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As noticed by MacRumors, Apple has added a new Apple Events application to the Apple TV that’ll offer a live stream of today’s iPad mini event. This will be the first live stream since the 2010 Back to the Mac event which was used to unveil OS X Lion and a new version of the…
MetroPCS is joining few other carriers which support the Google Wallet service. The mobile operator turned to Facebook to share the good news, saying that the Samsung Galaxy S III will be their first device to allow for contactless payments, “enabling consumers to carry their credit cards, debit cards and offers, so they can pay…
The rumored Nokia Lumia 510 has been officially announced. As you can imagine, it’s a fairly low-end Windows Phone device, packing an 800MHz single-core processor, 4-inch WVGA screen, 5-megapixel camera, 256MB of RAM and just 4GB of built-in storage without the possibility to add extra gigabytes with a microSD card. The Lumia 510 will ship…
We’re glad to report that Appscovery keeps growing steadily. In fact, we had our first glitch with the server due to infamous “low RAM” problem. We have MySQL software to “thank” for this… Luckily the problem was quickly identified and we’re hoping something like this won’t happen again… though we can never be sure. Anyway,…
Shareholders in Vivendi’s SFR may want to move their money other way, but they may not be able to pull out their cash that easily. Apparently, the French government indicated its unease over the possible sale of the carrier, with the country’s minister for digital economy Fleur Pellerin saying that France may move to block…
Thanks to TMOnews ninjas, we know how much Walmart will ask for few of the upcoming T-Mobile smartphones. Generally speaking, the retail giant will offer better deals than the Now Network, except when it comes to the Samsung Galaxy Note II which will be sold for $299 by both Walmart and T-Mobile. Here’s what else…
Almost missed this… Canada’s Rogers Wireless and Microsoft jointly announced new Windows Phone 8 offering. We’re saying “new,” cause we already know they’ll get to sell the Nokia Lumia 920, as well as the HTC 8X with 8 and 16 GB of built-in storage. The Samsung ATIV S will join the party, and so will…
Just recently, Sony posted an article on its official blog saying which phones will get the Jelly Bean update and which will be left out. The new models, Xperia T and Xperia TX, as well as the Xperia V will get Android 4.1 at some point in mid-Q1 2013. As usual, availability and rollout timing…
Oppo Find 5, the Chinese company’s upcoming phablet, has been caught in the wild. As you probably already know, we’re talking about a powerful device that rocks a 5-inch HD screen with 1920×1080 pixels resolution, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 12-megapixel camera on the back and so on. In other words,…
Struggling BlackBerry handset maker RIM suffered another blow when the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said it would end its contract with the Canadian company. ICE officials plan to replace 17,000 BlackBerry handsets with iPhones in a deal that is worth as much as $2.1 million. The agency used RIM’s handsets for eight years,…