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T-Mobile posted its quarterly earnings for the second quarter of 2013, and it was good news on the subscriber front for the wireless carrier. T-Mobile announced that it added over 1.1 million net subscribers in the quarter, its largest reported growth in four years and an increase of 1.3 million from the same quarter last…
Alleged phone thief Hafid is the star of a tumblr photoblog, and he doesn’t even know it. The story of how he became an unwitting Internet star begins with an early morning skinny dip in the Mediterranean. After a night of partying, a group of tourists decided to go for a naked swim in the warm…
LG is ready to take the official wraps of its G2 flagship phone at an 11AM press event in New York City. We’ve already seen a handful of details and even a stock photo of the Android phone hit the rumor mill, so all that’s left is for LG to fill in the details. We’ll…
According to Phone Arena, Samsung and AT&T are offering some relief to Galaxy S4 Active owners with water-damaged phones. Sources claim there is a memo in AT&T’s internal system that instructs representatives to offer customers a replacement for their water-damaged Galaxy S4 Active. Customers must have purchased their S4 Active from AT&T, and they can…
Samsung is anxious for the world to know that it is bringing the upcoming BlackBerry Messenger for Android to its Galaxy smartphones. Though RIM has been silent on the launch of the pending BBM mobile applications, Samsung is at the forefront, announcing that the app is coming to the Google Play store and Samsung App…
An Australian woman was duped by a fraudster who sold her two iPhones that were actually real apples. In the case reported by the Herald Sun, a 21-year-old woman posted an ad to online classifieds service Gumtree that said she wanted to buy two iPhones. She promptly received a response from another lady who said she…
Samsung is sending out invites to an Unpacked event scheduled for September 4th. The invites hint the event will introduce the next Galaxy, which is presumably the Note III. The Note II was introduced at the end of August last year at a similar event. The main event will take place in Berlin, ahead of…
Samsung Taiwan’s latest ad for the Galaxy S4 uses some Harry Potter-inspired magic to showcase the features of the Android smartphone. The commercial kicks off with Dumbledore-like figure addressing students while they sit in a lecture hall at in a building resembling Hogwarts. A female student one ups Harry Potter with her own flavor magic,…
Korean ad agency Fllu is at the center of a controversial promotion in which developers were offered money to mention Samsung’s upcoming app challenge on developer website Stack Overflow. According to The Verge, Samsung claims the ad agency was acting on its own and asserts it was not aware of the cash for content scheme.…
T-Mobile confirmed to AllThingsD that the carrier will not stock the Moto X in stores at launch. Customers who want the Google-backed handset must head to Motorola’s online storefront to make their purchase. AllThingsD reached out to T-Mobile after it (and Verizon Wireless) failed to release a press release with launch information about the phone.…