Nielsen One out of every two mobile subscribers owns a smartphone of some kind, and those smartphone owners average 41 apps per device, according to the latest report from Nielsen. If those numbers sound staggering to you, consider where the mobile phone customer landscape was just one year ago. Nielsen reports that back then, just …
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Acer today launched the Iconia 510 tablet in the Australian market, asking AU$549 for the 32GB stock keeping unit. The new, quad-core Iconia 510. (Credit: Acer) The latest in Acer’s range of Android-based offerings, the 10.1-inch Iconia 510, sports a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 1GB of RAM and, at 689 grams, it is 10 per cent lighter than last …
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Will the next iPhone actually sport a larger screen? A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests it will. Citing “people familiar with the situation,” the Journal said today that Apple has been tapping into its suppliers for screens larger than the ones used in the current iPhone. The new screens are at least 4 inches, compared with the …
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The cost of Verizon’s Fios and wireless service are expected to go up during the next several months, as the company hikes prices and introduce new plans that demand customers pay more for the data they consume. Speaking at the JP Morgan investor conference Tuesday, Fran Shammo, Verizon Communications’ CFO, said the company is planning to increase fees and prices …
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Less than one day after HTC announced its Desire C for U.K. consumers, yet another “quietly brilliant” smartphone has landed on our radar. BriefMobile obtained details of a handset with the code name of Ville C, which appears to be a cheaper, albeit lower-powered HTC One S. Hardware details are nearly identical to the One S and include a 4.3 …
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Apple’s next iPhone will sport a bigger screen than the iPhone 4S, reports from the Wall Street Journal suggest. ‘People familiar with the matter’ speaking to the Journal reckon that the Cupertino company has ordered a bunch of displays that measure at least four inches on the diagonal. That would give the much-rumoured iPhone 5 a beefier screen than any …
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For T-Mobile, restructuring isn’t just code for layoffs. The carrier, in the middle of a massive overhaul of the business, said it would eliminate 900 jobs, as CNET previously reported, but hire 550 new positions. The new jobs will support its new business and strategic opportunities. Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier …
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HTC is going to town on Android as more details emerge of the HTC Ville, now known as the Ville C. Specs of the rumoured Android phone appear to have been leaked, and it will also apparently sport a new version of Sense. Brief Mobile is showing off a spec sheet for the Ville C, which reveals the phone to …
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Much as I have mad love for Evernote, I’ve always found its apps to be a little, well, challenged in the usability department. Not much to look at, either. With the newly released Evernote 4.0 for Android, all that changes. And as an iPhone user, I’ve rarely been more jealous. The update brings a completely new look to the smartphone …
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Verizon’s latest line-up of 4G LTE smartphones is impressive, but there’s one feature these cutting edge smartphones lack: global roaming. For years, Verizon Wireless customers were unable to use their cell phones while traveling in many parts of the world, because Verizon’s technology was incompatible with most of the world’s wireless carriers. Then the company started offering a handful of …
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You may have the newest, shiniest television on your street, but it will be all for nought, if you can’t receive free-to-air digital TV. If your home is wired up to Foxtel or Austar, don’t think that this guide doesn’t apply to you. Depending on where you live, and how you receive pay TV (cable or satellite), free-to-air channels may …
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Now playing: Watch this: Never miss a Facebook birthday 2:49 Do you forget your Facebook friends’ birthdays because you don’t log in to Facebook enough or because you keep forgetting to take your ginkgo biloba? Consider using Google Calendar alerts and stop writing belated birthday wishes on your friends’ Facebook walls. Editors’ note: This post was updated May 14, 2012. …
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The LG Optimus 4X HD will soon be arriving in UK stores, bringing with it a 4.7-inch screen, quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and a bunch of software extras. We first saw the 4X back in February for Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress but since then it seems to have disappeared off the radar. It’s reared its face again today though …
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An early release of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has had its battery put to the test and the results aren’t at all bad, putting to bed our fears about the power-sapping quad-core chip. For now, at least. The folks over at GSM Arena have got their hands on the new superphone and have given its battery the once-over. It managed …
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The wireless carriers’ mobile-payments joint venture, after a slow start, is picking up some steam. Isis, a partnership between AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile, has lined up 50 merchant partners, including heavy hitters like Coca-Cola, Macy’s, and Foot Locker, as it gets closer to rolling out its service in trials in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The merchants …
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