Apple Apple’s iPhone is suddenly a bit cheaper at T-Mobile. T-Mobile on Wednesday reduced its iPhone 5S pricing on all versions by $48. The company’s full-price, off-contract 16GB iPhone 5S is now $600. The 32GB model is selling for $700, and the 64GB version is going for $800. T-Mobile offered similar treatment to the 16GB …
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In its current version, the Huawei Ascend P7 uses Gorilla Glass 3 for its screen. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Huawei is planning to try its hand at working with sapphire, a new report claims. The China-based mobile and telecommunications equipment maker is aiming to launch a sapphire-enclosed version of its flagship Ascend P7 smartphone, the company told Engadget in an interview published …
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The unusually shaped BlackBerry Passport is one of four smartphones the company is reportedly planning to launch this year. Roger Cheng/CNET BlackBerry is poised to have a busy second half of the year with a bevy of smartphone launches. N4BB, a news site focused on BlackBerry, posted what it claims is BlackBerry’s 2014 product roadmap. The document describes four “specific …
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Apple was awarded 57 patents on Tuesday, but one flexible display item has garnered some extra attention. Flexible displays, in and of themselves, are nothing new. What makes this patent different is that it includes support for components — like buttons, microphones, or speakers — that can be mounted around the display and work through it. In other words, the …
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Huawei has a warning for Samsung: don’t put all your eggs in the Tizen basket. The Chinese telecommunications giant has faced some pressure from carriers to design smartphones running Samsung’s Tizen operating system, but it has consistently declined those overtures after determining that “Tizen has no chance to be successful,” said Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer business group, in …
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Secret Secret, the app that lets you to anonymously share thoughts with others, is no longer available in Apple’s App Store in Brazil. Secret was leveled with a Brazilian court ruling this week that forced Apple to remove the app from its store within 10 days. Apple on Thursday complied with the ruling, taking down the app from its Brazil-based …
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Uber Uber is expanding its reach across a wide range of services. The company announced Wednesday that it has opened its application programming interface (API) to the public. APIs provide the basic information that lets different software programs talk to and work with each other, so with this move, developers can integrate Uber’s services, including bundling driver pickup, into their …
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Uber Uber, the car-hailing app, is experimenting with a new local-delivery service it calls Corner Store. Starting on Tuesday, some Uber users in Washington, D.C., will be able to order certain household items and have them delivered to their door on the same day by accessing Corner Store from the service’s mobile app. There are several limitations to the service: …
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Apple’s current Lightning cable. Apple Apple is trying to make the cable that links its mobile devices to either a computer or power outlet a little easier to use, according to a new alleged leak. Sonny Dickson — who made a name for himself last year by leaking accurate details on the iPhone 5S prior to its arrival — tweeted …
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Aloysius Low/CNET Sprint will soon have a new smartphone to offer customers. The HTC One E8 is headed to Sprint’s network at some point in the future, the carrier announced on YouTube Thursday. The video, which was removed Friday afternoon from Sprint’s YouTube page, didn’t provide many details on Sprint’s plans for the handset, including when it will launch and …
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