AT&T has expanded its 4G LTE coverage to 14 more markets. Announced Wednesday, the cities included in the latest surge are: Fairbanks metro area, Alaska Galesburg, Ill. Macomb, Ill. Peoria, Ill. Des Moines, Iowa Madisonville, Ky. Maysville, Ky. Cumberland, Md. St. Cloud, Minn. St. Joseph, Mo. Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Gettysburg, Pa. Big Spring, Texas Winchester, …
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BlackBerry’s new boss has spoken out about his plans to save the troubled company, calling questions about BlackBerry abandoning handsets “ridiculous” and stalling talk of a switch to Android. Speaking to CrackBerry, John Chen identifies a “need to preserve the reason why BlackBerry is around,” and when asked about Android cautioned “jumping to anything is inappropriate.” “My job is really …
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Samsung reportedly is gearing up for the wearable technology market. Speaking at the company’s Analyst Day, Samsung Vice Chairman and CEO Kwon Oh-hyun said Wednesday that his company has been dedicating significant resources to several technologies, including “wearables,” according to the Wall Street Journal, which was in attendance at the event. The slide to accompany his comment showed the Galaxy …
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Samsung has said that it will confirm its rollout plans for the latest version of Android “in due course”. When asked about its plans to get the brand-new Android 4.4 KitKat onto popular mobiles such as the Galaxy S4 and Note 3, a Samsung spokesperson told CNET UK, “Samsung UK will announce rollout plans for Android 4.4 in due course.” …
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HTC is cutting its operating costs by almost a quarter in order to stave off bad results, but its new One max smartphone isn’t capturing buyers’ interest. The HTC One. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) HTC has had a tough year: first, facing supply problems for the HTC One and then lacklustre demand for the HTC One mini and HTC One max. …
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Samsung plans foldable screens in the next three years, the Samsung Galaxy Round just the first in a new generation of flexing phones. Presenting a roadmap of future plans to industry experts, Samsung revealed that ‘curved’ screens, like the one on the front of the Round, will give way to ‘bended’ screens next year. Then ‘foldable’ displays will come along …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Nexus 5 is finally here! 6:04 T-Mobile could offer the LG Nexus 5 across all sales channels as soon as November 20, reports TmoNews. Related stories: Check out our full Nexus 5 review The 7 best smartphones. Period. Nexus 5 ship time slips to 3 to 4 weeks Pricing details are still up in the …
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The official Microsoft Web page taking preorders for Nokia’s Lumia 1520 phone went live Wednesday and then suddenly disappeared. The page — which now says “this product is currently unavailable” — had listed the 1520 at $199 with the usual two-year agreement, or $549 without a contract. Carried by AT&T, the phone would be available in black, white, yellow, or …
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The latest iteration of the Livescribe smartpen has had its built-in audio recording removed and now only works across iPhones and iPads running iOS 7. (Credit: Livescribe) The Livescribe series has always been able to record both handwritten notes and audio. Using a combination of special notepaper and a camera in the pen, your notes — or sketches, scrawls, mathematical …
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That giant phone you love? Would you feel differently about it if you knew it was supposed to be called a ‘fonblet’? I thought so. This slide from a Samsung presentation to investors claims that its Galaxy Note series of massive mobiles should be referred to as ‘fonblets’, rather than the generally accepted ‘phablet’. Phablet is an utterly awful portmanteau, …
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Android phone users may soon be able to see the Google+ photo of a caller due to a new feature in KitKat. Google engineering director Attila Bodis announced in a Google+ post late Tuesday that the photo feature is part of the new Caller ID found in the latest flavor of Android. Once the feature launches in early 2014, Android …
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Ready for some fightin’ words? The new Advent Vega Note 7, powered by the might of a Tegra 4 processor, claims to be “the world’s fastest 7-inch Android tablet” — and it costs just £180. The Vega Note 7 claims dizzying speed thanks to the Nvidia Tegra 4 processor contained within. Inside the tablet is a 72-core Geforce GPU and …
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Vodafone has announced it will be doubling the data allowance on a number of its plans for new customers and existing customers who upgrade. (Credit: Vodafone) The offer applies to all SIM-only month-to-month plans of AU$45 per month and more and all 12- or 24-month contract plans over AU$60 per month. Customers must take a new plan or upgrade an …
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Samsung aims to unveil phones and other devices with foldable displays in another two years, give or take. At an analysts event Wednesday night local time in Seoul, Korea, Samsung CEO Kwon Oh Hyun presented a slideshow revealing the company’s display technology timeline for the next few years. As shown by blog site Sammy Hub, the slideshow highlights the progression …
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Samsung is anticipating selling twice as many tablets this year as in 2012, and the company is on the hunt for Apple’s number one spot. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3. (Credit: CNET) Speaking at an Analysts’ Day event held in Seoul, Korea, Samsung’s head of mobile JK Shin said that the company was on track to sell over 40 million tablets …
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