Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones The upcoming HTC EVO 3D is causing a lot of buzz as it is going to launch with an exciting feature that could prove to be revolutionary for the wireless industry. If its 3D, glasses-less, display meets success when it launches, it could open up a whole new market for smartphone manufacturers. Today, Sprint took the liberty to announce what special apps and features the HTC EVO 3D will contain when it launches sometime during the summer. To begin with, the blockbuster hit, The Green Hornet 3D, will be preloaded onto the device for a limited time. In addition, HTC will bundle the device with a special app called HTC Watch, and it is designed to allow users to access 2D and 3D content through an online store. In case the HTC Watch app isn’t your cup of tea, it will also come preloaded with the Blockbuster On Demand app that will allow for rentals and purchases of 3D content. The utility of a 3D display doesn’t stop with movies, as Sprint plans to offer the Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem 3D demo version of the game on the EVO 3D. In addition, more 2D and 3D game titles can be purchased and installed using the Gameloft Storefront app. Most titles will be available for purchase for $4.99. The HTC EVO 3D features a 4.3 inch qHD display, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 5MP rear facing camera, 1.3MP front facing camera, and it runs Android 2.3. The expected pricing for the new Sprint Android smartphone is $199 on a two year contract. As of now, we’re still waiting on official pricing and release information from Sprint. Read [Sprint] Via [Unwiredview] Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Apple, Communications, Mobile, Computers, Software / Applications After debuting alongside the first iPad, apple has finally brought iWork to other iOS devices. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are now all universal apps that will work on any iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and 3rd or 4th generation iPod touch. Now you can get the same iWork apps on all your iOS devices without having to pay for them again. The iPhone and iPod touch versions of the apps will work the same, just with a smaller screen. The work around that, they each have Smart Zoom, which basically means the app will automatically zoom into where you’re typing so you don’t have to. Otherwise, the apps are essentially the same, they’re just running on smaller screens. The new versions of the iWork apps also add a few new features. First, you’re finally able to sort documents into folders. I’ve never had more than a few documents in the iWork apps on my iPad, but this will surely help someone that does a lot of work in iWork on iOS. Assuming that person exists, of course. Each app will cost you $9.99, which is still a bit cheap, but it’s always nice to have an app that can read files for work or school. There must be others, but Apple’s apps are pretty good, especially now if you have multiple iOS devices. Read [Apple] Full Story » | Written by Shawn Ingram for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile  Wait, what is this? T-Mobile announcing that it has started offering two new monthly 4G plans on May 22 but officially announcing them it only now? Today happens to be the 31st of May in case the T-Mobile folks were not aware of their calendar. But anyway, the two new Monthly4G plans being offered start at $50 per month, that goes with no annual contract. And for that price you’ll enjoy unlimited Talk, unlimited Text and unlimited web service with the first 100MB, on your smartphone, be it an Android phone, BlackBerry or Windows Phone. That web service is of course at 4G speeds. You can also opt to get the $70 monthly plan that comes with unlimited talk, unlimited text and unlimited web with the first 5GB of data at 4G speeds. Incidentally, the 4G speeds for web service is good only until you’ve consumed the data allowance. From thereon, web surfing speed will be slowed down for the remainder of the month. So, there - in case you’re interested in getting the feel of how it is to surf the web, post updates on your Facebook Wall or post a tweet at lightning speed, you might want to check out these T-Mobile offerings. Read [PR Newswire] Full Story » | Written by Arnold Zafra for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Audio, Portable Audio, Video, Portable Video Given the vast success of the Galaxy S smartphone lineup, it’s kind of surprising that Samsung hasn’t taken more of an initiative to launch a WiFi-only version of the Galaxy S smartphone. Even though Samsung plans to ultimately launch the Galaxy Player sometime soon, I feel like it should have already happened…a while ago. In any event, according to the Best Buy mobile app, the Samsung Galaxy Player is going to retail for $269.99. It comes with 8GB of on board memory, a microSD slot for memory expansion, a 3MP rear facing camera, and a VGA front facing camera. It is essentially a Galaxy S smartphone without a 3G radio and voice support. We still have no word on exact pricing or availability, but I’m certain it will be around the $269 price point and should hopefully be available by late spring early summer. Via [Engadget] Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Gadgets / Other, ebooks Android developers are starting to pour their Android tablet-centric apps into the Android Market. One of these apps happens to be Zinio which I remember as one of the most-suggested digital magazine reader apps for the iPad. To kick off the launch of the Zinio magazine app for Android tablets, more than 20,000 magazines were made available for Android 3.0-running tablets including the Motorola Xoom, LG Optimus Pad, Acer Iconia Tab a500, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and more. If you own any of these Android tablets, you might want to download the Zinio app right now to get free access to 24 of the latest issues of the top