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Samsung is promoting its new Galaxy S 4 handset with a sweet contest that’ll give away one device to a lucky fan. All you have to do to enter to win is sign up for email updates on Samsung’s website. You do have to give out your email address and mobile number, but for some,…
AT&T is targeting businesses with several new high-capacity Mobile Share plans. The new plans will offer unlimited text /talk and data allotments of 30 GB, 40 GB and 50 GB. Pricing will be equally large with monthly costs of $300, $400 and $500, respectively. Business ustomers can also choose data-only plans with buckets from 4…
Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 launch event was a trip. Unlike other manufacturers that provide detailed looks at new features, Samsung’s event focused more on theatrics than phone details. To showcase some of these enticing additions to the handset, Samsung has released a video walkthrough that demonstrates S Translator, Air View, Dual Camera and Sound &…
Apple rolled out iOS 6.1.3 to iOS owners today. It contains a security that’ll remove a reported lockscreen hack. The hack lets anyone bypass your password and access select information on your iOS device. There’s also improvements in Apple Maps for users in Japan. According to earlier reports by Evasi0n, this version reportedly patches the…
Remember the Droid 4? It launched last year with Android 2.3 and was updated to Ice Cream Sandwich. Now another bump up in the Android OS software for the phone is coming down the pike. The update wil bring the phone to Android 4.0 Jelly Bean and is detailed on Verizon Wireless’ support website. Droid…
Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung mobile, confirmed that Samsung will enter the wearable technology market in the future. Speaking during an interview in Seoul, the executive said the company has been working for a long time on a smartwatch. “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” said Samsung executive vice…
Team Hacksung, the group behind the CyanogenMod ports for earlier Galaxy devices has said the team will skip the Galaxy S 4. XpLoDWilD explains this decision in a post on xda-developers: Nobody at team hacksung (the team behind galaxy s2, note, s3, note2, gtabs… official CM ports) plans to buy it, neither develop for it.…
T-Mobile is the only major carrier in the US that doesn’t offer LTE service. That will soon change as the carrier prepares to fire up its LTE network at the end of the month. Engadget, The Verge, CNET, and Laptop Magazine were able to test out T-Mobile’s nascent (and currently unused) LTE network and recorded…
Google is expected to unveil the Nexus 5 handset at Google I/O later this spring. According to PhoneArena, the handset might not have the rumored 3 GB of RAM and full HD 1080P OLED display, but it may have some fancy camera technology instead. PhoneArena’s sources tell the site that the phone could use camera…
Speaking to The Australian Financial Review, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was very outspoken about BlackBerry 10 and its place in the smartphone market. Heins touted BlackBerry’s new OS, mentioning that the company has seen a fair amount of early adopters who have switched from another platform to BlackBerry 10 OS. BlackBerry may not be winning…