Itching to know what Epic 4G accessories will be available at launch? . . . → Read More: Epic 4G launch accessories to include chargers, cases, leaked playbook states
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Better bring an umbrella if you’re going out, because the Windows Phone 7 hardware leaks are really starting to rain down. We’ve so far peeked pre-release handsets from ASUS , HTC ( twice ), and LG , and now Samsung is pitching in with what looks like a device fated to dance on retail shelves. Details are, as usual, scarce on the ground, but the angular aesthetics suggest it isn’t the AT&T-bound Cetus that recently graced the FCC . . . → Read More: Windows Phone 7 leak mania continues with new Samsung prototype What is there to do on a cloudy Friday in Britain? Why, scouring the web for your phone’s firmware update, of course. That’s probably how a Modaco member unearthed the Dell Streak’s latest Android 2.1 build (apparently just for locked O2 devices), anyway . . . → Read More: Dell Streak gets leaked Android 2.1 update in the UK, but still the same ol’ 1.6 in the US Look out, Sprint — if you aren’t careful, you might just end up pulling a Palm . Shortly after Dan Schulman, Sprint’s prepaid business honcho, announced that he’d be leaving The Now Network for a position at American Express, product development guru Kevin Packingham has announced that he’ll be packing out on Monday . . . → Read More: Sprint’s product development guru bolts from yellow pastures, heads to greener ones The . . . → Read More: Motorola Droid 2 camera test Last quarter we reported on some pretty stellar growth numbers for Android in the global smartphone marketplace. Back then, Google’s OS had a 9.6 percent slice of the pie, but today that’s ballooned to a robust 17.2 percent, meaning that in terms of end-user sales over the last three months, Android has nearly matched RIM’s BlackBerry sales. That’s quite the feat when you consider that a year ago the latter was shifting ten times more units than the former. . . . → Read More: Gartner and IDC agree: the Android invasion’s accelerating around the world You may surmise that Auntie Beeb is only good for news distribution from across the pond, but as it turns out, the BBC is apparently giving at least a few of its employees a little of that oh-so-coveted ” 20 percent time .” In an effort to prove just how easy it is to create a smartphone application that can gank all sorts of personal information, a staffer at the organization spent just a few weeks learning enough code to create a “crude game.” In play, the app would gather contact information, copy text messages and log the phone’s current location; afterwards, it would shoot all of that information to a specified email address, but not before putting a serious hurting on the battery. All told, the spyware took up around 250 lines of the 1,500 making up the whole program, and thankfully for us all, the BBC decided against submitting the program into any app stores . . . → Read More: BBC crafts malicious smartphone app to prove a point… we guess Google has verified that it is working to make changes so streaming audio services like Pandora and TuneWiki will no longer have poor quality while streaming over 3G. . . . → Read More: Fix coming for Froyo audio issues The HTC Glacier shows it’s face at GLBenchmark.com again, this time showing off its GPU scores. . . . → Read More: HTC Glacier benchmarks redux — the GPU This tip comes in courtesy of Mark, who was kind enough to help out . . . → Read More: Importing and Exporting contacts |
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