Phone-stuff

    Things I am discovering about mobile phones

    Browsing Posts published in February, 2012

    Promoted Tweets Coming to Official Twitter App If you a Twitter user, you are already familiar with Promoted Tweets, which is Twitter’s fancy name for “ads”. Now, the official Android Twitter app will bring these promotions to your timeline: Promoted Tweets will appear in your timeline like any other Tweet, and like regular Tweets, they [...]

    U.S. Cellular Selling Samsung Galaxy S II Online Now, In Stores Starting Tomorrow If you’ve been eyeing the Samsung Galaxy S II, you may want to jump on the bandwagon with U.S. Cellular. As we previously reported, the phone will not work on their upcoming LTE network, but will use their 3G network. This version of the Galaxy S [...]

    Updates to Google+ and Google Wallet hit Android Market   Whilst the Google Execs were busy strutting their stuff at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Google Developers were beavering away in the labs to bring you some updates. If you head on over to the Android Market you’ll find updates to both Google Wallet [...]

    Samsung Makes Education Cool with the Learning Hub [Video Demo] Some of you may already be familiar with Samsung’s various social and cloud “hubs” that are included on current Sammy tablets and smartphones. So far they have the Social, Music, Video, Reading, and Game Hubs but they are getting ready to add the new Learning [...]

    Missed Eric Schmidt’s MWC Keynote Speech Yesterday? Don’t Worry, We Have You Covered. There have been a lot of big announcements at MWC this year already and everyone looked forward to Google’s keynote speech in hopes that they would drop hints at Jelly Bean or some other Android based projects they had in the works.Well [...]