Now playing: Watch this: Features missing from iPhone 5 3:07 At long last, the iPhone 5 is here, and now the dissection begins. Of course, whether it truly lives up to expectations won’t matter to millions of people with older iPhones (and other smartphones) who’ve been waiting to upgrade to the next iPhone no matter …
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Pierre Perron, UK managing director of Sony Mobile and Catherine Cherry, marketing director, were both feeling bullish about Sony’s future prospects when I sat down with them at IFA after the launch of Sony’s new flagship Xperia T phone. The mobile maker used to be run separately from the rest of Sony as a joint venture with Ericsson, but last …
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Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 this morning, with a larger, 4-inch display, 4G radios compatible with Australian networks and a smaller docking port dubbed Lightning. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Apple expects to have the new iPhone in store on 21 September. At a launch event in San Francisco, Apple’s Phil Schiller revealed the updated handset, pointing out that while the handset’s …
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Nokia has promised that its existing Lumia phones will be getting fresh updates, including creepy gif-maker Cinemagraph, and Bluetooth file transfer. Ahead of the iPhone 5 debut, Nokia is earnestly reminding customers on its official blog that the Lumia 900, 800 and 710 smart phones will continue to receive fresh software, albeit not the Windows Phone 8 upgrade that Lumia …
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The new iPhone 5 could be in shops sooner than we thought — it seems the phone networks already have unique new SIM cards stockpiled. The new iPhone 5 is set to ditch micro-SIM cards for the even smaller nano-SIM. And Vodafone has given us a glimpse of the nano-SIM card in a blog post — which it then hastily …
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Samsung believes its Galaxy S3 is on its way to more than 30 million in global sales by year’s end, according to a report from the Yonhap News Agency. Samsung’s IT and mobile unit chief Shin Jong-kyun announced the forecast to reporters today at the company’s offices in Seoul. This tidbit comes on the heels of news that Samsung sold …
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Much has been said about Apple’s new Lightning connector and the US$35 adapter that you’ll need to make your old 30-pin accessories work — including that it’s an “awful” thing. The Lightning to 30-pin adapter (Screenshot by CNET) Ignoring claims of the “Apple tax” regarding the relatively high cost of the adapter, and whether the Lightning technology is really even …
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Android 4.1 may be heading to Samsung’s Galaxy S3 as early as next month. Samsung has confirmed the Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy S3 as soon as October, according to a story from CNET UK. The company reportedly told CNET UK directly that “the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) operating system will be available on the Galaxy S3 from October.” …
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The iPhone 5 goes on sale next Friday, with pre-orders starting in just two days time. Apple took the stage at its annual phone-a-thon conference to lift the lid on its latest blower, which features a 4-inch display, a new processor and a thinner, lighter design. If you’re wondering when you can get your mitts on one, wonder no more! …
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On a busy day for Apple products, Bose decided to quietly announce the next generation of its portable wireless speakers, the SoundLink Bluetooth Mobile Speaker II, and the SoundLink Air system, its first-ever Apple Airplay-enabled product. The original SoundLink Wireless Mobile came out last year and received an Editors’ Choice Award from CNET. Bose says the new Mobile Speaker II, …
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Thunderbolt and Lightning, very, very frightening… the new, smaller iPhone 5 dock connection is set to be called Lightning. Oh, and expected new earphones are set to be named Earpods. The new smaller dock connector is a cut-down version of the dock socket that connects your phone to your computer, charger, or iPod dock. Leaked reports suggest the new dock will …
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Microsoft may be struggling to get Windows Phone 8 finished, as reports suggest that the upcoming software has slipped significantly behind schedule. The Verge cites ‘multiple sources’ who reckon Microsoft’s original plan was to get Windows Phone 8 finished in early October ahead of Windows 8’s release on the 26th, but that thanks to delays and software bugs, we may …
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The iPhone 5 will be 4G here in Britain — to be precise, Apple has confirmed that the LTE iPhone 5 will work on the 4G network run by EE. EE — the network formed from the merger of Orange and T-Mobile, previously known as Everything Everywhere — is to be the first to get a 4G iPhone, as it …
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Evening all. You’ll be here for news of Apple’s new blower, the thoroughly leaked and heavily rumoured iPhone 5. Our colleagues at CNET.com are at the San Francisco launch mob-handed, while our fearless leader, editor Jason Jenkins, is at Apple’s London event. Hopefully the Wi-Fi is better than it was at the last iPad launch. Together with our faithful team …
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Google won’t be able to compete with the attention lavished on Apple for the launch of the sixth-generation iPhone, but it did announce the notable milestone late tonight of half a billion device activations. “Today is a big day for Android… 500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day,” said Hugo Bara, Android’s director of …
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