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T-Mobile today has announced the availability of Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 powered Lumia 521, which will be exclusively available on T-Mobile’s network. The device will retail for $29.99 down with 24 monthly payments of $5 for qualified customers who choose a new simple choice plan. The device will be available online and in selected…
AT&T has announced today the launch of a new pre-paid, BYOD subsidiary called Aio Wireless. The new wireless service will offer unlimited talk text and data options with no annual contract. The service is launching in select stores Houston, Orlando and Tampa, with the service coming to other U.S. markets across the U.S. over the…
Pegatron announced its quarterly earnings yesterday and held an investors conference to discuss its results. Out of this event came a report from Business Insider that claimed iPad mini demand was on decline. Pegatron CEO Jason Cheng talked to Philip Elmer DeWitt of Apple 2.0 and refuted this report. Bloomberg’s Tim Culpan quotes the Pegatron…
Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy Tab 3 has been caught at the FCC as the company is preparing to start selling the tablet later this month. The unit government-paid engineers got to play with is a Wi-Fi only model that will only later be followed with 3G-enabled version. If you recall, the Galaxy Tab 3 is…
AT&T is finally rolling out update for its Nokia Lumia 900, bringing Windows Phone 8 to the Finnish company’s previous flagship smartphone. Available through Zune, software build 2175.2307.8862.13100 doesn’t bring a ton of changes but existing users should appreciate it, nonetheless. Here’s what’s included: New start screen experience with resizable tiles New theme colors Lock…
The ever-savvy folks of SamMobile got a hint that in mid-June, Samsung will release Galaxy Note 8.0 in new color. More precisely, they’re saying that the 8-inch tablet will be launched in Brown Black during the week 25, which begins on June 17th. It is unclear which markets will be the first to get Sammy’s…
Looks like Chinese women think mirrors are so last century when they’re turning to smartphones to fix their make-up. We’ve already seen that Oppo Ulike 2 with powerful front-facing camera, and now a similar product is set to hit the local market. Called MeituKiss HD, this Android smartphone comes with two 8-megapixel Sony cameras, one…
A little known Chinese company Beidou (not to be confused with China’s search engine Baidu) will soon launch a pair of decent smartphones, both of which will be available for just $129 (799 Yuan). The first device, Beidou Chi, has a 5-inch screen with 480×854 pixels resolution, MediaTek’s 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel…
Swiss Golden Dreams is out with three luxury “versions” of the iPhone 5, each looking friggin’ awesome and each costing a small fortune. First comes the CarbonGold iPhone 5 which boasts a real carbon fibre coated with 99.9% pure gold. Making this happen wasn’t child’s play, requiring Golden Dreams to develop an advanced technique to…
Sony is apparently working on another mid-range smartphone which will likely be released by the end of the third quarter. Marked as CX190, it will come with an everything-but-impressive specs sheet and in that sense we tend to think it won’t break anyone’s bank. Back to the specs… It is said that this phone will…