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Remember the Samsung SPH-L300? No one does. When we first talked about it, the details were scarce, to say the least. Now we have few additional tidbits to share, thanks to the good folks of BriefMobile. First of all, you should know it’s heading to Sprint, which will sell it as Samsung Gogh. Specs wise,…
CNN-owned personal news reading app Zite announced a new set of publishers joining their publisher program, including: Chicago Tribune, Cult of Mac, Entrepreneur, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, International Business Times, Los Angeles Times, and IDG’s Macworld, PC World and TechHive. These new publishers join the ranks of the publishers named in Zite’s inaugural Publisher Program…
Lycamobile, which offers mobile services as MVNO in many European countries, is preparing to enter the Canadian market. You would think it’s a saturated market, but Lycamobile disagrees. It wants to target “immigrants and other ethnic consumers who regularly talk and text with family and friends living overseas,” offering them prepaid service for less. As…
Juniper Research (and many other research firms for that matter) is bullish on the prospects of NFC-based contactless payments. According to them, the NFC retail payments market will exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, which is more than a seven-fold increase over 2012. The leading regions of North America, Western Europe and Far East &…
There’s a new iPad app in the Apple AppStore, made to help children with autism communicate and interact with the world around them by allowing parents and therapists to create interactive representations, or scenes, of child’s environment. Jonathan Izak, creator of the AutisMate app, made the application for his 10-year-old brother Oriel, who is on…
Huawei unveiled a new member of its tablet portfolio – MediaPad 7 Lite. The details about the device are scarce at the moment, and all we know is that it has a 7-inch 1280×800 pixels touchscreen, Wi-Fi and optional 3G connectivity, some camera on the back and metal unibody, while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich…
Today Qualcomm showed off its quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro, along with the first MDP tablet that has the SoC powerhouse running inside it. The new multi-core processor is essentially the fastest processor we’ve ever come across and we have the benchmarks to show it. The chipset maker held a private event, which talked about understanding…
Right after Apple released its Q3 2012 earnings today, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer announced statistics for iOS — including the App Store, iCloud, etc. — in the earnings call. The numbers just keep getting bigger. There are now over 650,000 apps in the App Store, which is up from the 600,000 announced in April.…
Yes, yes, we know: there will be a new iPhone 5 released this fall. However, if you need to get an unlocked smartphone right now, and you prefer an iPhone, the iPhone 4S is the newest and best unlocked iPhone that money can buy – and it’s available at a good price, only $599. There…
About a month ago, a blurry photo of the Droid Razr HD made its appearance. The new Motorola handset will supposedly pack some decent features, like a 13MP camera, LTE, and a ginormous 3,300 mAh battery. The device has gone through the FCC process, so it’s just a matter of time before Verizon announces this…