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Official iPhone remote application from Google TV

Published on: 24th March, 2011

In a discreet move, Google has recently put out an official Google TV Remote application for Apple’s iPhone (offered for free in the App Store). Similar to its Android sibling, the application can handle regular TV duties, as well as the search and navigation features specific to a Google TV box or set. This builds [...]

Nintendo accuses iPhone and Android for devaluating games

Published on: 5th March, 2011

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s chief, at the recent Game Developers Conference talk, launched an attack against the iPhone and Android for their effect on gaming. He did not explicitly mention Google or Apple by name but was very critical and said that gaming for them was strictly incidental and they did not have any motivation to [...]

RIM may bring its BlackBerry Messenger to the iPhone and Android

Published on: 5th March, 2011

Research in Motion could bring its long-guarded BlackBerry Messenger to the iPhone and Android, according to rumors launched a few days ago. The move would involve a version of BBM focused on text chat and omitting geolocation as well as media sharing in order to give users good reasons to still use a BlackBerry phone. [...]

Nielsen says Android is leading over iPhone on US market

Published on: 5th March, 2011

Nielsen determined that Android has finally obtained the lead over the iPhone and other smartphone platforms in the United States. Android claimed 29 percent of the whole US smartphone market between November and January and is ahead of both the iPhone and BlackBerry which are tied at 27 percent. Microsoft’ platforms combined are on third [...]

iPhone tests run faster on AT&T than Verizon and even faster on Israel’s Pelephone

Published on: 23rd February, 2011

Doug Suttles, founder of Ookla and creator of Speedtest.net, has run tests showing that the AT&T iPhone holds the 3G performance lead in the United States and is trailing well behind much of the world. He compared AT&T’s use of 7.2Mbps HSPA versus the 3.1Mbps EVDO Revision A of Verizon and observed that the original [...]

AT&T giving bonuses of 1,000 minutes to iPhone subscribers

Published on: 20th February, 2011

AT&T’s spokesman confirmed that the company is giving 1,000 rollover voice minutes to iPhone subscribers. The offer is valid only through a notification, to which customers are required to say “yes” until the 31st of March. Those subscribers who have no received the notification still can send their “yes” message to 11113020 and get a [...]

Apple pondering $200 off-contract iPhones to tackle rival Android

Published on: 14th February, 2011

A budget version has been elaborated for the iPhone, which could help Apple to undercut Android, as a leak recently mentioned. The new model is supposed to be a third smaller and at the same time much less expensive, most probable at $200 off-contract. Its design would use components available from current iPhones to maintain [...]

First iPhones have reached Verizon customers

Published on: 12th February, 2011

Early customers have received their Verizon iPhones on a wide scale. Many of those ordering on February 3rd have already got their phones. According to early reports, the activation has been smooth enough, excepting occasionally restarts of phones reaching Verizon’s network for the first time. Recipients do not get much special apart from a Getting [...]

Verizon iPhone has its first buyer

Published on: 8th February, 2011

Members of Verizon forum have discovered the first known buyer of an iPhone. In an after-hours visit to a Fort Worth, Texas, UPS depot, one customer got his device and activated it during the same day. He said that the phone worked fine. Most customers have yet to receive their phones and would have them [...]

Verizon says iPhone is the best phone for first-day sales

Published on: 7th February, 2011

According to Verizon, the iPhone 4 has already had the best first-day sales of all devices on the carrier’s network. In only two hours, the iPhone became the phone the most popular in an initial launch on the carrier. As chief Dan Mead said, al pre-orders for existing customers have been sold at 8:10PM Eastern [...]

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