Archive for August, 2010

The Japanese have been known for making some very...interesting games. One genre of games that seem to only come from the country are dating simulations. These games let you spend your time in a virtual world trying to win the heart of an inevitably high school aged beauty. Creeped out yet? Don’t worry, I have ...

Market research company NPD says that they have uncovered some interesting information about why people purchase iPhones. No, it’s not just about the apps. In fact, it really is not that much about the apps. It is because of the music. 56% of iPhone and iPod touch users have only bought music from Apple’s iTunes store. ...

Location based social networking is growing at an exponential pace. A number of different social networks, tools and games have started to appear everywhere. Facebook has thrown its hat into the ring and just might be the 800 lbs gorilla though. All of this begs the question. Are you going to start doing location based ...

Tifatul Sembiring--Indonesia’s Communication and Information Minister--has just put more pressure on Research In Motion (RIM) and upped the rhetoric threatening to ban RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones. The spat between Indonesia and RIM is over pornography concerns. Indonesia wants RIM to block all pornographic content on its BlackBerrys inside the country. As with the looming bans in Saudi ...

The situation that Research In Motion (RIM)--the maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone--finds itself in is even worse than we all thought. RIM’s cherished corporate customers have always been big fans of the business oriented BlackBerry, but serious competition from the likes of Apple’s iPhone and smartphones powered by Google’s Android OS might just spell ...

The iPhone 4 might be getting an antenna design the end of this September. An executive at Mexican cellular carrier Telcel has claimed that after September 30th, the iPhone 4 will be sold with a new antenna design. This is quite an interesting claim for a number of reasons. September 30th is when Apple stops giving ...

The T-Mobile G2 has been put through the ringer lately. With its initial teaser site being launched and broken down into many different theories as to what it is, it looks like the G2 has been officially pictured. Slated to be the very first HSPA+ running device on T-Mobiles new network the G2 looks good. A ...

  LG has been in the news lately and it seems like it’s time for them to reestablish themselves within the mobile industry. Not that they have gone anywhere, but with the likes of the Ally and the Fathom it has been known that LG needs to step it up to compete in this rapidly growing ...

  In the world of Android there is such a thing as leaks. When the programmers for the Android device builders, get their hands on the Froyo build issued by Google, it takes them a little while to make sure the OS runs smoothly on their devices. This is essentially the reason for the long delays ...

The wait is finally over my QWERTY loving freaks. The newest 4G phone to hit the market is doing so today. One of the last Samsung Galaxy S devices to be released in the states –waiting on Verizon’s Fascinate- is being sold as I type and you read. For awhile the rumors churned, the speculators ...

The flood gates have opened. LG and their recent mobile endeavors have been leaking all over the place. Yesterday brought us a new mid to entry level Android smart phone from the company and today is seemingly bringing the interwebs a taste of what’s to come. And boy it does sound delicious. LG known the world ...

Research In Motion (RIM)--maker of the popular BlackBerry line of smartphones--has gotten a break from the Indian government. The break comes in the form of a two month extension to a looming BlackBerry ban nationwide in the second most populated country in the world. The reasons for the threatened BlackBerry ban are highly political but ...

The coming refresh model to the BlackBerry Bold 9700--the Bold 9780--has been spotted in white. Okay, this might not be the most exciting news in the world, but Research In Motion (RIM) really needs to get this model out the door and into people’s hands. The white finish (besides the standard BlackBerry black) certainly is ...

The next BlackBerry since the arrival of the Torch 9800 this month will be here soon. T-Mobile will start selling the Curve 3G (9300) on September 8 at a price of only $80 with a two year contract. While the Curve 3G will be shipping with BlackBerry OS 5, it will be upgradeable to OS ...

Wireless carrier China Unicom is jailbreaking iPhones for customers inside its stores and even installing software for them. While the iPhone 4 is not yet available in China, the iPhone 3GS is and customers are eagerly lining up to have professionals help them do the sometimes daunting task of jailbreaking. Electric is reporting this story ...