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Is iOS More Stable Than Android?

Have your phone crash on your sucks. No two ways about it. The question that often comes up is which operating system is more stable, iOS or Android?  Crittercism, a research startup that analyzes mobile app crashes, has published some data that will end the…

Windows Phone 8 Details Leaked by Internal Nokia Video

An video meant for internal viewing at Nokia featuring senior Windows Phone VP Joe Belfiore, revealed that the next Windows Phone update, nicknamed Apollo, will add multi-core processor support and catch up to Android and iOS. Unfortunately we weren’t able to view the video ourselves…

LG Prada Phone Already For Sale in Germany & the UK

LG confirmed plans of a Prada handset in early 2012 and it’s already for sale in Germany and the UK.  This Android-powered high-fashion phone hits the high street, going on sale in the UK at Phones4U stores and online & in Germany at GetGoods, for…

Tizen May Not Have a New Home With Samsung, Commitment Not Official

Last week Samsung revealed plans to merge Bada and Tizen, this week they are taking it back stating that the plans are not yet official.  According to a statement issued to AllThingsD things aren’t set in stone and they are singing the same tune they…

Samsung Merging Bada with Tizen: Officially a Frankenstein OS Love Child

Samsung has reveled plans to Merge its Bada operating system with Intel’s Tizen, formerly known as MeeGo, open source project. There was talk last year that Samsung would open source Bada however Samsung had been very vocal that there were no plans to merge the…

LG Android 4.0 Update Schedule Released

Google’s Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich will be rolling out on to Android devices starting in 2012 and the question is fast becoming when. LG has released their schedule and if you’ve got one of their devices, you’ll be very pleased with it, since…

Symbian Belle Retires to Nokia Belle & New ROM for the N8 Appears

The Symbian title we’ve all come to know and love is being retired by Nokia and its been officially replaced with just Nokia Belle.  More newsworthy to owners of the N8, E7, X7, and other Nokia Anna phones you’re going to have to wait until…

China’s Alibaba’s Aliyun O/S Optimized for Qualcomm CPU [Video]

Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba launched its mobile operating system, Aliyun, in China in this past July and at UpLinq 2011 showed off a reference design handset running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. The exact model of the CPU is unknown but Alibaba is working hard…

RIM Send Message with Dingleberry Patch: ‘Our Way or No Way’

The Blackberry Playbook holds security on a very high pedestal because of RIMs background in enterprise, so its no surprise that they won’t allow known vulnerabilities to just hang around. The Dingleberry Root exploited a security weakness and today RIM has issued an update putting…

Apple iOS5.1 Update Includes Mention of iPad 3

Apple has just released iOS 5.1 beta to registered members of the iOS developer program. The release is for the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, and third and fourth-generation iPod touch devices.

The iOS 5.1 includes better dictation support for third-party…

HTC Considering Google’s Chrome OS

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC is allegedly considering introducing their own products with Chrome OS Google’s cloud operating system. HTC reportedly wants to combine the advantages of Chrome and Android to create new “Internet-enabled devices,”. These devices would exist somewhere between tablets and netbooks.

Perhaps HTC…

Kindle Fire Gets ’1 Click’ Root

The Kindle Fire source code had been made available by Amazon. It’s great for making your own ROM or operating system for your tablet but you won’t be able to install anything on your tablet with first rooting it.

Lucky we’ve got people like death2all11o…

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Hands On [Video]

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Prime is about to hit the streets and our good friend Johannes from NewGadgets.de has gotten some hands on time with Google & Samsungs latest flagship smartphone.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be he first to market with Ice Cream Sandwich…

Google CEO: Android will Remain Free

Google claims to want to make sure that Android remains “free” in the future,  even after the acquisition of Motorola is complete.  The deal to buy Motorola Mobility won’t “violate the openness of Android,” and the company will be run independently, Schmidt said at a…

Android Extends Lead in the US Smartphone Race

Android of Apple’s iOS? Nielsen reports that 43% of all US mobile subscribers now own a smartphone and 43% of them have a device running the Google OS. The 43% market share represents a 4 percent points increase compared to the Android result in Q2.…