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Samsung SCH-I520 4G LTE phone Heading to Verizon Wireless

Dec 24th, 2010
Samsung SCH-I520 4G LTE phone Heading to Verizon Wireless

Currently, Verizon only 4G handset was the HTC Incredible HD but now they are getting ready to received another 4G LTE handset. Samsung SCH-I520 4G LTE phone is heading to Verizon Wireless. The 2.2 Android powered phone will be launched during CES 2011.

Gravity Gets an Alpha 1.5 Version

Dec 24th, 2010

Gravity, the paid and one of the most popular twitter clients for Symbian phones has been Updated to Gravity 1.5 Alpha. This is still a test version but looking at the change log below from the MobileWays site , it seems that, Gravity is on its way to become a perfect Twitter client. RELEASE NOTES for Gravity 1.5 Build 6685: Twitter ? ? * Your own tweets that have been retweeted are shown in the “My Tweets” tab ? ? * The “In-Reply-To” button will show all retweets of your (retweeted) Tweet ? ? * Browse all your own Favourites by scrolling down (automatically loading more) ? ? * Browse all User Tweets (from a user’s profile) by scrolling down ? ? * Tweets sent in offline mode will be shown in the drafts section now Facebook ? ? * Support for Messages and Notifications has been added ? ? * Posts now show the picture and additional description text ? ? * Browse a user’s Wall and post to the Wall ? ? * Read up to 30 most recent comments in a special Post & Comment view Virtual Keyboard ? ? * Virtual Keyboard for Symbian^3 & S60v5 in both portrait and landscape mode ? ? * Landscape mode virtual keyboard finally has Close & Send keys ? ? * Key button popups are rendering correctly on the left and right sides of the keyboard ? ? * A special Edit key opens the phone’s default editor ? ? * The keyboard supports English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese Layout Miscellaneous ? ? * The new S^3 fullscreen mode is now available for S60v5 as well ? ? * A new notification icon (exclamation mark) shows failed/scheduled tweets ? ? * Auto-More: List automatically loads and displays tweets from Cache ? ? * Preview of pictures supports Instagr.am now ? ? * Google Reader now synchronizes read/unread posts on startup ? ? * Twitter/Facebook buttons have been added to the new keyboard for Foursquare Bug Fixes ? ? * Google Reader: a very old crashing Bug has been fixed (USER 130) ? ? * UI Layout crashing bug fixed (KERN-EXEC 3) ? ? * JSON Parser has been fixed for Twitter (”change of your identity” Bug & RT Bug) ? ? * Background Power-Safe mode was broken and has been fixed Gravity 1.50 is available as an alpha test version from the following link: http://mobileways.de/latest/gravity-alpha.sisx

Firefox Updated for Android and Maemo Devices

Dec 24th, 2010
Firefox Updated for Android and Maemo Devices

Mozilla has released the updated version of Firefox mobile internet browser for Android and Maemo devices. In the world of tabbed browsing, it competes with Opera Mobile but I guess Opera Mobile is more popular especially on touch screen devices. Here is what you get in the new version, [ Click the image above to get the latest version of Firefox for Android and Maemo ] Improved support for Android keyboards, both hardware and on-screen New Android-style menus Fixed a bug in opening links from other apps Support for uploading files “Save as PDF” command in the site menu Fixed rendering of Arabic and Farsi text (on devices with Arabic/Farsi fonts installed) Firefox Sync New UI for simpler setup Support for custom Firefox Sync servers Video Full-screen open video Improved audio performance

Google Nexus S Get Its First OTA Update

Dec 23rd, 2010
Google Nexus S Get Its First OTA Update

Although the Google Nexus S is only released one week ago, Google has started to push out its first OTA software update to some Nexus S users. The software update will update your OS version to GRH78, comes with unknown bug fixes and updated Google Map software.

LG Optimus 2X to Debut in Europe Jan 2011

Dec 23rd, 2010
LG Optimus 2X to Debut in Europe Jan 2011

During an announcement of a music ringtone collaboration with Ennio Morricone yesterday, LG has revealed that it will launch the Optimus 2X Android smartphone, a dual core Tegra 2 processor equipped smartphone, in Europe next month. The Optimux 2X will be pre-loaded with 25 ringtones and music tracks from Morricone. LG will also put up the free Morricone-related content for download from its Application Store next year. LG Electronics (LG) today announced the release of an exclusive collection of music and ringtones written by movie soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone.

Rumor: HTC Incredible HD Coming on January 6th

Dec 23rd, 2010
Rumor: HTC Incredible HD Coming on January 6th

Made for Verizon Wireless new 4G LTE service, the HTC Incredible HD is found with a launch date of January 6th today. It is not 100% confirmed though, the site (http://m.us.2mymob.com/htc/index.jsp) that has this piece of information is unknown so we are not sure if it is stating an official date. Even if it is not announced on January 6th, it should be announced really soon with an “intentional leaked pics” this week . The Android smartphone is rumored to come with a 8 megapixel camera, dual flash LED, 4.3-inch touch screen, microSD card slot and microUSB connector.

Instagram to Come on Android

Dec 23rd, 2010
Instagram to Come on Android

If you have realized, these days, any App thats doing really good in the iPhone App store and is popular with iPhone users, will eventually come out with versions that are compatible with other popular mobile OSs. The same route is being taken by Instagram, which is a popular photo sharing, photo filter, and social-network app for the iPhone.