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Here’s the story of an iPhone-stealing, gibberish-texting fox that you are not likely to forget. The tale starts in Norway when 16-year-old Lars Andreas Bjercke and his friends noticed a fox hanging around the outskirts of his yard. To get the animal to come closer, he installed an app that attracts foxes by simulating the sounds…
Clove, a smartphone retailer located in the United Kingdom, has the blue HTC 8S in stock and ready to ship. The mid-range Windows Phone 8 device is priced at the affordable cost of £224. At this price customers don’t get the quality of the flagship 8X, but some pretty reasonable specs instead. The HTC 8S carries a 1Ghz dual-core…
Nokia has tried to do as much as it can to separate its Windows Phone handsets from the rest of the competition. The company has released a number of exclusive apps over the past few weeks which include Groupon, ESPN, Nokia Maps, Drive, Transit, Music and City Lens. Now the Finnish company is releasing yet another exclusive…
Apple is ramping up its inventory of the iPhone 5 and making it readily available for the holiday shopping season. As noticed by CNET, ship times for the iPhone 5 have dropped to 2-4 days, down from one week. At its peak, ship times for the handset ballooned to three to four weeks due to…
News Corp’s London Times has thought of a creative way to offer new customers a deal on membership to its paper. The Times is dangling a 32GB Nexus 7 tablet for just £50 when you sign up to a £4 per week subscription to its tablet edition. If you do some quick math that would…
Bloomberg is reporting troubling times for Windows tablets this holiday season. According to one industry analyst, early demand for Microsoft Surface, the company’s self-built Windows RT tablet, has been disappointing, leading Microsoft to allegedly reduce the number of Surface RT units ordered from its distributors. The same can be said of alternative Windows-based tablets, with the…
Good news for folks with AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S III as you should be able to get your Jelly Bean fix as we speak. It’s not an over-the-air affair and you’ll rather have to connect your beloved smartphone to a computer and fire-up the ever-annoying Samsung Kies software. However, it’s well worth…
Almost missed this… Amazon Appstore is now live in Japan, bringing its vast selection of apps and games, along with the ever-convenient one-click payments to the local Android users. Of course, aside from global best-sellers the store also offers “local favorites” and apps from “top-tier brands like Square Enix and NTT Docomo.” In addition, there…
It was Cyber Monday, 2012, and Amazon was offering a deal on their Kindle tablets. I quickly snatched up a 2nd-gen Kindle Fire for my mom’s x-mas present, as she (like everyone else this holiday season) wanted a tablet. When the unit arrived a few days later on the doorstep, I immediately had my greedy…
It’s the beginning of the month, and that means Google has updated its Android version share chart. Google collects the specific versions of Android accessing the Google Play Store to get these numbers, and to no surprise, Jelly Bean has picked up a bit. Android 4.1 and 4.2 Jelly Bean are now 6.7% of devices…