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Samsung confirmed the details of the Galaxy S III Mini during an event in Germany on Thursday . On the outside, the S III mini may resemble the flagship Galaxy S III, but on the inside, the mini’s hardware features are decidedly at the mid-range level. Most of the leaked Galaxy S III mini specs were confirmed, including…
Verizon finally made it official – the recently announced Motorola DROID RAZR HD and DROID RAZR MAXX HD will land on retail shelves starting October 18. Both the RAZR HD and the RAZR MAXX HD feature a 4.7-inch display, an 8-megapixel camera, NFC, LTE connectivity and either 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage.…
Sprint officially commented on the rumor that it was in acquisition talks with Japanese carrier Softbank and confirmed the report was true. Sprint (NYSE: S) today confirmed that it is currently engaged in discussions with Softbank regarding a potential substantial investment by Softbank in Sprint. Although there can be no assurances that these discussions will…
According to a report in Reuters, Japanese mobile carrier Softbank is in advanced talks to acquire US carrier Sprint Nextel. News of this acquisition was first leaked by public broadcaster NHK. According to the report, the deal would be worth $12.8 billion and is the first international acquisition for Softbank, which is the #3 carrier…
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of AllThingsD talked with Eric Schmidt of Google at an event held at Manhattan”s 92Y. The hour-long conversation discusses Apple’s Map debacle and the platform war between Google and Apple. “The Android-Apple platform fight is the defining fight in the industry today,” said Schmidt. He notes that this race is…
HTC confirmed to Fierce Wireless that the company is moving out of the tablet business in the US. This change in strategy isn’t very surprising as HTC only released three tablet models in the US and none of the products were big sellers. Though it is no longer selling tablets stateside, the company told Fierce…
It’s been rumored for a while that LG is going to make one of the next Nexus handsets. The latest piece of evidence to hit the rumor mill comes from The Verge, which has a screenshot of the inventory system from UK retailer Carphone Warehouse. Smack dab in the middle of the screen is a…
Samsung executive JK Shin confirmed that the company will use a press event in Germany on October 11 to introduce its new Galaxy S III mini. The 4-inch device was produced to meet demand in Europe for a smaller, but powerful Android handset. Soon after this report was published by iNews24 Korea, MobileGeeks leaked the…
According to a report in TmoNews, T-Mobile is no longer allowed to use the Apple iPhone name when marketing its “Bring Your Own Device” program. The BYOD program offered discounted rates to iPhone owners who switched to T-Mobile. This policy change was announced in a leaked internal memo obtained by TmoNews. T-Mobile is the only…
Last year, Verizon Wireless changed its privacy policy and started anonymously tracking mobile phone usage among its customers. All new customers, including iPhone 5 owners, are automatically opted in to this program when they activate a line of service with the carrier. The anonymous tracking collects information like the URLs of websites that you visit…