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Many of Canadian carriers will be unveiling special offerings for the holiday season. Aside from slashing the phone prices, they will also unveil special plans for the season. And today we’re glad to share Virgin Mobile’s Christmas offering, which will apparently be unveiled later in the day. First there’s the new plan, $30 Text +…
Roughly a month ago we shared the sad news that Samsung Display has delayed production of their flexible AMOLED screens. Today we got a new video from the company to show you, proving us they haven’t forgot about it. As you’re about to see, the Korean giant envisions these flexible transparent touchscreens being used anywhere…
Samsung announced that its Galaxy Camera will be available in the UK on November 8th from the country’s leading retailers like The Carphone Warehouse, Phones 4u and Jessops. Prior to that, eager buyers will be able to buy it at Samsung brand stores from 5pm on November 7th. As you probably know, the Samsung Galaxy…
The FCC announced that AT&T will pay a $700,000 fine and return money to customers who paid excessive charges after they were unknowingly switched to a costlier data plan. The fine stemmed from a series of complaints from AT&T customers who were switched to a more expensive monthly data plans without their consent. According to…
Apple recently rejected a long-awaited update for loyal Sparrow users that added iOS 6 and iPhone 5 compatibility to the app. It apparently violated Apple’s App Store policies for what features can be compatible with iOS 5. “We managed to get a rich text edition [and] the keyboard appeared without the user [having] to tap…
Though Apple is selling millions of smartphones, its iPhone adoption rate can’t keep up with Android says well-known Internet analyst Mary Meeker. Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was in San Francisco this week for a Bloomberg event, according to a TechCrunch report. During a quick presentation on mobile trends, Meeker pointed…
Oh HTC. It’s sad that a company with truly great hardware is heading down the same path as RIM did. (Hasn’t that sloppy mess flatlined yet?) HTC announced its monthly sales for October and the news is quite abysmal to say the least. In 2011, the vendor sold NT$44 billion ($1.5 billion) worth of smartphones.…
Certainly no one believed Apple had intentions of stopping its “thermonuclear” war on Android, but today, things got a little more interesting. On top of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Apple has also added Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to its list of patent infringements for an upcoming trial taking place in 2014. It’s not perfectly clear…
You can get Sony’s flagship phone, the today through Best Buy Mobile (with ). Note, this deal will only last until Nov 8. This phone just went on sale last week after being announced at the beginning of October. You may recognize the Xperia TL for being featured in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall.…
It looks like November 13th won’t just be the official release of the Nexus 4, as HTC and Verizon are set to take the stage and announce an upcoming device. What is in all likelihood the HTC Droid DNA, the five-inch device should definitely get some attention in Big Red’s portfolio. In a market that…