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LG is beating Samsung to the punch with eye recognition technology by announcing today that its new technology will be appearing soon on the Optimus G Pro. The new feature, called Smart Video, automatically plays and stops video without any manual input from the user, by tracking the user’s eye movements. The front camera can detect a…
BlackBerry’s time to shine is at hand. AT&T has started accepting pre-orders for the flagship Z10 phone and Verizon announced today that it will start accepting pre-orders, too. According to Verizon Wireless, it will start its Z10 pre-orders tomorrow, March 14th, at 8 am ET. The handset will then go on sale in Verizon Wireless…
The recently confirmed HTC One launch delay will have an effect on U.K. customers who have pre-ordered the device, Vodafone confirmed today. The impressive piece of hardware won’t be shipping on March 15th as was expected, but rather no later than April 3rd if all goes well. Vodafone had this to say: “HTC has confirmed there’s a…
Things are looking up for BlackBerry, receiving today the biggest purchase in the company’s history. A press release today details the purchase of one million BlackBerry 10 smartphones from one of BlackBerry’s partners. While there are no details of which handsets exactly were ordered, the units are to ship immediately. “An order for one million devices is a…
Virgin Mobile has released a new commercial featuring the king of weird, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. The new ad is, trippy, to say the least; while it’s not as crazy as most of Coyne’s fake blood spewing live performances, it is cool enough to garner Richard Branson some hipster cred. The ad doesn’t feature any new Virgin…
According to AllThingsD, HTC’s flagship One handset will land on Verizon in the upcoming months. When the handset was announced earlier this year, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile each confirmed it would sell the handset. Noticeably absent from this list was Verizon Wireless, which said nothing about the phone. Sources familiar with the matter told AllThingsD…
Amazon is bringing their Kindle Fire HD 8.9 to Europe and Japan, offering the tablet for sale in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain, as well as dropping the price of units in the U.S. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is now priced $269 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version, and $399 for the The 4G version…
Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post that Andy Rubin is stepping down from his position as the head of Android development. Rubin will stay at Google and take on another role within the Mountain View company. Replacing him will be Sundar Pichai, who will lead Android as well as continue his work…
The people over at Tinhte got their hands on a mysterious Motorola phone that hasn’t been rumored or leaked via imagery in any way, yet the device sat in someone’s hands for a quite some time for showcase. You’ll notice on the bottom in small print the device reads “Motorola Confidential Property.” That didn’t work out too…
Remember that photo of people dancing in the street to promote Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S IV event? It turns out it wasn’t just a few people performing, but a full-blown flash mob that advertised Thursday’s big Galaxy S IV event. You can watch the flash mob in the video below and let us know in…