Firefox isn’t coming back to the iPad or iPhone any time soon, as Mozilla decries Apple’s closed app policies. Mozilla boss Jay Sullivan made the remarks at a panel at digital and music festival South by Southwest in Texas, saying that there were no plans to build an iOS browser despite the popularity of Apple devices. Firefox …
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What is Jeremy’s favorite color?! Samsung today released Part 2 of its teaser ad series for the Galaxy S4 smartphone launch with its “secret messenger,” a boy named Jeremy. In the first ad, Jeremy is allowed to look inside a box that ostensibly houses the Galaxy S4, and runs home with it. At the end of that video, Jeremy sits …
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Lenovo’s chief executive has told a French publication he is open to an eventual deal to buy embattled smartphone maker BlackBerry. In an interview with the French financial newspaper Les Echos, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said that a deal could make sense, but added he would need to analyze the market and understand the importance of the company. Bloomberg spotted …
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Let’s jump into the time tunnel and head back to 2005, where we find this beast: an iPhone prototype the size of an iPad. This early iPhone prototype was 5 inches wide and 7 inches tall, measuring a chunky 2 inches thick. A mystery Apple employee reveals the device in photos shown to Ars Technica. The prototype was never designed …
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Now playing: Watch this: Unboxing the BlackBerry Z10 3:39 AT&T is getting its first BlackBerry 10 device on March 22. The carrier announced today that the touch-screen BlackBerry Z10 smartphone will be available for pre-order on March 12 and will go on sale in AT&T stores and online on March 22. The device will cost $199.99 with a two-year contract. …
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Apparently there’s a reason Sprint passed up the BlackBerry Z10. Along with holding out for the BB10-powered Q10, the carrier may have plans for a new touch-screen handset from BlackBerry. If sources close to All Things Digital are accurate, then Sprint has its eye on an additional all-screen phone other than the Z10, which BlackBerry may have up its sleeve. …
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Further whetting appetites for its new smartphone, Samsung tweeted an image this evening that is presumably the Galaxy S4, which is expected to be unveiled Thursday. The very dark image, depicting only the upper left corner of what appears to be a smartphone with the familiar Samsung brand at the top, appeared on the South Korean electronics giant’s official U.S. …
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South Korean electronics giant Samsung took top spot in China’s smartphone market in 2012, after sales of its devices nearly tripled from 10.9 million in 2011 to 30.06 million last year. Citing figures from Strategy Analytics, the Yonhap News Agency said yesterday that Samsung held 17.7 percent market share in 2012. This also marked the first time it topped the …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 gets a cellular connection,… 1:51 Sprint today announced an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Related stories Sprint to sell its first LTE tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 review (Sprint) The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 gets cellular connection, higher price As is …
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It’s not the Nexus, but Motorola’s rumoured new Android phone looks like it’ll run on the new Tegra 4i chipset. The image that was sent to AndroidWorld. (Credit: AndroidWorld) With only days until Samsung reveals the Galaxy S4, it’s the perfect time for other manufacturers to indulge in a little leak-based spoiler work of their own, so we’re not too …
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There’s no better illustration of the intense competition in the wireless industry than the race to establish another legitimate operating system behind Android and Apple — where else is third place considered a lofty goal for so many major players? Yet that’s exactly what nearly a dozen companies are trying to achieve. While this year’s Mobile World Congress wireless trade …
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Over in Serbia, a group of computer science students have hacked a digital billboard in Belgrade’s popular Republic Square, displaying The Pirate Bay logo, along with a Ghandi quote. The image from The Pirate Bay’s Facebook page. (Credit: The Pirate Bay) The students have apparently made of hobby of this practice. They find security weaknesses in businesses, exploiting them in …
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Microsoft surprised everyone by launching its Surface tablet, taking on its hardware partners at their own game. Since then, there have been plenty of rumours about a possible Surface phone, with the device apparently entering the testing phase at the end of last year. And now it seems Nokia is getting a little antsy, suspecting Microsoft will step on its …
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I know we’ve heard about LG’s 55-inch OLED TV set before, but it’s so far failed to make it to shop shelves. Well now comes word it’ll land here in the UK in July, exclusively for sale from Harrods. And the price? Glad you asked. It’ll set you back a cool £10,000. Recession? What recession? We saw the LG OLED 55EM970V …
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HTC launched two Facebook phones — the Salsa and ChaCha — almost two years ago, but now comes word it’s having another stab at a social networking-based blower. The pretty reliable @evleaks Twitter account has what it claims are specs for the device, rumoured to be called the HTC Myst. It’s a mid-range affair, if these are anything to go …
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