Sprint announced 4G LTE coverage today in six new areas, bringing the total to 49 markets. Effective immediately, subscribers in parts of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and California will find the faster data speeds awaiting them. Related stories: AT&T 4G LTE network reaches 125 markets Verizon plans to complete 4G LTE roll out by mid-2013 Sprint: 4G …
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December, 2012
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18 December
Samsung Galaxy Grand is a 5
Samsung has lifted the lid on a new 5-inch smart phone — hooray! But despite boasting a palm-filling display, this phone has middle-of-the-road hardware that is unlikely to set your pulse racing. Boo! The impossible-to-not-say-in-a-Northern-accent Galaxy Grand is a slender 9.6mm thick, has an 8-megapixel camera and looks almost identical to the flagship Samsung Galaxy S3. Good stuff, but the …
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18 December
Nokia CEO: We have to move with more urgency (Q&A)
Nokia has undergone a significant cultural and identity shift under the leadership of CEO Stephen Elop. Elop didn’t wait too long after he joined the company in September 2010 as CEO to make a splash. Five months into his tenure, he decided to drop the company’s home-grown next-generation platform for Windows Phone, which just so happens to be created by …
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18 December
Shoot and share videos with YouTube Capture for iOS
Google just made it easier to capture and upload videos to YouTube from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Its new YouTube Capture app lets you share a video with as little as two taps (including the tap to launch the app). Here’s how it works. When you first launch the app, it’ll ask you to sign into your Google account. …
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18 December
Tablet owners weigh in with their biggest beefs
Planning to buy a 7-inch tablet? A new report from the folks at FixYa reveals some of the top issues with today’s crop of small-size tablets. Apple’s iPad Mini New to the 7-inch tablet arena, the iPad Mini didn’t trigger much in the way of specific problems reported by its users. Rather, people were more unhappy about what the device …
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18 December
Nexus 4 and Raspberry Pi star in CNET UK’s Products of the Year
It’s a been a whirlwind year of tech launches, with phones and tablets taking centre stage. Our colleagues over at CNET.com went the whole hog and wrote up their 100 top stories of 2012, but as the year draws to a close I wanted the CNET UK team to take a moment to reflect on their personal highlights of the …
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18 December
Sony Yuga is like every 2013 phone, with 5
The Sony Yuga seemed like a huge leap forward when we first got wind of it, just a few weeks ago. A 5-inch 1080p screen? Fantastic. But now it seems like more of the same. Russian site Mobile Review has given the Yuga — which will almost certainly be called something different when it’s properly announced — a thorough hands-on. …
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18 December
One
China is now the world’s largest Android market, market researcher Informa said today. Informa estimates that about 786 million smartphones will be sold worldwide by the end of the year, up 45 percent compared with 2011. Total Android-based smartphone sales this year will hit 461 million units. One-third of all of the Android devices sold in 2012 were sold in …
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18 December
Nokia’s defunct MeeGo finds new life as Sailfish
HELSINKI, Finland — Local startup Jolla believes what few others do: that even with four major smartphone operating systems vying for supremacy — or just relevancy — there is still room for one more at the party. Jolla hopes to resurrect MeeGo, which was once considered Nokia’s savior and next-generation platform before it was dumped for Windows Phone. The company, …
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18 December
Nexus 4 16GB sold out again, Google ‘working’ on stock woes
It’s another rum do for those hoping to buy Google’s new Nexus 4 smart phone, as the 16GB model is now listed as sold out — just like its smaller 8GB brother. Google finally found more stock of the quad-core mobile earlier in December, following a weeks-long drought during which the phone was unavailable to snap up through the Big …
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