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According to an AllThingsD report, Sprint has said it may delay the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III due to “overwhelming demand and limited supply.” According to the report, pre-orders for the handset, which kicked off on June 5th, will arrive a few days later than expected. Orders originally were slated to arrive on…
HTC has confirmed that the WiFi bug that’s plagued the company’s flagship phone, the One X, is also a problem found in other Tegra 3 models. Let me catch you up to speed, users for some time now have complained of weak WiFi reception, which prompted folks to apply their own weird fixes like squeezing…
Nokia has teamed up with The Dark Knight Rises movie to deliver a special edition back cover for the Lumia 710 Windows Phone handset with the movie logo on the back. It comes in the standard cyan, magenta, yellow, black, or white colors available with the regular Lumia 710. If you drop by a T-Mobile store,…
Buy.com is now offering the Unlocked Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S (model LT18a) in midnight blue for only $255.99. The normal retail prices on this phone is $549.99. The phone comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, but is upgradable to the recently available Android 4.0. Another deal highlight today is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Sprint for $49.99.…
Former Googlers Maneesh Arora and Amit Sangani spent the better part of their careers working on the likes of the now-defunct Google Health, Adsense, and Adwords platforms while under Google’s employ. After leaving the Goog, these two engineers teamed up to develop MightyText, which they commonly describe as an application that combines Gmail and iMessage into…
Today is not a good day for Alnoor Ebrahim. He’s a 57-year-old U.S. citizen born in Tanzania who used to work for AT&T and has just been sentenced to up to two years in prison for illegally sharing secrets regarding Apple and RIM’s sales numbers. In a Manhattan court room, Ebrahim pleaded guilty to selling insider…
Yesterday, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer took to the stage to unveil the Microsoft-branded Surface tablet line, Microsoft’s vision for the future of the tablet market. The company unveiled two different tablets yesterday, one for the ARM-based Windows 8 RT platform, and one for the fully-featured Windows 8 Professional. Both featured 10.6″ HD displays, built-in kickstands, and…
Like its competitor HTC, LG is turning away from tablets and focusing on smartphones for its mobile strategy. Ken Hong, a spokesman for the Korean manufacturer, told Bloomberg that “We’ve decided to put all new tablet development on the back burner for the time being in order to focus on smartphones.” LG has made a…
Just in case you were worried, Netflix is going Metro. Netflix is developing a Metro application for the Windows 8 platform, which will make its debut on the Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets later this year. Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky quickly showed off a beta version of Netflix for Windows 8 at the Surface press…
There’s an image floating around the internets of an as yet to be released Motorola device that’s turning quite a few heads. Here’s what we know: This mysterious smartphone packs a 5 row QWERTY keyboard, it looks like it runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it doesn’t have any front facing buttons, and from the…