Posts Tagged ‘things’

Apps share personal details says WSJ, Facebook app update, Best Buy ends restocking fee

December 20th, 2010

The WSJ investigated 101 apps for the iPhone and Android smartphones and found that many of them share personal details with ad firms without asking the user’s permission.

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Nexus S torn down

December 17th, 2010

  Google’s Nexus S has been dissected by teardown experts, iFixit. The dissection doesn’t have anything interesting except for the fact that the Super AMOLED panel is not really “curved”. Contrary to what most of us thought, the glass screen which sits on top of the Super AMOLED panel is curved.

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NOOKcolor Android 2.2 Froyo hack revealed [Video]

December 6th, 2010

Having been rooted at the tail end of November , the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is now getting Android 2.2 Froyo, though only unofficially. Several people have managed to get the updated OS onto the 7-inch touchscreen tablet, with jacememes sharing a video of it in action (that you can see below), but if it’s instructions you’re after then Jesse Vincent has the details. Be warned, however, this isn’t the simple matter of downloading a ROM and reflashing your ereader

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GT-I9200 tipped in firmware leak

November 23rd, 2010

  So a new firmware of an unreleased device, numbered as GT-I9200 made its way out over the weekend. Samfirmware has released the firmware for everyone to download, which is currently being discussed in a lengthy thread over at XDA Developers . While there’s no exact information available on the device, it is rumored to be the successor of Galaxy S phone

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Nikon at work on Android-powered digital photo frame

October 28th, 2010

Digital photo frames are very common today and are one of the things that is given very frequently as a gift around the holiday season. There are a huge number of the things on the market today and Nikon is set to offer up its own. Nikon is said to be working on a digital photo frame that runs Android

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iLuv iMM747 speaker dock, Apple loses patent infringement case, ADT Pulse controlled by iPhone

October 5th, 2010

iLuv has premiered a new speaker dock that can charge and play the iPad, iPhone, and iPod.

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Nuu case adds physical keyboard to iPhone, iPhone grabs most of smartphone market in US, iOS 4.1 coming to UK this week

September 6th, 2010

One of the things that the iPhone has been lacking since it launched according to some users is a physical keyboard. A case from a company called Nuu adds that missing physical keyboard to the iPhone 4 by way of a clamshell case .

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