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Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Bump, the data sharing app which allowed you to share files and other data simply by bumping devices together is being put out to pasture by Google, just a mere four months after Google acquired the app. Bump has been around on iOS and Android for years now, and…
The Moto X has received a considerable price cut today, with the un-subsidized 16GB model dropping from $649 to $399. That’s quite a price drop, and puts the handset in the price category it should have been in the first place. Motorola hasn’t moved as many Moto X handsets as they would have liked in…
Sony’s QX10 and QX100 lens-style cameras appealed to many but not every Sony device works with them, namely the big Xperia Z Ultra. This phablet has been left out because it was too big for the case carrying these two cameras. The Japanese firm acknowledged the problem and has launched a special case for the…
Micromax may not be a household name in the West, but in India they are one of the biggest smartphone vendors with a growing line-up of cool devices. And it wants to serve its customers properly, serving them with KitKat updates before many major vendors get a chance to do the same. According to the…
Good news for owners of Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone. The Taiwanese company is still thinking about you and will get your the Android 4.3 update in mid-February. The information — in case you wonder — came from Jason Mackenzie, the President of HTC America, who shared this little nugget via Twitter. HTC will…
It’s New Years eve, one of the biggest party nights of the year! Unfortunately it’s also one of the biggest nights for drunk driving. As the DUI checkpoints start setting up and the celebratory champagne bottles are popping, an easy to use breathalyzer peripheral would be a great accessory. While it might be a little…
The all too short tale of the Dreamcast is one with many brilliant points of light. Sega’s final console, doomed as it was, had an incredible line-up of games. Shenmue was possibly the brightest of those lights, an RPG set in late-80’s Japan with realistic martial arts combat. Now it looks like the game’s protagonist…
It was another great year for Samsung. The Korean electronics giant maintained its tight grip on the Android smartphone market, increased its sales of tablets and other devices, and continued to make inroads against Apple. Samsung began the year strongly with the hype around the Galaxy S4, and it’s closing the year with the rumor…
The HTC One was clearly one of the most popular smartphones of 2013, but it didn’t come easy for the manufacturer. HTC began the year in the hot seat, with smartphone sales facing a slump. Once top of the heap in the Android smartphone game, the last few years had left HTC a little empty-handed.…
While LG officially came out of the shadows with one of the best smartphones of 2012, the Optimus G, we saw some incredible devices from the company in 2013. Not only did we see some rather dramatic design changes in some of LG’s devices this year, but certain technologies that we’ve been patiently waiting for…