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If HTC has its way, soon the term Megapixel will deleted from our lexicon. Instead, “Ultrapixel” will become the new way to measure the capacity of smartphone cameras. Pocket-Lint has reported that HTC is to use this new camera technology, already in use by a host of manufacturers, in the upcoming M7. HTC will use…
T-Mobile is getting some real work in today. The fourth largest wireless provider in the United States is pushing out small over-the-air updates to the Samsung Galaxy Note and Relay 4G (check out our review here). Both of these devices will only see security enhancements in this minor update. However, Magenta is doing a solid…
Best Buy wants you to buy a new phone from its stores and will reward you with a $50 gift card for your purchase. The retailer’s $50 gift card deal requires you to sign up for the deal before February 9th and then both buy and activate a new phone anytime between February 10 and…
BlackBerry and Samsung spent big money to get a spot in the Super Bowl. BlackBerry took a different approach and aired an ad that shows everything that a BlackBerry can’t do. BlackBerry chief marketing officer Frank Boulben had this say about the idea behind the commercial: “In our debut appearance at the Super Bowl we knew that it…
BLU Products is well-known to offer decent yet affordable smartphones and their latest products are no exception. Three new products they’ve launched all offer quite a bang for the buck, packing a 1.5GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip and Android 4.0 (upgradable to Jelly Bean). There are also few differences included: Quattro 4.5 comes with…
Samsung Ukraine announced Jelly Bean updates for the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Ace 2. The former will get its serving of Android 4.1 on March 1st, while the latter will be treated with the same goodies in late April. As you can imagine these are the general dates that may wary depending on the country.…
Google has pushed new code to AOSP (Android Open Source Project), marking it with 2 new tags: android-4.2.1_r1.1 and android-4.2.1_r1.2. The build number corresponding to the 4.2.1_r1.2 release is JOP40G, with mentions of JOP40F and JOP40E along the way, too. There are no major changes included, and Bluetooth fixes will have to wait for the…
Sony has started the marketing push for its latest flagship, Xperia Z, in the UK. Under the deal, the first 1000 users who pre-order the device from Three, O2, Phones4U or Carphone Warehouse will get a free premium headphones, worth 299 GBP (Sony MDR-1R Prestige headphones). Here’s the rundown of all the offers: Three: Available…
Sony has started rolling out Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean firmware update for the Xperia T, aka the Bond phone. The software version 9.1.A.0.489 comes with all of the goodies Android 4.1 brings — including Google Now, improved push notifications and Project Butter enhancements — as well as Sony’s own software updates that should make your…
HTC and Sony’s Playstation division are offering several games for free to select smartphone owners. Not all HTC devices are affected, as your phone must be running Android 4.1 and Sense 4+. So the list includes the HTC One V, One S, One X, One XL, One EVO 4G LTE and One X+; though not…