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Ready to go Pro? The Samsung Galaxy TabPro is up for order here in the UK. Samsung’s latest 8-incher is on sale now for £349. That’s for the 8.4-inch, available from online shops Very and Clove. It’s expected to be delivered around 21 March. For your money you get a 1,600×2,560 screen and 16GB of storage, with cutting-edge Android KitKat …

The iPhone comes with a useful Reminders app that helps you keep track of your various daily responsibilities, but free app Later by developer Nick Walter might be of added help because it focuses on reminding you only about texts, tweets, and e-mails that you don’t want to forgot to send. The app feels half-baked at this point, but a …

Change is hard. Fortunately, sometimes you can make a change without giving up on the past completely — and that’s the case for the new Geeksphone Revolution, which lets you try out Firefox OS without burning your Android bridges. The Revolution switches between Android, complete with Google Play access, and Mozilla’s Firefox OS software, also known as Boot2Gecko. It’s on …

It looks as if Samsung plans to make good on a promise it made at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2013, according to one report. At last year’s event, Samsung showed off a screen display that wraps around the edge of a smartphone. Now the Korea Herald is reporting that Samsung has a Galaxy-branded “bent” smartphone slated for launch in …

There’s reason to feel a small measure of confidence in BlackBerry’s ability to stabilize the business — you just need to exercise some patience. That’s according to Wells Fargo analyst Maynard Um, who raised his estimate on BlackBerry’s valuation range and slightly lifted his revenue estimate for fiscal 2015, which begins in March. He said that by fiscal 2016, the …

Google’s boss of buying and selling companies insists that the Motorola deal was a “success”, despite taking a bath on the sale price. Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion late last month, having bought the phone manufacturer just two years ago for more than four times that amount. But Don Harrison, Google’s head of mergers and acquisitions, …

Forget about teasing the new devices it will reveal at Mobile World Congress in just a couple of weeks; LG just used Facebook to confirm its introduction of the LG G2 Mini at the Barcelona mobile show. A Facebook post published Wednesday morning depicts a grid image of a miniaturized shoe, a starfish, and a cupcake alongside their full-size counterparts, …

Jason Cipriani/CNET With iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, Apple introduced a new feature called iCloud Keychain. The feature aims to help keep your online accounts more secure, and at the same time speed up the amount of time it takes you to enter your log-in credentials on certain sites. In an effort to help you keep accounts secure, Apple …

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son isn’t so pleased with the way the US mobile market looks at the moment. Speaking to reporters in Japan on Wednesday, Son said that AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the two largest telcos in the US, have an oligopoly in the market, according to Reuters. It’s not clear whether his comments went beyond that complaint, but Reuters …

Smartphones outfitted with near-field communications could see a jump in shipments from 416 million this year to 1.2 billion in another four years, says research firm IHS Technology. Shipments of phones equipped with the wireless technology rose from 120 million in 2012 to 275 million in 2013, a gain of 128 percent. This year’s number could rise by an additional …

HTC may soon introduce a new member of the Desire family, perhaps as soon as Mobile World Congress. A leaked image and basic hardware specifications have surfaced online, indicating that HTC is readying another sizable smartphone. Related stories: Leaked HTC One 2 ‘Mini’ promises a smaller, but still powerful phone HTC One successor may sport two rear cameras HTC looks …

Supercell, the Finland-based game company behind the wildly popular Clash of Clans and Hay Day, will launch its next game in March, the company confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday. Dubbed Boom Beach, the game, which is already available as a trial, will allow gamers to battle it out on beaches. It’s not immediately clear exactly when the game will launch …

Wireless carriers’ salvos in the battle for subscribers have been coming fast and furious lately, and it looks like Verizon Wireless is getting ready to launch a new attack. The US wireless carrier will unveil a “More Everything” plan on Thursday that promises customers more data at no extra cost, doubled bandwidth, 25GB of cloud storage, and unlimited international messaging, …

For the first time ever, more than 1 billion smartphones were shipped worldwide in 2013. This is mostly thanks to Android. New data from research firm IDC shows that Android stayed strong throughout the year reaching a total of 793.6 million shipments — this gave it 78.6 percent market share. While Apple’s iOS held a steady second place with 153.4 …