magazines featured on the app, such as Cosmopolitan, ESPN, Harvard Business Review and more. And in case you’re not aware, Zinio is a single mobile app that lets you download and read various digital magazines without needing to download individual apps. In addition to the free issues of featured digital magazines, you can also explore the interactive features in Marie Claire and Seventeen through the Zinio Android app. Other titles with interactive features will also be made available in the coming months. So, what are you waiting for, grab the Zinio app from the Android Market and get a load of the following magazines for free starting now until June 15 - AFAR, BlackBook, Cosmopolitan, ELLE DECOR, ELLE, ESPN The Magazine, Esquire, Food Network Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Business Review, Home Theater, Juxtapoz, Marie Claire, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Journal, Motor Trend, O, The Oprah Magazine, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Popular Mechanics, Road & Track, Robb Report, Rolling Stone, Seventeen and Us Weekly. Read [PR Newswire], Product [Zinio] Full Story » | Written by Arnold Zafra for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones Motorola Droid X owners are already in the process of receiving their coveted Gingerbread update, and while Motorola plans to bring Gingerbread to their other main smartphones on Verizon Wireless (i.e. Motorola Droid 2 and the Droid Pro), we are not quite sure of the order or time frame that the other two devices will receive the update from Android 2.2 to 2.3. However, according to some reports, several users of the Motorola Droid Pro have already begun receiving the Android 2.3 update, as you can see from the image above. We are not sure, at this time, whether Motorola accidentally began to roll out the update to Droid Pro owners, or if Motorola actually planned to begin the update today and simply did not let the public know. If your Droid Pro already received the update, I’m sure you won’t be complaining either way, but for the rest of us waiting for an update to come our way, let’s hope Motorola officially announces the update and continues to roll it out. Via [Droid-Life] Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Apple, Communications, Smartphones, Mobile, Computers, Software / Applications, Web, Online Music/Video In a rare move, Apple has decided to tell us exactly what will be shown at the WWDC keynote next week. Turns out there’ll be a lot of talk about software and the cloud, as we expected. To make it even better, it will all be discussed by Steve Jobs himself. The only previously announced piece of software that will be discussed in the keynote is Mac OS X Lion. The next version of OS X is rumored to possibly be almost ready for release, so a release date wouldn’t be too surprising. It’d actually be more surprising if there wasn’t one. Perhaps His Jobness will show off some of the new features we’ve been hearing about like Reading List and the slightly changed UI. Joining Lion will be iOS 5, the next bog software update for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. We don’t know too much about the new iOS, but there have been rumors of widgets and improved notifications. Apple has to do something now that Windows Phone Mango is looming and Google is preparing to address some of the nagging issues in Android (updates and fragmentation between tablets and smartphones being two of the biggest). There won’t be a new iPhone, and iOS 5 is probably a few months away, but it’ll be interesting to see how Apple responds to having very real competition. A few somewhat significant overhauls would be very nice, and potentially needed to maintain dominance. The final piece Jobs will discuss is the new iCloud service. It will presumably be replacing MobileMe as Apple’s cloud service. We’ve heard rumors of a music locker or streaming service with actual label deals. It would also make sense for Apple to use it as a simple way to wirelessly sync files between devices a la Dropbox. Thy already exists with iDisk, but it could be made a lot more intuitive, and a lot faster. We don’t know exactly what to expect, but it should be better than MobileMe, which currently isn’t worth the $100 a year subscription. Read [Apple] Full Story » | Written by Shawn Ingram for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones Better late than never they always say. Today, Sony Ericsson announced that the Xperia X10 on AT&T in the United States will begin to receive the OTA Software Update for Android 2.1 starting today. Most OTA Software Updates take at least a week for all the owners to receive the update, so don’t stress out if you do not receive the Android 2.1 update today. I’m sure many Xperia X10 owners wished their device had launched originally with at least Android 2.1, but hey, what can you do? No word if Froyo or Gingerbread is in the Xperia X10’s future, but that would certainly be a nice treat down the road. Read [Sony Ericsson Product Blog] Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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The iPhone has a couple of very popular photo editing and sharing applications that you can’t find anywhere else. Take, Instagram and 100 Cameras in 1 for example. If you don’t have an iPhone or 4th generation iPod Touch, these apps can become restrictive. You can still utilize these apps with an older iPod model, but you have to find a way to import photos onto your older iPod Touch to get the most out of them. It’s a shame there aren’t Android versions for either of these apps yet, but you can make the importing process faster by using the cloud. My dilemma was simple. I wanted to find a way to use Instagram as one of my primary ways of sharing edited photos. The effects Instagram offers are very cool to look at, but I only had a third-generation iPod Touch. I couldn’t take photos with my iPod, and the fastest way for me to put recently taken