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Nokia’s new flagship Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 1020, was announced last week during a NYC press event. Customers who want the handset at launch can head to AT&T’s website now and secure a unit before it hits retail channels. Pre-orders will ship on July 23rd, and the handset will land in stores on July…
Sprint is gearing up to launch its first Tri-band LTE devices later this week. The wireless carrier announced today that it would start selling the MiFi 500 LTE, Netgear Zing Mobile Hotspot, and the Netgear 341U USB Modem on July 19th. The three devices support LTE on the 800MHz, 1900MHz and 2.5GHz bands. Sprint is rolling out…
According to the Financial Times, Apple is reportedly looking to hire engineers with a background in wearable computing to work on its smart watch. Inside sources say Apple is struggling with engineering problems and needs to bring in additional talent. Details on the technological hurdles that are styming Apple were not revealed by the anonymous…
In what is likely a gross violation of Apple’s NDA, all the WWDC 2013 session videos have been uploaded to YouTube. As reported by Macstories and noted by Colloquy developer Timothy Hatcher, the videos are being hosted by an account named WWDCVideos and is probably not an official account. This account was created on June…
Microsoft is trying to revive sales of its Windows RT tablets by slashing the prices on the tablet device. The US Store is now selling the basic version of the tablet for $349, down from its original price tag of $499. The basic model includes 32GB of storage and does not include a keyboard. All RT models are…
According to China’s Xinhua news agency, a 23-year-old Xinjiang woman was electrocuted when she answered her iPhone while it was charging. The victim, Ma Ailun, was a resident of the city of Changji and a former flight attendant for China Southern Airlines. The news of the electrocution hit Chinese microblog Sina Weibo and has spread quickly in the…
Google’s Eric Schmidt, along with other notable business and tech leaders, attended the annual Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference that was held yesterday in Idaho. According to Corriere.it, the Google chairman was rocking a Motorola X during the event. The photos posted by the Italian site show a phone with an all black front and…
eBay asked two hundred people to live without apps for four days and then asked them to report on the quality of their lives four days after their app-using rights had been restored. The results, represented in the infographic below, show that smartphone owners absolutely love their apps. According to the experiment results, one-third of…
Sorella Stoute is an enterprising little girl. Just shy of 15-months, the toddler has already purchased her first car and conned her father into fixing it up for her 16th birthday. According to KOIN.com, the tale of the car-buying child starts with some innocent play time on her father’s smartphone. Rather than sticking with a learning game,…
Nokia took to the stage in New York City today and unveiled the rumored Lumia 1020. The press event kicked off with a focus on cameras, and it’s clear that Nokia is trying to grab the title of the king of the camera phone with this new Lumia phone. The phone has a 41-megapixel backside illuminated sensor, Zeiss…