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A company called Breathometer is announcing what it says is the world’s first smartphone breathalyzer, which is easy to carry around and should thus make our roads that much safer. The size of a typical car key, it plugs into a headphone jack, and — together with a mobile app — transforms the smartphone into…
With all the buzz the new Galaxy S4 is generating, one may forget that Samsung is also making a lower-end phones, like the Galaxy Star and Galaxy Pocket Neo models we’ve seen unveiled in Africa. Well another such device, Galaxy Y Plus, has been caught at the company’s India website and it too is heading…
Samsung is running a neat campaign for its users in South Africa, offering them a free year of Wi-Fi. To make this happen, the company has teamed-up with AlwaysOn, which 1,200+ hotspots are now sitting at Samsung device owners’ disposal and providing them with up to 1GB of free data usage per month. What’s especially…
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T-Mobile Galaxy Note II users will soon be receiving an over the air update that will enable LTE support for the popular phablet device. With T-Mobile set to launch its LTE network at the end of March, it would only be fitting to prep devices for some LTE goodness. The 9MB update (T889UVBMB4) will enable…
T-Mobile is the only major carrier in the US that doesn’t offer LTE service. That will soon change as the carrier prepares to fire up its LTE network at the end of the month. Engadget, The Verge, CNET, and Laptop Magazine were able to test out T-Mobile’s nascent (and currently unused) LTE network and recorded…
Thanks to the folks over at SamMobile, we now have a list that details which Samsung devices will be receiving the upcoming version of Android, the yet unannounced Android 5.0. The list also details which devices will receive the Android 4.2.2 update, but will not make the cut to receive Android 5.0, Key Lime Pie.…
The Samsung Galaxy S4 will have Qi wireless charging by way of a backplate. What’s weird about this new revelation is we had no idea that the GS4 supported this wireless technology. Samsung flat-out dropped the ball when it failed to announce this feature on stage last week. However, thankfully, Qi decided to take matters…
Google is expected to unveil the Nexus 5 handset at Google I/O later this spring. According to PhoneArena, the handset might not have the rumored 3 GB of RAM and full HD 1080P OLED display, but it may have some fancy camera technology instead. PhoneArena’s sources tell the site that the phone could use camera…
Speaking to The Australian Financial Review, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was very outspoken about BlackBerry 10 and its place in the smartphone market. Heins touted BlackBerry’s new OS, mentioning that the company has seen a fair amount of early adopters who have switched from another platform to BlackBerry 10 OS. BlackBerry may not be winning…