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The other day we’ve told you about Samsung’s plans to launch the Galaxy Gear 2 with cellular connectivity. Dubbed Gear Solo, this smart watch will reportedly debut in South Korea and only later be unveiled in other markets. One of those markets could be the U. S. of A, with Samsung filing a trademark for…
The red version of everyone’s favorite phone is heading to Verizon Wireless. Yup, I’m talking about the HTC One M8 in red, which according to EVleaks, will soon be added to the carrier’s offering. Unfortunately we don’t have the exact date just yet and we’ll have to wait for another few days or weeks to…
PayPal has launched fingerprint-based payments service for the Samsung Galaxy S5 that works in 25 countries. Using this technology users are able to seamlessly and securely make payments at millions of retailers that support PayPal. Plus, to fire things-up, they’ll get free $50 to “spend with their finger.” Customers can use their finger to pay…
Again and again we hear that Amazon is preparing to enter the smartphone market. The online retailer has been expanding its business in recent years and is now selling everything from books to infrastructure and various web services. In the consumer electronics market, Amazon is present with its Kindle ebook readers, Kindle Fire tablets and…
Apple won’t be the only company entering the car market; Microsoft also wants a piece of the action. The Redmond giant has already tried to do this in the past and has even teamed-up with few auto-makers such as Ford, Fiat, Kia, BWM and Nissan. Alas, Windows is still not present in many cars, leaving…
The popular lock-screen replacement app for Android Cover has been acquired by Twitter. We’re not sure what they’ll do with the app, and can only hope it won’t be cancelled along the way. Heck, I would imagine Twitter would want to use this technology to cram Twitter feeds to as many phones as possible, even…
Google keeps adding additional markets to its Play Gift Cards scheme. The latest countries to join-in include Austria, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, where these cards are available in increments of 15, 25 and 50 EUR (Austria, Italy and Spain); or 30, 50 and 100 CHF (Switzerland). With these 4 markets added, Google has… well… another…
Sprint and two of its subsidiaries, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, are launching the Kyocera Verve, a side-sliding feature phone made for heavy texters on a budget. The device comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) screen, 2-megapixel auto-focus camera, 256MB of RAM, 512MB of internal storage, TTY/TDD support, and GPS receiver. Perhaps…
Sony keeps launching its apps to the Google Play Store, allowing for easier updates in the future. The two new titles they’ve released are Sony SmartBand and LifeLog apps, both of which are made to work with their SmartBand accessory. Alas, it’s still not available and as far as we know, it won’t hit the…
MediaTek is already offering quad- and octa-core chips, but what about hexa-core SoCs? Well, they may be looking at that market as well, GizChina is reporting. The still unannounced MT6591 has been caught at Antutu and we get to learn how its 6 cores compare with MediaTek’s other chips. As one would imagine, this SoC…