Will the next iPhone stay with the usual 1GB of RAM? Sarah Tew/CNET Correction at 4:50 a.m. PT August 19: Blog site G for Games’ report on the amount of RAM in the iPhone 6 was based on a misreading of a technical diagram. The schematic actually shows the layout for the NAND flash memory …
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The 5.5-inch Aquos Crystal X and 5-inch Aquos Crystal. Only the latter is expected in the US. Sharp If you believe the latest iPhone 6 rumors , the next Apple handset will have considerably less bezel surrounding the screen than its predecessors. But nothing quite like this. According to photos and news discovered today by PhoneArena, Sprint will unveil the …
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Sprint’s new CEO, Marcelo Claure, has made good on his promise to get aggressive on pricing in an effort to draw new customers to the troubled wireless operator. On Monday the company announced its first-ever family share plan, called the Family Share Pack, which will double the amount of data subscribers get for the same price as its competitors. To …
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen at CES. Roger Cheng/CNET BlackBerry said Monday it has created a new business unit that will include its 44,000 patents and several software projects, as the struggling handset maker seeks to find new revenue streams. The unit, called BlackBerry Technology Solutions, will be led by Sandeep Chennakeshu, who has been involved in wireless, semiconductors and other …
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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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This alleged sapphire iPhone 6 screen seems able to ward off a knife attack. Marques Brownlee/YouTube/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET An iPhone 6 with a sapphire screen may be hard pressed to reach consumers this year. At least, that’s the take from the crystal ball of JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall. In an investors note released Monday, Hall responded to two …
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Matt Elliott/CNET The Ice Bucket Challenge has been wildly successful in raising money for ALS research, but the resulting videos that undoubtedly have been showing up in your Facebook news feed may be raising your data charges. By default, videos are set to autoplay in Facebook. When we looked at the disabling this feature last year, you could disable when …
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Big Red helps customers save green with new rate plan. Screen shot by Scott Webster/CNET In what could be construed as a counteroffensive attack, Verizon has quietly rolled out a new individual rate plan. Available immediately, the $60 option gives customers unlimited talk and text plus a 2GB bucket worth of 4G LTE data. Related Links T-Mobile undercuts AT&T on …
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Apple is set to launch the follow-up to the iPhone 5S in September. Apple As iPhone rumours once again begin to reach fever pitch ahead of an anticipated September launch, Dick Smith is one of the retailers keen to get in on the action from the day of launch. However, CEO Nick Abboud said it will take a genuine innovation …
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Matt Elliott/CNET My honey-do list just just got easier. Well, it’s not any shorter, but it is easier to read, thanks to Alter, a 99-cent iPhone app. Alter converts blocks of text intro tidy, actionable to-do lists. After launching Alter for the first time, the app steps you through a brief tutorial, showing you how to paste text into the …
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Screenshot: Ty Pendlebury/CNET Simple.TV is one of several new DVRs that allow cordcutters to record TV shows off broadcast TV and watch them on a variety of mobile devices and digital set-top boxes like Roku. But now Simple is upping the ante on its competition with a new feature that allows users share their recordings with others. The new option …
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Sarah Tew/CNET When we first got a look at the Roku TV earlier this year, we were stoked. It promised to build our Editors’ Choice streaming device right into the TV, delivering more apps, more frequent updates and an easier-to-use interface than Smart TVs from the likes of Samsung, LG and Vizio. What we didn’t anticipate was how affordable they’d …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Smart TVs have long been exiled to the outcast table, but Roku televisions may be arriving at just the right time and the right price — cheap — to move connected televisions into the mainstream. Roku is integrating its popular TV streaming-box capabilities for the first time into television sets from TCL and Hisense, big Chinese manufacturers that …
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The Moto 360 listing at Best Buy Screenshot by Steven Musil Motorola Mobility isn’t expected to unveil its new Moto 360 smartwatch until next month, but that hasn’t stopped Best Buy from giving consumers a peek at what makes it tick. According to specs published Sunday on the electronics retailer’s website, the Moto 360 will cost $250 and feature a …
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The new T-Box menu. Telstra Starting next month, the catch-up TV service SBS on Demand will be available on the T-box, Telstra’s digital set-top box. The T-Box functions as a PVR as well as providing access some optional Foxtel channels and free-to-air channels, but for the most part it’s designed around being a delivery vehicle for Telstra’s BigPond Movies service. …
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