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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

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

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.…

Samsung Pushes Bada with 2nd Annual Developer Day

Samsung has the hottest Android Phones on the market with the Samsung Galaxy SII & the upcoming Nexus Prime but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t going to promote their own OS, Bada.  Samsung has announced its second bada developer day which will take place…

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 Smartphone Hands-On

In case you weren’t in Hong Kong today we were able to grab some hands on time with Android’s new flagship phone the Samsung Galaxy Nexus…. This handset will be the first to market with Ice Cream Sandwich and will have a 4.65″ Super

Amazon to Buy Palm and webOS?

Hot on the heels of the Amazon Kindle Fire announcement, there’s a report floating around that Amazon is seriously interested, and close to finalizing a deal to snatch up Palm and webOS from HP. VentureBeat originally reported this late last night, and since then, there…

Nokia Developing Linux OS for Low End Handsets

With Intel now focused on Tizen, a new Linux effort with Samsung and the Limo Foundation and the N9… being the last MeeGo handset being produced by Nokia there comes some rather interesting news that Nokia is working on a new Linux-based OS called Meltemi.

Hands On: Acer AC700 Chromebook

The Acer AC700 has been around for a few months now, but we’ve only just gotten our own hands on video with the device. The Acer AC700 is a sleek 11.6 inch display running with Intel’s Atom 1.66 GHz N570 dual core processor, followed by…

Microsoft Confrims Mango Roll Out Time Frame for Existing Handsets

If you’re one of the few who is rocking a Windows Phone 7 (I’m personally suffering through with the HTC Mozart) and can’t wait to be able to tether your devices with the Mango Update promised by Microsoft, there is a light at the end…