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More than 321 Million Handsets Shipped Globally in 2Q-2010; ABI Research Says Samsung Still Has Nokia in Its Sights Despite Stumble
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A group called Spider Labs demonstrated at the DEF CON hacking event in Las Vegas a way to infect an Android smartphone with a rootkit application that gives programmers access to all of a smartphone user’s personal information.
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Motorola has added information about its new earth-friendly GRASP feature phone to its website. The GRASP works on CDMA networks and features a 100 percent recyclable casing.
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Sony Ericsson’s newest Android smartphone, the Xperia X8, will be hitting store shelves in September with O2 UK. The X8 is an Android 1.6 powered smartphone that sports a compact 3-inch touchscreen display, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The X8 will ship with white and blue covers. Pricing and exact availability have not been announced at this time.
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Motorola has added information about its new earth-friendly GRASP feature phone to its website. The GRASP works on CDMA networks and features a 100 percent recyclable casing.
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Today Verizon Wireless informed us that its first Android powered smartphone, the Motorola DROID, will receive an over the air update to the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system next week. Android 2.2 adds new functionality to the Android platform and greatly improves the speed of third party applications as well as the web browser. Sprint announced just yesterday that its HTC EVO 4G will also receive a Froyo update next week.
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The Sharp FX has plenty of multimedia features and additional services to occupy socialites and text-happy users, but mediocre call quality and some usability flaws keep it from fulfilling its complete potential.

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New 5GBP 30-day tariff gives freedom without a long term contract
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On this week’s show, we discuss a lawsuit that says the iPad is useless in direct sunlight, a government ruling that will allow you to jail break your iPhone, CTIA suing San Francisco over its cell phone radiation labeling law, the Wikileaks Afghanistan war documents, what women are really doing on the Internet, whether parents are responsible for their kids’ cyber-bullying, “Jessi Slaughter,” and a water-powered clock.

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Apple and Android may have all the buzz in the smartphone market, but sales of Research in Motion’s BlackBerrys are booming, according to a new report from research firm IDC.

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