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Facebook ability to make money up from its mobile services up until this point has been insubstantial. Enter Gifts. It’s a new way for Facebook users to send real gifts to each other in the mail for special occasions and it’s available on the Facebook website as well as the mobile apps. Cha-ching. Facebook Gifts work…
Not too long ago Samsung used IFA to announce the Galaxy Note II. This didn’t stop the Korean based manufacturer’s plans of a much grander launch of the phone-tablet in the United States. We found an invite in our inbox titled “The Next Big Thing Is Here,” which will be an event held in New…
RIM announced its earnings for Q2 2013 and the company performed better than expected. RIM posted a net loss of $235 million in the quarter, which is significantly better than the $518 million loss reported in Q1. Revenue climbed slightly from $2.8 million in Q1 to $2.9 million in Q2, a 2 percent quarterly increase.…
According to a Digitimes report, Google is working on two new versions of the Nexus 7 tablet that are expected to be thinner than the currently available model, and would launch ahead of the 2012 holiday season. The two Nexus 7 tablets would be aggressively priced at $99 and $199, with the lower price believed to be aimed…
When the upcoming Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 devices were announced back in early September, the two notable pieces missing from the picture were the pricing and release date for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 headsets. Today, we’re starting to see these details emerge for some locales across Europe, with Nokia’s Germany, Italy, and Russia divisions…
Looks like the recently approved by the FCC HTC One X+ will be launched pretty soon as we got the first leaked image of the device, compliments of EVleaks. As far as we know, the only difference between this and the original One X model is in the faster CPU — the One X+ comes with…
Not that we’re surprised or something – Boost Mobile officially unveiled LG Venice, which it their version of the Optimus L3 aka Splendor (for US Cellular). The mid-end device runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, packing a 4.3-inch WVGA screen, 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 3G and…
Display experts from DisplayMate claim that the new iPhone has the highest contrast rating of any mobile device they have seen. Moreover, they say that the iPhone 5’s screen also has improved screen reflectance and significantly improved color quality and color accuracy. The iPhone 5’s screen is “not perfect and there is plenty of room…
Samsung officially announced that its hot-new Galaxy Note II will start selling in the UK starting from October 1st. Initially, it will be available from the Samsung Brand Store at Westfield, Stratford City and across all major networks in the UK. At the same time, popular third-party retailers unveiled their offerings. Phones4U if giving away…
TechThoughts prepared an excellent analysis predicting the number of iPhone 5 units Apple will sell in the next year. Here are the highlights… Based on the Q4 sales estimate of 22 million units and the QoQ shipment growth trends, Apple could sell 60-70 million units in the Americas over the next four quarters. In Europe,…