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In the market for a new flash drive or SD card? You’re in luck! Amazon has some hot deals on Sony SD cards and flash drives today, giving you up to 65% off of normal prices for a substantial amount of memory. Amazon is offering deals on microSD cards, flash drives and regular old SD…
Dancing to charge your phone? That’s exactly what Nokia envisions for the future of device charging, detailed in a humorous video released by the Finnish device manufacturer. While the tech isn’t quite ready to go, it could be the way of the future. If you thought Glassholes were bad, just wait until everyone is dancing…
Microsoft’s virtual assistant Cortana is looking pretty slick, and could prove to provide Windows Phone users a virtual assistant the likes of Apple’s Siri and Google’s Android based Google Now. A video from UnleashThePhones.com shows Cortana in action on a device running Windows Phone 8.1. It’s the best peek into Cortana we’ve seen so far, with…
Smartphones that have the ability to boot into either Android or Windows Phone are coming soon, according to The Times of India. Indian smartphone manufacturer Karbonn Mobiles is said to release multiple dual-OS devices by this June, targeting professionals as well as early adopters. Karbonn recently signed a license agreement with Microsoft, allowing the company…
Verizon has revealed a new pre-paid plan which takes dead aim at its competitors, specifically that magenta colored one. Verizon’s new ALLSET plans offer customers unlimited talk and text beginning at $35 for feature phones and $45 a month for smartphone customers. To solve customers’ data woes, Verizon has created BRIDGE DATA which connects ALLSET…
India’s Karbonn was one of the new partners Microsoft has cornered to make Windows Phone devices. And guess what – they plan to go beyond that idea and launch a smartphone that can dual-boot to either Android or Windows Phone. According to the recent Times of India article, this smartphone could be launched by June…
During Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced new partners that will make Windows Phone devices. One of them was Lenovo, which — we’re hearing — will be out with its very first Windows Phone 8.1 device by “early summer.” According to the rumor from WP7Fourm.ru, the Chinese company could finish this product by April…
The rumored Samsung Huron Windows Phone will be branded as the ATIV SE upon release, according to @evleaks. The Huron, or ATIV SE as it will be known is expected to come touting a 4.3 inch display, 4G LTE, dual-cameras and the usual Samsung sensor array. The device could rock a quad-core Snapdragon processor, as…
Could selfies be leading to an increase in teen lice outbreaks? It’s an interesting proposition, but probably not. A report surfaced a few days back via SFist which claimed that an increase in teen head lice infestations was due in part to the popularity of selfies, particularly of the group variety. That may not be…
Ever wonder how people around the world access the internet? Sure, in most first-world countries, we have cheap and easy access to fast broadband, but there are still some countries that don’t have the luxury of using that 10Mbps connection. A new infographic showing how the world consumes the internet has arrived with some very…