Samsung Gives Canadians Ice Cream Sandwich

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If you have a Samsung Galaxy device, you’ll be happy to hear that Samsung has just announced the availability of Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. Android 4.0, better known as Ice Cream Sandwich brings a fresh look and feel to Android. ICS brings a new user interface, improved multi-tasking, notifications, WiFi Hotspot, improved web browsing, and [...]

AT&T CEO Shows Off Nokia Lumia 900 as his Device of Choice

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A couple days ago, CNBC asked Ralph de la Vega the CEO of AT&T, while he was live on the air, if he has seen the new iPhone 5. Of course, at this point Apple and their partners are saying nothing about the next release of the iPhone. If Ralph was to say yes, then [...]

Samsung Galaxy Rugby Hits Canadian Carriers

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  Samsung has released their latest smartphone for Canadians to enjoy. The Galaxy Rugby features a ruggedized, durable design, that is dustproof and waterproof, enabling active users to conduct business anytime, anywhere. The Rugby is submersible up to 1 meter for 30 minutes! The actual device specs are inline with an entry level Android phone. [...]

Check Out the Top Customer-Rated Smartphones on Amazon

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I saw a couple tweets about this the other day, so I thought I should dig into it and see what’s going on. The comments I saw were all around the top 5 phones on Amazon as rated by customers, are Windows Phones. In fact, it goes a little further than that; 70% of the [...]

Nokia Lumia 900 Now Available from Rogers in Canada

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Named “Best of CES” by CNet, Nokia’s Lumia 900 hits the shelves in Canada. The 900 features a large 4.3 inch ClearBlack screen with faster connection speeds thanks to Rogers LTE network. The 8 megapixel camera features a Carl Zeiss lens with a large aperture and a wide angle focal length for high quality images, [...]

Homebrew: Create More Powerful Apps with WP7 Root Tools

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Heathcliff74 is well known among the homebrew community for his many contributions. This time, he has released WP7 Root Tools and an SDK to allow developers to create more powerful homebrew applications. Please keep in mind, these apps will not be found in the Marketplace on the device. If you don’t consider yourself a techie, [...]

Telerik Releases Live Tile Controls for Windows Phone Developers

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With the latest release from Telerik, they have added something called RadHubTile that allows developers to extend their apps to the Windows Phone 7 Home Screen with very little work. By using these new classes, you can quickly create a Tile, Mosaic Tile, Slide Tile, Picture Rotator Tile, and a Custom Tile. All of these [...]

Homebrew: Lock Screen Widgets for Windows Phone

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Having a unique custom wallpaper on your lock screen is a great way to personalize your phone. It’s great that the lock screen already shows me my upcoming appointments and the number of new emails. But why not use the space to show off a few things that matter most to the user?  Imagine having [...]

Microsoft Patent Expands Upon the Asus Transformer Concept

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Now here’s a cool concept – Microsoft has a new patent (filed back in June of 2010) that may change the way you think a dock should work. Asus has been relatively successful selling their Transformer and Transformer Prime Android tablets. If you’re not familiar with this product, it’s basically a tablet that has a [...]

MWC 2012: Skype Enters Beta for Windows Phone

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One of the big announcements at Mobile World Congress so far from Microsoft is that Skype is now available in Beta on Windows Phone. With 200 million users, Skype for Windows Phone is a key element in building a successful platform. The Windows Phone client is very different than any Skype client you’ve seen before, [...]