While several companies are jumping on the smartwatch bandwagon, it’s not clear who exactly is buying these wearable picture-taking, texting, time-telling machines. Or, for that matter, if this wearable fad is here to stay. A study released Thursday by consumer analytics firm On Device Research and telecoms analyst firm CCS Insight shows that many people …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung HomeSync is an Android media hub 1:26 Samsung HomeSync media center, which lets people store, sync, and stream content from their mobile devices to their TVs while at home or on the go, will start selling in the US for $299 on Sunday. The device runs Android and works only with Samsung mobile devices equipped …
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BlackBerry has an updated version of its BBM Android app going through the beta testing process. A BlackBerry spokesperson confirmed to CNET on Thursday that the company has restarted its beta program for the Android version of BlackBerry Messenger. Based on a series of e-mails sent to blog site CrackBerry.com, apparently from the beta testers, the new version includes a …
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Samsung is predicting a record profit of around AU$9.9 billion for the third quarter of 2013, while the same period will see HTC post its first ever operating loss. The HTC One and One Mini have failed to elevate HTC’s profits. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Samsung’s estimated 10.1 trillion won profit obviously doesn’t all come from mobile. In fact, although the …
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Update: A reader has forwarded us a customer support email from Apple, which claims the Breaking Bad refund is not available in the UK, but only in the US, Australia, Germany and Canada. Thanks Ian! Breaking Bad fans who bought an iTunes season pass for both the first and second parts of the show’s fifth season are being offered a …
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The M7 coprocessor in the iPhone 5S is a fancy name for a chip that counts your steps and motion all day, every day. In order to see how many steps you’ve been taking, you’ll need to use an app specifically built for the iPhone 5S and the M7 chip. While we wait for more developers to integrate the M7 …
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A Qualcomm executive dissed Apple’s new 64-bit chip architecture, putting the San Diego company in a tough spot if it decides at some point to move to a 64-bit Snapdragon design. Here’s what Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Qualcomm, said to the IDG News Service “I know there’s a lot of noise because Apple did …
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BlackBerry has acknowledged that it just can’t compete with Apple and Android, even in international markets where it once was dominant. In a regulatory filing released late Tuesday to announce its second-quarter results, BlackBerry explained how weak demand for its products in the US has spread to other countries. The intense competition impacting the Company’s financial and operational results that …
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What to watch? Your wrist could be your new remote, as Samsung hints the Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch could control your television. Samsung boss Ryan Bidan is looking to developers to come up with clever ways to combine the watch with TV-watching, with some new ideas potentially coming at the annual Samsung Developers Conference at the end of this …
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Apple has a message for you — it knows iMessage is borked and it’s sorry. We reported yesterday that many iPhone and iPad users have had trouble with the instant messaging service since the upgrade to iOS 7. “We are aware of an issue that affects a fraction of a percent of our iMessage users, and we will have a …
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The new iPhone‘s 64-bit chip is a “gimmick” with “zero benefit,” according to rival chipmaker Qualcomm. Qualcomm boss Anand Chandrasekher says the Apple A7 64-bit processor is a “marketing gimmick. There’s zero benefit a consumer gets from that”. “Predominantly… you need it for memory addressability beyond 4GB. That’s it,” says Chandrasekher. “You don’t really need it for performance, and the …
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JK Shin, the co-CEO of Samsung, just had to have the Galaxy Gear in lime green. Samsung executives had spent the last few weeks before the public unveiling of Gear finalizing various colors for the smartwatch band. At first, Samsung planned only to make Gear in black and white, to ease the production process. But some key execs were convinced that …
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Get ready for the LG G Flex. LG is preparing a smartphone with a curved display, CNET has learned. It confirms previous chatter about the company’s work with plastic OLED screen technology. Related stories Samsung, LG vie to unveil flexible display smartphones li> What it really takes to make a flexible phone (Smartphones Unlocked) Samsung’s teased curved phone may not …
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Now that BlackBerry has effectively sold itself to investors, the beleaguered handset maker is reportedly looking to unload property as well. The smartphone maker, which owns 20 buildings in Waterloo, Canada, has entered confidential discussions with real estate firms in an effort to get the greatest return in the shortest amount of time, sources tell The Globe and Mail. The …
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