Wednesday, April 20, 2011

PhoneDog.com's Daily Digest

PhoneDog.com's Daily Digest

The benefits of buying a smartphone with a dual-core processor

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Last year was the year of the Snapdragon. Qualcomm's 1GHz processor swept the market off its feet and introduced us all to speeds we weren't used to seeing on Android phones. This year – though we're only a few months in – is shaping up to be the year of the Tegra 2, a dual-core chipset made by NVIDIA. More and more frequently, we're hearing of phones coming to market with dual-core processors. What does this mean to the average end user? Should you buy a phone with a...


Motorola DROID X to be graced with Gingerbread on May 10th?

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A little over a week ago, there were rumors that Motorola and Verizon had finally begun rolling Android 2.3 out to the DROID X . Unfortunately, it ended up just being a newly-leaked build of Gingerbread, but according to Droid-Life , we may not be that far off from actually seeing the official build pushed out. The site has heard that testers were given the DROID X's build of 2.3 last week, and that May 10th could be the day that the update is finally released to regular folks like you...


Do lesser-known manufacturers stand a chance in the smartphone realm?

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Before Android came along, nearly every aspect of a phone was designed and made by each individual manufacturer. Companies put a lot of time, effort, and money into the design of the phone, the components, and the software. With the introduction of an open source platform and the rise of more and more component manufacturers, companies like Motorola, HTC, and Samsung have been able to focus more time and attention on the important aspects that differentiate their product from the rest of...


Apple moves over 18 million iPhones, records $5.99 billion in profit in Q2 2011

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Following AT&T's financial report this morning, Apple just served up its own set of numbers for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011. The Cupertino-based firm managed to earn both record revenue and profit, raking in $24.67 billion and $5.99 billion, respectively, which is up from $13.5 billion and $3.07 billion one year ago. During Q2 of fiscal 2011, Apple managed to move 18.65 million iPhones, which is a growth of 113 percent compared to the previous year, and 4.69 million iPads, a big...


Motorola prepping a vanilla Android device for Virgin Mobile?

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Virgin Mobile's current Android lineup consists of the LG Optimus V and Samsung Intercept , but a new leak has shown that it may be adding a third device to its stable in the near future. The folks at Pocketnow got their hands on the image you see above, which shows a Motorola-branded device sporting a vanilla(!) build of Android and a Virgin Mobile app on its home screen. Unfortunately, there's not much more available on this device besides what we can glean from the photo. It's...


Why the iPhone 6 should not launch in early 2012

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Apple has done a good job of keeping to schedule; not only with their iPhone lineage, but also their laptops and computers, iPod line-up, and iPad family. They’ve done such a good job of it, in fact, that people expect there to be a new Apple-branded product on the market at specific times in the year, even if they don’t consciously know the dates it’s supposed to happen. In the summer we’ve got a new iPhone, and in the fall we’re subject to a new iPod...


iPhone 5 to look similar to iPhone 4, begin shipping in September?

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It's looking increasingly likely that Apple will be launching its next-gen iPhone in September of this year, breaking its tradition of pushing a new handset out in the summer. Today the folks at Reuters have corroborated that rumor, reporting that, according to "three people familiar with the matter," Apple will begin production of the iPhone 5 in July and begin shipping it in September. The tipsters also claim to have some details on the device itself, saying that the fifth iPhone will look...


G-Slate tablet with Google to T-Mobile - New phone

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The T-Mobile G-Slate with Google arrived today Wednesday April 20, 2011.


Samsung Fascinate Android 2.2 update begins rolling out tomorrow

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Owners of the Samsung Fascinate have been waiting for their update to Android 2.2 for some time now, watching other Galaxy S devices like the Vibrant and Epic 4G get Froyo while neither Verizon or Sammy made even a peep about when the Fascinate's turn would come. Well, it seems that the wait is finally almost over, as Big Red announced today that it will begin rolling out Android 2.2 (ED01) to the Fascinate beginning tomorrow, April 21st. Included in the update is Flash and all of the other...


Samsung Sidekick 4G to T-Mobile - New phone

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The Samsung Sidekick 4G is available at T-Mobile starting today Wednesday April 20. 2011.


iPhones, iPads running iOS 4 are quietly recording your location data, researchers find

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Heads up, iPhone and iPad owners: your device is quietly tracking your location and logging your every move in a file stored inside the device as well as on your computer. The issue was discovered by two security researchers, who claim that Apple's devices have been tracking their owners' locations ever since the release of iOS 4 last year. The iDevices reportedly use cell tower triangulation to record its longitude and latitude coordinates at any given time, along with a timestamp, and stores...


AT&T posts strong Q1 numbers despite arrival of Verizon iPhone 4

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After years of rumors and speculation, the mythical Verizon iPhone became slightly less so last February when Big Red and Apple ended AT&T's reign as the exclusive home of the iPhone. So how much of an effect did the VeriPhone have on AT&T? Not much, it seems. In the first quarter of 2011, AT&T managed to move 3.6 million iPhones, which is nearly one million more than the same time last year, with 23 percent of those subscribers being new to Ma Bell. There were 5.5 million AT&T smartphones sold...


Will mobile applications become more expensive as functionality increases?

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Applications are arguably the backbone of the smartphone and tablet worlds. Without the hundreds of thousands of applications available for our touchscreen pocket computers, they would be nothing but over-sized feature phones with an enhanced browser. In a sense, they are what makes the smartphone...smart and a tablet even worth buying. Applications come it two basic forms: paid and free. Free applications are typically supported by ads which earn the developer of the application a...


BlackBerry PlayBook First Impressions

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After what seems like an eternity of rumors, leaks, behind-glass demonstrations, and more, the BlackBerry PlayBook is finally available in retail stores.  Announced at DEVCON 2010, the PlayBook is RIM's foray into the tablet market, and the first product to run on their new QNX platform.  It's intended to be a "new beginning" for RIM, whose reputation has been tarnished a bit as of late due to lackluster devices like the BlackBerry Torch. The PlayBook is available in 16, 32,...


Is Android filling in the dumb phone gap?

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Just like the way that our phones aren’t the same as they used to be, the mobile OS market isn’t the same as it was, either. Back in the day, the standard “dumb phone” populated many people’s pockets, while the more advanced devices were in the hands of those who could either afford them, wanted something to show off with, or needed them for work (or something like work). But in today’s world, having a device that has a touchscreen, advanced features...


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