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May

1

2012

March comScore MobiLens Report is in, Echoing Samsung’s Reign

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Earlier today we posted IDC’s analytics which heralded Samsung as champion among vendors  for both units shipped and market share. Now, the latest comScore has just became available and it too spouts the resounding success of Samsung. To that end, IDC cited the company’s  ridiculous 267% year-over-year change. As far as just this past March, [...]

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Apr

3

2012

Orbotix Gets Busy – Sphero Now in 96 Countries, New Apps Coming April

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Orbotix has posted an end of March progress report and things are looking good. The company’s product, Sphero, has rolled its way into 95 new countries, in addition to the US, since shipping began last December. As a thank you for waiting patiently, Orbotix has offered a 10% discount on international orders using the code [...]

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Mar

29

2012

Sprint’s HTC EVO One – A Former Favorite Is Getting A Refresh

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The original HTC EVO made waves on Sprint for being one of the first “big” phones and of course, more importantly,  for being the first 4G enabled phone. It’s been about two years since then so perhaps your EVO and your contract have begun to wear thin. If so, you may be excited by the rumors going [...]

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Mar

28

2012

Humble Bundle Data Finds Android Customers More Generous than Windows or Mac

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Here’s an interesting statistic for your day. For quite a while now, numerous blogs have ragged on Android users and their unwillingness to pay for apps. The Humble Bundle cites these blog posts, saying that, “[they] brand Android users as “cheap pessimists” and disproportionally resistant to spend money on apps when compared to other platforms, especially when it comes [...]

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Mar

28

2012

White Motorola RAZR Joins Clove March 29th

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If you have been waiting on this one, I’m sure it has felt entirely too long. The UK white RAZR was initially thought to be released on February 22nd. Then the date became March 1st. Then, silence. Those days came and went and the white RAZR seemingly faded out of existence for the past month. [...]

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Mar

16

2012

Huawei’s Ascend D Quad XL – Perhaps World’s Fastest Smartphone Indeed

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The Nvidia Tegra 3, Qualcomm S4, and now the Apple A5X…all of these beastly new quad chipsets claim to be the best. Don’t make any judgement yet. There’s another contender here to join the fray, and it just may be a winner. I’m referring to Huawei’s K3V2. Developed in house by Huawei, this quad core monster comes in [...]

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