T-Mobile, more than any other carrier, has faced significant supply issues with the iPhone. Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier to Do It? Best T-Mobile Deals Available Now Best Internet Providers in Chicago That’s likely why its iPhone sales were far short of its competitors, despite posting …
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Put that novel password “12345” aside for a moment. The founders of Knock — an iOS app that launched Tuesday — want to make getting into your computer as easy as rapping your knuckles through the pocket of your jeans. And that’s exactly what their service allows. Using Bluetooth low energy technology to let iPhones communicate with their Mac brethren …
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Apple has signalled that sapphire is the future of the iPhone, signing a $578m deal to open a plant in Arizona with US company GT Advanced Technologies, an expert in artificially producing the harder-than-rock material. Sapphire is currently used in the Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone 5S, a fiddly bit of kit that’s likely to appear in …
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The Nexus 5 has received a good grade for repairability from the folks at iFixit. Spelunking its way through the innards of the new Nexus, iFixit found most of the teardown trip relatively carefree. The panels are stuck together with plastic clips rather than glue, making the removal much easier. Alas, the bottom of the case did sport some adhesive, …
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Remember when you used to let friends and family borrow a DVD? Streamnation would really like you to start doing that again, but with your digital media. What started off as just a way to store, stream, and share your own original photos and videos is now also a way to view and lend your movie and TV show collections …
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BBC TalkTalk has launched a new, smaller YouView box with its latest TV, broadband and phone deal costing £7.50 per month. Both BT and TalkTalk give away online-connected YouView set-top TV boxes with their broadband deals. The new TalkTalk Essentials deal comes with the second generation of YouView box, worth £149 instead of the larger original box’s hefty £300 price …
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The future of BlackBerry could be decided today as the troubled company hurtles towards today’s deadline to find a buyer. Two contenders have emerged as possible saviours of the company. BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, Canadian insurance and investment company Fairfax Financial Holdings, proposes to spend $4.7bn to take control of the rest of the company. And the New York Times reports …
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Samsung will again license key mobile patents from Nokia, the companies announced on Monday. Nokia said that Samsung will license and pay the handset maker for certain patents for a period of five years. The deal kicks off on January 1. Samsung and Nokia’s current relationship expires at the end of this year. Interestingly, Samsung and Nokia weren’t able to …
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AT&T on Monday confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom will be available starting from November 8. Priced at $199 with a two-year service agreement, the camera-centric smartphone features a 16-megapixel shooter at its core. Related stories: Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom review AT&T offers free Samsung tablet to Samsung phone buyers AT&T said to be mulling Vodafone takeover Powered by …
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Over half of all currently active Android devices are running the up-to-date Jelly Bean operating system, according to Google. It isn’t all good news, though, with a quarter of all devices still stuck on the three-year-old Gingerbread platform. Google’s pie chart for different Android device versions. (Credit: Google) The data, collected from any device that visited or accessed the Google …
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