To: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Re: Those reports of your plans to build an Amazon smartphone As alluring and potentially lucrative as the smartphone business may seem, it isn’t worth the headache and distractions it will bring to Amazon. Look, I get it. Amazon is riding high with profits that still impress Wall Street, a …
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6 July
Samsung soars, HTC stumbles with 2Q profit forecasts
Samsung Electronics and HTC illustrate the disparity between the haves and have-nots in the smartphone world. Samsung earlier today said that for the second quarter it expects to post a record 6.5 trillion won ($5.7 billion) to 6.9 trillion won in profit and 46 trillion won ($40 billion) to 48 trillion won in revenue, both up significantly over the year-earlier …
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6 July
Galaxy Nexus ban temporarily lifted
It’s time yet again to update your scorecard on the Galaxy Nexus ban. A federal appeals court ruled today that the preliminary injunction set by a lower court against sales of the device in the U.S. is being temporarily lifted. But keep your pencil sharp — according to All Things Digital, Apple has till Thursday to submit an argument as …
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6 July
Get Angry Birds Seasons free for iOS
If you somehow managed to avoid buying Angry Birds Seasons over the past 20 months, your patience has paid off. Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Seasons HD (for iPad) are the iTunes free apps of the week. They’re normally priced at 99 cents and $1.99, respectively. Apple’s “week” began yesterday (Thursday), so you’ve got roughly six days to take …
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6 July
Liquid physics games for iOS
I often write about action games in my collections, and it’s no secret I’m a fan of the racing-game genre as well. But another genre I like to play while on my commute is mind-twisting puzzle games. A new game was released a few days ago that has jumped to the top of the charts at iTunes App Store and …
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6 July
Samsung Galaxy S3 sales to hit 19 million in autumn
Samsung has high hopes for its Galaxy S3, boastfully tipping its quad-core smart phone to sell 19 million units by the autumn. Samsung made the crystal-ball estimate as it announced more whopping profit — the South Korean company believes it will have made $5.9bn profit in the three months April-June, or about £3.8bn in British coin. That’s a 79 per …
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6 July
Amazon Kindle Fire to be followed by a phone
After the success of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon is considering making a phone. The online bookseller-turned-everything-seller is reportedly working on a Kindle Fire 2 and could knock up its own smart phone too. But what would it be like — and would it ever come here? Bloomberg reports those slippery “people with knowledge of the matter” have revealed scant …
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6 July
Missing the flip phone
This week I stepped back into the land of reviewing to test the Samsung Chrono 2 for U.S. Cellular. And, wow, what a trip it was. With its basic calling features and retro design, the Chrono 2 took me back to a cell phone era that greeted me when I first joined CNET almost nine years ago. Before Android and …
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6 July
Is Verizon ‘shaking down’ customers with family plan?
Verizon Wireless’ new family share plan has gotten lots of knickers in knots. But is the new plan really as bad as some people fear it is for consumers? Last week, Verizon’s new family share plans went into effect for the carrier’s new customers. The plans give subscribers unlimited voice and text messaging and allow people to share buckets of …
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6 July
Bigger, faster Galaxy Note rumored for IFA release
The rumored Samsung Galaxy Note successor is now expected to debut in late August at the annual IFA conference, according to MK Business News. Citing unnamed sources close to the publication, the next phone/tablet hybrid will reportedly run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and feature a larger display. Whispers of a bigger, faster Galaxy Note surfaced a few weeks with rumors …
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