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If you’re a) living in the UK; and b) don’t want to wait for the Galaxy S3 and would rather grab the Note instead – here’s a deal for you. Phone retailer Phones 4U is offering Sammy’s phablet (as in phone/tablet) for free on a 20.50 GBP/month plan. That’s right, you don’t have to shell…
We’ve already seen O2 and Vodafone committing to launch the next Samsung Galaxy smartphone, and now we have Carphone Warehouse joining the party, too. Similarly to what Vodafone has done, the phone retailers prepared a dedicated page from where interested users can sign-up and be the first to know when the powerful device starts selling.…
Researchers at AT&T have a prototype app that could theoretically in the future track the driving habits of teenagers, or really anyone, on the road. The app uses data from drivers with a smartphone as well as tracking data already built into cars. It combines these forces to determine a wealth of statistics for a…
Ice Cream Sandwich is coming soon for select Android phones on Verizon Wireless. Spotted on Reddit by The Verge, this leaked screen grab appears to be a roadmap detailing Verizon’s upcoming software updates. Of interest to Android customers are the first four entries on the sheet from the week of April 24, 2012. The heading on this…
Samsung Electronics posts a record quarterly profit of about $4.45 billion thanks in part to the success of its smartphone division. The company’s mobile unit was responsible for 73 percent of the company’s total profit and this division’s operating profit margin rose to 18.4 percent. The company sold 90 million handsets overall, including 44 million…
The short-term outlook for Nokia is getting dimmer by the minute. Nearly two months after downgrading Nokia’s stock to BBB-, Standard and Poor’s has cut the stock outlook again, this time all the way down to junk status. S&P is the second firm to rate Nokia’s stock to junk status, with Fitch giving Nokia the…
Quickoffice updated its apps for Android smartphone and tablet users, Quickoffice Pro and Quickoffice Pro HD respectively, bringing a number of new capabilities across its Word, Excel and PowerPoint editors. Without further ado, here’s what’s new: Advanced PDF annotation tool that allows users to draw directly on files, highlight text, insert shapes, and add/remove comments.…
Skype’s Android app got a new update and is now snappier than ever. The first thing you’ll notice (or not, depending on the phone you have) is just how faster Skype starts, which suggests engineers of the Microsoft-owned company changed a ton of things under the hood to make this happen. Then there’s new instant…
Motorola officially announced the RAZR MAXX in the UK. As you probably know, it’s a slightly thicker version of the RAZR smartphone that comes with a larger battery, providing up to 17.61 hours of talk time. Rest of the specs are unchanged and include a 4.3-inch Gorilla Glass-protected qHD touchscreen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of…
The bean counters at Strategy Analytics have done their due diligence, poured their data into a spreadsheet, and have come to the unsurprising conclusion that Nokia simply isn’t what it used to be. Having shipped just 82.7 million handsets in Q1 2012, Samsung’s estimated 93+ million handsets mean that the South Korean handset vendor has,…