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The iPhone is going prepaid. Leap Wireless announced that it’s wholly owned subsidiary Cricket Wireless will begin offering the iPhone sans-contract on June 22nd. As you are undoubtedly well aware, going the pre-paid route will require you to purchase the device at full retail price, though Cricket is offering a slight discount over what you’d…
Lenovo is launching the LePhone K800 in China, making it the first Intel Medfield-powered Android smartphone in the world’s most populous country. The device is pretty cool, sporting a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor under the hood (along with a 400MHz GPU), as well as a 4.5-inch IPS display, 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one, 1GB…
Well that was a long wait for every Evernote fan, myself included. The popular note-taking service is finally launching Evernote Hello for Android, allowing us to keep up with our encounters. Like the iPhone app — which BTW was launched six months ago — the Android version is also designed to “mimic the way the…
So you think the Oppo Finder and Huawei Ascend P1 S are thin? Think again. At just 6.2mm, the soon to be launched ZTE Athena is boldly going for the world’s thinnest smartphone spot. The device is getting some serious traction at Sina Weibo, with few leaked photos sparking everyone’s imagination. It is said that…
The new Batman-themed Nokia Lumia 900 we’ve seen few days ago will available for purchase tomorrow through Phones 4U. The official name of the device is Nokia Lumia 900 The Dark Knight Rises Edition, and you can get it for free on a two-year 31 GBP/month contract or for 599.95 GBP sans any commitments whatsoever.…
Good news for the iPad users living in sunny areas like south California, Spain, parts of Italy, Australia… That constant flow of photons around you can be used to charge your beloved tablet. That, of course, if you get the all-new SolaPad iPad case. The company called SolaWerks is behind this project and at the…
Thus far we’ve seen a number of different ways to get money out of the Angry Birds franchise. And just when we though we’ve seen it all, the Moscow-based Promsvyazbank announced it launch the world’s first line of Angry Birds-branded bank cards. According to The Moscow Times, this tie-in is the first official Angry Birds…
Mobile payment experts of BOKU announced a carrier-billing deal with T-Mobile USA to allow users to easily pay for digital goods (mobile content and apps) sold through the T-Mobile Mall. As a result, T-Mobile’s app and game developers can accept in-app payments from T-Mobile’s 34 million subscribers with transactions being billed directly to a subscriber’s…
Precise Biometrics wants to extend the built-in security of the iOS-powered devices like the iPhone and iPad. To that end, they’ve launched Tactivo cases, which boast fingerprint reader and which will be available later in the summer. Here’s what you should know (from the press release): Tactivo is a smart casing for tablets and smartphones…
Telmap is launching two new APIs to connect websites and mobile apps with its Mobile Location Companion. As a result, users of websites which provide information about various points of interest can now send the location (address or business information) directly to the Telmap-powered app that’s installed on their mobile device. User click on the…