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Patent Wars: Samsung Faulted For Purging Email In Apple Case

May 11th, 2012
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The judge in the Apple vs Samsung patent case has been throwing the book at the Korean manufacturer. They recently went under fire for failing to turn over source code pertaining to a work-around that Samsung has used to protect itself from a patent Apple holds for "overscroll-bounce". Samsung didn't give that source code up in ...

Florian Mueller Is A Fraud?

May 11th, 2012
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The interwebs went wild on Friday when it was revealed that trusted patent blogger Florian Mueller is actually being paid by Oracle and may be in line for a top paying job with the company that's embattled in a bitter patent suit with Google. Over the past couple of years, the self proclaimed patent expert has ...

CTIA 2012 Video: Hands On With The Intel Powered Orange Android Phone

May 11th, 2012
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Back in February at Mobile World Congress it was announced that Orange would be one of the first, if not the first, to bring an Intel powered Android device to market. Presently just Lenovo and Orange have Android phones with Intel's Z2640 processor ready to go. We saw the first Intel reference design in January at ...

New Vibe App Lets You Set Custom Vibrate Tones On Android VIDEO

May 10th, 2012
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One of the cooler apps that we saw at CTIA 2012 in New Orleans is a new app called Vibe. Vibe makes vibration tones customizable for your Android smartphone. You know the feeling when you're in an important meeting and your Android phone vibrates. You don't want to do the sneak peak at your phone in ...

CTIA 2012 Amzer Debuts The Shellster Case Lineup For The HTC One Family

May 10th, 2012
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Amzer is back at it again. This time they are introducing their new Shellster line of cases for the HTC One Family. The ruggedized holster/case combo provide front and back protection and an easy to use and comfortable holster. The Shellster family is available for a variety of phones already including the iPhone and the Samsung ...

CTIA 2012 Hands On With The ZTE Era

May 10th, 2012
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The new ZTE Era was originally introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.  This new Android powered smartphone is ZTE's flagship smartphone for this season and with it's specs you can definitely see why. It's powered by the Nvidia Tegra 3 4+1 core (quad-core) processor. It also features Nvidia's Icera 450 HSPA+ modem. The ...

CTIA 2012 We Go Hands On With The ZTE V96 Android Tablet

May 9th, 2012
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Here at CTIA 2012 in New Orleans the ZTE block was definitely hot with several of their new Android devices that debuted at MWC on display and ready for hands on. The ZTE V96 Android tablet features a respectable 1.7ghz Qualcomm SnapDragon S4 dual-core processor.  The 10.1" tablet has a 1280x800 pixel multitouch display and Android ...

CTIA 2012 We Go Hands On With The Huawei D-Quad

May 9th, 2012
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The quad-core Android beast from China's Huawei was on display at CTIA in New Orleans where the block was definitely hot.  When we got up close and personal with the Huawei Ascend D-Quad we found that it's just as sexy as we thought it would be. Both Huawei and their Chinese rival ZTE have vowed to ...

CTIA 2012 We Check Out The “Thing Sling”

May 8th, 2012
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This is one of those contraptions, or accessories that seems so simple that you think "Why didn't I think of that" well the reason is because Thing Sling did.  These cell phone holders allow you to easily grip your phone and NOT DROP it which is always useful. Thing Sling comes in a variety of colors ...

Virgin Mobile Announces 4G With HTC Evo V 4G May 31

May 8th, 2012
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As originally tipped here, to the world, by Thedroidguy last summer, Sprint has shifted their 4G WiMax network to their prepaid brands, Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile. Virgin Mobile USA will introduce 4G speeds to their prepaid customers on May 31st with the introduction of the HTC Evo V 4G. The new HTC Evo V 4G features ...

CTIA 2012: We Talk With Safely About Android And More VIDEO

May 8th, 2012
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We talk with Safely. Safely specializes in kids and safety on smartphones. The company covers everything from texting while driving, geo-locating kids and family members, and smartphone management. Most families want to get their younger children a smartphone. Smartphones, Androids in particular can be very useful. But once the decision is made to get the child ...

SRS Labs Introduces The iWOW-U (universal) Sound Enhancer And It Sounds Great (VIDEO)

May 8th, 2012
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On our first night in New Orleans for CTIA 2012 we spent most of the evening at ShowStoppers which is a media preview event to take a sneak peak at some of the products that will be featured on and off the show floor the rest of the week.  We had a chance to meet ...