June, 2014

• 19 June

  Why the time for an iWatch is finally almost here

  

  An artist’s rendering of what an iWatch could look like. Sarah Tew and Christopher MacManus/CNET Perhaps it’s no coincidence that 2014 is the year of the Horse on the Chinese zodiac and Apple finally appears ready to start producing one of its long-awaited unicorn-like products in locales including China. Yes, we’ve been hearing about the …

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• 19 June

  Bezos says Amazon not late to ‘premium’ smartphone game

  

  Amazon shows off the Fire at the gadget’s unveiling. James Martin/CNET Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t think his company’s Fire Phone is a late entry into the smartphone business, despite the myriad devices already available. In fact, he thinks the e-commerce company is early. “I think in the whole evolution of this, we’re still pretty early. I don’t want to …

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• 19 June

  Panasonic launches 4K TV range for 2014

  

  Panasonic’s AX800 4K TV showing the My Stream predictive content feature. Nic Healey/CNET Panasonic may have said goodbye to plasma, but according to the company it’s definitely committed to 4K Ultra HD for 2014 and beyond. In fact, it’s expanding its 4K TVs into two series — the AX800 and AX900 — although that’s only four separate units. There are …

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• 19 June

  Lego jumps from physical to virtual world, and back again

  

  Lego Fusion lets kids play in both the physical and virtual worlds. Lego Legos have always been firmly in one world or another — physical, as in iconic plastic bricks, or virtual, as in video games or more recently, the ” Lego Movie.” But for the first time, the toy giant is straddling both, giving kids a way to mix …

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• 18 June

  Get kitted out in free custom Adidas trainers with the HTC One M8

  

  Adidas If the World Cup has you hankering after a kickabout in the park with jumpers for goalposts, but your trainers are too embarrassing to be seen in, you can get a free pair of personalised Adidas kicks with the flagship HTC One M8 or the HTC One Mini 2 from Phones 4U. From today, when you buy either phone, …

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• 18 June

  Amazon Appstore heads to BlackBerry 10 phones

  

  BlackBerry Z10 Josh Miller/CNET BlackBerry and Amazon have formed a strategic partnership that will see the Seattle e-commerce giant’s app marketplace make its way to BlackBerry devices. When the BlackBerry 10.3 mobile operating system launches this fall, users will have access to the Amazon Appstore, BlackBerry announced Wednesday. The move is meant to make BlackBerry devices more appealing to consumers …

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• 18 June

  AT&T: Amazon Fire Phone will get ‘classic hero treatment’

  

  AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega on stage at the Fire Phone launch. James Martin/CNET Amazon’s Fire Phone will enjoy the full marketing muscle of partner AT&T. That’s according to Jeff Bradley, head of AT&T’s devices business, who said the Fire Phone would be the carrier’s flagship smartphone for the summer. “We’ll give it the classic full hero treatment,” …

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• 18 June

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  Now playing: Watch this: Try out an iPhone 5S for free with T-Mobile Test Drive 2:04 SEATTLE–T-Mobile is daring consumers to give its wireless service a whirl. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier by subscriber on Wednesday unveiled a new program, dubbed “Test Drive,” that would give people a week to test out its service for free. It is working with …

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• 18 June

  ​Vodafone, Optus hit by network outages

  

  Vodafone’s message to customers about the network outage. Vodafone Two of Australia’s biggest telcos have been hit with a network outage, leaving many customers without access to calls or data. Vodafone first acknowledged an outage for West Australian customers via social media this afternoon, informing them of the “service disruption” and adding that engineers were working to restore the network …

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• 18 June

  Amazon Fire Phone’s Dynamic Perspective offers a new angle on smartphone displays

  

  Peer around pictures with Dynamic Perspective With the Fire Phone, Amazon is introducing a new way to get around your smartphone’s interface, with 3D effects. Wait no, come back! This isn’t the pop-out-of-the-screen 3D we’ve seen attempted to ill effect so often in the past, as Amazon is betting it can outdo those old attempts with something the company is …

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