Our mobile-loving friends across the pond in Germany will soon be able to wrap their hands around one of (and in our opinion) the best Android phones debuting in the next ~6 months — the HTC One XL. The handset has already hit North American shores, unfortunately dropping the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor. But it’s not all bad. In exchange we received a super fast dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor that rivals the Tegra 3 in many instances, and more...
Germans hoping that a local court would overturn an earlier ruling that saw Motorola’s patent dispute causing the temporary shutdown of push iCloud email are out of luck. The latest decision comes from a Mannheim court which has sided with the original court’s ruling — that Apple’s iCloud push email service infringes on Motorola’s patents. As such, iCloud users in Germany looking for push email will have to continue living on with...
Fans of streaming music service, Spotify, are growing by the day as the constantly growing Swedish-born company continues to add music to it’s library, upgrades music quality in said library, and tosses in new features and “apps” routinely. For a lot of people, Spotify is streaming music. And beginning tomorrow, the fine people of Germany can join in on the fun. In addition to simply entering the German market, Spotify has sweetened the pot by bulking up...
It appears that Germans aren’t too fond of Google’s Street View no matter how helpful it may seem. Reports are circulating that after opt out requests surpassed 250,000+, Google basically pulled the plug on continuing their German tour aimed at increasing their Street View database. Considering that Germany has over 8.5 million houses currently cataloged, we’re not quite sure what Google is thinking. Yeah — there will be some considerable blurring...
Every once in a while, end users get a bone thrown to them by big tech companies and supporting services. Case in point: O2 Germany is giving some very lucky customers 6 months of free LTE service with an unlimited data plan attached. The goal of course is to flog the new network so O2 can get a good look at how robust and reliable their new LTE network really is. Meanwhile, beta testers will get to enjoy a reported max throughput of 90-100Mbps. Those of you who...