photos on the iPod was to email the photos to myself from my Android phone. That whole ordeal was starting to get tedious, so I turned to the cloud for assistance. I currently have an account with SugarSync, a cloud storage service. SugarSync also has an Android application. In its latest Android update, SugarSync allowed photos to be automatically uploaded to the cloud right after they’re taken. Sugarsync also has an iOS application. Whenever my photos are beamed to the cloud, I open up the SugarSync application on my iPod Touch, find the photos, and download them to the camera roll. From there, I’m free to use photo editing iOS applications with ease. SugarSync is probably not the only cloud storage application for Android and iOS, but it’s the only one I know of with an automatic photo uploading option. This method works perfectly for me, but you may have your own methods as well. This is just another way on how the cloud can make content sharing easier, while solving minor problems at the same time. Download Link [SugarSync for Android] Download Link [SugarSync for iOS] Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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Pantech’s latest Android device is headed to AT&T June 5 and packs a slim, slide-out keyboard. Pantech has been making devices with Android for their Pantech-SKY brand in Korea. In the US, this will be Pantech’s big move, pushing past feature phones like their quick-messaging devices. Pantech is the sponsor of the 2011 Dew Tour, an appropriate marketing link to help capture more of the feature phone market. The Crossover, though, will look to move upstream, hopefully pulling some loyal Pantech supporters with it. At just $69, it will definitely turn heads. Featuring Android 2.2 (froyo), the phone has a 3.1” touchscreen, 600MHz processor, 3MP camera and hotspot capabilities. The device also features GPS, voice recognition and accelerometers. The Crossover is Android Market ready. Read: [AT&T] Full Story » | Written by JG Mason for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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We’ve come to the end of the line for the Sony Ericsson Xperia 10 with this update to Android 2.1. The update is available now and finally moves users off 1.6. Sony has publicly stated they will not being upgrading past 2.1. “We believe the features included in the Android 2.1 phone are on par with, and in many cases better than, a vanilla installation of 2.2.” Sony Ericsson Twitter stream. What we see in SE’s comments and very slow updates to their devices is the result of an Android custom install. SE hoped to stick out of the Android army by included value-added applications like MediaScape and TimeScape. It’s likely these programs and the coding behind them if an upgrade are keeping SE on the slow upgrade train. SE had this to say about the upgrade on their blog, “Here's to the ability to download more apps and gain better functionality to enrich your Sony Ericsson XperiaTM X10 experience.” Upgrade link :[SonyEricsson] via [Engadget] Full Story » | Written by JG Mason for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Mobile, Computers, Mobile Computers It looks like the 10.1 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab has inched one step closer to being available for sale with Best Buy. And by that we mean that Best Buy has added a “coming soon” style product listing which shows the tablet will arrive with its 10.1 inch 1280 x 800 display and Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Otherwise, not much is really there that we have not already seen or known. That said, we will keep checking the Best Buy website and pass along the good word when the coming soon button changes to something that will allow you to actually make a purchase. Via [Best Buy] and [Engadget] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Hardware, Netbooks  So that new generation of Eee PC which Asus was teasing us about last week was finally unveiled. It shall go by the name Eee PC X101. Curious as to why Asus dubbed this new Eee PC as a netbook that will break the rules? Well, for starters, it will be a dual-booting system with Windows 7 OS and - surprise, surprise! - MeeGO OS. This means that the machine is being earmarked not only as a full-fledge computing machine for urban mobile professionals but for social networking aficionados as well, since MeeGO will bring in full social networking support. And if you consider an ultra-thin 10.1-inch netbook as breaking the rules, well the Eee PC X101 is indeed worthy of its monicker. How thin? As in MacBook Air thin at 17.6mm. Other details divulged by Asus about the Eee PC X101 include - chiclet style keyboard, Intel Atom N435 processor, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and a highly affordable price of - $200. Now, finally Asus is breaking the rules.The Eee PC X101 is also available in another variant - the X101H which should have a hybrid hard drive and a choice between MeeGo or Windows 7 for OS. Release date is not yet known at this time. Via [NetbookNews.de] Full Story » | Written by Arnold Zafra for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile  It looks like an upcoming device roadmap for AT&T has been revealed and it shows a rather interesting mix of now so exciting devices. To begin with, it looks like AT&T will be launching the BlackBerry Torch 2 (9810), HTC ChaCha, Huawei Dola U8800 and the ZTE Alicanto Z990 in the second quarter and the Samsung Habrok i857 in the third quarter. Also on the roadmap is the Pantech Bannik P8800 and the HTC Hydra A5253, however the Bannik is not offering a release timeframe and the Hydra is listed as potentially being cancelled. In terms of these devices, most are still sporting codenames as opposed to official release names and most are running Android. In fact, all with the exception of the Torch 2 are Android. And for those wondering, the Torch 2 is showing as coming with BlackBerry 6.1.
