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Amazon Wireless is offering the brand new LG Lucid 4G for a single cent and, get this, this is available both for new customers and those upgrading. Usually all those great deals are reserved for new customers only but this time everyone can join-in (presuming you are eligible to upgrade, of course). Moreover, this offer…
Glu Mobile announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Deer Hunter trademark and associated domain names from Atari. Moreover, the gaming publisher also got an exclusive, irrevocable worldwide license to the other intellectual property associated with the brand. The goal, obviously, is to keep launching Deer Hunter titles in the future, this time…
Stop everything you’re doing and grab Pocket God if you still haven’t (and if you own an iOS-based device). It’s one of those “awesome value” apps that’s constantly updated with new levels (episodes). The latest update, episode 44th called The Perfect Swarm, introduces a plague of locusts descending on the cute Pygmies. In order to…
Safely Phone Controls, available in Google Play as Sprint Mobile Controls, is a new Android app that helps partners control their kids’ Android smartphones. Now we do realize kids have the right for privacy just like adults, however they are not necessarily that savvy and perhaps not as disciplined. According to Safely user data, 63%…
Sonos is killing its CR200 remote control and replacing it with your smartphone, says a report in The Verge. Sonos CEO and founder John MacFarlane told The Verge, “We knew from the early days of the iPhone explosion that controlling out system from the device that people were carrying around in their pockets is what…
Yep, I think we all saw this coming. Google releases a concept video of a way to overlay our everyday vision with Internet-connected services and apps that could potentially change the way we all live our lives. What to do, what to do… ah yes of course, let’s make some parodies. The first one isn’t…
That didn’t take very long. In a matter of about a week and a half, Temple Run hit five million downloads on Android. Imangi, the company behind Temple Run and other mobile games, had announced that it would arrive on Android soon only a few weeks before the release. Originally exclusive to iOS, it was released…
AT&T told Engadget that it will start unlocking out of contract iPhones starting April 8th. This is a big policy reversal on AT&T’s part as the carrier, up until now, was reluctant to unlock iPhones even when the customer was no longer under a contract. Beginning Sunday, April 8, we will offer qualifying customers the…
It looks like HTC’s strategic shift didn’t come soon enough, as the latest quarterly results from the Taiwanese company saw profits fall dramatically for Q1 of 2012. With the competition heating up this quarter, the upcoming One X, One S, and One V are on the front line to hold the likes of Samsung, Apple,…
We’ve been hearing loud rumblings that a Google Nexus tablet would be landing soon and that Google would be offering this and other Android tablets directly to consumers through an online store. Well, the folks at The Verge are reporting that we shouldn’t expect Google’s tablet until July at the earliest. While it’s tough to…