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Apple seems to take one misstep after another recently with these minor iOS updates. iOS 6.1.1 was issued to fix cellular problems on the iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.2 resolved some WiFi and Exchange issues with 6.1.1, and iOS 6.1.3 was supposed to fix the lock screen bypass but apparently did not. Now there’s even more…
One of the most popular iPad apps of all time, Flipboard, is out with version 2.0 of its app. It’s nothing too radical, but it does bring an abundance of new features. Overall, it helps move the app into the future and intensify competition with other personalized magazines like Zite. The main attraction in Flipboard…
Not too much buzz has been surrounding Mozilla’s Firefox OS lately, probably because the company is hard at work developing it behind the scenes. Mozilla did share a demo recently that you’re able to watch below of the operating system running on a prototype Dreamfone, which is a low-end Firefox OS phone announced at Mobile…
We reported in January that Sprint would finally start a lineup of Windows Phone 8 handsets with one Samsung device and one HTC device, but that’s as specific as it got. Now we have the two devices rumored for release soon on the carrier: the Samsung Ativ S and the HTC Tiara, the latter of…
An internal memo from HTC that leaked out to the public has been confirmed as authentic. The memo talked about unexpectedly strong pre-order numbers for the company’s new flagship Android device, the HTC One. Normally this would be excellent news, but it might actually pose a problem for the manufacturer that had to delay the…
Nokia’s very low-end Windows Phone 8-based Lumia 521 has gotten FCC approval and is headed to T-Mobile here in the United States starting on an unspecified release date. The international equivalent announced at MWC 2013, the Lumia 520, goes on sale soon in various markets worldwide. The specs on this thing aren’t blow-away, but they…
Evernote just released a very useful update for Android owners of the app. It brings a handful of new photo features within notes, better document organization, and a special offer for Deutsche Telekom subscribers. The first of the additions is Page Camera, which helps improves the scanning of documents (as well as pages from the Evernote…
Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt admitted to using a BlackBerry as his primary smartphone in an interview with Guardian at the Activate conference. One might assume someone with a high ranking at Google would be using an Android phone, but that’s apparently not the case. Schmidt says the main reason for using his BlackBerry…
A new study examining the ways Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S III users use their devices found that despite our constant feuding online and sometimes in person, we’re all much more alike than we think. The Consumer Intelligence Research Partners released the report which surveyed 500 iPhone users and 500 GSIII users in January and…
HTC One has been in the news quite a bit lately, in some cases for good reasons and others for bad. The somewhat negative spotlight its been getting revolves around the delay. Now according to a press release from HTC, we know some more specifics: the HTC One will arrive in the United states by…