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For one reason or another BlackBerry is having hard time moving its devices off the shelves. Sure they don’t have an app eco-system as vivid as those of Google and Apple, but the Canadian company has north of 100,000 apps. And a great platform. In fact, I would add that the QNX-based BlackBerry OS 10…
South Koreans will soon be able to uninstall bloatware from their phones, the government has decided. According to new guidelines, starting from April – the industry will be forced to allow users to remove unnecessary pre-loaded applications to reduce inconvenience. “The move aims to rectify an abnormal practice that causes inconvenience to smartphone users and…
Looks like Acer may enter the smart watch market later this year, Taipei Times is reporting, suggesting that the Taiwanese company has already demoed its wearable devices to some of its clients during CES in Las Vegas. Alas that demo was held behind closed doors, so we can’t really tell what Acer’s smart watch will…
We’ve “heard it all before.” Samsung is preparing to unveil its very first Tizen-based smartphone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And voila – here’s how it will look like. Called Samsung zEQ 9000, this will be one powerful device with specs that include a 4.8-inch 720p HD screen (1280×720 pixels) and Qualcomm…
BLU Products unveiled a new mid-range device – Vivo 4.8 HD. It’s a pocketable smartphone with 6.9mm thin chassis that offers great value for the money. The underlying specs include a 4.8-inch 720p HD screen, MediaTek’s quad-core chip clocked at 1.5GHz, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal (non-expandable) storage. Moreover, it also packs a…
Samsung and Google “furthered their long-term cooperative partnership” by signing a global patent cross-license agreement covering a range of technologies and business areas. The deal covers the two companies’ existing patents as well as those filed over the next 10 years, allowing each of the two parties to gain access to each other’s patent portfolios.…
The Galaxy Gear comes with one major fault – it works only with select Samsung smartphones like the Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy S III and Galaxy Mega. Let’s say you own some other, non-Samsung device and you want to connect it to the Galaxy Gear – you can’t do it.…
Sprint has added ZTE Optik 2 to its offering. The low-end tablet supersedes the original Optik, which was announced two years ago. Similarly to that model, this is also a rather cheap device, Now Network will offer for just $29.99 with a two-year contract. You may think “wow, that’s an amazing deal,” but hold on.…
Apple may be entering the mobile payments space, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. The company’s iTunes and App Store head Eddy Cue, has apparently met with executives in other industries to discuss the matter. At the same time, the report suggests, Apple’s online store executive Jennifer Bailey has given the job of starting up…
Oppo may launch its next flagship phone Find 7 at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, GizChina is reporting. The upcoming device will rock top-notch hardware, including a 13-megapixel camera with Mems technology that will further be supported by a feature-rich camera app. One of these features could be the Lightfield effect that is…