How’s the signal round your end? Vodafone has crafted a new version of its Sure Signal 3G booster, granting its customers who live in mobile black spots the chance to natter away on the phone or download the odd app without dodgy signal spoiling their fun. As you can see in the snap above, the …
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December, 2012
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14 December
Motorola Atrix HD grabs up Android 4.1
The Motorola Atrix HD is getting its chance to bite into Jelly Bean according to AT&T. Related stories Samsung Galaxy S III (AT&T) gets Android 4.1 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean a sweet Android update Motorola Atrix HD review The Android 4.1 software update is available immediately for Motorola Atrix HD owners, reports the nation’s second-largest carrier. AT&T subscribers can manually …
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14 December
Google Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy 10.1 UK’s first 4G tablets
Like a suffering office worker the morning after a Christmas party forlornly mixing an Alka-Seltzer, EE has dropped two tablets. With a plink and another plink, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE and Google Nexus 7 are the first tablets to fizz up the UK’s first 4G network. The Nexus 7 isn’t actually a 4G device, but comes with a …
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14 December
Microsoft Surface hits John Lewis shelves this weekend
The Microsoft Surface is in shops at last. It hits shelves at John Lewis this weekend and the retailer’s never knowingly undersold website today. Up until now you’ve only been able to get hold of the Windows 8 tablet online, or at Microsoft Stores in the US. But from tomorrow you can pop down to your local John Lewis, which …
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14 December
Softbank puts cap on how much it’ll pay for Clearwire, report says
Japan-based Softbank is limiting how much Sprint can pay to acquire Clearwire, a new report claims. Sprint Nextel yesterday confirmed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it’s willing to pay $2.90 a share to buyout the remaining shares in Clearwire. The total cost would be $2.1 billion. Some Clearwire shareholders, however, are saying that Sprint should up its …
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14 December
‘The Hobbit’ 3D tech divides our CNET reviewers
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ features a new 3D technology that some people have criticized for looking too much like TV. New Line Cinema Now that Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” has opened in theaters around the world, the most controversial thing about it isn’t even that he somehow is making three 3-hour movies out of a 300-page …
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13 December
U.K.’s 4G pushes forward, with 17 new locales on tap
Residents in an additional 17 towns and cities in the U.K. will have the option of signing up for EE’s 4G LTE network by March 2013. Everything Everywhere — a collaboration between mobile operators Orange and T-Mobile — launched the United Kingdom’s first 4G network in October this year. Although these two carriers still exist, for next-generation data speeds EE …
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13 December
Sprint: It’d cost us $2.1B to buy Clearwire
Talks between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are heating up. Sprint confirmed via a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made public today that it is in talks with Clearwire to buy out the remaining stake in the upstart wireless provider that it doesn’t already own. The company said it believes that it would cost $2.1 billion to buy out …
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13 December
Verizon updates Samsung’s Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will begin rolling onto Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy S3 as soon as tomorrow, Verizon announced today on its blog. Related stories Samsung Galaxy S3: Android excellence Android 4.1 Jelly Bean review The update will occur in phases, so you may have to exercise some patience before you see your OS version start its over-the-air transformation to Android …
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13 December
Developer survey offers top mobile predictions for 2013
It appears that 2013 will be the year that mobile shopping becomes pervasive. According to the just-released “Q4 2012 Developer Survey Report,” from research firm IDC and Appcelerator, a mobile-platform developer, it’s likely that most retail companies will have enabled mobile commerce in 2013. The survey, which encompasses the views of nearly 3,000 Appcelerator customers, predicts that 86 percent of shoppers …
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