Posted by Donny Torrefranca Before Sony released the Xperia X10, I personally believed it was the next best thing since the iPhone. Once dubbed as the “iPhone killer”, it clearly did not live up to the hype. After a couple of mini-updates, eventually the much needed Android 2.1 update came. …
Read More »Rogers to bring Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Xperia Arc on April 28
Posted by Jamie Forestell Well the folks at mobilesyrup have some internally leaked screenies indicating the newest Android devices from Sony Ericsson will be landing in Canada on April 28. The prices indicate the phones will sell for $99.99 on a 3 year contract. No contract pricing is $549.99. The …
Read More »Vulnerability exploit found in latest version of Flash 10.2 affecting multiple platforms
Posted by Donny Torrefranca A ‘zero-day’ exploit has been found within the latest version of Adobe’s Flash 10.2 that is affecting platforms across the board such as Mac, Linux, Android, Windows, etc… With this exploit, a malicious hacker can potentially access and gain control of unsuspecting machines. It can still …
Read More »Sony Ericsson report supply issues as a result of the Japan Earthquake
Posted by Jamie Forestell Sony Ericsson has reported the Xperia Neo launch has been delayed as a result of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. Also affected are the Xperia Play and Xperia Arc as low volumes are to blame. Sony Ericsson has released an official statement as follows: As …
Read More »Google acquires iTunes-like Canadian mobile music App “PushLife”
Posted by Donny Torrefranca Google is preparing to have their own sync-to-mobile music app, and an interface for their Cloud media service. With the acquisition of PushLife, it looks like they’re preparation is almost complete. PushLife, a desktop-enabled mobile service is capable of syncing your non-iDevice smartphone (Blackberry, Symbian or …
Read More »TekTok’s Mobile “State of the Industry”
Time to check in on the current state of the “Smartphone Wars”. The battle for the hearts and minds of smartphone users rages on, and as we enter Q2 2011, statistics will start to be released outlining where we are post-2010, where we saw Google’s Android platform make huge leaps …
Read More »Motorola defies odds with latest Android Device
Posted by Donny Torrefranca Telus released a new addition to their growing Android-powered devices, another from Motorola. With the latest trend of Android devices coming with at least 4″ screens, the Motorola Defy is sticking with a 3.7″ display size. Using Corning’s trademark ‘scratch-proof’ Gorilla Glass with 480 x 854 pixels, photos …
Read More »Amazon Cloud Drive brings media “To The Clouds” in Canada
Posted by Donny Torrefranca On Tuesday March 29th, Amazon released their ‘Cloud Drive’ service to the general public. To those of you that aren’t familiar with this technology, in a nutshell, it is a web-based virtual hard drive enabling you to store your media files and documents. And since it …
Read More »Google’s “Nexus” takes on the Tablet
Posted by Donny Torrefranca According to rumours, Google is in talks with Korea-based company, LG for it’s first hardware entry into the Tablet market. It was just a matter of time, and Google’s own ‘Nexus’ brand explores the Tablet world. As expected, Google once again hires the assistance of one …
Read More »No iPhone 5 in 2011?
It has been in the rumour mill even before the iPad 2 was released, that the iPhone 5 may be pushed back from its usual release date in the summer. After the recent press release by Apple announcing the much anticipated dates for this year’s WWDC event, more rumors started …
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