First it was banned in America, and then a court overruled the decision, granting it a temporary stay, but the Galaxy Nexus is now back on sale in the US via Google’s Play store. How long it might remain there is anyone’s guess. CNET reports the Galaxy Nexus has hit the shelves again in Google …
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AT&T will start upgrading its Samsung Galaxy Note to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tomorrow, and CNET got an advance look. After a week with the updated phone, I can say that existing owners will be pleased with the boost from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich. The OS won’t look very different; in fact, a glance at the home screen …
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Forget Stephen King; if you like the macabre, you gotta go Poe. iPoe for iOS brings to creepy, illustrated life four of Edgar Allan Poe’s works. As with Alice for iPad and other famous literary works given the app treatment, iPoe transforms the author’s text into lavishly illustrated pages enhanced with music, animation, and interactive touches. The app comes with …
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Now playing: Watch this: Five essential Galaxy S3 tips 3:12 Stocked with Ice Cream Sandwich and a truckload of Samsung-specific features, the Samsung Galaxy S III (S3) does not fall short in offering ways for you to customize and tweak the interface. With all those options, where do you start? Break the ice with the following five features that make …
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T-Mobile’s Android lineup includes another Galaxy series handset in the coming weeks, according to details uncovered by TmoNews. Called the Galaxy S Blaze Q, the smartphone should join the carrier’s roster on August 15. Unconfirmed details for the SGH-T699 handset suggest a midrange Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich experience with a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, a 720pHD display, 1GB RAM, …
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The Nokia 808 PureView‘s fame comes down to its camera, which can capture up to 41 megapixels of digital information and output incredibly detailed images at 5, 8, and yes, even 41 megapixels if that’s what you really want. The secret to the camera’s performance is the extra-large sensor, which is physically much larger than usual 5-megapixel and 8-megapixel sensors …
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Forget pretty in pink. How about fiery magenta for the color of your next Nokia phone? AT&T announced today that it will release a version of the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows phone in a bright “pink” shade, starting July 15. The magenta Lumia 900 joins the black, cyan, and white versions of the phone. Customers will be able to buy …
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Nokia is cooking up a PureView-powered Lumia phone, having confirmed in an interview that the high-powered camera tech is coming to the Windows Phone-powered range in the near future. Speaking to Neowin, Nokia’s VP of worldwide developer relations Richard Kerris said the PureView camera technology would be coming to the Lumia line “very soon”. That’s excellent news, as Nokia’s PureView …
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AT&T has expanded its 4G LTE wireless service to six more markets, the company said in a note to reporters. The company now offers the service in 47 markets around the U.S. CNET/Marguerite Reardon On Monday, AT&T announced it has added 4G LTE service in Buffalo, N.Y.; Burlington, Vt.; Corpus Christi, Tex.; Gainesville, Ga.; Greensboro-Winston Salem, N.C. and Wichita, Kan. …
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In a sweet treat for modders and developers, Google has released the source code for Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean. The source code for the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system was released today as part of the Android Open Source Project, Jean-Baptiste M. “JBQ” Queru, lead engineer on the project, said in a company blog post. “We recommend …
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Samsung says that its Galaxy S3 has been exonerated following an earlier report of it burning up. According to the company, it hired a third-party organization, Fire Investigations U.K., to inspect the damaged device. That investigation found that the trouble occurred in June after an “energy source” was used to heat the device and cause the damage. “The only way …
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The biggest cinema in the land has a new screen. The BFI has given us a revealing glimpse behind the scenes as 800kg of perforated vinyl measuring 26m wide and 20m high replaces the old screen, bringing The Amazing Spider-Man swinging into action this week. Check out the fascinating photos of the new screen’s arrival below. The new screen was …
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Research In Motion finally has some good numbers to offset its recent wave of bad ones. The handset maker announced Friday that its BlackBerry App World had reached the 3 billion download mark — a billion of those in just the last six months. To reach that number, customers were downloading app at the rate of about 2.5 million per …
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Wireless carriers say they received 1.3 million requests last year from law enforcement agencies for subscriber text messages, caller locations, and other information, reflecting a steady increase during the past five years. Carriers’ responses to a congressional inquiry, as reported by the New York Times, reveal that thousands of records were turned over on a daily basis in response to …
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The Samsung Galaxy S III that reportedly “exploded” in a car charger, according to its owner, had actually been placed in a microwave. One of the photos posted to the Boards.ie forums after the original post about the damage. (Credit: Boards.ie) Following the report of damage on an Irish bulletin board (Google cached) by forum member “dillo2k10”, Samsung retrieved the …
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