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If for some reason you want to buy a Kindle or Kindle Fire tablet from Walmart, your time may soon be running out. Walmart announced today their intentions to stop selling Amazon’s line of Kindle devices once its commitments and inventory run out, a move the retailer chalks up to its “merchandising strategy.” What’s unclear at…
T-Mobile will be preloading The Avengers movie on Samsung Galaxy S III, starting from September 25th. The no. 1 movie of the year and 3rd biggest release of all time, The Avengers will be virtually pre-loaded on all T-Mobile Galaxy S III smartphones in HD quality on the same day when it becomes available on…
AT&T and Sprint have started rolling out software updates for their respective versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III. AT&T is pushing out an 82MB heavy download (build version IMM76D.I747UCALH9) that comes with just a few noticeable changes — we think there’s more under the hood. For instance, the settings menu has been reworked as…
Two high-end smartphones have been caught at the FCC’s website. The first one is international version of the Nokia Lumia 920, which comes with support for five LTE bands used outside of the US and zero within. Hopefully, the U.S. specific model will follow soon so that AT&T could launch it on October 21st. The…
Savvy hackers from the XDA-Developers community have managed to get hold of a non-complete build of Windows Phone 7.8 firmware for a Nokia phone and port it to HTC HD7. Since this is a very early stage build, not everything is working smoothly. Quite the contrary, those looking to try this out will get only…
The hot-new Motorola Razr HD will apparently hit Europe by the end of this month. According to FrAndroid, two of the largest mobile operators in France, Orange and SFR, will start offering the Android smartphone in the next few weeks. Unfortunately, we still don’t have the price tag, but I would guess both carriers will…
Samsung isn’t holding back in its advertising war against Apple. Similar to earlier commercials, Samsung’s latest video pokes fun at iPhone fans who are waiting in line for the iPhone 5. The ad showcases the NFC-based photo sharing in the Galaxy S III, the GS3’s larger screen and its 4G connectivity. The clip ends with…
Apple released iOS 6 today and the update is now starting to hit the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Be patient as not everyone is seeing the update, and if you are getting the update, it may take time to download and install. iOS 6 brings a new Maps app, Facebook integration, shared photo streams,…
At a press event this morning, HTC unveiled two Windows Phone 8 devices, the flagship HTC 8X and mid-range HTC 8S, both of which will make their way to carriers around the world this November. HTC 8X The HTC 8X is the flagship phone in HTC”s Windows Phone 8 line. The 8X will be available…
Leave it to AT&T to somehow manage to tarnish its reputation even further. If you were like me and plenty of other people, on Thursday night before iPhone 5 pre-orders went on sale, you stayed up until 3 a.m. in the morning on the east coast (or midnight on the west) to be one of…