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You don’t necessarily have to know about Karbonn smartphones. No one does, except folks in India’s mobile industry. Their latest gig, Karbonn S1 Titanium, offers quite a bang for the back, sporting a quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz, and a price tag of just 10,990 INR (about 150 EUR). Sure enough, the rest of the…
Last year Nokia sold 90% of its luxury arm Vertu to EQT. The new owners want to change how things are run under the hood and are preparing to adopt Android for its uber-expensive smartphones. We still don’t know when the first Android-based Vertu smartphone will launch, but we’re sure it won’t be an Average…
The Sony Music Unlimited service now offers users the ability to listen to high quality audio through the service’s PC (Windows and Mac OS), Android smartphones and tablets, and PlayStation3 (PS3) computer entertainment system applications. The improved sound quality is activated from an option in Music Unlimited’s settings menu, allowing you to stream 320kbps AAC…
ZTE is preparing to launch a new member of its Blade smartphone series. Dubbed Blade C, the device is already available in China (and known as ZTE V889S), where users can buy one for 699 CNY (about $112). In other parts of the world, the same phone will be marked as V807 and T807, packing…
GoSmart mobile, a new pre-paid low-cost mobile brand from T-Mobile will be coming in February, according to Fierce Wireless sources. T-Mobile has already received encouraging numbers from select test markets last December, and has used those numbers to determine the efficacy of a nationwide rollout. The pricing scemes are very reasonable, and give other prepaid plans a…
Sprint is currently pushing out Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean updates to the Galaxy Nexus. This is happening after The Now Network issued a major update a couple of weeks ago. The new Android 4.2.1 (build JRO03U.L700GA02) brings the following improvements: Redesigned camera interface and new Photosphere feature (a 360-degree panorama mode) Notifications Shade accessible by…
Honestly, I rarely need a reason to show off my love for Niantic@Google’s Ingress, but I try to. If you’re a fan of the game, then you might be looking where to score some official Ingress swag, and now the Google Store is the place to find it. The shirts went live on Google’s online…
Last week, invitations rolled out for HTC’s simultaneous press events in New York City and London on February 19th. With HTC already confirming that they will be making no major announcements at Mobile World Congress this year, and with rumors of the upcoming HTC M7 abounding, we can only assume that the HTC M7 will finally be…
Google is on a roll today when it comes to putting out updates for its apps. The search giant put out a new version (4.5) of its Google Music Play app. Version 4.5 addresses a lot of pressing issues for GMusic users such as longer instant mixes, improved shuffling of songs, and new album art…
Today the Google+ Android received a new update that changes the way the notification system works. The revamped notification tray allows users to add a link between a photo or mood during any post. Now Google plus’rs just need to tap to easily enter a URL. The user interface of the notification tray has also changed, as the…