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Motorola announced its latest flagship phone, the Moto X and confirmed it would land on all major US carriers. According to Pocket-lint, UK residents can stop drooling over the sleek new handset because it is not coming overseas. Sadly, the X is keeping its roots in the US. A Motorola UK spokesperson provided Pocket-lint with…
One piece of bad news to share about Motorola’s new Moto X phone — the flagship handset will ship with a locked bootloader. According to Droid-Life, Motorola confirmed that the bootloader is “not unlocked.” This revelation may be disappointing but not surprising since the phone is headed to a bunch of carriers and their walled gardens.…
Google and Motorola announced today that the new Moto X will land at five major US carriers when it is released. According to The Verge, Google also will sell a Google Play edition of the Moto X in its online storefront. The Google version of the Moto X will be unlocked and run a stock…
This afternoon at a press event in New York City, Motorola will unveil its flagship phone, the Moto X. It’ll be a closed event, which means there will be no live stream. Motorola will be tweeting the details on its Twitter account, and we will have coverage here. The handset is supposedly the first phone…
Google said last year it was going to end ActiveSync support for new mobile devices on July 31st. According to The Verge, the company has extended that date to December 31st so Microsoft can adequately prepare its Windows Phone platform for the shutdown. This shut down has the biggest impact on Windows Phone users, who…
BGR got its hands on a snapshot of BlackBerry Messenger running on a Galaxy S3. There's not much revealing in the image, just a login screen, but commentary from the source of the leak says the software "isn't bad." That's not exactly a glowing recommendation, but can we really expect people to get excited about…
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled this week that cell phone location data is not protected by the Fourth Amendment and can be accessed by authorities without a search warrant, according to PC World. The ruling claims this information is a business record owned by the carriers and can be turned…
The Surface lineup of Windows tablets are not selling as well as Microsoft hoped. How bad are they doing? Really bad, according to analysis of Microsoft’s annual form 10-K by Todd Bishop of Geekwire. According to the document, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft has recorded Surface tablet revenue of $853 million between October…
British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) recently won a trademark dispute with Microsoft over the SkyDrive name. In a settlement released on Wednesday and picked up by The Verge, Microsoft said it will not appeal the ruling and will change the brand name for its cloud storage service. SkyDrive will continue to be used until the…
Samsung issued a statement explaining why benchmark apps can bump up the Galaxy S4 GPU to 532MHz, while games and other apps cannot. According to the Korean manufacturer, games, which run at max and in full-screen mode for extended periods of time, are not allowed to increase the GPU frequency above 480MHz in order to…