Background Carriers play a large role in the success of the Android Marketplace because carriers have the ability to block certain applications. Applications and their developers can be restricted from their big debut, or new technologies, for example NFC, can be held back, the major example in this case is Google Wallet. Ways around this [...]

Zynga, gaming giant of the Facebook and now mobile enterprise, has had its ups and downs in the creative realm with violation of competition by scamming of ideas and then hiding behind the law as they dominate the alternative. Zynga’s latest target is NimbleBit, a 3-person team behind many popular iOS games including Sky Burger, [...]

The A5 chip by Apple had left iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users jailbreakless until last Friday when the Chronic Dev Team released Absinthe v2.0, an A5 untethered jailbreak operational at the click of the button. Today, Joshua Hill (@p0sixninja) tipped off Cult of Mac that Greenpois0n Absinthe had exceeded 1 million downloads on January [...]

Chronic Dev Team members Pod2G and DHowett are buried in work as they put the iPhone 4S jailbreak through its final stages of development before a public beta or release. They have made amazing progress given the setback of Apple’s A5 chip which solved the jailbreak prone flaws of the A4. A release is expected in the [...]

Corona has offered the untethered function to tethered jailbreaks for a short while now and is being updated rather frequently because it can be used as a simple fix in the future to turn a tethered jailbreak untethered. Cydia’s Jay Freeman (Saurik) announced the update of Corona to version 1.0-5 after it had been updated [...]

Lenovo has been the primary supplier for sample devices powered by Intels “Medfield” processor. With Medfield tablets soon to be available for purchase, smartphones are lacking with only one official device making its way to the market later this year. The Lenovo K800 will be the first Medfield smartphone arriving Q2 2012 on China Unicom. [...]

Motorola has had countless leaks of the Droid 4 all leading up to a CES announcement. Motorola took the stage today and unveiled the Droid 4 available on Verizon with 4G LTE integration. Inside the Droid 4 has 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of on-board memory with a 32GB expansion slot for MicroSD. On the [...]

The arrival of a Sprint Galaxy Nexus on Ebay has grabbed the attention of the press, but Sprint might have well released an official statement or press release because Engadget discovered a Sprint ad for the Galaxy Nexus on Sprint with 4G LTE via CNET. The ad also clocked the Galaxy Nexus’ processor at 1.5GHz, [...]

Sony Ericsson has been keeping the press rolling already in 2012 with a lot of rumors about new devices coming at CES or even post-CES. These rumored devices include but are not limited to the “Nozomi,” Arc HD, “LT28at,” and the Xperia Ion, whose name was recently discovered after Sony Ericsson filed to trademark the name [...]

The Nokia Lumia 900 or “Ace,” also code-named the Eloko, is in large speculation right now as we approach CES, at which Nokia is rumored to announce the Lumia 900 on AT&T with 4G-LTE service. At the moment, no plans are public for the availability of the Lumia 900 in Europe or Asia. Twitter user [...]

A recent holiday promotion featuring a Windows Phone slated the Nokia “Ace” or 900 left us grasping on to what little information we have about upcoming Windows Phone devices. The holiday promotion, while only displaying half of the device at a time, could have been enough to identify with Microsoft’s mystery device seen in a [...]

Holiday promotions have begun to get a little sloppy, with already the Droid 4 leaked in a BestBuy Reward Zone promotion and now Nokia leaking their upcoming Ace Windows Phone device in a holiday greeting. The Ace, confirmed to PocketNow by Paul Thurrott, will be one of three (Nokia Ace, HTC Radiant, and Samsung Mendel) Windows [...]

The Droid 4, Motorola’s upcoming contribution to the Droid series on Verizon, has been leaked various times and the leaks are beginning to become more and more boring. The advertisement, spotted on BestBuy’s Reward Zone, leaves the device unnamed but shows the same renders as previously leaked and continues to include Verizon labeling. Next time we see [...]

Sony Ericsson has been up to a lot lately, with recent signs of the Sony Ericsson Nypon and Nozomi. Now, another Sony Ericsson device under the Xperia branding, the Ion. The Ion, at this point, is just a name found on paper. It was actually discovered after Sony Ericsson filed for the trademark of the [...]