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What’s better than finally getting your hands on the gold iPhone 5S? Watching it get destroyed via .50 caliber in slo-mo, that’s what! The bros over at RatedRR, known for their blending of high-powered firearms and bleeding edge technology. Their newest entry shows the highly sought after “champagne” colored iPhone 5S going through a few…
BlackBerry will not be launching any new BB10 devices until March of next year, according to a report from Pocket-Lint. BlackBerry currently has four BB10 devices on the market, the BlackBerry Z10, Z30, Q10 and the Q5. BlackBerry had stated in 2012 that 2013 would see six BB10 devices released, but due to BlackBerry’s hard…
An old Apple patent that surfaced recently shows the company was potentially ahead of the curve when it came to gesture-swipe-typing for the keyboard on its iOS devices. The illustration (shown above) pulled from government documents displays similar functionality seen on popular third-party keyboard, Swype. By filing for a patent like this, it shows Apple…
Nokia will be launching six new devices at its Innovation Reinvented event in Abu Dhabi next month on October 22nd, according to The Verge. Along with the new devices will come a host of new accessories. One of the devices to be released is assumed to be the Nokia Lumia 1520, which is rumored to…
In addition to new tablets, Amazon has also unveiled an updated Fire OS platform with few extra tweaks that helps it differentiate from an army of other Android tablets. Based on Android 4.2.2 (as far as we’ve understood), Fire OS 3.0 aka Mojito got a revamped UI that feels much cleaner and more modern. Improved…
Amazon unveiled a trio of new tablets; Let’s start with the low-end model and go from there. First there’s the updated version of Kindle Fire HD that got a new 1.5GHz dual-core chip from Texas Instruments, which Amazon says will deliver up to 60% performance boost compared to the old model. The screen remains the…
BlackBerry may launch another low-end QWERTY smartphone soon. The device codenamed BlackBerry Kopi has been caught in the wild and brought to our attention by the folks of BGR. The device is described as an entry-level smartphone that lacks LTE connectivity support and could therefore — presuming it’s not cancelled — found its buyers in…
At the end of August, we’ve talked about the super-thin Vivo X3 smartphone, which likely won’t be released anywhere in the West. The same company is now working on an even more impressive product, one that has a swivel camera a la some fairly old Nokia N-Series devices like the N90, N93 and N93i at…
Music discovery company SoundHound added cloud support to its mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. SoundHound users are now able to access their music search and discovery libraries across multiple devices, and restore the entire music library when installing SoundHound on a new smartphone or tablet. “While we all love to get our hands…
LG is no stranger when it comes to setting hugely ambitious goals for itself, as the company last year shot for a 35 million smartphones sold target. So lacking in confidence is not in the description for the Korean based electronics giant. The company’s latest proclamation is it plans to sell 10 million G2 handsets…