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Comscore have released their Q4 2011 numbers for smartphone market share in the United States. Earlier reports suggested Apple would take a great chunk of the share back from Android with the launch of the iPhone 4S, and while they did have a great spurt to close the year out it didn’t hurt Android as [...]

Earlier this week we caught wind that the “soak” test for the Android Gingerbread update for Motorola Droid 2 Global would be going out to select users towards the end of this week. A day or two later, Verizon posted the relevant documents for the update to their support site for the D2G, and subsequently [...]

You folks have been waiting for this one for quite some time. Due to the Motorola DROID X’s bootloader being locked, it’s quite difficult to get truly-custom ROMs up and running on it. Notice I use the word “difficult” and not “impossible”. Developer CVPS has somehow found a way to get CyanogenMod running on the [...]

Yes, Motorola has promised that future handsets releases will feature unlockable bootloaders out of the box, but our hopes that the newly announced Photon 4G will be counted among them have been crushed. Moto has issued a statement that reaffirms their intentions to deploy software more open to development on Android smartphones later this year [...]

Aside from Apple’s “intellectual property,” what else is at stake in the infringement suit recently filed by the Cupertino company against Samsung? $ 5.7 billion worth of business between the companies, the reported amount Apple spent on buying components from the Korean manufacturer for use in their various products. We’re talking everything from processors and [...]

Samsung may have slightly cowered at the launch of the iPad 2, but that’s not going to stop them – a day before the Apple-bred tablet is available from Verizon, they’ve posted a brand new advertisement for their original Samsung Galaxy Tab on YouTube. (Which we imagine could find its way to airwaves soon.) The [...]

In light of the launch of the iPad 2, what little hype recent Android Honeycomb tablets had begun to accumulate has been somewhat squelched. For whatever reason, Apple products have a tendency to do that. Still,  RBC Capital Markets General Manager Mike Abramsky sees Android emerging as the dominant tablet platform by 2014. Though it’s [...]

It didn’t take long for the T-Mobile G2 to get root, but it didn’t last long either. HTC had taken precautions to prevent permanent rooting of the device, resetting every time the phone was powered down. Still, a workaround was found to allow for permanent root, but why stop there? Flashing ROMs is one thing, [...]

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know about this “JooJoo” tablet until today. According to the light bit of research I did before writing this post, it sounds like this thing was supposed to be the “tablet of tablets,” for its time. It seemingly had everything everyone wanted: social networking, amazing web-browsing capabilities, and a gorgeous [...]

The HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z are expected to get their formal unveilings next week in London, but the HD in all of its EVO-like goodness has made an early debut in the form of a render snagged up by German site BestBoyz. The render is the spitting image of the in-the-wild Desire [...]