The much anticipated HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G smartphones seem to have hit a road-block as the shipment for both phones were delayed as part of an investigation.  The investigation in question is about a previous alleged patent infringement with Apple in which the latter won an exclusion order that effectively bans the imports of HTC Android devices at the International Trade Commission last December. The patent in particular is the one involving “personal data and mobile communication devices”.

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For all the enthusiastic Tweeters out there on Android devices, if you use the native Android application for all your Twittering needs, you should check out the Play Store for its latest update. Apparently the team behind the applications have resolved a few issues and fixed a few bugs that are minor but important. The latest update which is said to update the Twitter application up to version 3.2.2 will rectify some issues with sync settings as well as give users running Android 2.0 and 2.1 devices a better native application. Of course the number of people that tweet and use Android Éclair OS might be relatively few in number but it bodes well that the folks that handle Twitter feel that it is important to keep them serviced as well.

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After leaked images and specifications surfaced on the internet a while back, the low-end affordable smartphone was finally announced today by HTC. The phone itself which looks like a mini-member of HTC’s One-range of smartphones comes with lower-end but decent specifications and even comes with the HTC exclusive 25GB cloud-based storage that is provided by Dropbox. The HTC Desire C features a 3.5-inch touchscreen display that rocks a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels, a 600MHz processor which is supported by 512MB of RAM.

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With recent rumors about the next-gen iPhone getting a larger 4-inch screen, there have also been speculations that the additional real-estate on the screen will only make the phone taller as opposed to wider. Now a case for your iPhone 4/4S has arrived on the scene and if you squint really hard, you can get a rough impression of the rumored dimensions of the next iPhone might look like. What sets this iPhone case aside from the plethora of other options is the fact that people use their fingers to use the iPhone. Of course you might think that I’m stating the obvious, but I for one have grabbed the folds of my t-shirt more often than I’d like to admit to clean up the finger prints or grease marks that inevitably end up on the screen regardless of how often I wash my hands.

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There has been a massive influx of affordable tablets arriving at the market as of late. Now, it seems that another one has been added to the mix and this one comes in the form of an affordable Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet from French-based Yzi. The $170 is not as affordable as the Aakash tablet that was purchased in bulk by the Indian government but it is a bit better. It will come with a single-core Cortex-A8 processor that has been clocked at 1.2GHz. It will be supported by a Mali-400 GPU along with 512MB of RAM. It will come with 4GB of internal storage with a microSD card slot that allows space expansion up to 32GB of memory.

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Sometime in March an unknown device made by Pantech running the Android OS surfaced in some benchmark figure data. From that information, we saw that it was running a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor from Qualcomm and it exhibit signs that it would be landing for AT&T. However, since then, there have been no signs of it. Today however, it seems that the device which has the model name P8010 has resurfaced again but this time it has showed up under the watchful eyes of the folks over at the FCC and it has come out successfully on the other side. As the previous sighting confirmed, the P8010 is packed with the bands necessary for the device’s operation on AT&T.

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After all the announcements that were made during the BlackBerry World Conference not too long ago, it seems like RIM has not stopped with new innovations and designs for its line of smartphones and tablets. Today however, a patent filing that was granted to the company shows something quite interesting. The image of the patent filing above shows a holster which apparently houses a flexible battery that has been built into it. The battery that is built into the holster is in addition to the battery in the device itself so it will apparently serve as an additional battery that will charge your BlackBerry smartphone while you are on the go.

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A new rumor has surfaced with what is said to be the next installment of Android’s OS. The folks over at the Wall Street Journal had got the information from a person who claims to be in-the-know and he apparently told them that Google is planning to grant mobile device manufacturers an early access to new releases of Android in a bid to stop wireless carriers from controlling the devices. As opposed to what Google previously did by providing just one selected manufacturer an early look at the newest OS, the rumor indicates that it will instead be giving out the early releases to a few mobile manufacturers.

Read full post →Google to Reveal Android 5.0 Jelly Bean on a Few Nexus Devices?

For all you Samsung smartphone users who have been craving for their piece of the sweet and succulent Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it seems that Samsung has been communicating closely with the local carriers as well as Google to announce a list of devices that are to receive their Android version upgrade “as quickly and as smoothly as possible”. That said however, only the devices that are to receive the update have been announced but there are no specific dates highlighted to indicate when the update will actually land.

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Research in Motion (RIM) had what the company called an Android player for its BlackBerry PlayBook which apparently allowed users to run Android applications on their tablet that was running BlackBerry OS. That said, the fact that another OS can also run applications originally made for Android devices comes as no surprise. In addition to that, as the video above will indicate, Tizen OS which is a product of a collaboration of different companies including Samsung and Intel will be able to run Android applications. The primary application that has to be used in order to access Android-based applications is aptly called Application Compatibility Layer (ACL).

Read full post →Android Applications Can Run on Tizen Apparently