"App" chosen as the word of the year by American Dialect Society

Last year the word "tweet" managed to rise above all others with no real competition, but in 2010, the Amercan Dialect Society had a hard time choosing the winner, but ultimately, only one word was able to beat his rivals.

Runners up include words like "junk" and "Wikileaks", but the word that ended up becoming the clear winner was "app". The simple three lettered word manged to stay into the minds of consumers thanks to Apple's "there's an app for that " slogan.

If you guys want to be super duper formal, you can refer it as" application" , but it sounds more natural and easier during conversations to call it "app".

Do you guys agree with "app" as the winner ? Do you have other examples ? Share them in the "Comments Section" !

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Google Nexus S failure during longer calls is now official

Nexus S users have been complaining about their phone rebooting during calls longer than 3 minutes, but up until recently Google did not admit the issue publicly. It has now been successfully reproduced by a Google employee and hopefully a fix will come out soon.

The phone sometimes restarts with no apparent reason in some circumstances, but more often during longer calls.


It is not yet clear whether it is a software related problem or a hardware one.
Being a Gingerbread issue would be much more convenient for the phone, while a hardware problem would mean one of the biggest Google fail in a long time
Best Buy 's 2 two week return policy is ending pretty fast, so people have little time to think about what to do.

Have you experienced the same frustrating issue on the Nexus S ?

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Samsung shows off the new flexible OLED display

CES kicked off, and we were able to check out Samsung's booth during Pepcom's event and witnessed something truly impressive that makes us wonder about the great possibilities that can grace future smartphones.


We saw a variety of flexible OLED displays that got the attention of our gaze. Now even though it's rather difficult to see ourselves using a curved touchscreen, there are some areas where we can see this technology becoming very useful.

Not only did it give almost perfect viewing angles, but its overall luminance and sheer vivid colors managed to impress us. Moreover, the Samsung representative even mentioned that the flexible OLED display is unbreakable since there is no glass used whatsoever and is constructed out of plastic.

iPhone 4 Drop Test

Since we have a Nokia N8 Drop Test post, we think it's only fair to show you an iPhone 4 drop test too.
Please keep in mind that iPhone 's test is not made by Apple scientists , but it should still give you an idea of it's resistance.

Just in case you missed the Nokia N8 Drop Test you can view it here, and tell us, still think iPhone 4 is better?

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Mozilla launched the next Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo

Mozilla released another beta version of their Firefox 4 browser for Android and Maemo phones. It is still in beta (read: not completely bug-free) but it is another step closer to the real thing.

This new beta brings many new improvements , such as:

• option to save pages as PDF files;
• added support for uploading files;
• improved Firefox Sync interface and support for Android keyboards;
• etc.

Android users can find this version over at the Android Market, while the Maemo users are only a tap away.
 
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