June, 2013

• 3 June

  iPhone 5S to come in gold, leaked component pics hint

  

  Apple may be plotting a golden-hued addition to its gadget family, if fresh pics purporting to show the next iPhone’s innards are to be believed. The snap above, spied by French site nowhereelse.fr, appears to have come out of Chinese site iColorOS, and seem to compare components from the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and the …

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• 3 June

  Apple sells 100 million iPod touches

  

  Apple has sold 100 million of its iPod touch MP3 player since launching the device six years ago, Mashable reports. But it’s not all beer and skittles over at Apple HQ. iPod sales were down in the last quarter, from 12.7 million to 5.6 million, Apple announced in its last results. Let’s see if the new model of iPod touch …

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• 3 June

  US newspaper replaces photographers with iPhones

  

  Times are tough in the newspaper world, and one US rag is turning to tech to cut costs. The Chicago Sun-Times has sacked all 28 of its photographers, and will instead train all editorial employees (i.e. reporters) how to take pictures with their iPhones. The changes were detailed in an internal memo from managing editor Craig Newman, which media columnist Robert …

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• 3 June

  Foxconn taking Firefox OS to tablets, not just phones

  

  Foxconn and Mozilla announced a partnership Monday under which the Chinese electronics manufacturer will build not just Firefox phones, as others have announced, but tablets, too. The rumored partnership was confirmed as Mozilla and Foxconn announced their tie-up at the Computex show in Taiwan. By including software in its devices, Foxconn gets to sell a more complete and therefore potentially …

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• 3 June

  Verizon bringing HTC One into the fold

  

  Looks like speculation of the HTC One hitting Verizon this summer is true. The carrier just confirmed that it will bring the superphone into its lineup in a couple months. Rather than issuing a formal press release, Verizon spilled the beans via its official Twitter account and cryptically stated that the phone “will be available on the Verizon Wireless 4G …

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• 3 June

  Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 gets new 8

  

  Samsung has released the details for an 8-inch and a 10.1-inch tablet joining the popular Galaxy Tab series, along with the 7-inch model currently available. In an announcement Monday, the South Korean firm unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 models in the new sizes. The 8-inch Galaxy Tab 3 is possibly a response to the popular iPad Mini and Google …

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• 3 June

  Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8

  

  Samsung has revealed its latest tablets in the Galaxy Tab lineup: the dual-core Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch and Tab 3 10.1-inch slates, with Jelly Bean and the latest features from the Samsung Galaxy S4. The Tab 3 series is a pair of new slates with dual-core processors and high definition screens, both packing the latest version of Android, 4.2.2 …

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• 3 June

  Possible HTC M4 leaks, with Nokia Lumia 1030 and Sony Togari

  

  This is an interesting one — or should that be three? A trio of potential leaks have popped up on the Internet. On the right we have what is allegedly the HTC M4 — a shrunken version of the HTC One, that we’ve heard about before. That blue phone behind it? That claims to be the Nokia Lumia 1030. And …

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• 3 June

  Dell to challenge Lenovo’s Yoga with 11

  

  Dell plans to offer consumers its own flavor of an 11.6-inch convertible laptop with Windows 8 by year’s end. Due out in time for the 2013 holiday season, the Dell XPS 11 ultrabook will sport a hinged keyboard that allows it to transform into a Windows 8 tablet, The Wall Street Journal reported today. Demoed at the Computex computer show …

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• 3 June

  Latest iPod Touch rates poorly on repairability, iFixit says

  

  iFixit’s latest teardown takes a look at Apple’s new iPod Touch and finds that despite internal changes, the device received the same repairability score as its higher-capacity counterparts. Apple quietly introduced its latest iPod Touch last week. The fifth-generation, 16GB iPod Touch features the same 4-inch Retina Display and dual-core A5 processor as the 32GB and 64GB versions but loses …

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