Now playing: Watch this: Phone News: Galaxy S3 ROM leaks 2:41 In this week’s Phone News, Samsung’s software is leaking, and Motorola says it won’t update phones to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich unless the update improves the phone. Plus there’s loads more mobile news — so grab a delicious soft drink and hit play …
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the fastest selling pre-order blower of the year, according to Carphone Warehouse, which has been crunching some numbers on Samsung’s follow-up to the hyper-popular Galaxy S2. Proving what we already suspected — that the Galaxy S3 is going to be a hugely successful mobile — Carphone says it’s taken thousands of pre-orders for the 4.8-inch …
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Your iPhone or iPad may be on the cusp on getting FaceTime calling over a 3G connection, an iOS warning pop-up suggests. The warning message, originally snapped by Romanian site iDevice, apparently pops up when you try to turn off 3G while on a FaceTime call. The missive reads, “Disabling 3G will end FaceTime. Are you sure you want to …
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The Sony Xperia U is out in the UK this week, with British network Three shouting that the dual-core smart phone is available to buy online now, and can be found in all high street mobile shops as of tomorrow. Three’s offering the 3.5-inch Xperia U for £180 on pay as you go, if a contract is more to your …
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Apple and Samsung have kicked off settlement talks that could see the two companies ending the bitter patent war that’s raged for the last year, the BBC reports. A US judge has ordered the two firms to play nicely and try to make friends, following months of legal action that’s seen Apple and Samsung aggressively suing each other. Apple accuses the Korean …
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The Samsung Galaxy S Advance — little brother to the Galaxy S2 — will be out in the UK on 30 April, Samsung has confirmed. Hey, that’s Monday! Where does the time go…? The S Advance is a beefed-up version of 2010’s splendid Galaxy S, and as you’d expect, specs-wise it’s somewhere in-between the Galaxy S and Galaxy S2. Expect …
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Apple’s fighting back against claims that its Siri voice-controlled assistant isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, saying legal complaints filed in March against the snarky robot butler are too vague to be taken seriously. Legal action taken in March by a New York man called Frank M Fazio moaned that Siri wasn’t performing with the same finesse as in …
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Jubilee season is set to get a shade rosier — a pink version of the Samsung Galaxy Note should be on sale in the UK in June, available to buy from Carphone Warehouse. The Inquirer spotted the phone flogger’s ‘coming soon‘ page, which pips the pink Note as coming out next month. I can’t be sure how long that page …
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The Sony Xperia S should be in line to receive a mouthful of refreshing Ice Cream Sandwich in late May or early June, according to a post from Sony on its support forums, Pocketnow reports. Writing in response to a previous poster, a member of Sony’s support team wrote, “Xperia S is planned to get ICS somewhere around late May/early June.” The …
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Apple’s next iPhone will sport a bigger screen than the iPhone 4S, reports from the Wall Street Journal suggest. ‘People familiar with the matter’ speaking to the Journal reckon that the Cupertino company has ordered a bunch of displays that measure at least four inches on the diagonal. That would give the much-rumoured iPhone 5 a beefier screen than any …
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