Nokia hopes its comeback story comes into focus with a little help from its 41-megapixel camera-packing Lumia 1020. The former Finnish mobile devices giant was at it again on Thursday with the debut of its latest smartphone, which rocks the souped-up zoom-lens camera that impressed critics a year ago at Mobile World Congress. For some, …
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Boost Mobile announced on Thursday that the Samsung Galaxy Prevail II is now available through the no-contract carrier. Related stories: Kyocera Hydro Edge splashes onto Sprint, July 19 Samsung surpasses Apple in smartphone Web usage Samsung tops Apple in Fortune Global 500 The entry-level smartphone runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and features a 4-inch WVGA display and 1.4GHz processor. Additionally, …
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It’s only been on sale for four months, but there’s set to be a new and improved version of the HTC One before the end of the year. And next year, that’ll be followed by an HTC One 2, if you will, said to be codenamed the HTC M8. There are also rumours of a plastic version of the currently …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Lumia 1020 makes stunning photos a priority 3:14 The Nokia 808 PureView was simultaneously ahead of the curve and behind the times. Its camera is still one of the best to ever be in a smartphone (if not the best), but the most common lament I read was that it was running on a near-dead …
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A week after Spain’s Telefonica became the first carrier to sell Firefox OS phones, Deutsche Telekom has become the second. The German company will begin selling the Alcatel One Touch Fire with Mozilla’s Firefox OS in Poland starting Friday in 850 shops and online, the company said Thursday. Deutsche Telekom subsidiaries Magyar Telekom in Hungary and Cosmote in Greece will …
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Tapping on a map in Google Maps for Android, then scrolling to the bottom of the screen, will reveal an option to cache the map for offline. screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET A day after users complained that the overhauled Google Maps app for Android made it hard to store maps for later use offline, Google has updated its app to …
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The much-touted mobile wallet has yet to catch on with a majority of consumers. But dollars generated by mobile payments continue to rise. Payments made via a mobile phone will surpass $1 billion in the U.S. this year, research firm eMarketer said Thursday. That’s more than double last year’s figure of $539 million. Peering into the future, eMarketer predicts that …
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T-Mobile is shaking up the wireless industry yet again with a new device upgrade program announced Wednesday that is supposed to make it easier for its customers to upgrade to new devices. The company’s CEO John Legere said during a press conference in New York City, where the new plan called Jump was unveiled, that it’s all about giving customers …
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At its developer conference this week in San Francisco, cloud storage giant Dropbox announced a few new developer tools, called Drop-Ins, that create a link between Dropbox and any app or online service. The first Drop-Ins are called Saver and Chooser. True to their names, Chooser lets you choose and import your Dropbox files into other apps, and Saver helps …
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The HTC One has only been on sale for a few months, but a new version of it is rumored to be coming before year’s end. And next year, that will be followed by an HTC One 2, if you will, said to be codenamed the HTC M8. There are also rumors of a plastic version of the currently metal-shelled …
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So long, Alfred. It’s been nice knowing you. Google has informed users of its Alfred local-recommendations mobile app that the time has come for the helper to retire as of July 19. Users who have liked places that they want to take with them must request their data from Google by tomorrow. Alfred was the brainchild of developer Clever Sense. …
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Microsoft is planning a new version of both the Microsoft Surface and Surface Pro tablets alongside Windows 8.1 and the Xbox One. Microsoft’s plans for the foreseeable future, spotted by The Verge, include updates to both the Surface, which uses the tablet-friendly Windows 8 RT software, and the Surface Pro, which uses full-fat Windows 8 so you can install programs …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Lumia 1020 makes stunning photos a priority 3:14 Nokia showed off its latest Windows phone, the Nokia Lumia 1020, at a press conference in New York on Thursday. Nokia Lumia 1020 debuts Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper (hands-on) Nokia Lumia 1020: A camera phone powerhouse (hands-on photos) Windows Phone tweaks back Lumia 1020’s …
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The Nokia Lumia 1020 has been officially unveiled, and O2 and Three are the first British networks to confirm they’ll sell the 41-megapixel camera phone this year. O2 says it will offer the Lumia 1020 “later in the year”, while Nokia promises it for the UK “this quarter”, which means September at the latest. The new phone goes on sale …
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It hardly seems worth having an event. Nokia’s new 41-megapixel Lumia 1020 camera phone has been so extensively teased by the company itself, and leaked all over the Internet, that we’d be extremely surprised if there were any surprises at this afternoon’s launch. Nevertheless, CNET will be there in New York with bells on from 3.45pm UK time. We’ll bring …
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