Starting tomorrow, Nokia will whip out a new color palette for two of its phones. In addition to white and dark gray, the Nokia Lumia 822 Windows phone will now come in red. Related stories Nokia Lumia 822 review Full review of Motorola’s Droid Razr M Hands on $50 Samsung Ativ Odyssey For its part, …
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Want to get your fingers all over Windows 8 on a tablet, but don’t want to pay the Earth? Eyes this way, chum — Asus’ new VivoTab Smart is hitting the UK’s shelves at the end of the month for only £399. In order to be so affordable, Asus has had to keep the tablet’s specs on the basic side. …
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Regulator Ofcom has given the green light to the UK’s 4G auction plans, kicking off the first round of bidding that will see networks including Vodafone, O2 and EE splashing the cash in order to secure new chunks of spectrum. If you’re imagining a crowded auction chamber with lots of gavel-banging, your fevered imagination is a little wide of the …
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LG’s Optimus G Pro smartphone will reach consumers in April, at least those in Japan. Japanese provider NTT DoCoMo announced the news yesterday. A Google-translated version of the company’s press release revealed early April as the launch date for the successor to LG’s popular Optimus G. A DoCoMo slideshow page reveals a host of details about the phone, but only …
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More possible details concerning the Samsung Galaxy S4 are swirling, with fresh rumours pointing towards a mid-April release date, and back-to-basics colour options. The Galaxy S4 is codenamed ‘Altius’ according to Sammobile, which claims to have inside information on Samsung’s much-anticipated blower. A release date of 15 April is touted — a date that’s just about plausible, even if it is …
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Nokia could be planning to bring its true 41-megapixel PureView camera to a Windows Phone handset this year, according to a new report. The company is working on a device, codenamed EOS, that will come with its full PureView camera, The Verge is reporting today, citing people who have knowledge of Nokia’s plans. The device will be the first Windows …
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Removing YouTube from the pre-installed apps on iOS hasn’t stopped users from finding it. Three months after its release, the standalone app is already on almost half of U.S. iPhones, according to market share data released today by mobile data company Onavo. As of Dec. 31, 44.5 percent of iPhone users had downloaded the standalone YouTube app, according to the report. …
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Samsung’s gigantic Galaxy Note 8.0 has shown its moon-sized face in a leaked photo, alongside a list of possible specs. Samsung’s head honcho recently confirmed that the plus-size sequel to the Note, Note 2 and Note 10.1 would be making an appearance at Mobile World Congress in February, but now it seems we may have an even earlier glimpse at …
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Research In Motion has released a new version of its mobile device management software, BlackBerry Enterprise Service. The software, available to download from today, is designed to manage devices running BlackBerry 10, as well as rival devices running iOS or Android operating systems. The release will also play a key role in the potential success of RIM’s forthcoming BlackBerry 10 …
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Geoffrey Morrison/CNET Let’s say you want to throw the ultimate football-watching party for the last game of the year. (Alas, using the name of said game is fraught with copyright challenges, so we’re playing it safe.) Will a single big-screen TV suffice? Maybe. But what if you want to go really hard core, and have a few dozen people over. …
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The iPhone Viewfinder can extend to accommodate different eyesight needs. Photojojo The good: Your iPhone has a pretty decent camera. Better than decent, in fact, if it’s an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5. The bad: Not everybody likes using the iPhone’s screen to frame their shots, especially outdoors, where the ambient light can wash out the display. What’s more, anyone …
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Phones 4U is launching its own network, called Life Mobile — and it’ll be a case of 4G phones for you soon, thanks to a deal with EE. The new network — Phones 4U writes it LIFE Mobile but we’re glossing over that — launches in March, with a 4G service to follow later in the year. By piggybacking on …
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Now playing: Watch this: Pantech Discover, AT&T’s higher-end ‘budget’ Android 2:42 One of my favorite smartphones on today’s market also happens to be one of the least expensive. It costs just $50, runs Android, boasts a rapid-fire processor and a 12.6-megapixel camera, and offers up some ergonomic design elements you won’t see anywhere else. Who makes this humble wonder device? …
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While the US and Canada will see Microsoft’s Surface Windows 8 Pro launch on 9 February, Australia sees only a stand-alone version of the 64GB RT model and new accessories join the local line-up. New Touch Covers, new storage, no Windows 8 Pro yet. (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has announced the arrival of Surface Windows 8 Pro overnight in the US, …
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Google will announce the rumored Motorola X Phone at its annual Google I/O conference in May, according to the latest round of rumors. A 600-page forum thread picked up by Droid Life spills a number of new details for the forthcoming Google and Motorola initiative. Related stories Google I/0 2013 slated for May 15-17 Google ‘X Phone’ to compete with …
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