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Top 5 Smartphone Vendors Worldwide Q1 2011: Nokia, Apple, RIM, Samsung and HTC

May 6, 2011

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IDC has released the Top 5 Smartphone Vendors chart for the first quarter of this year based on the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, May 5, 2011. Samsung and HTC are two of top five manufactures that have reached the highest growth compared to the same quarter last year. While Nokia, Apple and RIM [...]

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Xperia Arc Announced as Xperia Acro Made for Japanese Market

May 5, 2011

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Along with the Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro, Sony Ericsson also announced the Xperia Acro which is the new version of Xperia Arc that is designed specifically for Japanese market to include features familiar to Japanese users like infrared port for data exchange, mobile wallet and mobile TV functionality. The Xperia Acro will debut [...]

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Sony Ericsson Unveils Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro

May 5, 2011

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Sony Ericsson has just introduced the Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro as a new pair of compact Xperia smartphones. The Xperia Mini is a touch-only while the Mini Pro has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Claimed as the world’s smallest HD video recording smartphones, both handsets powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running Android [...]

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Sprint Unveils Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium

May 5, 2011

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Sprint just unveiled two new Motorola Android smartphones, the Motorola XPRT and the Motorola Titanium. These two handsets are intended for Business users and come with a full QWERTY keyboard with BlackBerry-style buttons. The Motorola XPRT will be launched on June 5th at $129.99 on contract, while the Motorola Titanium doesn’t have any info regarding [...]

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Android Distribution Chart Update May 2, 2011

May 5, 2011

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Google has published the latest update to the Android Distribution Chart. This table was made based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Android Market within a 14-day period ending on May 2. The result shows that currently Android 2.2 Froyo is dominating the Android devices with 65.9% followed by Android 2.1 with [...]

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HTC Rider Full Specifications Revealed

May 5, 2011

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So you’ve seen the HTC Rider leaked by Chinese blog 911Sniper together with the HTC Kingdom few days ago. There’s not much info we knew at that time. But today the full specifications of the HTC Rider has been revealed. And looking at the specs, it surely one of the great phone i’m sure. The [...]

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iOS 4.3.3 Firmware, VZ iPhone 4.2.8 and more Hit Apple’s Server

May 4, 2011

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The iOS Firmware site just got updated and now showing some new iOS firmwares hitting Apple’s server. These include iOS 4.3.3 and the Verizon iPhone 4.2.8. According to the iOS 4.3.3 Software Update info, this update contains changes to the iOS crowd-sourced location database cache including reduces the size of the cache, no longer backs [...]

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HP Veer 4G Will Be Available from AT&T on May 15 at $99.99

May 4, 2011

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Back in February when HP introduced the smallest full-featured HP webOS smartphone HP Veer 4G, it’s only said that the phone will be available in early spring without any info about the exact date yet the pricing. But today it’s all clear as AT&T announced that the phone will be available from AT&T stores and [...]

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Microsoft Launched New iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping Tools & Guides

May 4, 2011

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Mobile apps store no doubt is a multi-million business and the growth still doesn’t seem to stop yet. Apple with it’s App Store and Google with it’s Android Market are two of the leaders on this market. While others including Microsoft are still continuing to grow as more apps coming to their store. And many [...]

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Demo: Android Apps Running on BlackBerry PlayBook

May 3, 2011

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YouTube video link for mobile viewing One of the most interesting steps that RIM has made recently is to let Android Apps running on BlackBerry PlayBook. And today at the BlackBerry World 2011 event, this process was demoed and from what we’ve seen on the demo, it looks great. This is an absolutely great opportunity [...]

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