Best Buy’s preorder offer on the Lumia 920 didn’t last long. On Sunday, the retail chain first listed the 920 on its Web site for customers who wanted to preorder the Windows Phone 8 handset. But now a search for the Lumia 920 on the Best Buy Web site fails to turn up any results. …
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Android 4.1 continues to reach more Samsung Galaxy S3 owners throughout the world. France, Spain, Romania, and Austria are the latest spots in Europe to receive the Jelly Bean update for the S3, according to blog site SamMobile. Users in those countries can actually grab the new version from SamMobile. But the site advises people to use Samsung’s own Kies …
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The Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update will wend its way to Galaxy S3 smartphones in the United States in “coming months,” Samsung announced in a press release (see below). The specific launch dates will be revealed by each of the carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and U.S. Cellular. S3 owners will potentially be able to grab Android 4.1 …
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A full 25 million mobile users in the Middle East can now use Wikipedia without worrying about data charges. The Wikimedia Foundation and Saudi Telecom (STC) have teamed up to offer the free access through a program known as Wikipedia Zero. The goal behind this initiative is to help people in developing countries more easily get information through Wikipedia. Many …
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Samsung today kicked off the launch of the Galaxy Music smartphone, an Android 4.0 device with special audio and music features. The new phone comes with dual stereo speakers in the front along with built-in FM radio and such features as Sound Alive and SRS. Sound Alive pumps up the bass, tone, and clarify of the sound and automatically adjusts …
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iOS 6 users who want to grab a cup of coffee at Starbucks can now pay for it through their iPhones. Launched yesterday, the latest update to the Starbucks iOS app stirs in support for Apple’s Passbook. Starbucks Card owners can add their accounts to Passbook directly through the app. Once that’s done, customers can pay for food and beverages, …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S3 isn’t being thwarted by little things like the iPhone 5 or jury verdicts. Since August 1, sales of the S3 have seen average weekly growth of 9 percent, following by big spikes after the Apple lawsuit verdict and the iPhone 5 announcement, according to mobile-app analytics firm Localytics. Sales of new S3 phones jumped 16 percent from …
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Smartphone buyers who think the Galaxy S3 is too big could see a smaller version launch as early as next week. An invite sent out by Samsung for an October 11 launch event touts a smaller product on the horizon with the headline “The size may be small” and the subheading “and so small can be big,” according to Google …
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Samsung’s Shin Jong-kyun will meet with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in Seoul tomorrow, and it’s a safe bet the topic of Apple will come up. The Samsung Mobile chief confirmed today that he will meet with Schmidt on Thursday in Seoul, according to the Korea Times. Shin was mum on details, so the agenda is unknown. The Samsung executive …
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Is the Lumia 920 better than the iPhone 5? Certainly, Nokia wants to convince you it is. In a new Facebook post, the Finnish phone maker breaks down the key features found in both smartphones, naturally giving the nod to the 920 in each category. And in many areas, the company does manage to make its case. The Lumia 920’s …
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