According to a report from app market analysts Flurry, downloads from the new Droid phones on Christmas day were almost equal to the number of downloads from all other Android phones combined. When asked whether it was just a one-off scenario, Peter Farago, Flurry’s head of marketing, told Venturebeat that the trend will probably continue. [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2009 in Tech News
In move that is part of a five-year search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Verizon in January of this year, the carrier unilaterally updated user Storm 2 Blackberries and other smartphones so that now, only Microsoft Bing is available. “We’re a proud supporter of Microsoft’s Bing search engine,” a company spokesman tells The Register. [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 in Tech News
For their wireless broadband, that is. Announced today, the giant cellphone carrier has expanded its service by offering prepaid wireless broadband service allow users to connect their laptops to the Internet. Up until now, AT&T customers had to sign a contract for their wireless broadband service. To attract more customers, and to keep up with [...]
The much-anticipated challenger of the iPhone is set to be available on the market on November 6 for $199.99 after a rebate with a two-year contract with Verizon. Although very much different from the iPhone in terms of appearance – it’s thicker and lacks iPhone’s curves, the Droid is shaking up a storm in the [...]
A lot of peeps may not be happy with Apple and AT&T’s exclusive marriage with the iPhone but the duo still proves a formidable force to reckon with. So to keep things interesting in the market (and of course, keep up with the competition J ), Verizon and Google has teamed up to come up [...]
It comes not as a surprise that a few info about Motorola’s planned San Francisco Google Android event to take place on September 15 has spread over the Web like wildfire. One rumor circling the Web is that Motorola will be unveiling two Google Android smarphones. This will be the company’s first attempt on manufacturing [...]
AT&T has iPhone, Sprint Nextel has Pre, and Verizon has an exclusive deal to offer BlackBerry Storm; so what does that leave other wireless companies? Nothing, nein, nada. Congress has been looking into the issue as to whether these giant wireless companies are hurting other smaller companies by shutting them out through exclusive contracts with [...]
A good smartphone wouldn’t be that good without a Wi-Fi – well at least for those people who complained about the lack of Wi-fi for the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630. Sprint will amend this by requiring all of its future smartphones to have Wi-Fi capabilities, and that includes a release of a Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry Tour [...]
Amazon has launched a new website focusing on a specialist market – mobile phones! Yep, as mobile phones have increasingly been dominant in the gadget arena especially in these past couple of years, it’s a temptation that’s very hard to resist for the online store. Amazon Wireless, which was announced yesterday, is a web site [...]
