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Science

Behind The Search Engine That Powers Iris, The Android Siri Rival

I’m sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t know about this, but he’s funding a seemingly ultra-Christian search engine that is anti-abortion and anti-evolution. It’s called ChaCha, and it powers Android’s most popular Siri competitor, Iris.

July 16, 2011
Mobile

HTC ChaCha Facebook Phone Review: Let’s Just Pretend This Isn’t It

The FACEBOOK PHONE is here. As it turns out, it’s a lot like a non-Facebook phone – a small Android phone with an astoundingly excellent keyboard. It just happens to have a Facebook button! Does this matter? Not much, no.

July 1, 2011
Mobile

Why On Earth Is HTC Locking ChaCha And Salsa Bootloaders?

Gizmodo AU

HTC has today announced that its new ChaCha and Salsa smartphones, will be available from July 6, exclusive to Vodafone and 3. But in an odd twist, it’s been revealed that the bootloaders on these new Gingerbread “Facebook phones” will be locked. Updated.

June 30, 2011
Mobile

HTC’s New Status Has Deep Facebook Powers

At least one of the Facebook phones HTC announced back in February has finally hit AT&T in the US. Now the ridiculous-sounding HTC ChaCha goes by the somewhat more palatable HTC Status.

February 16, 2011
Mobile

There’s Still A Real Facebook Phone In Our Future

Sure, the new phones INQ and HTC rolled out this week are Facebook-friendly. But none of them is the Facebook phone. Which, despite repeated protestations to the contrary, it sure sounds like is in the works. Although not how we first thought.

February 15, 2011
Mobile

HTC’s Facebook Phones Live! Kidz, Meet The ChaCha And Salsa

So HTC was building Facebook phones – though they’re not billing them as that, despite the oddly placed Facebook badges. Without a shadow of doubt crossing Vladimir Putin’s face, the ChaCha and Salsa (need I say more?) are aimed at the “youth.”

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