Via [PocketNow] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Hardware MSI is also joining the Computex 2011 party by way of announcing its two new tablets, the WindPad 100A and WindPad 100W. Both MSI WindPads sport a 10-inch IPS display with 1280x800 resolution, Both tablets have front and back-facing camera and SRS PC sound. As to their differences, the WindPad 100A of course is your Android flavor which according to MSI will run the latest Android OS which is presumably Honeycomb. The tablet is also loaded with an ARM Cortex A9 dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HDMI port, up to 32GB of internal storage, an SD card reader, USB port, G-Sensor and can max out 8 hours of usage. The MSI WindPad 100W on the other hand is a Windows 7 tablet running an AMD Brazos Processor combined with Radeon HD 6250 graphics. It also packs in a 2GB of RAM, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, G-Sensor, ALS light sensor, up to 64GB of SSD storage and 6 hours battery time. It will also have touch-sensitive smartkeys, and face recognition to let you log-in to the system easily. No word yet on pricing or release dates for these two tablets. Via [Android Community] Full Story » | Written by Arnold Zafra for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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100 Cameras in 1 for iPhone has been upgraded to version 3.1. This is a pretty big update for the app because it allows photos to be uploaded to Instagram directly from the app. You can also take the photos that have been edited in Instagram (if they’re saved on your phone) and add even more layers of effects to them. Other changes in this update include speed improvements, bug fixes and authorization changes that were recently made mandatory by Twitter. In case you haven’t heard of it, 100 Cameras in 1 is a photo editing application. It takes the otherwise plain photos you’ve taken with your phone and turns them into digital pieces of art. There are 100 different effects you can experiment with. You can also keep adding effects to a single photo until you’re satisfied with what you have. This app is great if you’re really into sharing photographs across social networks. The effects can dramatically alter original pictures. Take this photo of my cat for example (because the internet loves cats). This is the original photo I took of my cat. 
And this is the same picture once it was put through three effect filters in 100 Cameras in 1. 
Pretty neat huh? iTunes Link [100 Cameras in 1] Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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Twitter is reportedly a short time away from launching its own photo sharing service, according to a report from TechCrunch. An official Twitter photo sharing service will go a long way in helping Twitter gain even more control over its product. This move can also discourage other companies from developing their own photo services. Whenever you upload a photo to Twitter, there’s a good chance you use a service such as Twitpic, TweetPhoto or yfrog. If Twitter creates a way for its users to upload photos, chances are it will become the default photo option for official Twitter applications. Other than confirmation from sources that such a service exists, TechCrunch wasn’t able to gather any more information on Twitter’s latest move. We can definitely see something like this happening after considering Twitter’s recent stance on third-party Twitter applications and permissions. Twitter told developers to stop making new Twitter applications because it claims users could become confused about Twitter’s core experience. Twitter also recently required users to go through a permissions page if they want to allow a third-party web application to access their account. Let’s also not forget the $40 million Twitter just spent on TweetDeck. At this point, it looks like if Twitter can’t buy the competition, they’ll just run it out of town. Via [TechCrunch] Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile, Computers, Mobile Computers, Gaming, Mobile, Portable We were told that Plants vs. Zombies would be arriving for Android sometime in the month of May, and well, those who were waiting will be happy to hear that it is now available for download. The game is available by way of the Amazon Appstore and has arrived as the app of the day, which means that it can be downloaded for free. Otherwise, it is noted as requiring Android 1.5 or later and arrives as version 1.0 and a 73.9MB Wi-Fi only download. In terms of device support, it should run on most, however there are several popular handsets that are noted as not working including the Motorola Droid and myTouch 3G. And for those with tablets, this is not a tablet optimized app, however it should download, install and run just fine. I can confirm that it downloaded and runs on the 7 inch Galaxy Tab. That said, once the 24 app of the day time is over the app will jump to its regular price of $2.99. In other words, grab Plants vs. Zombies now… Via [Amazon Appstore] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
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