Samsung “Jasper” Smartphone Makes An Appearance At The FCC, Comes Dressed In Verizon’s LTE Bands

It looks like we’re getting closer and closer to seeing the mysterious Samsung “Jasper” smartphone on Verizon’s mobile network a reality. If you recall a few months ago, we told you about how the “Jasper”– aka the SCH-I200– made an appearance at the Bluetooth SIG and subsequently saw some leaked benchmarks for the device.

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Is This Confirmation Of The Samsung Galaxy Note 2?

Did Samsung Mobile Arabia just confirm the Galaxy Note 2 on Twitter? They just tweeted the following:
Which one of these are you excited about: #GalaxyBeam #GalaxyTab2 #GalaxyNote2?
Of course, Samsung Mobile Arabia doesn’t speak officially for the whole company,

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HTC barks about new “dog translator” app

Have a dog and ever uttered the words, “what are you barking at?” HTC may be coming to your rescue. Yesterday HTC posted a photo on their Facebook page showing a “dog translator” app that will let you figure out just what your dog is trying to tell you.

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Apple Files Counterclaim Against HTC, Claims Abuse Of 4G/LTE Patents

Apple has launched yet another offensive against its Android counterparts, this time filing a counterclaim in the Eastern District of Virginia court. This counterclaim lawsuit was filed in response against HTC, which recently filed a complaint in the ITC against Apple.

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Google To Launch IaaS Cloud Service At Google I/O

Sources have told GigaOM that Google will likely be launching a cloud services platform next week at Google I/O to compete with Amazon’s EC2 and Microsoft’s Azure services. Sure, Google already has cloud services with its App Engine and Google Cloud Storage,

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Samsung Releases Source Code for Sprint Galaxy S III

Earlier this week we reported that Samsung released the source codes for both the T-Mobile and AT&T Galaxy S III. Today, they have gracefully given Sprint the same treatment and released the source code for Sprint’s CDMA Galaxy S III.

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HTC Halting Business in Brazil, Effective Immediately

A spokesperson representing HTC has informed AndroidPit that the company is stopping sales of all HTC phones effective immediately in Brazil. They have already released dozens of employees and are leaving the Brazilian smartphone market for the time being.

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AT&T Pulls Galaxy S II ICS Update for Further Testing, Will be Available Again ‘Very Soon’

Earlier, we reported that the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II update is now available via Samsung Kies…. then all of the sudden it wasn’t. Apparently AT&T pulled the update shortly after it was released and has issued a statement regarding their reasoning:

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Acer Iconia Tab A700 now in stock and ready to order at Acer Store

Last week Acer announced its new Iconia Tab A700 was available for pre-order at “national electronics retailers” in the U.S. If you don’t want to wait for a retailer, you can now place an order at the Acer Store, which reports the units are “in stock” for the sum of $450.

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Mozilla tweets and teases about something BIG coming to Firefox for Android

Earlier today, Twitter followers of the @Firefox account were teased with the following announcement regarding Firefox for Android:
‪#Firefox‬ for ‪#Android‬. Something BIG is coming your way next week.

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Tasker App Factory Beta Now Available, Setting Automated Tasks Just Became Much Easier

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Many of you are probably already familiar with the Tasker app and use it on a daily basis without having to even think about it. For those of you who don’t know what Tasker is, it’s an app that you can program to complete tasks based on parameters that you set before hand.

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ICS for Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX Now Even Closer

Just yesterday we reported what could be the final ICS build for the Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX has leaked and that a pending official update could just be around the corner. Well, today that corner just got even closer.

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Original DROID Incredible Gets An Update

Well, isn’t this a nice surprise for users of Verizon’s original DROID Incredible? Verizon just approved a new update for the two-year old device. Update 4.08.605.15 fixes the following:
Device Features, Improvements & Fixes

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Sharp Teams Up With Frog To Create “Feel UX”

Sharp has announced that they have teamed up with the company Frog to help them create their new Android UI overlay. They have dubbed it “Feel UX” and they claim it to be “highly personalized” and “visually stunning”.

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Oppo Finder, The World’s Thinnest Smartphone Now Available For Preorder In China

Those of you waiting to grab the world’s thinnest smartphone will finally have the chance to do so… well in China at least. No I’m not talking about the ZTE “Athena” or that Huawei Ascend P1 silly– I’m talking about the Oppo Finder smartphone.

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CyanogenMOD 7.2 Released to Dozens of Devices

The CyanogenMOD team has released a statement regarding their latest Gingerbread builds being released to the masses. The build number is 7.2 and should be ready to download through their website if your phone is supported.

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Ice Cream Sandwich Build (6.16.211) for DROID RAZR Leaks

Two days ago we reported that Verizon was sending out texts to the DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX owners that an update to Ice Cream Sandwich was looming and just around the corner. And today, an ICS build running on the RAZR has leaked with the build number

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It’s Collectibles Week In The Play Store – Get Your Limited Edition In-Game Content Now

For one week, Google is promoting Collectibles Week, an initiative to drive in-game sales for over 20 games in the Play Store. Using the psychological and persuasive technique known as scarcity, Google hopes to get gamers to buy or unlock limited edition items within these games.

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Pre-Order Sony’s New Google TV Set-Top Box For $199

 

One of the major reasons the Logitech Revue Google TV set-top box didn’t catch on is that it launched for $299, a price point that was hard to swallow for a first-gen device. Logitech bailed and put it on $99 clearance (which is when I got one).

