Virgin Mobile this morning announced its first Wimax-powered Android smartphone, the HTC EVO V 4G. It’ll run on Sprint’s current 3G and 4G networks, as was foretold in its recent Q1 earnings call. Specs are as follows:4.3-inch qHD touchscreenAndroid 4.0 Ice Cream SandwichHTC Sense 3.6Mobile hotspot capability – Connect up to five Wi-Fi devices5MP camera with video [...]
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Angry Birds Space claims the title of fastest growing mobile game
May 2nd, 2012 
dantek We all can hum the theme music by memory. We all have recently rediscovered our ancient, dormant skill of the slingshot and now have cravings for green ham and bacon. No, I’m not talking about Dr. Suess, but about one of the most recognized mobile games all over the world. Angry Birds by Rovio has [...]
London Science Museum goes mobile with an augmented reality app
April 28th, 2012 dantek Using your Android phone in a museum might not be your first thought, but if you head to the London Science Museum that is exactly what you should do. Featuring well known British TV personality, Top Gear’s James May, their Science Stories app takes advantage of augmented reality technology to bring the museum alive. May will [...]
Phosphor Games redefines mobile gaming with the release of Dark Meadow: The Pact for Tegra 3 devices
April 27th, 2012 dantek NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 is flexing its muscles today with the launch of Dark Meadow: The Pact from Phosphor Games Studio. Dark Meadow: The Pact utilizes the Unreal Engine 3 and is a first-person action/adventure game that will redefine the mobile gaming space.In this game you awaken in Montclair Hospital with no memory of who you [...]
Mobile GPUs to be on-par with consoles in a couple of years? NVIDIA says it’s possible
April 22nd, 2012 dantek Once upon a time, mobile phones used to weigh a couple of pounds (literally), feature large antennas, and very basic designs, and were used primarily to make and receive voice calls. Today’s smartphones are as much gaming machines and music players as they are devices for managing calls. However, mobile gaming is still far off [...]
Google Chrome for Android updated for better bookmarking, adds switch for mobile view
April 18th, 2012 dantek Heads up, boys and girls. Android’s Chrome browser (still in beta, natch) just got a pretty significant update. Here’s what’s new:You can now request the desktop version of a website, in case you would rather not view the mobile version.You can now add bookmarks as shortcuts on your home screen, so you can get to [...]
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A phone that can scream for help? Only from T-Mobile and Lookout Mobile Security
April 12th, 2012 dantek If one of the longest relationships you’ve had in your life was with your smartphone, you surely know how heartbreaking it can be to lose a phone. Yes, it’s better to have loved and lost a phone, rather than to never have had one at all. But losing the important documents and private pictures we all [...]
Rumor: HTC EVO 3D to Go to Virgin Mobile as HTC EVO V 4G
April 6th, 2012 dantek It looks like Sprint might be lending its EVO brand to its offspring Virgin Mobile here in the United States. PocketNow1 is reporting that Virgin Mobile will offer the HTC EVO 3D as the HTC EVO V 4G sometime later this year. Not to be confused with the 1GHz single-core EVO 4G, Sprint’s first 4G [...]
Nearly half of U.S. mobile subscribers have smartphones, survey finds, with Android making up half of that
April 1st, 2012 dantek Smartphones are big business these days and the market isn’t showing any signs of slow down, nor is any predicted in the next little while. New information coming from Nielsen suggests that smartphones are now in nearly 50 percent of U.S. mobile subscriber households with Android claiming 48 percent of individuals who have owned a [...]
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Sony Mobile launches ‘Night of Imagination’ with Labrinth
April 1st, 2012 dantek Not content with hiring acclaimed director Wes Anderson to create a series of TV commercials, Sony’s brought in another big name to promote its new Xperia NXT line-up (that’s the Xperia S, Xperia P and Xperia U, in case you were wondering).Its latest promotion sees Sony Mobile joining forces with British singer-songwriter Labrinth to launch [...]
