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Consumer Reports released its annual assessment of US wireless carriers and placed AT&T in last place for the third year in a row. In its latest report, the consumer product review company ranked AT&T at the bottom of the heap among the top seven wireless carriers in the US. The only bright spot for AT&T…
If you quickly beat all the levels of Angry Birds Star Wars, which wasn’t terribly hard to do, then you have an update waiting for you. The update to the massively popular game bring 20 new levels for you to take a stab at. The description of the new update reads something like this: It…
If you’re looking to add a little color and protection to either your Galaxy S III or Note II, then Samsung has you covered. The company is now offering up some protective flip covers that come in a variety of colors for both devices and soon you’ll be able to claim your own. At the…
While Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet generated a bit of buzz when it launch in October, consumers who were eyeing a true productivity powerhouse immediately turned their eyes to the Surface Pro. The Surface Pro runs the full version of Windows 8, meaning that it’ll run legacy applications in addition to the limited selection of applications…
While I’ve personally never owned a rugged phone in the my life, one feature that I always seemed to go hand in hand with these devices is push-to-talk? Why? Not not a clue, but that’s exactly what AT&T and Samsung have done with the new Rugby III. The Rugby III is Samsung’s 5th generation rugged handset and…
Research In Motion just received another upgrade from another prominent Wall Street darling. Goldman Sachs has given the Waterloo company a rare upgrade, giving its investors more optimism for buying RIM stock. Interestingly, lots of analysts are beginning to feel more confident that the Canadian based smartphone maker will get through its tough times, with its soon to…
It’s been a pain in the ‘you know what’ to get your hands on the iPhone 5 since it launched on September 12. They’ve been either sold out at phone carriers, Apple retail stores, or held under long ship times online. Now for those of you doing your holiday shopping and looking to get an…
As part of its BlackBerry 10 promotion tour, RIM is organizing a series of events across the world. One of the most important ones [events] is BB Jam Asia, currently taking place in Bangkok, Thailand. Perhaps the most interesting announcements from the show is that BlackBerry App World has been renamed to BlackBerry World to…
Toshiba announced a new 13-megapixel, 1.12 micrometer CMOS image sensor that promises to deliver high-image quality equivalent to a 1.4 micrometer sensor. The company did this by implementing back side illumination (BSI) technology and integrated color noise reduction (CNR) to make a sensor that fits into an 8.5×8.5 mm size camera module. As a result,…
Huawei Honor 2 has been caught at the FCC with support for all the right 3G bands (850, 1700 and 1900 MHz) to sing along GSM-based carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile (and few in Canada). LTE radio, unfortunately, is not found under the hood but I guess we expect too much from a mid-range device…