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First CyanogenMod 9 Nightly Builds Now Ready for the International Galaxy S III and Transformer Pad 300

It appears the CyanogenMod team have been busy as usual and have a couple nightly builds ready for some of today’s newest devices. Right now you can download a nightly build for both the Transformer Pad 300 and the International version of the Galaxy S III.

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Developers Get A Voice In The Play Store

Google is finally giving developers a way to respond to app reviews in the Play Store. This is a great addition since it gives developers a way to defend their apps against unfair reviews, and for improving customer/dev interaction and communication.

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HTC Droid Incredible 2 Update Approved By Verizon, Fixes Image Download Bug And Enables Wireless Alerting System

The DROID Incredible 2 is getting an update to software version 6.01.605.05 710RD (no, it’s not Ice Cream Sandwich yet). This 32MB update fixes a social network image download bug some folks were having, and also enables the device’s Wireless Alerting System. Verizon just approved this update so it should be coming very soon. Watch for it!

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Is Amazon set to drop Kindle Fire price to $149?

Could it be that Amazon’s ultra-cheap Android tablet is about to get even cheaper? With strong rumours that Amazon is planning to launch a refreshed 7″ Kindle Fire as well as brand new 8.9″ and 10.1″ models, it

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Verizon DROID RAZR/RAZR MAXX Owners Get Ice Cream Sandwich Reminder Text

Verizon DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX owners started receiving text messages from Verizon reminding them that their phones will “soon be upgraded to Android 4.0.”

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Mysterious Sprint Motorola Full QWERTY Keyboard Smartphone Outed

Another day, another leaked device coming out of the blue— this time an intriguing slider phone by none other than Sprint and MOTO. According to sources, the QWERTY device you see above is supposedly a “test device”, but looks to come jam-packed

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Withdraw Cash From An ATM By Scanning A QR Code With Your Phone

Mobile payment systems have been moving toward NFC technologies, with Google Wallet and other NFC-based systems like ISIS. This requires the use of a device with an NFC chip, and NFC-enabled pay stations.

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Canadian Samsung Galaxy S III Delayed Until June 27th

The Samsung Galaxy S III is coming to pretty much all Canadian carriers, including TELUS, Bell, Rogers, WIND, Mobilicity, SaskTel, Videotron and Virgin Mobile. The Canadian release date was announced as June 20th, but yesterday on Twitter,

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Samsung SGH-T699 Image Leaks, 5 Roy QWERTY Heading for T-Mobile

We have been hearing about the T-Mobile bound SGH-T699 for quite some time now and at one time we believed it may be the T-Mo Galaxy Nexus. Well since we know that isn’t the case, some of you (including us) may still be wondering what that mysterious

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CyanogenMod 9 Official Release Candidate Just Around the Corner, CM Code Freeze in Effect

If  you are at all familiar with the CyanogenMod team then you have some sort of idea how much time and effort goes into building their custom ROM’s. When ICS came out it posed to be a large task to incorporate all the Android 4.0 goodness on top of adding the

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Samsung Shows off Official Galaxy S III Accessories in New Promo Video

The first thing I look for right after buying a brand new phone are accessories! I mean, who doesn’t love accessories for their lovely new device, right? Online retailer MobileFun has aired a promo video showcasing the official accessories that are now available for Samsung’s newest flagship device.

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Samsung Introduces TecTiles NFC Tags

We’ve been hearing for years about NFC being the next big thing in the mobile arena, and Samsung has just doubled-down by introducing TecTiles reusable NFC stickers that, when touched with an NFC enabled phone, can perform nearly any action you can dream up.

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Samsung Pushes First OTA Update for the Galaxy S III, Brings “Improved Stability”

Those of you fortunate enough to already own the Galaxy S III might have woken up to an update ready and waiting to be downloaded. Samsung just pushed out the very first OTA update for the device and its changelog is rather short, citing only “improved stability.”

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Microsoft Office set to land on Android November 10th

Little more than a week ago we brought the news that strongrumours were surfacing suggesting a November launch for Microsoft Office forAndroid. The rumour mill just keeps

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Verizon’s Viewdini video streaming application available now

We’re fast approaching a time where physical storage for your favourite movie or latest album will be a distant memory, cassettes and records have already been confined to the museums and CD’s and DVD’s are sure to follow before long .

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HTC Desire C now available in the UK

A little later than originally advertised, HTC‘s low end Android phone the Desire C is finally available both sim-free and on select contracts.

The Desire C is a unique offering as it’s one of the very first entry level Android phones shipping with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Microsoft Smart Glass: A Cross-Platform App That Pushes Media To Xbox 360

Microsoft is set to demo Smart Glass, an app that is akin to AirPlay for the Xbox 360, at E3next week. This Xbox companion app is said to be able to play videos from different sources on tablets and phones as well as push that content from your device to an Xbox 360.

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Verizon to Push the Android 4.0.4 ICS Update to the Motorola Xoom 4G LTE on June 4th

In their usual timely manner, Verizon is gearing up to finally push the ICS update to the Motorola Xoom 4G LTE on June 4th.

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Google to Hold ‘The Next Dimension Of Google Maps’ Event on June 6th

Today we received an invite from Google to attend a Google Maps event next Wednesday, June 6th where they plan to unveil the “Next Dimension of Maps.” Details are pretty slim right now but I imagine this has something to do with the next step in Google’s 3D mapping programs and a basic improvement over Google Maps in general.

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