An interesting twist by Sprint, or so it seems. A recent update for the HTC Thunderbolt that was rolled out to subscribers now blocks tethering, and requires that the user pay $30 a month for the right to tether. It seems a like a weird move to remove functionality, but at the same time may [...]

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This is something I am not really clear on being useful, but I guess it had to happen. Sharp today started shipping into the Japanese market via DoCoMo mobile service an Android based 3D phone. Key is the dual camera lenses, which allow the phone to shoot true 3D depth images. It uses Android Gingerbread [...]

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AT&T has added hotspotting features to it’s Android phones, and it may be adding them to it’s Iphone offerings as well. Hot Spotting allows the smart phone to become a hub for an adhoc wireless network, giving internet access to other devices that connect to it wirelessly. This means that you can use your smart [...]

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Asus is one of the best known brands when it comes to computer motherboards, and increasingly in areas such as cell phones, video graphics cards, and the like. Now they are pushing into the wireless tablet market, but are wisely hedging their bets with not just one new product, but three products that bridge the [...]

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A few years back, I saw a system from a cell phone company in Japan that allowed users to have their transit pass embedding in their phones, so that you just slid your phone over the turnstiles and away you went. It was a pretty interesting idea. Now Google has announced that Android 2.3 will [...]

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Sort of a weird week in the world of smart phones, particularly the news that Microsoft has sued Motorola for patent infringement on certain features of their Android based phones. Yup, take that all in, that is pretty much three of the biggest players, Microsoft, Motorola, and Google all linked up in a patent lawsuit [...]

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Interesting story from ARS Technica here that suggests that usage of Android OS will sail past Blackberry and iOS by the end of the year. They are still behind Nokia, because of the wider distribution of the Nokia products worldwide. It is interesting to see how quickly Andoid is taking a big chink of the [...]

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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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