Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has certainly made clear his feelings about the iPhone. In an interview on Finnish TV this week, Elop is repeatedly asked about the Lumia 928, which will reportedly pop up next month via Verizon. Despite the interviewer’s persistence, the jovial Nokia chief keeps dodging questions about the 928, claiming he doesn’t …
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22 March
Hulk
Here’s the smartphone of your short-term future: it has a 5-inch, 1080p HD screen, an 8-core application processor, and a 13-megapixel camera that does crazy things like simultaneously record through both front and rear lenses. You can use it to change your TV channel, tap it to play songs on your car, and control it without ever touching the screen. …
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22 March
How long will Panasonic keep making plasma TVs?
Panasonic confirmed this week that it’s in discussions over whether it will jettison its plasma TV business. For me, it’s deja vu as yet another Japanese manufacturer struggles to sell high-quality televisions. In 2008, the Pioneer Elite Kuro PRO-111FD became one of the greatest TVs ever developed — and it is still among CNET’s reference TVs after five years. But …
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21 March
Nokia Lumia 720 on sale 8 April, Amazon reveals
Nokia’s latest mid-range Windows Phone 8 phone, the Lumia 720, will be on sale in the UK from 8 April for £383. That’s according to online retailer Amazon, which has let the cat out of the bag early by slapping the release date on its product page. Nokia has yet to make any kind of official statement about when the …
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21 March
Galaxy S4 to be 8
Phone shoppers in the States will be jilted out of an eight-core-powered Samsung Galaxy S4, if fresh rumours concerning the new mobile are to be believed. The version of the phone headed to the US will rely on a quad-core Qualcomm processor, while other markets will receive a smart phone powered by Samsung’s “octacore” chip, Bloomberg reports, citing “two people …
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21 March
New Verizon app untethers text messages from your cell phone
Verizon’s new integrated messaging allows access to text and mulitmedia messages over a variety of devices. Verizon If you’re tired of having to tap out texts on your tiny cell phone screen or keyboard when your nearby laptop offers the ease of a full-size QWERTY keyboard, Verizon Wireless has a new app that may be just your type. Version 4.0 …
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21 March
AT&T muscles up San Francisco LTE with new cell sites
Now playing: Watch this: 4G networks: How they’re tested 1:53 AT&T has announced today that it’s added support for new cell sites in downtown San Francisco, a city notorious for its infamously stringent network-building rules. Coverage in San Francisco has been a thorn in AT&T’s side since the carrier’s exclusive iPhone launch back in 2007, when the carrier received sharp …
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21 March
BlackBerry’s U.S. launch: Turning point or last gasp?
OK, BlackBerry, it’s go time. After several delays, broken promises, and doomsday prognostications, BlackBerry’s next-generation smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10, hits U.S. stores tomorrow. For a company still eyeing a comeback in the brutally competitive smartphone business, the U.S. launch of the device represents a particularly critical turning point. Despite the BlackBerry falling from grace here, the U.S. is still the …
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21 March
Visa chief: Fee on digital wallets seems ‘appropriate’
Digital wallet operators, like Google, PayPal, and others, should be charged a fee for offering such a service, according to Visa CEO Charlie Scharf. Speaking at the Barclays Emerging Payments Forum yesterday, Scharf said “it is totally appropriate” for credit card companies to charge digital wallet operators a fee on all transactions, according to Reuters, which was in attendance. Scharf’s …
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21 March
The Galaxy S4 gets more screen time
Last week at this time, the Galaxy S4 had just made its debut at Samsung’s wacky unveiling in New York. We’ve explored the new flagship smartphone in almost every detail, but our friends Luke Westaway and Andrew Hoyle at CNET UK channeled their creative sides with these awesome videos that take a closer look at the Galaxy S4 while building …
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