Sony apparently has an eye on Microsoft’s Windows Phone, at least according to comments made by its mobile chief in Europe. Speaking with blog site TechRadar, Pierre Perron, head of Sony Mobile Europe, said the company doesn’t want to rely on just one single mobile OS. Sony currently sells a line of Android phones. Pointing …
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10 January
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo photo leaks online
Samsung’s alleged Galaxy Note 3 Neo or Note 3 Lite may have gotten its first public exposure courtesy of a leaked photo. Tweeted by Sammobile on Friday, the image reportedly displays the Note 3 Neo side by side with the regular Note 3. The two phones look alike except the Neo is slightly smaller. Beyond the model number, SM-N750/5, Sammobile’s …
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10 January
Are curved TVs a gimmick?
LAS VEGAS — Samsung is usually ahead of the curve. The company enjoys a comfortable domination of worldwide TV market share and profitability, powered by its trendsetting designs and futuristic technologies. It popularized the first really thin LED LCDs, pushed TV app stores before anyone else, brought hairline bezels into the mainstream, and was first with voice and gesture control …
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10 January
Game of Thrones season 4 to be unsheathed on 6 April
Spring is coming. And with it a new season of HBO’s wintry celebration of incest and backstabbing that is Game of Thrones. The highbrow US TV maker says the fourth series of the fantasy gorefest will start on 6 April in the US. Sky will be airing the episode in the UK on 7 April at 9pm. That’s a week …
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9 January
Motorola Moto G with KitKat update coming to Vodafone
The wallet-friendly Motorola Moto G is coming to Vodafone with the hotly-anticipated Android 4.4.2 KitKat update on board — but can any contract compete with the Moto G’s £130 price? Vodafone told CNET today that the cheap-as-chips phone will boast cutting-edge KitKat when it goes on sale, but hasn’t given a release date. Unlocked Moto G phones are due to …
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9 January
Samsung Galaxy S5 may arrive as early as March
Samsung has said it may look to iris-scanning technology for biometric security in its upcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone. Galaxy devices on display at CES 2014. (Credit: CBSi) The comments were made to Bloomberg by executive vice president of marketing for mobile Young-hee Lee during an interview at CES 2014. “Many people are fanatical about iris recognition technology… We are studying …
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9 January
UberX cuts fares by more than 15 percent in top US cities
Uber has slashed its UberX prices again, making it the cheapest transportation option in the US, the company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, boasted in a blog post Thursday. Ride fares are down between 15 percent and 34 percent in 6 of the 24 cities that have the UberX service. Uber’s app lets users order a variety of car services — including …
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9 January
Motorola offers free Chromecast with off
Motorola has sweetened the deal a bit more for buyers of its Moto X. After reducing the Moto X’s off-contract price last week, the Google-owned handset maker announced Thursday that it would throw in a free Chromecast wireless video-streaming dongle with purchases of the off-contract handset. The deal, which runs through January 14, can be claimed on the $399 16GB …
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9 January
At CES 2014, next
Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In Live: Phones that mattered at CES 2014 21:55 LAS VEGAS — CES was a weird one for smartphones this year. There were plenty of them, sure, but none of the big manufacturers and flashy hardware designs that have defined previous shows. Instead, we saw a lot of hardware and software technology that surrounds smartphone …
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9 January
Tesco Hudl is a British Christmas hit, now up to 400,000 sold
Tesco’s Hudl tablet was unquestionably the Brit hit of the Christmas season, with another 100,000 of the family-friendly devices flogged in the last month. That takes the oddly spelled own-brand Android device up to 400,000 sold since its launch in September, the company announced. It’s a much bigger success than the supermarket was expecting, with the tablet out of stock …
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