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Wow, that was faster than expected. Yesterday, we’ve told you that Samsung is looking to launch a beefed-up version of the Galaxy S5 in Korea and voila – it’s now officially official, and it will soon hit the portfolio of the local operator, SK Telecom. The Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A has all the bells and…
Samsung is teaming-up with Marvel to bring some superhero love to its army of users all around the world. Under the global multi-medium partnership, we’ll see the Korean company preloading Marvel’s content and services on its devices, and getting product placements deals in some of the upcoming blockbusters based on Marvel’s heroes. The press release…
Duracell is teaming-up with Starbucks and Teavana tea bars to add 100,000 Powermat spots across the two firm’s stores. As you would imagine, this scheme will start with the San Francisco Bay area and eventually expand throughout the U.S. Under the deal, Powermat spots will be installed on tables and counters, allowing folks to add…
Amazon is joining the music streaming game with its own Prime Music service, which is available for free to existing Prime subscribers, while the rest of the world will have to buy it separately. There’s a free 30-day trial period to try out the service and only then decide whether it delivers the goods in…
Samsung keeps announcing new devices like it’s nobody’s business. And yes, we’re having hard time keeping up with all of their different series and models. Their latest phone is called Galaxy Core Lite and it’s one of those devices you should know about only to never buy it. I understand Samsung’s desire to cover every…
Roughly a month ago we’ve seen Sprint and Virgin Mobile adding the Kyocera Hydro Vibe to their respective portfolios; now it’s Boost Mobile’s time. They got the Hydro Icon, which too is rugged and can be completely submerged in up to one meter (3.28 feet) of water for up to 30 minutes. Kyocera’s IP57-rated, Military…
The earlier rumored 64GB Moto X has been officially announced, and just like we said it before – it will cost $100 more than the 16GB model. You get to choose between multiple variants that sing on AT&T, T-Mobile (unlocked), Sprint and Republic Wireless; Verizon Wireless users will have to settle with 32GB of internal…
Huawei unveiled its latest chip, Kirin 920, which could apparently outperform Qualcomm’s soon-to-be-launched Snapdragon 805. The chipset boasts ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture and includes four Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.7-2.0 GHz, coupled with four low-power Cortex-A7 cores that can run at clock speeds of 1.3-1.6 GHz. In addition, there’s also a Mali-T628 GPU and support for…
What do you do when you’re competing with Amazon? Going to bed with world’s largest handset maker sounds like a plan, right? That’s exactly what Barnes & Noble is doing having unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. As you would imagine, this is the same Galaxy Tab 4 Samsung is already offering, though with…
Yeah, we knew Google is working on a Project Tango tablet and voila – it’s here now. Called Project Tango Tablet Development Kit, this isn’t a device made for mainstream users but for those who want to test out and explore the capabilities of Google’s awesome technology. Inside the device, we find NVIDIA’s super powerful…