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July, 2013

  • 4 July

    White Nexus 4 sold out on Google Play

    Bad news if you were planning on snapping up the Nexus 4 in white today, as Google’s pale, popular product has completely sold out. Head on over to Google Play and you’ll find the cupboard bare, with eager phone fans having sucked up Google’s entire reserve of the white, quad-core mobile. Both the 8GB and …

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  • 4 July

    Jay

    Jay-Z’s new album Magna Carta Holy Grail drops today for a million lucky Samsung fans. With its patriotic debut coming on July 4, there are 1 million owners of a Samsung Galaxy S4, S3 or Note 2 who will get to sup from Magna Carta Holy Grail today, three days before it’s released to the rest of the world. To …

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  • 4 July

    Confirmed: Nokia Lumia 1020 ‘EOS’ will come to the UK

    The Nokia Lumia 1020 will be bringing its 41-megapixel PureView camera technology to the UK, a telecoms industry insider has confirmed to me. My source wasn’t able to give exact details on when it will be on sale here in Britain, or how much it’ll cost. It’s being officially unveiled at an event in New York on 11 July, however, …

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  • 4 July

    Samsung expects record Q2 profit to miss analyst projections

    Samsung expects to post another record operating profit for the second quarter but will miss analyst expectations amid concerns that sales of its Galaxy S4 fell short of analyst’s sales expectations. The South Korean electronics giant said Thursday its operating profit will come in around 9.5 trillion won ($8.3 billion) for the three-month period ended June 30. While a 47 …

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  • 4 July

    HTC One Mini and Max leak, with Nokia ‘Eros’ and ‘Mars’

    The rumoured smaller version of the HTC One is bringing along a bigger buddy. A new leak once again hints at both an HTC One Mini and an HTC One Max — not to mention two mystery Nokia phones. O2 Germany hints at the four phones in a listing of future devices, alongside phones we’ve already seen in the UK, …

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  • 4 July

    Nokia Lumia 1020 ‘EOS’ headed to AT&T, leaked pic hints

    Nokia’s long-rumored Lumia 1020 smart phone, which is tipped to sport a whopping 41-megapixel camera, has been spied in a freshly leaked picture. The image of the elusive mobile — previously referred to using its purported “EOS” codename — was posted to Twitter by serial leakster evleaks, along with the text, “Nokia Lumia 1020 for AT&T, 2013.” The image certainly …

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  • 4 July

    Nokia Lumia 1020 comes into focus in leaked picture

    With a week to go before the Nokia Lumia 1020 comes into focus, a new leaked picture shows what the 41-megapixel camera phone will look like on US network AT&T. Nokia’s hotly rumoured super-camera phone appears in what looks like an official snap, the leak once again coming courtesy of well-connected Twitter-based rumourmonger evleaks. Sadly, it only shows the front of …

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  • 4 July

    Apple plotting iPhone sales overhaul, report says

    Apple is said to be plotting new incentives and schemes to persuade shoppers to buy the iPhone in-store. Head honcho Tim Cook imparted some of the new measures — which could include more price-matching and trade-in options — at a chinwag with Apple’s retail chiefs, 9to5Mac reports, citing “multiple people familiar with the internal event.” The move apparently comes in …

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  • 4 July

    YouView is one year old today

    Happy birthday YouView! The Internet-tastic TV box is one year old today. A year after its birth, YouView is now in 400,000 homes, largely thanks to being given away by broadband providers BT and TalkTalk. Since launching on 4 July 2012, YouView has updated the set-top box five times and launched apps for Apple and Android phones and tablets. We …

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  • 3 July

    Can a build

    Don’t look now, but we’re finally going to see what Motorola does in the post-acquisition era. Nearly two years since Google signaled its intent to buy Motorola Mobility, we find ourselves on the virtual eve of a major announcement. Ever since Google acquired Motorola, the mobile company has slowly faded into obscurity, releasing few phones and generating less excitement than …

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