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Orange is preparing to add another city-named device to its portfolio. Dubbed Orange Dublin, it’s actually a rebranded version of the ZTE Kis, which is one of the bunch of phones the Chinese company unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Specs wise, we’re talking about an entry-level Android Gingerbread smartphone that comes with a…
We’ve lost track of how many Samsung Galaxy phones are out on the market, but that’s OK since there are only a handful that actually matter. Is the new Galaxy Appeal one of them? Let’s find out. First, we have no idea how much this thing will actually cost. AT&T didn’t include that piece of…
Nokia World, an annual event that the Finnish handset maker holds to promote their latest and greatest devices, was supposed to take place between September 25th and September 26th this year. That’s now been changed according to the company’s official corporate blog. The new dates are September 5th and September 6th, and thankfully the venue…
HTC’s One X comes in two flavors. One of them, the international version, has a quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor inside. Another, the AT&T One X, swaps that Tegra 3 for a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4. Why? So it can also come with 4G LTE connectivity. Which One X is better? That depends on what…
The bean counters at ABI Research have made a bold prediction. They say that more than 208 million “phablets” will be sold in 2015. What’s a phablet? According to them it’s a smarpthone with a screen that measures between 4.6 inches and 5.5 inches diagonal. Now just to be clear, that’s not the definition we…
Apple is continuing its series of celebrity Siri advertisements with two new commercials from actor John Malkovich. Titled “Life” and “Joke“, the two Malkovich ads are much more offbeat and philosophical than the sing-songy Zooey commercial and the very routine Samuel L. Jackson ad. Apple posted the new Malkovich commercials on its YouTube channel, so…
Yahoo took everyone by surprise and introduced a new web browsing experience called Axis. Yahoo Axis has both a desktop component that’ll work with most major browsers and a mobile component that’s compatible with the iPhone and iPad. Users with both the desktop and mobile version can sync their searches and Axis homepage between devices.…
Meet Nelson. Nelson seems like a pretty nice guy. He works on the Disney Wonder cruise ship and has a girlfriend and plenty of friends. He also has an iPhone. Oh, but he didn’t buy it. He stole it from passenger Katy McCaffrey. She now knows all about her iPhone thief thanks to the photos he…
Google released version 2.0 of the Google Search app for iPhone and iPod touch. With it comes a brand new redesign that may look familiar if you have the iPad app. The app still retains much of its different features and Google services, but when you first launch it with the update, the simple and…
It’s been a long and drawn out battle between Oracle and Google, and now we finally have a verdict concerning whether Google really did infringe on Oracle’s patents with its Android operating system. The jury has decided that Google has not infringed on Oracle’s patents, which is a surprising win for the search giant. The…