A deal to buy BlackBerry has fallen through, leading the ailing company to fire its boss and recruit a new man at the top. Canadian paper the Globe and Mail reports that BlackBerry will plough on after failing to find a buyer, booting boss Thorsten Heins and raising $1bn to keep the company going. BlackBerry’s …
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4 November
Samsung’s new W2014 Snapdragon 800 flip phone costs £1,000
Flipping heck, that’s expensive. Samsung has been going all 2004 on us lately, launching a range of flip phones overseas. And now it’s announced the king of them all, the Samsung W2014. It’s the most powerful yet, and features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, as seen in the Nexus 5, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and pretty much any phone that’s any …
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4 November
New Surface Pro 2 firmware brings battery boost
Despite only going on sale in Australia late last month, the Surface Pro 2 has already received a firmware update that vastly improves its battery life. (Credit: Microsoft) The update was designed to reduce the amount of power drawn by the Wi-Fi modem, and it seems to have succeeded admirably. Tests by AnandTech saw the tablet last for over eight …
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4 November
KitKat ROMs come to Galaxy Nexus, install at your own risk
Android KitKat isn’t coming to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Google announced this week. But that hasn’t stopped some enterprising developers. A couple of KitKat ROMs for the Galaxy Nexus have popped up over at XDA Developers. They’re 100 per cent unofficial of course, so as ever with these things, you install at your own risk. The first is called A …
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4 November
As BlackBerry looks for fresh start, its fate still looks grim
It keeps getting more and more grim for BlackBerry. The embattled smartphone manufacturer on Monday disclosed that the deal to take the company private was dead, and that it would instead seek $1 billion in convertible debt financing. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, meanwhile, will step down, to be replaced on an interim basis by former Sybase CEO John Chen. Related …
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4 November
Samsung Galaxy S3 is Gear
The latest Android 4.4 KitKat update is here — and the much-loved Samsung Galaxy S3 is finally updating to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The S3 has been left behind by Android updates — it’s been stuck on Android 4.1 — but now skips over 4.2 to 4.3. It joins the rarefied ranks of Android devices boasting features such as souped-up …
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4 November
US network AT&T could take over Vodafone, report claims
Vodafone could soon be owned by US network AT&T. Bloomberg reports that AT&T’s execs are laying the groundwork for a potential takeover next year. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the two companies haven’t yet started negotiations, but that AT&T is “intensifying work” on which of Voda’s assets it could snaffle in a deal, and who would buy …
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4 November
iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test
The iPad Air is getting plenty of rave reviews, but Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX just took it in a display shootout. When DisplayMate Technologies tested the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, the iPad Air, and Google’s Nexus 10, the Fire 8.9 “leapfrogged into the best-performing tablet display that we have ever tested,” according to the results posted Monday. The Kindle Fire …
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4 November
iPad Air torn open reveals smaller battery, same battery life
The iPad Air is slimmer than a supermodel with food poisoning, which means Apple has to fit an awful lot of technology into not an awful lot of space. Let’s take a look inside to find out more about the new chip, smaller battery and other technology in the slimline tablet. The intrepid gadget-probers at iFixit cracked the back of …
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4 November
Google’s Motorola teases Moto G event on November 13
Motorola’s next big smartphone is right around the corner. The company, a unit of Google, sent out save-the-date invitations for the launch of its Moto G smartphone on November 13. Related stories Best Phones Under $500 for 2022: Pixel 6A, iPhone SE, Galaxy A53 and More Motorola’s Back-to-School Sale Knocks Up to $600 Off Its Popular Smartphones Samsung’s Galaxy Z …
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