Archive for December, 2011

Deal of the Day: Timex Global Trainer Heart Rate and GPS Watch

Friday, December 30th, 2011
Product Image List Price: $360.00 Deal Price: $99.99 You Save: $19.01 (72%) Get pace, speed, distance, and more on your wrist. With SiRFstarIII GPS technology and ANT+ compatibility, this Ironman Global Trainer GPS watch from Timex records your performance across several dimensions–including pace, speed, distance, and more–providing real-time data on a customizable screen. Expires Dec 30, 2011

Sterling Silver Children’s Flower Earrings

Friday, December 30th, 2011
Product Image List Price: $40.00 Deal Price: $20.99 You Save: $19.01 (48%) Price valid through 12/31/2011 Expires Jan 1, 2012

Platinum Plated Sterling Silver 6.5mm Round Cubic Zirconia Four-Prong Stud Earrings

Friday, December 30th, 2011
Product Image List Price: $31.28 Deal Price: $14.99 You Save: $16.29 (52%) Price valid through 12/31/2011 Expires Jan 1, 2012

BlackBerry Curve 9380 review: Not what you’d expect

Friday, December 30th, 2011

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 is RIM’s first ever-released Curve with a touchscreen. The Curve lineup is usually an expression of RIM’s understanding for a budget phone and this one supposedly, doesn’t make a difference. It should …

Apple might be getting $10 for every Android device sold

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Kevin Rivette, the managing partner at intellectual property firm 3LP Advisors LLC, shared his professional opinion on the ongoing legal wars in the smartphone world. In a chat with Bloomberg, the expert revealed that he believes Apple could be earning some good money if it was to stop with all the court action and instead concentrate on licensing.

Rivette believes that the Cupertino-based…

Nokia Lumia 800 still selling greatly, in some places at least

Friday, December 30th, 2011

The Nokia Q4 report will be one of the most interesting things to look forward to at the start of next year. The company took a huge gamble by betting on Windows Phone for their smartphone portfolio and the holiday season sales should show if it will pay off.

And even though the quarter that saw the market release of Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 is nearing its end it's still really hard to tell if…

1 million Samsung Galaxy Notes shipped worldwide

Friday, December 30th, 2011

The Samsung Galaxy Note looked an odd device at first but the experiment is proving to be a success – Samsung just announced that they've shipped 1 million units of the phone-tablet crossover globally since it launched in mid-November.

Samsung reports rising sales of the Note in France, Germany, Hong Kong and Taiwan and XL-sized droid will be arriving in the US some time next year too (there's…

Is this the Samsung I9500 Galaxy S 3 first camera sample?

Friday, December 30th, 2011

The first three months of the next year should see the official announcements of plenty of new smartphones, but few of them are more hotly anticipated than the Samsung Galaxy S3. And what you see here might be the first image captured with the upcoming Android flagship.

Admittedly, the evidence that points to this conclusion isn't rock-solid. It's all based on the EXIF of the photo, which says…

Windows Phone crosses the 50,000 app submission mark

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Microsoft may not be making much progress in terms of device sales at the moment but they seem to be doing quite well when it comes to apps. According to All About Windows Phone, the Windows Phone Marketplace has just crossed the 50,000 app submission with over 50,000 apps already available on the Market right now.

It might not seem all that much in comparison to what iOS and Android have…

Argentina bans iPhone and BlackBerry sales

Friday, December 30th, 2011

The Argentinian government has banned the import and sales of Apple's iPhone and all BlackBerry smartphones, among others. The ban also extends over all foreign-made phones, but it seems Apple and RIM among the few of the major phone makers who don’t have factories in Argentina, so their ban is in focus.

Nokia, Samsung, LG and Motorola have already built plants in Argentina, so they all escape…