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AT&T is offering 50% its devices when purchased online with a two-year contract, from now until June 30th. The deal comes attached to another offer, which is an in-store trade-in program which applies a $100 discount when a customer trades in a device no more than 3 years old. Android Central pointed to the fine…
Samsung Petrochemical, the materials wing of Samsung, has formed a partnership with SGL Group to invest in developing composite materials. Samsung’s plasticky phones may be a thing of the past! Carbon based products firm, SGL Group, has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Samsung to develop electronics that use carbon composite. Carbon fiber is commonly…
Anyone with both a smartphone and a car knows the perils the car charger. Whether it ends up wrapped around the shifter, the parking break, or your passenger’s leg, the long, thin cable snaking from beneath your radio is always getting in the way, and tangling itself in knots. Now TYLT has come up with…
Microsoft today announced the availability of the official LivingSocial app for Windows Phone 8. Now users get all they can handle from one of the top daily deals sites around. This isn’t just some half-assed mobile application, as many of the key WP8 features come with it such as the ability to see deals on…
American Airlines has just become the first major commercial airline to deploy electronic flight bags in their cockpits, which offer Apple iPads in lieu of the traditional paper-based reference materials that pilots must transport with them on flights. The use of tablets in the cockpits will bring generous fuel savings thanks to the reduction in…
Some new pictures of Sony’s rumored Togari phablet are here today, as well as a name change. The Togari will in fact be named the Xperia ZU, and will feature a Galaxy Note like build without physical navigation keys. The leaked pictures depict the white Xperia ZU, which keeps to the design aesthetics of the…
Apple released iOS 7 beta 2 for developers today and while it unfortunately doesn’t focus on improving the often-criticized design flaws, it does bring some minor improvements to features across the OS. The two main takeaways of the beta 2 is that it brings back the Voice Memos app, which was missing in action for…
According to a report from BGR, Apple has released the next beta version of iOS 7 to carriers, iOS 7 beta 2. Typically, iOS updates are released to carriers before developers, so the carrier rollout means that developers will get a release of the build soon as well. iOS 7 beta has been available for…
Huawei has announced the MediaPad 7 Vogue today, a seven-inch tablet that sets itself apart from other similarly sized Android tablets by offering voice calling and SMS. The MediaPad 7’s receiver functions on quad-band GSM and UMTS networks, and can support 3G connections of up to 42MBPS. The MediaPad 7 will also come in a…
HP is thinking big when it comes Android, rolling out the mobile OS on a 21.5-inch hybrid all-in-one tablet. According to CNET, the HP Slate 21 functions as a standalone tablet as well as a desktop with keyboard and mouse. The Slate 21 is powered by a Tegra 4 mobile processor with a 21.5-inch HD…