RIM isn’t far off launching BlackBerry 10, as it’ll be handing out prototype models to developers in May, Bloomberg reports. RIM’s annual developer conference will be where those lucky technical types get their hands on prototypes running the new platform. About 2,000 of the handsets will be handed out, so developers can get busy making …
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26 March
HTC One X and One S on pre
The HTC One X and One S are now available for pre-order from Vodafone, and, just as predicted, the One X will come with Beats headphones. At least the first 10,000 units that are sold will. The One X is free on a £41 a month, two year contract. For that you get 900 minutes, unlimited texts and 1GB of …
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26 March
Why my new iPad’s storage doesn’t add up
I’m no math genius, but I know when I’m being shorted. For example, when I unwrapped my new iPad and checked the settings, it showed a total storage capacity of 28GB — not the 32GB I paid for. Indeed, it says 32GB right on the box. So what happened to that extra 4GB of space? Was my iPad defective? Was …
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26 March
HTCSense.com will be overhauled, customers must back up data
HTC announced today that after April 30, its customers’ data backups stored on HTCSense.com will be deleted. Because of service renovations, HTCSense.com will be shutting down, and information used by customers to sync their contacts, messages, and call history will be wiped clean. Until then, the manufacturer is urging users to download ZIP files of their stored data before they …
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26 March
DIY: A dead
Your old tube sock is your new workout armband. Photo by Sharon Vaknin/CNET As an avid gym-goer and outdoor person who’s dependent on her music and fitness apps, my phone has become my best workout buddy. (After all, it never flakes on me.) I’m not alone, and for me and the many others who rely on their phones for fitness, …
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26 March
How sweepstakes, contests can drive app downloads, usage
People love prizes. And that’s the core belief animating a start up called SherLabs. Through a product called TapFame, the company offers game developers the ability to drop an instant sweepstakes or leaderboard contest into their apps, which presumably would drive interest and downloads. It’s a unique take on the issue of app discovery, which I’ve written a lot about …
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26 March
Angry Birds Space downloaded 10m times in under 72 hours
The Angry Birds Space official Twitter account says the spacefaring-sequel has been downloaded an astronomical 10 million times, in less than three days. As well as demonstrating that enthusiasm for the raging avians and their bacon-flavoured baddies is definitely not on the wane, those figures make Angry Birds Space more than three times as popular as the new iPad, which Apple was only too chuffed …
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26 March
Dialed In No. 217: It’s now or never for Windows Phone (podcast)
Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #217: It’s now or never for Windows Phone 39:22 First, the bad news. Saying goodbye to this weekly Dialed In podcast isn’t something that any of us expected to do for some time, but it’s true: this week marks the second-to-last episode of CNET’s cell phone podcast, and of most of CNET’s podcasts in …
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26 March
Motorola’s Blade could continue Droid Razr design
Thanks to a number of leaks, the preliminary details and images for three unannounced Motorola smartphones have arrived online. Likely to end up in international markets, the three models bear the familiar form factor that is seen in handsets like the Atrix 2 and Droid Razr. Up first, we have a device that looks strikingly similar to the recently leaked …
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26 March
For Nokia, it’s do or die time with the Lumia 900
commentary Nokia got its wish and has its best shot to break back into the U.S. market. So here’s some friendly advice to a company that likely won’t get another opportunity as good as this: don’t blow it. Not to pile on with more pressure, but the fate of Nokia’s future, and possibly that of Windows Phone and Microsoft’s ability …
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