April, 2013

• 5 April

  BlackBerry Q10 costs £580, arrives ‘end of April’

  

  The BlackBerry Q10 costs £580 and is on sale today. The first BlackBerry 10 phone with a Qwerty keyboard is available to order from most of the major networks via Carphone Warehouse, and could be in your hands by the end of the month. Meanwhile, Phones 4U is undercutting Carphone Warehouse by £30, selling the …

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• 5 April

  HTC First with Facebook Home is EE only: Too expensive?

  

  HTC’s new First smart phone — the first mobile to feature the newly unveiled Facebook Home interface — will only be available to UK buyers via EE’s 4G service. Those with O2 or Vodafone, or even EE subsidiaries Orange and T-Mobile will be out of luck if they want to give HTC’s new blower a go. The 4.3-inch First will …

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• 5 April

  HTC One 64G Developer Edition preorders start today

  

  Those of you willing to shell out $649 for an unlocked and tweakable version of the HTC One can preorder the device in the U.S. as of today. A tweet yesterday from HTC confirmed that the Developer Edition would be available for preorder starting at 7 a.m. PT today. Buyers can place their orders directly at the HTC Web site. …

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• 5 April

  BlackBerry R10 with Qwerty set to be cheapest BB10 phone

  

  R you ready for a new BlackBerry? Rumours are pointing to a new smart phone with the latest BlackBerry 10 software and a good old-fashioned BlackBerry Qwerty keyboard, purported to be named the R10. If BlackBerry Empire is to be believed, the R10 is a lower-cost model than the first BlackBerry 10 phones, the Z10 and the Q10. The Z10, …

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• 5 April

  ITC says Samsung text

  

  A U.S. trade agency judge has decided the text-selection feature Samsung has on its mobile devices infringes an Apple patent. If upheld, the ruling could stop Samsung from sending devices to the United States. The International Trade Commission judge also decided that Samsung did not infringe on the Apple patent that covers how a device detects if a microphone or …

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• 5 April

  The game I’m playing all weekend: Vector

  

  Mirror’s Edge. Rush City. Temple Run. Subway Surfers. Agent Dash. Pitfall. If endless runners are your thing, you’ll find no shortage of them in Android and iOS app stores. So when Vector (Android | iOS) came along, I thought, “Meh, big deal, more of the same.” So why can’t I stop playing this game? Because it’s awesome, that’s why. A …

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• 5 April

  Alleged image of BlackBerry QWERTY phone leaks online

  

  BlackBerry watchers may have just gotten a peek at the upcoming BB10 R-Series QWERTY smartphone. A purported image of the R-series phone popped up yesterday in the BlackBerryOS forums. The image doesn’t show much other than the familiar BlackBerry QWERY keyboard and screen. But further details about the new phone may have been revealed by blog site BlackBerry Empire. Related …

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• 5 April

  Confused about Facebook Home? Ask Maggie has answers (FAQ)

  

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook Home for Android yesterday during a press conference in Menlo Park, Calif. James Martin/CNET Facebook wants to take control of your smartphone. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And what the heck is Facebook Home anyway? Facebook, which has been rumored for more than a year to be building a new …

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• 5 April

  Facebook Home friends Android homescreens in hands

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Home hands-on 1:56 In an attempt to dominate your phone and encourage you to live your life even more vicariously through Facebook, the social network has launched ‘Home’, an Android skin which will splatter your homescreen with your friends’ updates. We go hands-on with the new app in the video above. Home works as a …

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• 5 April

  Nokia brings Music app to Windows 8, RT

  

  Nokia today launched its music app for Windows 8 and RT tablets and PCs, extending the Finnish handset maker’s reach in the mobile market. The free music streaming app, Nokia Music, first appeared on Nokia Lumia smartphones, and Nokia in January enhanced the service to include a premium version, dubbed Nokia Music+, for a monthly subscription fee of $3.99. With …

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