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The new iPhone is expected to be unveiled this Wednesday at an Apple event in San Francisco, but it won’t be the only iPhone-related launches that day. T-Mobile USA has been largely left out of the iPhone fun to date; the carrier has been unable to secure a deal with Apple to offer the iPhone…
The 7″ Android 4.1-running sub-$200 Nexus 7 brings a premium Android experience in a cheap package. The device was the first launched running Google’s latest version of the Android operating system, version 4.1 codenamed “Jelly Bean.” To get to such a low price, Google and ASUS made key omissions in the slate’s design, most notably…
With the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon’s strategy was clear: get the hardware out the door as cheaply as possible to pull more consumers into Amazon’s ecosystem. Of course, one way to accomplish this and boost revenue is via ads, and Amazon confirmed after last week’s unveiling that the new Kindle Fire HD line was ad-supported…
I first heard about Super Hexagon in a Twitter conversion between Engadget Editor in Chief Tim Stevens and Ars Technica’s Senior Gaming Editor Kyle Orl. In a way, I wish I’d never heard of Super Hexagon, as I’ve just about literally only put my iPad down in the last 18 hours or so to sleep. And to…
This morning, it came out that the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 flagship would be released sometime in November across Europe (and AT&T November 2nd, via The Verge). Of course, we didn’t hear that from Nokia, the company which manufactured the device and announced it to the public just a few days ago, we heard…
XDA member and perennial thorn in HTC’s side Football4PDA have released an alleged image of the HTC Accord which suggests the device will launch as the HTC 8X. According to one of the leaked images, touches of HTC’s Sense UI will make its way to the 8X, with HTC’s standard clock and weather widget installed front…
Reuters is reporting this morning that the recently announced Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 flagship device will make its way to European store shelves in early November. An executive at a smaller eastern European-based telecommunications company told Reuters that the company would start selling the Lumia 920 in late November, with major European carriers expected to sell…
Google apps for iOS are being slowly but surely updated by Mountain View, and today the Gmail for iOS app was updated to give users the option to open links in Chrome for iOS instead of Apple’s Safari browser. The update moves Google towards providing Google Apps users an ecosystem within the bigger iOS ecosystem…
When the original Kindle Fire was released, it ran on an outdated version of the Android operating system. The move was expected, however, as Amazon built an extensive user interface atop the Android operating system so that the end-user would be presented with an experience that was truly Amazon’s. Still, we like it when a…
Amazon has just announced the 7″ Kindle Fire HD, which will be a beefed up version of their refreshed Kindle Fire complete with an HD display, HD Front Facing Camera, and a $199 price tag. The new Kindle Fire will launch on September 14th and include the following features: 7-inch HD display with 1280 x 800…