BlackBerry has slashed production of the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 by half because of disappointing BB10 sales, according to an industry expert. Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek reports that production of both models has been reduced to a combined total of just 1m phones per month. The Z10 and Q10 were the first …
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If you’ve been feeling lost since Apple Maps arrived, good news: Google Maps is pointing the way with a big new update for iPhone — and it’s found its way to the iPad too. The update, available today, brings to iOS what the Big G describes as a “brand new Google Maps experience“. If you’re a tablet owner, you’ll be pleased …
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A couple of recent incidents have seen phones catching fire or delivering electrical shocks while in a pocket or charging, injuring a Swiss teenager and killing a 23-year-old Chinese iPhone owner. In Abu Dhabi, Sarah Shurrub, the owner of a Samsung Galaxy S4, awoke in the small hours to look after her toddler and found the charging phone burning, Emirates …
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WhatsApp for the iPhone is now free — to download. But instead of just paying once, if you’re an iPhone owner you’ll now pay a small fee every year to chat with your friends. The popular cross-platform instant messaging app — it lets you talk to any of your friends, even if you have different kinds of smart phone, unlike …
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Google has pressed play on a new look for Google Play, as the online store becomes more like the app on your Android phone or tablet. The Google Play Web Store now has a handy sidebar listing categories of stuff you might want to browse and download: apps, movies, music and so on, as well as a category for devices …
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The BBC has announced five new high definition channels to launch in 2014, including HD versions of BBC News, BBC Three and CBeebies. The new channels are BBC News HD, BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, CBeebies HD and CBBC HD. Unlike the previous BBC HD channel that cherry-picked HD programs, the new high-def channels are simply HD versions of …
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Just as the folks at Microsoft launched the Surface tablet into battle against the iPad, they’re set to pit a Surface smart watch against Apple’s iWatch. The team behind the Windows 8 tablet is reported to have taken over development of a Microsoft smart watch, based on a design conceived by the mob that works on accessories for the Xbox. …
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Apple is “aggressively” recruiting smart watch experts to work on the hotly-rumoured iWatch — but it won’t be ready until late next year. As well as apparently confirming the smart watch, the fact Apple is hiring suggests that the iWatch presents problems that Apple’s current engineering staff are struggling to solve, which is why we can’t expect to see it …
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Microsoft has slashed the price of the Microsoft Surface by almost a third. A whopping £120 has been sliced off the Windows 8 tablet, making it more than a hundred quid cheaper than the latest iPad. The discount drops the price of the 32GB model to £280, down from £400. Meanwhile the 64GB version now costs £360. Among the places you …
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Wake me up when September ends — because that’s when the Nokia Lumia 1020 arrives in the UK. Nokia says the phone will be available this quarter, which means September at the latest. And if the coming soon page at mobile phone emporium Carphone Warehouse is to be believed, it will be later rather than sooner. At last week’s announcement …
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