Archive for February, 2012

Android App Spotlight: Army Alarm Clock, Never Over Sleep Again

February 29th, 2012
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Are Android's stock ringers to soothing to your ears to actually wake you up? Do you repeatedly hit the snooze button on your Android phone? Well the folks at Silver Dragon Technologies have come up with an app that will break you of that habit like Sergent Slaughter breaks down new GI Joe recruits. This app ...

Seidio Announces 3800mah Extended Battery For Galaxy Nexus With NFC

February 29th, 2012
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Our friends at Seidio, one of the premiere Android accessory manufacturers, have announced the availability of their new Innocell 3800mah Extended Life Battery with NFC, for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Seidio says the 3800mah battery will offer double the time that the stock battery for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus offers. It also comes with Seidio's signature ...

Mystery HTC Device Left Behind At A Bar

February 29th, 2012
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We tend to agree with a commentor over at Droid-Life, didn't Apple patent leaving a prototype around at a bar?  The commentor received a reply saying, Yes Apple is now suing HTC in Germany... What are we talking about here? Well apparently someone has left what looks to be an HTC prototype device behind at a ...

MWC: ZTE Mimosa Mini

February 29th, 2012
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In addition to the data devices, tablets, top tier Android phones and Windows phones that ZTE has released at Mobile World Congress this week, the company has also released this smaller, more affordable Android handset dubbed the ZTE Mimosa Mini. It looks like the Mimosa Mini is more in the neighborhood of the HTC Wildfire S, ...

MWC: Fujitsu Debuts The New Waterproof F12arc With Android 4.0

February 29th, 2012
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So a lot of you thought I was joking when I said at CES in January that waterproof devices, not 3d devices, would be the big thing this year. We've seen a lot of those now. We saw Fujitsu's waterproof honeycomb tablet at CES and Panasonics new waterproof Eluga phone at Mobile World Congress. Not ...

Samsung Reports They’ve Sold 2 Million Galaxy Notes Since Release

February 29th, 2012
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Samsung released the new Galaxy Note on AT&T less than two weeks ago here in the United States. However, they started shipping internationally in the fall of 2011. In December, two months before the U.S. release, Samsung announced that they had cleared the one million mark. Today Samsung told Forbes magazine that they have sold 2 ...

Verizon Letter To FCC Surfaces Defending Locked Bootloaders, Says They’re Not Violating Block C Regulations

February 29th, 2012
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Everyone in the US either has a digital television or a digital television converter. This isn't because the FCC all of the sudden decided that US consumers needed more modern technology, it was because the FCC needed a way to get more spectrum for the nations wireless carriers.  When the FCC finally made the conversion ...

MWC: And The Winner Is… Samsung X2

February 29th, 2012
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Samsung didn't introduce a break through device this year, like they did last year, here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain. They introduced the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, Galaxy Note 10.1, and the Galaxy 4.2. While all three seem like great deviecs it wasn't the, wow factor we got from the Samsung Galaxy S ...

Confirmed: AT&T Confirms Sony Tablet P This Sunday

February 29th, 2012
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Yesterday we mentioned that a release date for Sony's Tablet P was leaked. According to the leak we would see the unique clam shell tablet from Sony on Sunday from AT&T, with a cool bundle option.  AT&T has confirmed that today. The Tablet P will set you back $399.99 on a new two year agreement. The ...

MWC: Lenovo And Intel Introduce An Intel Powered Android Tablet

February 29th, 2012
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We knew that Intel wouldn't let Mobile World Congress pass by without at least an announcement of an Intel powered Android tablet. At the Intel stand (booth) they are showing off the Lenovo IdeaPad K2110. While this new tablet resembles most of the 10" Android tablets currently available on the market, this one is running the ...

“World’s Thinnest Tablet” The Toshiba Excite 10 LE Available March 6th

February 29th, 2012
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In January at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Toshiba introduced the "world's thinnest tablet" the Toshiba Excite X10.  Since then they've renamed the tablet to the Toshiba Excite 10 LE and they've announced pricing and availability. The Toshiba Excite 10 LE will be available next week starting March 6th starting at $529.99. The Excite 10LE measures 7.7mm ...

Appency Gets The Best App Pitch Ever (even though we ran the app on Friday)

February 28th, 2012
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This pitch from the app PR firm Appency had me rolling on the floor. It's a great pitch. It's timely. It's well written. I would've stopped what I was doing and wrote the app review. The problem was we reviewed the app on Friday.  Nothing irritates me more than someone who pitches me after the ...