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Firefox Headed To Android Phones
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Yesterday we heard that an unknown something from Mozilla is headed to iPhones, but Firefox’s maker is being a bit more specific about Android: A mobile browser is in the works for the open-source phone. More »
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3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Modern phones come loaded with bright screens, fun games and apps, and connections for 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Not coincidentally, they’re constantly out of juice. Here’s some of the best collected wisdom about saving your web-connected phone’s battery life. More »
An Exhaustive Guide To Saving Your Smartphone’s Battery
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Modern phones come loaded with bright screens, fun games and apps, and connections for 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Not coincidentally, they’re constantly out of juice. Here’s some of the best collected wisdom about saving your web-connected phone’s battery life. More »
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Windows Mobile My Phone Backup Out Of Beta
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | My Phone, the cloud-based Windows Mobile back-up service we peeked at in beta in May, has officially launched. The free 200MB of online space for phone data remains the same, but premium users get new location and security features. More »
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Sprite Migrate Makes Changing Smartphones Simple
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows Mobile/Symbian/BlackBerry/Android: If you’ve got an itch to flee your smartphone for another platform entirely, the prospect of manually dragging over your data is daunting. Sprite Migrate, a free transfer application, makes it easy to transfer pretty much everything. More »
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Tiny Twitter Brings Twitter To Your Windows Mobile, Java-Enabled Phones
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows Mobile/Blackberry: If you have a data plan with your phone, Tiny Twitter will help you keep tabs on your friends and send out tweets without overage charges. More »
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Opera 9.7 Beta Brings Turbo Mode To Windows Mobile Phones
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows Mobile: Opera’s released an early, partially-featured beta of its Mobile browser that brings the server-side browsing speed-ups of Opera Turbo to touchscreen phones. More »
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Windows 7’s Price May Be A Barrier For Adoption
5:30AM Adam Pash | Windows 7’s inflated prices may still be a stumbling block for adoption once the new operating system is officially released this holiday season, according to a CNET interview with an executive at computer manufacturer Dell. We still haven’t heard any definitive pricing for Windows 7 yet, and even though the CNET article points to prices that “are higher than they were for Vista and XP,” we just can’t imagine Microsoft would be so bold—both in this economy and after the mostly negative response to Vista. Guess we’ll have to wait and see. [CNET]
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My Phone Syncing Service In Free Beta For Windows Mobile
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | My Phone, Microsoft’s over-the-air backup and synchronisation service for Windows Mobile devices, has opened up to anyone running Windows Mobile 6 or higher, offering 200MB of free cloud storage space. More »
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Firefox Mobile (Fennec) Alpha Up For Windows Mobile Testing
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows Mobile 6: Fennec, Firefox’s mobile browser, inches closer to a widespread beta with the release of an alpha tested on an HTC Touch Pro, but available for download on any Windows Mobile 6 device. More »
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