It’s no secret that people like to get things free. Whether it be an app, a game, even a new car, when something is free, you just feel that much better about getting it. The era of apps we currently live in has a large portion of free offerings, up to the point where apps that once sold for a buck or two have been switched to the freemium model…. Read more
Sprint has been a pretty good parent company to its subsidiaries. Both its prepaid counterparts, Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile, have been getting some pretty sweet phones to add to their arsenal. Both carriers got an Evo (Design on Boost/3D (V) on Virgin), and now it looks like Boost will be receiving one of Sprint’s more recent flagships, the Epic 4G… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbeR6gfO8Y4&feature=player_embedded#! Dutch company NXP is usually known for their NFC products, but they unveiled something new and quite innovative today. It’s an audio chip that will improve the sound quality of the micro speakers in mobile devices. It’s a chip that will just amplify the audio, push it up to five times… Read more
The biggest news is that the Starbucks for Android app now supports mobile payments in both the UK and Canada! This is great for all you hipsters (and hard working people) who love some Starbucks. Along with support for other countries, the app now supports refilling your Starbucks card with PayPal. You can also view account balance, monitor your… Read more
First, we ask a question: How many of you have NFC enabled phones? Not many, but there are quite a few. Now we ask THE question: How many of you are able to use your phones as a digital wallet? That’s right, not many. There are 6 phones that are able to officially use Google Wallet, and they are all (but one) on one carrier, Sprint. There is the… Read more
As shopping from phones and tablets becomes more popular, online retailers are left scrambling to make the experience great for mobile users. Amazon works to reach that end today as they pushed a sizable new update to their Amazon Mobile app. Some of the noteworthy features that the update brings are support for 8 new countries including Spain and… Read more
Google Wallet was the first of its kind, released into a world unprepared for it. It allowed you to use your phone (provided you had a Nexus S) to pay for items just by tapping your phone onto a special sensor (provided the store had the sensor). In theory, this was an amazing payment system. Unfortunately, things just never worked out. Google Wallet… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKjEfS0IRT8&feature=player_embedded It seems that everyone but me knows what Carmageddon is. Though I have not experienced it before, I can’t wait for its announced mobile launch. It looks like an arcade version of Grand Theft Auto that’s only in cars. It’s coming to both iOS and Android, so rejoice! All you really do is… Read more
Samsung has sent out emails describing their new partnership with 19 major US airports, their flasgship location being Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Forty two APW Brands stores will be carrying Samsung accessories for Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Note. They will also be selling an exclusive product only available in… Read more
Isis Mobile Wallet, Google Wallet’s competition, announced that it will be tested in two cities this summer: Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah. It has also listed all the vendors in those two cities that will accept Isis NFC payments, and the list of vendors is pretty big. List of merchants: National: Aéropostale, The Coca-Cola Company,… Read more
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