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Google is doing something special for those business app users that felt wronged, as it recently changed its service from free to a charge of $50 a year. So as a token of its appreciation, the search giant will give disgruntled users a free version of Quickoffice for the iPad, which is an exclusive perk…
We’d say this comes to us as a surprise, but it doesn’t. Samsung has managed to gobble up almost half the Android market share for 2012. According to Millennial Media, Samsung’s Q3 2011 share of 23% skyrocketed to 46% in Q3 of 2012. Samsung has been producing hit after hit with its Galaxy line of handsets, with…
There’s only a couple of weeks left in 2012, so now’s the time to reflect back on the year and round up the highlights. One of my favorite roundups to do every year is to pick out which apps on my iPhone and iPad I used most and that are relatively new. The end of…
Boost Mobile, a Sprint owned company, plans to start throttling customer data usage that exceed 2.5 gigabytes of usage each month. Once the throttle cap is hit, speeds will drastically come down to a meager 256kbps. This new policy will go in effect despite the prepaid carriers’ pay-as-you-go “unlimited” marketing we’ve all come accustomed to. These changes…
Sprint today announced a new addition to its family of rugged phones called the Sonim XP Strike. The XP Strike is the first Sonim handset to be sold by Sprint, and it happens to be a tough a SOB. The new ruggedized phone delivers some incredible durability such as an impressive military-spec rate of 810G,…
Kodak has gone through a lot this year. The picture company had endure the painful reality of bankruptcy and had to tolerate legal squabbles with Apple over patents. Now Kodak has taken one big step forward in restructuring the future of its company, as it was finally able to sell off its digital imaging portfolio…
What’s a morning without any new Apple rumors? Well, there’s speculation that the tech giant is readying production of another iPad mini with a Retina display within the next few months, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Doug Freedman. In a research note, Freedman said the “iPad Mini Gen-2: Apple’s gen-2 iPad mini is getting…
Nokia decided to opt-out from exhibiting at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. The Finnish company will rather focus all its energy on Mobile World Congress, which takes place at the end of February in Barcelona. From the CES 2013 Exhibitor Directory we learn that the only part of Nokia that will have a booth…
A special version of the recently announced ZTE Grand Era has been unveiled in Hong Kong. What’s unique about this device is not that it’s not only LTE-enabled, but that it can also sing along two different kinds of LTE networks – FDD-LTE and TD-LTE. However, the process of switching between two network types is…
Although the original Ascend D quad hasn’t been a smashing success for Huawei — mostly because of poor distribution — the company has just unveiled its successor, D2, which we hope will be available all around the world (rather than just China and few other countries). The Ascend D2 is a powerful device, one that…