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AT&T, in an attempt to perhaps rifle off more sales, is offering customers a discount on a new iPhone before their contracts are up. The way this works is folks go to their accounts by way of online, where they’ll find an option to upgrade to an iPhone for a discount. The deal is for…
Hollywood types apparently enjoy mixing and matching phones and platforms, taking what they deem the best for broadcast TV. As spotted by WMPoweruser, Netflix’s newest independent series, Orange is the New Black, features an unbranded Lumia handset running a flavor of iOS. In one segment, the boxy and beautiful Windows Phone handset has received an…
Speculation out of the Wall Street Journal suggests Apple is working on iPhones and iPads with larger screens. Sources told the WSJ that Asian suppliers are providing the Cupertino company with iPhone screens larger than 4-inches and tablets with displays that measure almost 13-inches. Apple is reportedly testing these displays in prototype devices. There is…
Nokia announced on its Conversations blog that it plans on unveiling something BIG tomorrow at 9 AM UK time. The orange teaser image on Nokia’s website reveals little to nothing about the announcement, leaving us to speculate what the company is trying to hype. Could it be a new Asha phone, a partnership with Orange,…
Apple is acquiring mobile transit app, HopStop, according to reports in Bloomberg and Mashable. Bloomberg first reported the acquisition on Saturday, and Mashable then contacted Apple which confirmed the deal. Details on the dollar amount Apple will pay to acquire the mobile transit app was not disclosed. HopStop provides users with route and schedule information for subways and…
On Sunday, Apple confirmed its developer portal was hacked and that some information from its developer database may have been stolen. In a statement sent out to developers, Apple said it detected an intrusion last week and shut down the site immediately. Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers…
What we have here is apparently the Oppo Find 5 running Windows Phone 8. The problem, however, is that we’re not sure whether the image above is the real deal or just a mockup made by a fan of Microsoft’s mobile platform. We’d like to think that Chinese Oppo is looking beyond Android to reach…
We’ve already told you that lucky Koreans got the better version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, one that not only has a newer and faster processor (Qualcomm Snapdragon 800) but also support for faster mobile data transfer with LTE-Advanced (or just LTE-A). Well that model will also be released in other parts of the world…
Good ol’ ASUS may have problems bringing its fancy devices on time to many markets around the world, but once their products are launched, they usually get a good treatment. Take the original ASUS PadFone for example. Even though we have two newer models, PadFone 2 and PadFone Infinity, the Taiwanese company keeps launching updates…
BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 users, this one’s for you. iHeartRadio launched a dedicated app for BlackBerry 10 devices, providing users with instant access to more than 1,500 live broadcast and digital-only radio stations, as well as user-created custom stations from a catalog of more than 16 million songs by over 400,000 artists. Plus there’s the…