That’s right, seven. If you haven’t heard of Kazam, it’s a new entrant into the smart phone arena. It was started by some ex-HTC execs just a few months ago, and has promised to bring affordable Android goodies to the masses. And now it’s announced its first tranche of handsets. The jewel in Kazam’s crown …
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Breaking up is hard to do, and even harder if you’re BlackBerry, it seems. Reuters reports the troubled smart phone maker rejected a takeover offer this week as it didn’t want to sell only parts of its business and break up the company. Tech heavyweights like Microsoft, Apple, Google and Lenovo are all rumoured to want a piece of BlackBerry, …
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Nokia’s former head honcho Stephen Elop is one of the frontrunners to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft. And if he does, he’ll bring Microsoft’s Office suite of programs to rival smart phones and tablets, insiders say. Usually, Microsoft keeps its programs exclusive to its own mobile and desktop operating systems in order to drive demand. So this would be …
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The Champions League is coming to BT Sport. The relative newcomer announced it snaffled the rights in a deal thought to be worth £900 million. The deal marks the end of two decades of the Champions League being shown live on terrestrial TV. The three-year deal will start from 2015. Sky and ITV currently share the rights to the league. …
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The BBC has announced the exact time the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special will be broadcast. We already knew the special (titled Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor) would air on 23 November — two weeks yesterday — but now the BBC has set the exact time. And to get your time travelling juices flowing, the beeb has released two …
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More Nexus rumours alert. The Nexus 5 could don a bed sheet with two eye holes cut in it and launch on Halloween. That’s Thursday, for those of you not really bothered about trick or treating. Not only that, the Nexus 4 could go back on sale in a new 4G variety. The excellently-named Mobile Syrup has been tipped off about the …
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Motorola might be making its own modular mobiles (with the help of the man behind Phonebloks), but that doesn’t mean it’ll stop pumping out traditional smart phones. The Motorola Moto G could be making its way to Phones 4u in time for Christmas, from the look of this leak that comes via GSMArena‘s sources. The Moto G is a mid-range …
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Vodafone could soon be owned by US network AT&T. Bloomberg reports that AT&T’s execs are laying the groundwork for a potential takeover next year. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the two companies haven’t yet started negotiations, but that AT&T is “intensifying work” on which of Voda’s assets it could snaffle in a deal, and who would buy …
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Android KitKat isn’t coming to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Google announced this week. But that hasn’t stopped some enterprising developers. A couple of KitKat ROMs for the Galaxy Nexus have popped up over at XDA Developers. They’re 100 per cent unofficial of course, so as ever with these things, you install at your own risk. The first is called A …
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Android Jelly Bean is now on more than half of all active Android devices, according to stats from Google. The last-but-one version of Google’s mobile operating system made up 52.1 per cent of all Android devices, the company said on its Android Developers blog. That’s only up very slightly on last month. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean accounts for 37.3 per …
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