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Nokia Lumia 920 coming to Canada exclusively through Rogers
Rogers has just announced that it will be the exclusive carrier for the Windows Phone 8-powered Nokia Lumia 920 when it finally arrives in Canada. The Lumia 920 is Nokia's latest flagship handset and features a 4.5-inch HD touchscreen...
AT&T's New 4G LTE Offerings Are Windows 8 Slates From Samsung and ASUS
AT&T is jumping on the Windows 8 bandwagon, announcing that it would be carrying the ASUS Vivo Tab RT and the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Windows 8 tablets for its 4G LTE network. The mobile carrier hasn't provided pricing and availability,...
Sony Xperia Tablets S Not Splash-Proof, Pulled From Shelves
Sony Corp suspended sales of its magazine shaped Xperia Tablet S, barely one month after releasing the device. The Japanese electronics giant said that as a result of a manufacturing flaw at the Chinese plant fabricating the device,...
MEEP! Tablet Tries to Draw Parents and Kids
Oregon Scientific unveiled its child-friendly MEEP! tablet. The tablet has an interface that's easy for kids to navigate, has a silicon bumper that allows the device to survive drops, and allos parents control content that their...
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 launch sheduled for October 29th
Microsoft has just sent out press invites for an event scheduled to happen on October 29th. According to info on the invite itself, the event is the highly-anticipated Windows Phone 8 software launch, after which devices like...
HP Ceo Meg Whitman kills HP smartphone rumors for 2013
In a recent meeting with analysts, HP CEO Meg Whitman made a statement that effectively kills all rumors of an HP smartphone for 2013. "We don't have any plans to introduce a smartphone in 2013," said Whitman, even though she...
Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 coming exclusively to AT&T in November
AT&T has just announced that it will launch the Nokia Lumia 920 as well as the Lumia 820 exclusively in November of this year. Both phones will feature support for 4G LTE data and run Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 8 mobile...
TomTom releases Navigation app for Android with limited availability
The TomTom Navigation app for Android is now available through the Google Play Store, and with a $49.99 price tag, it looks to be geared towards those who are really in serious need of mobile navigation assistance. The price,...
Google Maps on mobile gets updated with Street View and bug fixes
Google Maps for mobile has been updated to include the much-vaunted Street View feature, which now allows users to check out the scenery at street level when trying to navigate with the help of Google's detailed maps. Street View...
HP's Do-It-All ElitePad 900 Appeals to Business and Consumers
Hewlett-Packard unveiled the ElitePad 900, its Windows 8-running tablet aimed at business users but should also appeal to consumers. The Intel Clove Trail-powered ElitePad 900 features an aluminum casing, digital pen input, NFC...
LG Optimus G to become available through AT&T and Sprint
The LG Optimus G is reportedly going to become available some time in the near future through US carriers AT&T and Spring. It's still unknown when exactly the said phone will be on offer but it is likely going to go on sale...
Bell and Virgin launch LTE network in Thunder Bay, Ontario
Canadian mobile subscribers in Thunder Bay, Ontario can now enjoy faster 4G LTE data speeds thanks to steps taken by Bell and Virgin Mobile Canada. The faster speeds can go up to 75Mbps (theoretically), though real world speeds...
Smartphone toxicity levels compared after x-ray tests
A total of 36 different smartphones were put through tests in order to find out and compare their toxicity levels. The results of the comparison shows that over the last 5 years, toxicity levels in smartphones have dropped significantly....
Nokia Lumia 510 in the wild, captured in video
Nokia's still-unannounced Lumia 510 with Windows Phone software made the rounds online when a still image of it landed on the pages of GSMArena.com. It also made an appearance in a video that was posted to YouTube recently. It...
Sony's PlayStation Mobile now live for PS Certified Android devices
Sony's cross-platform gaming service PlayStation Mobile goes live today for all PlayStation Certified devices in a good number of countries which include Canada, the United States, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia,...
New iPad mini Rumors Point to October 17th Launch; WSJ Confirms Production
A miniature iPad that mimics the design of the iPhone 5 and an October 17th launch date are the latest additions to the one-year-long iPad mini rumor mill. But a reputable news organization confirms that the Tim Cook-led Apple...
iPad Users Still Upgrading to iOS 6 Despite 'Mapplegate'
About 45 percent of iPad owners have updated to iOS 6 just 11 days after Apple's newest operating system was released, according to Chitika Insights. Apple has earlier confirmed that more than 100 million iOS devices (iPad, iPhone...
Fujitsu Waterproof Arrows Tab Swimming with Windows 8 Instead
Fujitsu unveiled a Windows 8 version of its water-proof Arrows Tab at CEATEC, Japan's largest electronics show. The Arrows Tab unveiled by the device-maker early this year had Android Honeycomb as operating system. The new Windows...
AT&T announces carrier-exclusive HTC One X+ and HTC One VX
The recently launched HTC One X+ has been announced as headed for AT&T in the US along with another handset, the HTC One VX. The One X+, as you may already know, is an update to the highly-praised HTC One X, and will ship...
Canadian mobile users affected by iOS 6 cellular data bug
A bug in Apple's iOS 6 software that causes iPhones to consume mobile data even when a Wi-Fi connection is in use--first discovered in the US--has been found to be affecting Canadian mobile users under Bell, Rogers, and Telus...
