May 23, 2013

smartphones - News


Verizon to launch 4G Phones from HTC, Samsung and Motorola

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Verizon is expected to launch three new 4G LTE Android Smartphone, The first is from HTC, who pulled an interesting marketing stunt by sending pictures of only parts of the phone to various news sites so that they had to compare shots to get an idea of the whole phone. BGR later showed images of [...]

Verizon Contest; Chances to get 2 Apple iPads, 2 Motorola DROID X and More

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Grab the opportunity to win not one but two Apple iPad units along with a multitude of other digital electronics this festive season then, Verizon Wireless is running the All Decked Out competition which has a grand price of $10,000 worth of electronics and includes such great tech gear as… Two Apple iPads, two HTC [...]

Skype Android Froyo Update for Samsung Galaxy S Released

Samsung Galaxy S Gets Android Froyo Skype

The Android version of the popular Skype app was first launched only a couple of months ago and now we can welcome its first major update which makes Skype for Android fully compatible with the Samsung Galaxy S devices out there and The second one will enable you to install the app on the SD [...]

Samsung Integrating Mobage Social Gaming with Android Smartphone

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Shortly after the Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA acquired Ngmoco for $403 million, CEO Tomoko Namba told Inside Social Games that she hoped to quickly quadruple the revenue of her company in about four years, which already tops $1 billion yearly. As unlikely as that ambition sounds, the details of the plan are now emerging. [...]

HP Tablet powered with webOS to be launched in March 2011

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The first tablet PC in the world that would run under the webOS mobile operating system is expected to land on shelves sometime in March, in line with the “early 2011” estimation that HP provided for the release of this device. It wasn’t long before HP launched the Slate 500, which runs Windows and is [...]

Bell Holiday Offer Announced: $75 Discount on Smartphones

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Bell unleashed a new holiday promotion, featuring a pair of Android-Powered devices, and one Windows Phone 7 handset at a favorable discount. On now through the end of the month, you can take $75 off the regular price of the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant, HTC Desire Z, or LG Optimus Quantum. The Quantum runs Windows [...]

T-Mobile 4G Enabled Tablets Coming in 2011

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T-Mobile is following in Sprint’s footsteps and will also be producing a 4G tablet to hit shelves in 2011. Sadly, neither an additional information about the T-Mobile 4G tablets was released, nor a timescale when to expect them in 2011. A press release on Friday reads that: T-Mobile is working closely with the majority of [...]

Huawei to Launch Cheap Smartphones in India

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The Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei is ready to launch smart phone into Indian market. They promise an Android- powered handset with an affordable price, and high-tech features. The price of the smartphone is at sub- RS. 10000. The rapid growing Indian mobile market has encouraged Huawei to come out with a new product, apart [...]

Intel’s 35 Atom-based Tablets to be launched in 2011; Includes Dell, Toshiba, Acer: Intel’s CEO

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It seems to have a good day for Intel in coming year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said today that its chips will be in more than 35 different tablet designs in 2011, while clarifying that two lines of Atom processors will be used in tablets. Most will run Windows, but about a third will go [...]

Nokia X7 Images appeared on the Net again; This Time with AT&T Brand Name

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It seems Nokia is planning a marketing splash for AT&T related activities next year, Eldar Murtazin, chief of one of the biggest mobile technology related sites just published new photos of the AT&T branded Nokia X7 on his personal blog. and seems to have unlimited access to prototypes,   photos of the X7 unit sports an [...]

HTC November Sales Hit New Record High

Backed by strong demand for its new smartphones, including Windows 7 models, HTC made its sales in November hit another record high as global demand remained strong. As they announced that their November sales hit a record high. HTC posted $1.27 billion in sales last month, up 18.85 percent from October and up a mind-boggling [...]

Gowalla Application Synchronizes with Foursquare and Facebook

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Gowalla, the  location-based social networking service on 3rd December 2010 rolled out a redesign that included letting members of the location-based social network share “check-ins” at Foursquare, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook Places. The release of Gowalla 3 software, initially only available for iPhones, comes with the soaring popularity of services that let people use smartphones [...]