An interesting article in USA Today gives us some interesting stats about smart phones and stats. First off, 30% of all phones in the use in the US now are internet connected “smart phones” . 19% of users have downloaded some sort of travel related App. Most importantly, 47% of travelers have used their phone [...]

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The Apple App Store has apparently reached a significant milestone, with now more than 250,000 apps in store, according to this report in Fortune (and to be fair, they are quoting yet another site to get to that number). However, that number may include “versions” of an app made for a different location or city, [...]

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I found this story over at Reuters about the company ISuppli that has looked into the tablet market, and has decided (somehow) that no matter what happens, Apple will continue to dominate the tablet marketplace. The most telling quote from the story is that they firm doubts that anyone will match the “overall performance experience” [...]

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The marketplace on smart phones continues to evolve rapidly, often growing faster than the infrastructure. Taiwan based HTC has been a leader, a company that has gone from almost no market share outside of it’s home market to a market leader in a very short period of time. It is one of the reasons that [...]

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4G technology on the phone side is running full speed ahead with companies like Sprint pushing the HTC 4G phone and pushing the promise of 4G networking. The Sony Epic 4G phone is another example of a hot new phone for this expanding market. However, there are problems, and most of it has to do [...]

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The Samsung Epic 4G is the latest phone to come out with 4G support, and this sexy slider phone is certainly hitting all the high points. First off, the keyboard is great for it’s size. The forecast death of the keyboard is probably wrong, as we get more and more from our smart phones we [...]

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Smetimes things happen for a weird reason, but the end results are better than many people would expect. It is hard to imagine, but the push to put FM radios into every cell phone is almost a direct result of sites like The Pirate Bay and Limewire. Basically, there is a a push going on [...]

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LG of Korea (aka Lucky Goldstar) was a little late to the smart phone game, but they are certainly stepping it up big time. LG have recently announced not only 10 new smart phones apparently using Android, but also one of the first full feature Android based tablets. The New LG tablet seeks to differentiate [...]

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I found a very good story on PC-mag of all places with a pretty darn good review and overall look at the Motorola Droid 2. This is a phone that Motorola really needs to break out and score well, and it seems to have everything it needs. The keyboard is a good size, the screen [...]

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