Planning to upgrade your iPhone to whatever model Apple announces next month? Amazon wants to make it worth your while. As of today, the company is offering some of the highest trade-in values I’ve seen on used iPhones. The only catch? Your payout comes in the form of an Amazon gift card, not actual cash. …
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22 August
How to record calls on your Samsung Galaxy S2 and S3
How many times have you ended a call with someone, only to realise that you’re already starting to forget useful things you talked about? Recording calls isn’t something that’s offered out of the box on the Samsung Galaxy S2 or S3 — and it seems there’s a good reason for that — but it is possible. To find out how, …
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22 August
Amazon launches India Kindle Store
Chalk up India as the next destination for the Kindle, as Amazon has launched the new India Kindle Store and partnered with Indian electronics retailer Croma to sell the Kindle in Croma retail outlets across the country for 6,999 INR or about $126. That Kindle model is the entry-level, non-touch-screen Kindle, which sells for $79 in the U.S. in a …
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22 August
Sony Xperia SL is official, is Ice Cream Sandwich Xperia S
To paraphrase Mr Burns, SL-ent. The Sony Xperia SL is official, speeding up the processor and adding Ice Cream Sandwich to the original Xperia S. The SL looks identical to the Xperia S, as leaked photos revealed earlier this month. Inside, as expected, the processor is a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 chip — that’s a small increase on the previous …
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22 August
Orange and T
As if 4G wasn’t complicated enough, Orange and T-Mobile are planning to create a new brand name for its next-generation data network coming later this year. Orange and T-Mobile’s parent company Everything Everywhere denies it will merge Orange and T-Mobile, telling us that instead “we are planning to launch a new brand in the UK later this year. This new …
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22 August
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 panel pic points to even bigger screen
A leaked snap that supposedly shows the front panel of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 2 has appeared online, indicating that the follow-up to Samsung’s monolithic mobile will have an even bigger screen. Update: Know Your Mobile has been sent another photo purporting to show the Note 2, which looks like it broadly matches the above picture, as well as teasing …
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22 August
Sony prepping mid
Possibly the newest member of the Sony Xperia family has popped up online, showing the same Sony style we’re now familiar with and specs that should see the price kept low come launch day. The front and back of the upcoming Xperia J. (Credit: Mobile-review) Russian blog Mobile-review has given the Xperia J some hands-on attention a week before it …
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22 August
Archos 101 XS vs. Asus Transformer TF300 vs. Slider
Thanks mostly to Asus, keyboards and tablets are kind of a thing. It started with the first Transformer, continued with the Slider, and Asus hasn’t really looked back since then. And why should it? The Transformer line has been very good to the company, even if the actual keyboard costs up to $150 extra (in addition to the tablet). The …
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22 August
Hey Google, share that Nexus love beyond Samsung
commentary If Google really wants the Android ecosystem to thrive, it must do a better job of passing the Nexus mantle around among handset makers. Samsung has been the primary beneficiary of Google’s Nexus flagship device program for the past few years, having built the first phone with Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, in the Nexus S — and the first …
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22 August
Nearly half of U.S. consumers don’t feel need for 4G LTE speed
Even though Apple’s next iPhone is widely expected to feature 4G LTE connectivity, a new survey finds that nearly half of U.S. consumers feel they don’t need the speedier wireless networks. Nearly 47 percent of those surveyed by market analyst Piper Jaffray don’t feel they need access to a 4G LTE network, while another 26 percent said they thought all …
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