The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. CNET Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus may still be hard to come by in China, but the price of the smuggled devices is already falling dramatically, according to a new report. Entrepeneurs in China who managed to get their hands on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus …
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The invite to Sony’s October 9 event. Sony Sony’s upcoming “Demand Great” event will feature several products — if newly released videos are any indication. Sony published nine videos to its Xperia YouTube channel on Monday, showing off everything from the flagship Sony Xperia Z3 to remote play for the PlayStation 4 to the SmartBand Talk wearable fitness tracker. The …
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CNET Boost Mobile, the prepaid service provider owned and operated by Sprint, will start selling the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the company announced on Tuesday. Boost is keeping details close to the vest for now, saying only that the new Apple smartphones are in fact coming to the service. A Sprint spokeswoman declined to provide CNET any information …
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Intel’s mobile roadmap. Intel Intel has negotiated a deal with the Israeli government under which the company will spend $6 billion on upgrades to its chip fabrication plant in Kirya Gat, the country’s finance and economy ministries announced Monday. In turn, Israel will grant Intel a total of $300 million over five years. In addition, Intel’s corporate tax rate will …
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Nokia Nokia.com is being retired in favor of a new Microsoft-branded site. When users visit the Nokia.com UK site, they are informed that “Nokia devices and services have moved to a new website” and are urged to “step inside our new home.” While the Nokia.com page still shows some basic information on Lumia handsets, the new site offers a richer, …
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Apple stores opened at 8 a.m. local time around the world on Friday. CNET For Apple fans who wait in line for hours, if not days, to buy a new iPhone, there’s no greater fear than dropping the prized possession they waited so long for. But that’s exactly what happened to one man in Australia. Early on Friday, Jack Cooksey …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 CNET Samsung is getting ready to launch the much-anticipated Galaxy Note 4, the next version of its smartphone-tablet hybrid. The company said Thursday that preorders on the Galaxy Note 4 will begin Friday — the the same day Apple is launching its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung’s so-called phablet will launch October 17 in …
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Hang in there, China. The iPhone 6 (left) and iPhone 6 Plus will get there eventually. CNET China’s name was conspicuously missing from the list of imminent iPhone 6 launch locations at Apple’s unveiling last week. But the new smartphones might be coming to the country sooner rather than later, now that they’ve overcome a key hurdle. Apple on Thursday …
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T-Mobile T-Mobile released on Wednesday the Personal CellSpot , a router that enables customers to make calls outside the reach of the company’s network by tapping into Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi router, which is available for free to the company’s Simple Choice customers, requires that people have a high-speed broadband connection available. Customers will be required to provide a $25 refundable …
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The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite could soon have a baby brother called the Kindle Voyage. Sarah Tew/CNET Amazon might be planning to launch a new Kindle e-reader in the next couple of months. Amazon Germany and Amazon Japan have both listed a new device from the company, called the Kindle Voyage. After they were discovered by The Verge and other publications, …
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