke: Unlike the past 7.2 billion times the iPhone's Verizon launch was absolutely, definitely confirmed to be imminent, Apple's prized product is actually making its way to Big Red this go-round. Th...	barney	2	222	Jan 13, 2011 by Vindicated
	Verizon iPhone, LTE Androids: Dark Clouds Ahead for RIM's BlackBerry? (Preview) With iPhone joining the best wireless carrier in North America, and 4G LTE Android devices soon to follow, is RIM’s BlackBerry business due for some heavy turbulence? So, it happened. Today, after years of speculation, Verizon Wireless finally got the iPhone. A lot of armchair quarterbacking is ...	barney	0	188	Jan 12, 2011 by barney
	All iPhones will reportedly get personal hotspots with iOS 4.3 (Preview) One of the (few) surprises during yesterday’s big announcement was that Verizon iPhones will be getting personal hotspots. They won’t be alone. According to BGR, it has been “confirmed” that the personal hotspot feature will be rolled out to all iPhones regardless of carrier with iOS 4.3. (Natura...	barney	0	194	Jan 12, 2011 by barney
	Google's surprise demo of Android 3.0 Honeycomb (Preview) Google made a surprise appearance at Verizon’s CES 2011 keynote on Thursday, and it turned out to be the hit of the event. Google provided a 10-minute live demo of Android 3.0 Honeycomb in action, running on the Motorola Xoom tablet. I was sitting in the front row at the event and took this video clip of n...	barney	0	139	Jan 10, 2011 by barney
	Rumour: iPad 2 announcement on February 1 (Preview) A rumour has been floating around the Internet about the possibility to the iPad 2 announcement in the coming weeks. The announcement could be on February 1 to introduce the all new tablet. Kevin Rose, who is usually very accurate with these predictions and rumours, suggests that the iPad 2 announce...	barney	0	188	Jan 10, 2011 by barney
	The Verizon iPhone Will Be Announced on January 11 (Preview) Verizon's holding a special event on January 11. They're announcing the Verizon iPhone. We're almost certain of it, and here's why: There's been a Verizon event making the rounds—it's next Tuesday, January 11th. The invite has been sent to MG Siegler of Techcrunch and Jim Dalrymple of Loop Insight...	barney	0	212	Jan 8, 2011 by barney
	Even Intel Hates Windows 7 Tablets (Preview) Word out of CES is that Intel execs revealed their true feelings about Windows 7 on tablets at an event last night. Apparently, they lobbied for Microsoft to make a more tablet-friendly OS. Microsoft said no. In addition to pushing for a new tablet os from the Redmond, Wa company, he also expressed sen...	barney	0	194	Jan 8, 2011 by barney
	Dell, Asus, Motorola offer previews of tablets (Preview) Companies have turned to Internet videos to leap ahead of rivals in announcing their new products at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, or at least to create buzz around their launches. Asustek Computer, for example, put out a video on its YouTube channel for the Asustek E...	barney	0	208	Jan 5, 2011 by barney
	Asustek unveils Android Honeycomb, Windows 7 tablets (Preview) Netbook pioneer Asustek Computer unveiled four new tablet devices on Tuesday, including the 10.1-inch touchscreen Eee Pad Slider with the latest version of Google's Android mobile OS, Honeycomb, and the 12-inch touchscreen Eee Slate E121, which has Microsoft's Windows 7 OS. The company is amon...	barney	0	130	Jan 5, 2011 by barney
	Amazon's Kindle hits Windows Phone 7 (Preview) Australian blogger and technology enthusiast, Chris Walsh noticed (and tweeted) moments ago that Amazon’s extremely popular Kindle client is now available for WP7. The application is already available on most other smartphone platforms, and whilst its arrival on WP7 might not mean a lot to some...	barney	0	195	Jan 5, 2011 by barney
	iPhone alarms not working come New Year's Day 2011 (Preview) We're not exactly sure of the cause of this fancy new issue affecting Apple's super cool iPhone line of cellphones, but apparently you've got trouble come 1/1/2011. According to an explosive stream of frustration-filled tweets on the Twitter microblogging service, when the clock strikes midnig...	barney	0	187	Jan 2, 2011 by barney
	Android bug playing Russian Roulette with text messages (Preview) Android users are fuming over a bug in Google's mobile OS that causes SMS messages to be sent to contacts other than the one chosen, or even to an entirely random contact. To make matters worse, a bug report on the Android developer's forum shows that Google has been aware of the bug - for some reason rate...	barney	0	210	Jan 2, 2011 by barney
	15 Mobile Apps that Will Matter in 2011 (Preview) With hundreds of thousands of mobile apps already available, you might think that we don't need any more. But you'd be wrong. Even with all of the apps out there for the iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerrys, and other smart devices, we still want -- and need -- more. Here are the mobile...	barney	0	131	Jan 2, 2011 by barney
	Verizon cutting Galaxy Tab price to $500, will refund any purchases from last two weeks (Preview) New year means a new price for the Verizon-branded Galaxy Tab. Droid-Life has received word from a couple of VZW store employees that the big red network intends to chop a nice $100 chunk off its price for the 7-inch Android tablet. Though this move hasn't yet been made official, the Galaxy Tab should s...	barney	0	184	Jan 2, 2011 by barney
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