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What piece of smartphone technology do you want to see improve in 2013?

Android It's been said a million times. We have seen countless changes and improvements over the years in the mobile realm. For instance, 2011 was the year of the dual-core processor, and 2012 has been the year of large, high-resolution displays,...

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What's your favorite thing about Android?

Android Let’s take a second and step back to take a good hard look at Android. Just for right now, I want to think about what this platform has to offer on its own. the last real experience I had with an Android device was (officially) running on...

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Would you trade better display tech for better battery life?

Android Everyone loves the battery in the Samsung Galaxy Note II, or at least everyone I’ve spoken to who owns the phone. Or has even used it for an extended period of time. It measures in at 3100mAh, which is a proverbial ton of power shoved into...

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Does the size of the app store matter to you?

Android Our smartphones are made of apps – a lot of apps. In October of this year, the Google Play Store for Android officially hit 700,000 apps. This puts it almost on par with the Apple App Store, which hit 700,000 apps just a month earlier in...

from 2012 by Anna Scantlin 0

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Do you prefer a hardware camera key?

Lifestyle Before my daughters were born, I never took pictures with my phone. And no, never isn’t extreme. More often than not, I’d simply forget that my phone even had that capability.

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Taylor's Top 5 tablets (December 2012)

Android I'm a tablet lover. I always have been and likely always will be. I love the extra display space, ultra portability and fantastic battery life. And when applications are optimized for the display size and resolution, nothing looks better....

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 0

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Better battery life is on the way!

Lifestyle Every day it seems like the “great battery life” I initially started off with on my iPhone is slowly creeping towards “annoying” status as it only seems to last half a day instead of nearly the whole day like it used to. In a typical...

from 2012 by Anna Scantlin 0

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Is your household a one ecosystem home?

Android Now that the holiday shopping sprees are over, it’s time to settle down and look back at all the cool things we bought for others. Okay, done with that? Good. Now, let’s talk about all the cool things you were given!

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Microsoft says 75,000 new Windows Phone apps and 300,000 app updates published in 2012

News App selection is always a hot topic when it comes to Windows Phone, with Microsoft revealing earlier this year that its platform is now home to 120,000 apps. With 2012 winding down, the Redmond firm took the time today to give us another...

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Are you interested in using Jolla's Sailfish OS?

Lifestyle Earlier this year, back in July to be specific, the Finnish company named Jolla announced that they’d be developing a new mobile operating system based on MeeGo, called Sailfish.

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Microsoft says Google is preventing it from offering fully featured YouTube app for Windows Phone

Cell Phone Apps Microsoft has talked up Windows Phone 8's app selection quite a bit lately, saying that 46 of the top 50 mobile apps will soon be on the platform and that 75,000 apps were added to the Windows Phone Store in 2012. Apps are again...

Jan 2nd by Alex Wagner 0

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Do you foresee Nokia leaving the mobile phone industry?

Lifestyle Rumors and predictions are flying everywhere early on this year, and Nokia is no exception to the rule. To be clear, right now Nokia has sent no official statement indicating that they actually plan to shift out of the mobile industry. The...

Jan 2nd by Anna Scantlin 0

Windows Phone users having problems accessing Google Maps in their device's browser [UPDATED]

News Things between Google and Microsoft have been a bit, erm, strained lately, with Microsoft recently claiming that Google is blocking a fully-featured YouTube app from hitting Windows Phone. Now a new issue has emerged that certainly won't...

Jan 4th by Alex Wagner 0

Google issues new statement concerning Maps on Windows Phone, says it's working to remove redirect

News Rejoice, Google Maps lovers on Windows Phone, because you should be regaining access to the mobile web version of the service soon. One day after Windows Phone users found that they were redirected to Google's home page when trying to...

Jan 5th by Alex Wagner 0

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Should Windows Phone owners feel shunned by Google?

Business And Money If you have a Windows Phone-based device, and you happened to be using Google Maps through Internet Explorer on your phone, then you probably got caught up in a pretty interesting back-and-forth

Jan 6th by Evan Selleck 0