Google slashed the Nexus 4’s price by a whopping £80 last week — it wasn’t exactly expensive to begin with — and now it’s clear why. It’s a clearance sale. When it’s sold out of Google Play, it’s gone for good, a Google spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. So better get yours in now, if …
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3 September
Apple issues invite for 10 Sept event
“This should brighten everyone’s day.” (Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET) Those are the words gracing the invite Apple has sent out to the media. The event is scheduled for 10 September, and will take place at Apple HQ in Cupertino, California. It’s expected that Apple will reveal two new iPhones: the top-end iPhone 5S and the lower-end iPhone 5C. The 5C …
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3 September
KitKat 4.4 ad pokes fun at Apple designer Jony Ive
Google announced Tuesday that its upcoming 4.4 version of Android will be called KitKat. In a flurry of PR around the announcement,Google’s new partner — Kit Kat candy bar maker Nestle — released an advertisement on YouTube that parodies the look and feel of Apple’s product design videos featuring SVP of design Jonathan Ive. Kit Kat’s “chief breaks officer” Chris …
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3 September
Microsoft can kiss other Windows Phone vendors goodbye
If companies like Samsung and HTC were hesitant to build Windows Phones before, they’re likely now reconsidering it altogether. Microsoft on Tuesday revealed plans to buy Nokia’s device and services division for $7.2 billion. The company views the deal as its way to gain more traction in a smartphone market currently dominated by Apple and Samsung. It’s also a way …
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3 September
Google Nexus 7 launches in Australia
Google’s second-generation Nexus 7 tablet has launched in Australia, with two models available in local stores. (Credit: Google) The second-generation Nexus 7 is available in Australian stores from Thursday morning, hitting JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, Dick Smith and other retailers in a 16GB version for AU$299 and a 32GB version for AU$339, Google has announced. Apart from the storage difference, …
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3 September
Android 4.4 KitKat: What’s the point of co
Sorry fanboys and girls, you’re not getting Key Lime Pie after all. In a surprise twist, Google announced that the next version of Google’s operating system will be named KitKat in honor of the Hershey’s (or Nestle) chocolate bar, instead of Key Lime Pie, which previous code numbers and images had led us to believe. If a software company co-branding …
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3 September
4 things Microsoft’s Surface 2 can learn from Nokia
With Microsoft soon to be — barring any regulatory rejections — in control of Nokia’s smartphone business, the software giant has an opportunity to apply Nokia’s wealth of experience to its own mobile hardware endeavors. In particular, the next version of its Surface RT tablet, rumored to be called Surface 2. Microsoft has three generations of experience making hardware with …
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3 September
Nokia Lumia 1520 Bandit screenshot leaks, so many tiles
Nokia may have just been absorbed into Steve Ballmer’s belly, but its devices will continue under the Nokia name. Here’s another leak of the biggest one on the horizon, the Lumia 1520 Bandit, aka Nokia’s first 6-inch Windows Phone 8 device. Chronic leaker @evleaks has got its mitts on the screenshot. That 6-inch display will have plenty of space for …
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3 September
Nokia’s business in 2014: Patents, mapping, network gear
Under Nokia’s plan to sell its mobile-phone business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion, the company will lose its biggest tie with consumers. So what would the new Nokia look like? Very different. It’ll have three businesses, and only the smallest, the Nokia Here mapping service, will be something the average person might see when using a smartphone app or in-dash …
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3 September
Amazon offically announces all
Amazon has officially announced its second-generation Paperwhite after the company mistakenly released details earlier today. Eagle-eyed spotters over at a Croatia-based forum noticed that Amazon had posted an image to its site on Tuesday promoting a new Kindle Paperwhite. That image included a picture of the device, along with a laundry list of improvements customers can expect when the device …
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