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Best Buy Memorial Day Deals: $50 Off iPhones, Samsung Galaxy S III For $49

Best Buy is giving customers a few sweet Memorial Day Deals, offering price cuts on iPhones and a few higher end Android handsets. Best Buy is cutting the price of its iPhones by $50, in a promotion that begins this Sunday, May 26th and extends for four weeks. The retailer is offering the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 for $50 off its retail price when purchasing a new contract with AT&T, Sprint or Verizon. In addition to the iPhone deals, Best Buy is also offering some price cuts Read more

Ian Kersey

Leaked Photos Show Android 4.3 Running On Nexus 4?

Some of us were expecting Google to announce Android 4.3 at Google I/O this year, which unfortunately didn’t happen. But now, thanks to a user on the XDA forums, we have screenshots that show a possible Android 4.3 running on a Nexus 4. The shots come from a mobile expo that is currently taking place in Thailand. The new build, dubbed JWR45B, looks an awful lot like it’s predecessor, Android 4.2.2, which leads us to believe that the newest version of Jelly Bean won’t be featuring any major design changes. Read more

Ian Kersey

New iPhone 5 Advertisement Keeps it Simple, Focuses on Music

Apple has released a new advertisement for its iPhone 5, which focuses not on apps, playing games or sharing photos, but rather the feature that got Apple into the iPhone business in the first place; music. The simple and quite elegant commercial focuses on the solo act of jamming out, reminding us of a time when smartphones were still in the realm of science fiction. Apple revolutionized portable music when it released its iPods in the early 2000′s, and has no doubt made a huge impact on the smartphone scene after Read more

Ian Kersey

HTC One Google Edition coming soon?

At the time Google unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition, HTC rep tweeted from her personal account that we should “wait,” prompting the blogosphere to conclude that the Taiwanese company is preparing Google Edition version of the HTC One. The company’s Senior Global Online Communications Manager Jeff Gordon quickly silenced these rumors saying that “HTC is not currently planning a ‘Nexus Edition’ of the HTC One.” Now we have another source claiming that what Gordon has said may not be completely true. The information comes from Geek.com‘s Russel Holly, Read more

AT&T scores Samsung Galaxy S4 in Aurora Red; Pre-orders start today

AT&T announced that it managed to score an exclusive version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 which comes in Aurora Red. The device will be available for pre-order later today through the carrier’s website and from AT&T company-owned retail stores. The price is set at $199.99 with a two-year contract, with first units shipping on June 14th. Aside from a different paint job, there are no any other changes under the hood. In that sense, expect the same quad-core processor, 13-megapixel camera on the back, LTE connectivity support, 16GB of internal Read more

HTC sells around 5 million HTC One units

HTC has apparently sold around 5 million HTC one units, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, quoting an unnamed HTC executive. The same source says that orders are “pretty good” so far and are “still more than what we can supply,” due to “shortage of components.” He went on to add: “When the issue is resolved next month, we will have a better idea if it’s doing really well or not.” If true, HTC is pretty much back in the game. Sure enough, Samsung is still the Read more

Verizon and AT&T to offer Samsung Galaxy S4 Developer Edition

Verizon Wireless and AT&T will soon start selling the Samsung Galaxy S4 Developer Edition. Both versions of the device have been caught at Sammy’s website (links: here and here) and now it seems all about proper timing. As far as we’ve understood, this isn’t the same phone as the Galaxy S4 Google Edition and it will still come with Sammy’s own software running on top of Android core. Sure enough, you’ll get unlocked bootloader with the ability to tweak everything the way you please. The downside(s)? 1) You’ll only be Read more

White Huawei P6 caught in the wild

We’ve already told you that Huawei is working on a super-thin smartphone marked as P6-U06 (or that’s Ascend P6?). The all-aluminum device will most likely be unveiled at the company’s “Beauty” event on June 18th and in the meantime, we have another set of photos to show you, depicting the upcoming device in white. Yeah, it looks sexy and yeah – we wanna try it out the second it’s launched. Again, the Huawei P6-U06 will have a 6.18mm thick body, packing a 4.7-inch 720p HD screen, 1.5GHz quad-core processor (most Read more

Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition won’t be available outside of the US, for now

Let’s say you don’t live in the U.S. and want the Samsung Galaxy S4 running stock Android – you can’t have it. At least not through any official channel. Rather, a friend from the U.S. will have to bring it to you, or you’ll buy it on your next trip to the States. Not sure why that’s the case, but alas – “it is what it is.” As I’m writing this, Google and Samsung have no intention to sell the Galaxy S4 Google Edition in other parts of the world. Read more

Sony Xperia ZR will be available in Northern Europe in July for 479 EUR

When Sony announced the new Sony Xperia ZR, it said that users will be able to get this water-proof smartphone in June. That date apparently doesn’t “work” for all countries, with some markets getting it few months afterwards. In fact, customers in the UK, Germany and France won’t be able to buy the ZR directly. At least not in June. In Northern Europe, we’re hearing that Sony’s baby will launch in July with a price tag of 479 EUR. According to Xperia Blog, this is the offer for folks living Read more

Unlocked Sony Xperia ZL getting a small update

Sony has started rolling out a small update for its Xperia ZL smartphone. Currently, it only affects unlocked units with carrier branded versions (sold in parts of Europe and Asia), most likely getting it shortly. There are no major changes included in the firmware version 10.1.1.A.1.253, though it brings improved battery life, user experience and software performance. In other words, it’s just Sony tweaking its own software to make it work better. Perhaps some bugs are fixed along the way, as well. Anyhow, if you do own the Xperia ZL, Read more