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RIM granted patent for automatic volume adjustment based on ear seal
A patent RIM applied for in 2007 was granted today with the intent on making smartphones more able to dynamically adjust earpiece volume based on the “estimated degree of seal of an ear about a speaker port.” Remember, some people still use their smartphones as, you know, phones. What this means is that a phone [...]
Is Motorola’s first Intel Medfield-based Android device called the RAZR Blade?
Earlier this year we told you about an upcoming Motorola Android device that would be one of the first to market with Intel’s x86-based Medfield SoC, optimized for Ice Cream Sandwich. A recent leak from PhoneHK would seem to corroborate at least the existence of such a device, since the front does not seem to [...]
Update: Google I/O 2012 registration now open… sells out in “a bit over 20 minutes”
The Google I/O conference is the annual developer conference for the Android, HTML5 and general Google-based community, and registration is now open. Though the general public is invited to attend, most of the sessions are geared towards building great apps, websites and HTML5-based applications on the Google platform. This year it is taking place from [...]
BlueStacks App Player beta arrives, brings Android apps to desktops
BlueStacks has a dream: to bring mobile apps to the desktop. It does this by virtualizing an Android device on your Windows 7 PC (sorry Mac folks), allowing you to download and use all but a small fraction of free Android apps. To that end, the company has released its first beta, a polished and [...]
Apple’s new iPad can last a whole day as a LTE hotspot
The new iPad doesn’t improve on much in the battery department, except in sheer size, but one thing it can do very well is operate as a LTE hotspot. We did some extensive testing of the hotspot feature after our review went live and confirmed what many other outlets are already saying: the new iPad [...]
Windows Phone 7 SDK updated to support Tango devices with 256MB RAM
The Windows Phone 7 SDK has been updated to version 7.1.1, giving a boost to developers looking to create apps optimized for devices with only 256MB RAM. Those would be devices such as the upcoming Nokia Lumia 610, which should broaden the appeal of Windows Phone to developing nations. In addition, the update allows devs [...]
Quench for iOS and Android helps you find clean public water stations in the GTA
March 22nd was the UN World Water Day 2012, and it was also the launch of a new iOS and Android app called Quench. Aimed at finding clean water in the Greater Toronto Area, it is a visual database of thousands of restaurants, cafes, water fountains and retailers that will fill your reusable water bottle [...]
Microsoft’s “Smoked by Windows Phone” campaign was a bomb waiting to detonate
As we’ve learned through many media outlets today, Microsoft’s relatively successful ad campaign called Smoked By Windows Phone has hit a bit of a roadblock. Couched in bureaucratic exceptions, an Android user was denied the prize he felt was owed to him after successfully “smoking” a Microsoft employee at his own game. When asked to [...]
Carbon for Android shown on video looking amazing
We told you recently about two fantastic upcoming Twitter clients for Android, Boid Alpha and Plume 3.0 Alpha, and we are nearing another to add to that list. Carbon for Android has been a long time coming, especially since we heard about it around the time it was being released for Windows Phone. While the [...]
Windows Phone app 4th & Mayor boasts 60,000 daily users, 7.5 million Foursquare checkins
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the growth of Windows Phone in relation to the “big kahunas” in the smartphone world, iOS and Android, and whether Microsoft’s OS is gaining significant traction. While there is a slight dearth of “hero” apps on Windows Phone, some independent developers are stepping up to fill in [...]
