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The rumors didn’t lie; Facebook just unveiled its Snapchat competitor, Poke. I use the word competitor loosely, of course — it’s pretty much a total rip-off. “With the Poke app, you can poke or send a message, photo, or video to Facebook friends to share what you’re up to in a lightweight way. You can…
We have great news for those of you US Cellular customers rocking a Samsung Galaxy S III, as your long-awaited Jelly Bean Android 4.1.1 update is now available for download. The large regional carrier also provides the S III’s latest firmware, which is available for download here. The new update include the following Samsung features: Camera…
There’s been more than a little speculation lately about Apple’s iPhone 5 sales and the possibility that it may not be doing as well in the market as everyone expected. Especially with the recent price drop of the iPhone 5 at Walmart, which is about as rare as a precious gem, it looked like the…
AT&T is trying to end the year on a strong note, with rolling out its 4G LTE to as many locations across the country as possible. The second largest wireless provider in the United States announced today that it has brought high-speed LTE data to seven more metropolitan areas (with 10 locations total). The list of places include the…
Within less than a month and half, RIM will announce first BlackBerry 10 devices, some of which will look like the duo pictured above. This is apparently the Z10, one of the forthcoming BlackBerry devices, that will be available in both black and white. But that’s not all as we hear that more phones will…
Acer is working on a new low-cost Android tablet which as far as we can tell will cost some $150 or less. The still unannounced Iconia B1 has been caught at the FCC and from its listing at the Commission’s website we learn that it will support cellular connectivity (at least the version FCC got…
MetroPCS added another low-cost Android smartphone to its offering – the LTE-enabled ZTE Avid 4G. Available for $149 plus taxes but sans any strings attached, the device packs a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, mentioned LTE connectivity, 4-inch WVGA screen, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, VGA front-facing one, while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is running the show. In…
Samsung Display, the Korean giant’s arm that makes modern screens, will showcase two flexible displays at the CES next month. One of them is catered toward TV sets and comes with a diagonal of 55 inches. We don’t care much about it, but we do care about the second model – it’s a 5.5-inch display…
Just when we’ve told you about the Galaxy Young Duos, we’ve heard about another device that will be unveiled at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We don’t know much about the Galaxy Frame, except that it will be a low-to-mid range smartphone with specs that are comparable to the Galaxy Ace or Galaxy…
Owners of the HTC One XL in parts of Asia, including Taiwan and Singapore, have started getting Jelly Bean updates for their beloved smartphone. Aside from the standard set of Android 4.1 goodies that include faster browsing, improved push notifications and accessibility, resizable widgets, and faster overall performance – software version 3.17.707.1 also includes some…