Symbian Belle FP2 update released for Nokia 808 PureView and others
The Belle Feature Pack 2 software update hit several Nokia handsets today including the Nokia 808 PureView. The new software adds a number of features which include an updated browser with better HTML5 support, Nokia Car Mode...
HTC One X+ now official with Tegra 3 and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
If you can excuse the unimaginative name, the HTC One X+ is a well-deserved refresh to HTC's current flagship Android smartphone. It uses the exact same design as the original--that is to say, it looks identical--yet sports a...
Half of all Android devices still on Gingerbread, a quarter now running ICS and Jelly Bean
According to Google's most recent update to its Android distribution chart, Gingerbread is still running on over half of all devices in the wild, while Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean account for a combined total of 25.5% of...
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and Tab 2 10.1 Coming to AT&T
AT&T will be carrying Samsung's LTE-ready Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 as well as the smartphone/tablet hybrid Galaxy Note 2. The network has not announced pricing and only said that availability will be "in the coming months". The Galaxy...
Wikipad, Gamers' Tablet, Defends iPad-Level Pricing
The Kindle Fire and the Google Nexus 7 -- tablets able to gain ground against the market-leading iPad -- are just priced at $200, less than half the $499 tag of Apple's tablets. The maker of the Wikipad, however, justify the tablet's...
Telus 4G HSPA+ network now available in Brandon
Telus 4G HSPA+ network coverage is now available in Brandon as part of a $7 million investment which aims to further expand the availability of wireless services throughout Manitoba for 2012. Currently, the Telus 4G HSPA+ network...
AT&T launches new GoPhone plan with Huawei Fusion 2
Starting on October 7, AT&T customers will be able to sign up for a new GoPhone smartphone plan that lets them save $10 per month compared with the last one. The new plan gives AT&T subscribers unlimited calling and texting...
Sony Xperia TL coming to AT&T with 4G LTE
The Sony Xperia TL is set to become available through AT&T with 4G LTE in the next few weeks. It has earned the designation of being the next Bond phone and features a 4.6-inch 720p HD touchscreen display, 13MP camera, NFC,...
Rogers expands 4G LTE network coverage
Rogers 4G LTE network coverage is now live in several new Canadian cities, which include Edmonton, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Kingston. This is part of an earlier announced plan to cover 60% of the Canadian population...
Verizon iPhone 5 gets updated to fix Wi-Fi data issue
Apple has sent out an update to owners of the Verizon iPhone 5 after complaints about problems with the Wi-Fi feature started popping up in online forums. The problem, which now appears to be something specific to iOS 6, leaves...
Intel-Powered Tablets Woo Underserved Business Users
Intel Corp. hosted an event where device makers like Samsung Electronics and Hewlett Packard and other device-makers unveiled new Intel-powered tablets and tablet-ultrabook hybrids running on Windows 8. Intel is the world's largest...
Nokia cuts prices of Windows Phone 7.5 Lumia smartphones
To make way for their upcoming Windows Phone 8 devices, Nokia has started selling their older Lumia smartphones at discount prices. Currently, Nokia has a total of four different WP-powered handsets on the market. These are the...
Samsung Galaxy Express and Rugby Pro coming to AT&T
AT&T is set to release two new Android-powered Samsung smartphones in the coming months in a move that's seen as preparation for the upcoming holiday season. First up, there's the military-grade Samsung Galaxy Rugby Pro, followed...
Google announces Maps update for over 50 countries
Starting today, a few new features are going to become available for users of Google Maps in over 50 countries around the world. Google will be pushing out high resolution satellite images as part of the update, and some areas...
Apple CEO Tim Cook issues apology for iOS Maps, points to alternatives
Apple CEO Tim Cook has finally apologized for the problems that have been plaguing users of the faulty built-in Maps in iOS 6 nearly two weeks after it was first released to market. Cook admits that Apple "fell short" on its commitment...
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich rolled out to Sony Xperia handsets
As of this writing, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates are already available for users of three different Sony Xperia handsets. These are the Sony Xperia U, Xperia Sola, and Xperia Go. The ICS software can be acquired through...
Texas Instruments reveals new plans for OMAP, SoC market
Texas Instruments reached out to comment on a news story that came out recently which talked about the death of the OMAP SoC platform. Apparently, after all the talk of it killing off its own mobile SoCs in order to work on other...
HTC One X+ picture and specs get leaked
The upcoming HTC One X+ became the subject of a series of leaks on the Web recently, and now it is known for certain that it will be released running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on a 1.7GHz quad-core processor. It will be available...
Apple Says Sorry, Admits Google Maps & Others More Reliable
Apple CEO Tim Cook formally apologized for the error-prone Apple Maps and recommended that iPhone and iPad owners instead use Bing, Google, or Nokia maps in the meantime. Despite a year left on its licensing deal with Google,...
Sony releases Xperia Tipo and Xperia Tipo Dual in US
Sony has just announced the US availability of the Xperia Tipo and Xperia Tipo Dual Android smartphones. Both feature 800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUs, 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen displays, 3.2MP cameras, and 2.5GB internal storage...