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Sony is kicking off a weekly promotion on select PlayStation Mobile games. The promotion starts this week and lasts for six weeks, with a new game on sale each week. The first game to be featured is Samurai Beatdown, an endless runner-style game with a catchy soundtrack. Customers will need a PS Vita or a PlayStation Certified Sony smartphone or…
Nokia is getting another exclusive perk to its Lumia Windows Phone 8 handsets. The finnish-based manufacturer just released an Xbox game called Blobster for all its users on both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.x devices. Here are the features included in the game: Levels like you’ve never seen before! Amazing level design will have players…
Samsung is expanding its color palette of Galaxy Note II handsets. The smartphone manufacturer has an ad in its home country of Korea, and it shows off two new colors: amber brown and ruby wine. These are much-needed additions, especially since the phablet now sells with the stale colors of marble and titanium grey. The new colors…
FaceTime over cellular launched with iOS 6 last year and AT&T caused a stir when it limited the service to customers on a Mobile Share data plan. It alleviated a bit of that customer hostility when it made the service available to tiered data plan customers on an LTE connection. Now, the company is opening up…
We’ve told you that Samsung has started rolling out updates to address the Exynos security vulnerabilities. These fixes have now reached the U.S. with Sprint and T-Mobile rolling out small updates for the Epic 4G Touch and Galaxy Note II, respectively. Aside from fixing the “Exynos issue,” the update Sprint Epic 4G Touch users will…
In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, an Asus exec revealed that its company is “in talks” with Microsoft over licensing Windows Phone 8. No details were given but we do expect to see the first product running Microsoft’s mobile platform by the end of this year. We don’t have any inside information or…
You may’ve heard that ZTE is working on a low-cost smartphone with big, 5-inch screen. While we still don’t know when such a device will be released in the west, we know it’s first heading to east, where one of China’s big three carriers will start selling it in the near future. The ZTE U956…
Huawei is trying to redefine what an entry-level smartphone means with its new G520 smartphone. The China-only device will hit the local stores on January 21st with a price tag of 1,399 yuan, which translates into some $225. What makes this product significant is that it has a quad-core CPU and a large IPS screen…
Previously we’ve told you that Huawei will likely unveil the Ascend P2 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We’ve also told you that the Chinese company will likely make it the world’s thinnest smartphone. And now we have the first glimpse of the specs sheet, courtesy of ChinaSmartphoneReview (via HDBlog). Apparently, the Ascend P2 sports…
The Archos GamePad is already available in Europe but if you live in the US, the only way to get it from some importer. If you don’t like how that sounds and would rather wait for Archos to brings its baby to the States, you’ll be glad to know that this will happen at some…