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Samsung’s Galaxy S III, which was announced in late May and then began shipping in Europe in late June, is not only a successful product, according to Retuers it’s too damn popular! The South Korean handset vendor can’t make enough of their 4.8 inch flagship superphone. They’re going to fall about 2 million units short…
If the smartphone or tablet you own isn’t made by Apple, then there’s a 40% chance it has a Qualcomm chip inside. How did one company gain that much market share? Simple, they put everything a handset vendor needs to make a smartphone on a tightly integrated hardware platform dubbed “Snapdragon”. Whereas before a company…
On the eve of Google I/O, Apple has won a legal victory again Samsung in a US Court. Late on Tuesday, US District Court Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple a preliminary injunction that would ban the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US. Koh writes, “While Samsung will certainly suffer lost sales from…
While it was recently announced that existing hardware running Windows Phone won’t receive the next big update, some may still be tempted to grab a handset running the OS. If that is the case, we’d highly suggest the Nokia Lumia 900 over anything else, and today Amazon is offering up the phone in White, Cyan,…
Apple released a standalone Podcasts app into the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad today for junkies who want to separate their listening experience from the rest of iTunes. Users will get full access to Apple’s already extensive library of thousands upon thousands of audio and video podcasts. Rumors about a dedicated Podcasts…
A day that when we get to speak positively about RIM is a commodity. Well, today some leaked photos of how BlackBerry Messenger may appear on the company’s new operating system BlackBerry 10 have surfaced. The Canadian handset maker is working hard on the proper usage of OLED screens in the company’s future lineup of…
We’re pretty sure that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is already in the bag and will be announced at Google I/O tomorrow, but the oversized statue (of sorts) has already made its way to the Google campus. No, there’s no video this time to unveil the next version of the OS this time, but at least…
In busy metropolitan areas, it can be a pain to find a taxi. Every year, the tech elite venture to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, only to be met with hour-long (or more) taxi lines. In San Francisco, waits can be equally frustrating, as there are apparently not enough taxis to go…
Your operator, whoever they may be, are in the business of building a network and then selling you access to said network. They don’t like it when you do things that harm the quality of their precious network, things like streaming 720p movies on your brand spanking new Galaxy S III. They couldn’t care less…
Sahar Sabet (pictured above) is an American citizen, 19 years old, a student at the University of Georgia, and she owns an Apple iPhone and a MacBook Pro. She recently visited a local Apple Store with her uncle to buy an iPad as a gift for her cousin. While there she spoke to her uncle…