iPhone 5S to come in gold, leaked component pics hint

Apple may be plotting a golden-hued addition to its gadget family, if fresh pics purporting to show the next iPhone’s innards are to be believed. The snap above, spied by French site nowhereelse.fr, appears to have come out of Chinese site iColorOS, and seem to compare components from the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and the …

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Apple sells 100 million iPod touches

Apple has sold 100 million of its iPod touch MP3 player since launching the device six years ago, Mashable reports. But it’s not all beer and skittles over at Apple HQ. iPod sales were down in the last quarter, from 12.7 million to 5.6 million, Apple announced in its last results. Let’s see if the new model of iPod touch …

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US newspaper replaces photographers with iPhones

Times are tough in the newspaper world, and one US rag is turning to tech to cut costs. The Chicago Sun-Times has sacked all 28 of its photographers, and will instead train all editorial employees (i.e. reporters) how to take pictures with their iPhones. The changes were detailed in an internal memo from managing editor Craig Newman, which media columnist Robert …

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Foxconn taking Firefox OS to tablets, not just phones

Foxconn and Mozilla announced a partnership Monday under which the Chinese electronics manufacturer will build not just Firefox phones, as others have announced, but tablets, too. The rumored partnership was confirmed as Mozilla and Foxconn announced their tie-up at the Computex show in Taiwan. By including software in its devices, Foxconn gets to sell a more complete and therefore potentially …

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Verizon bringing HTC One into the fold

Looks like speculation of the HTC One hitting Verizon this summer is true. The carrier just confirmed that it will bring the superphone into its lineup in a couple months. Rather than issuing a formal press release, Verizon spilled the beans via its official Twitter account and cryptically stated that the phone “will be available on the Verizon Wireless 4G …

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 gets new 8

Samsung has released the details for an 8-inch and a 10.1-inch tablet joining the popular Galaxy Tab series, along with the 7-inch model currently available. In an announcement Monday, the South Korean firm unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 models in the new sizes. The 8-inch Galaxy Tab 3 is possibly a response to the popular iPad Mini and Google …

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8

Samsung has revealed its latest tablets in the Galaxy Tab lineup: the dual-core Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch and Tab 3 10.1-inch slates, with Jelly Bean and the latest features from the Samsung Galaxy S4. The Tab 3 series is a pair of new slates with dual-core processors and high definition screens, both packing the latest version of Android, 4.2.2 …

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Possible HTC M4 leaks, with Nokia Lumia 1030 and Sony Togari

This is an interesting one — or should that be three? A trio of potential leaks have popped up on the Internet. On the right we have what is allegedly the HTC M4 — a shrunken version of the HTC One, that we’ve heard about before. That blue phone behind it? That claims to be the Nokia Lumia 1030. And …

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Dell to challenge Lenovo’s Yoga with 11

Dell plans to offer consumers its own flavor of an 11.6-inch convertible laptop with Windows 8 by year’s end. Due out in time for the 2013 holiday season, the Dell XPS 11 ultrabook will sport a hinged keyboard that allows it to transform into a Windows 8 tablet, The Wall Street Journal reported today. Demoed at the Computex computer show …

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Latest iPod Touch rates poorly on repairability, iFixit says

iFixit’s latest teardown takes a look at Apple’s new iPod Touch and finds that despite internal changes, the device received the same repairability score as its higher-capacity counterparts. Apple quietly introduced its latest iPod Touch last week. The fifth-generation, 16GB iPod Touch features the same 4-inch Retina Display and dual-core A5 processor as the 32GB and 64GB versions but loses …

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No Droid HTC One for Verizon? No big deal

After months of rumored buzz about a Droid variant of HTC’s One flagship phone for Verizon, Big Red announced on Monday that it’ll soon sell the same One as rival providers. Without providing any specifics, the carrier only acknowledges that the flagship handset is on the horizon. “We don’t have anything to add beyond the tweet that said we were …

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ZTE Grand S Flex and Blade G leak, better batteries ahoy

These two new ZTE smart phones sound like a DJ and MC pair: the Grand S Flex and Blade G. They’re not yet official, but French site Frandroid (via UnwiredView) has got its mitts on them early. The Grand S Flex (pictured on the left, on a break between sessions on the decks, I’m guessing), is a beefed-up version of …

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Asus MeMO Pad HD 7 and MeMO Pad FHD 10 go high

More tablet action! Another 7-inch slate and 10-inch tablet join the fray today in the shape of the Asus MeMO Pad HD 7 and MeMO Pad FHD 10 — and they’re dirt cheap. As the names suggest, the HD 7 is a 7-inch slate and the FHD 10 a 10 incher, both powered by Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. But the …

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Vodafone 4G service coming ‘by the late summer’

Vodafone has narrowed down when we can expect its 4G service to launch, saying it’s preparing “for the launch of ultra-fast 4G services by the late summer”. The big red network had previously said we could expect 4G later in the year. Vodafone bagged £802m-worth of 4G spectrum in the 800MHz band in Ofcom’s auction earlier this year, part of …

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iPhone can be hacked via fake charger, researchers say

Do you trust your iPhone charger? Or could it have been sneakily replaced by a cruelly-warped changeling cable, curled up like a plastic viper that’s intent on poisoning your smart phone with hacked software? That’s the question asked by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, who’ll be showing off a concept malicious charger at the Black Hat 2013 hacker …

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