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27 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Samsung Captivate vs. iPhone 4

I know everyone and their cousin gets tired of the iPhone vs. Android fanboy slugfest, but that’s not what we’re about this time.  Allyson, one of our pals over at TiPb, took some time to compare the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate against her iPhone …

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24 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Apple can’t hold the Droid X right either

Look. We’re really not going to get dragged back into this whole Antennagate thing. Because let’s face it: Asking Apple to test somebody else’s phone is like leaving a bottle of Campari in the same building as a certain Crackberry.com founder. (O…

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23 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Samsung’s new ad blatantly mocks Apple

Yesterday we came across a new television ad for Samsung’s new Galaxy S line of phones.Now, one of its print ads has been spotted that takes direct aim at Apple. The ad simply says "Hello" with a Galaxy S picture underneath. However the l’s a…

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18 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

HTC responds to ‘Antennagate’ with numbers – very (important) tiny numbers

While HTC didn’t quite come out swinging like RIM did after Apple’s Friday press conference, spokesman Eric Lin wasn’t afraid to let Pocket-Lint in on some hard numbers of their own.  If you recall, Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs remarked tha…

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16 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Steve Jobs calls out HTC Droid Eris during his explanation of ‘Antennagate’

Apple CEO Steve Jobs led a news conference today to explain what he’s now dubbed "Antennagate" — and he called out a couple of other smartphones to show that the iPhone 4 isn’t the only one to drop signal strength when held. On the Andr…

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16 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Steve Jobs calls out HTC Droid Eris during his explanation of ‘Antennagate’

Apple CEO Steve Jobs led a news conference today to explain what he’s now dubbed "Antennagate" — and he called out a couple of other smartphones to show that the iPhone 4 isn’t the only one to drop signal strength when held. On the Andr…

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12 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Powering the iPad with Android’s WiFi tethering

Our friend (frenemy?) Rene Ritchie over at sister-site TiPb has done a quick, largely (and admittedly) unscientific comparison of connectivity options for the iPad, and whether the additional $130 for the 3G model and corresponding data …

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10 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Fring fraks Skype access, iPhone blamed

Yeah, so by now Fring users likely have noticed that Skype access has been pulled. And, you guessed it, we have the iPhone to blame. Fring recently updated its iPhone version, which allows cross-platform chatting (see our demo with Rene from TiPB) and…

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09 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Marty Mobile — inventor of the cell phone — says Android ‘every bit as good’ as iPhone

When we saw Martin Cooper — the inventor of the cell phone, by the way — on C-SPAN in March, he was telling us how he gave up his iPhone for the Motorola Droid. Fast forward to today, and he’s continuing his praises of everybody’s favorite smar…

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08 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Fring updated so Android and iPhone can play together

The Fring app for the iPhone got an update today (see our previous Android-related hands-on) that lets it play nice with Android (and Symbian, too). That means us Android users can have video chats with our misbegotten friends who shelled out for the …

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