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While the Samsung Galaxy S5 is landing on every major U.S. carrier today, Boost Mobile is going to have to wait a bit before offering the hot new device. Boost Mobile has begun pre-orders for the GS5 today, revealing that the company would begin to sell the GS5 in May. Interested customers can sign up…
Today is the big day for Samsung fans, with carriers readying their supplies of the hot new Samsung Galaxy S5 for sale. While all carriers will be selling the device today, T-Mobile has the Gs5 for just $27.50 for 24 months without a new service contract when signing up for T-Mobile’s Jump device upgrade program.…
Apple won’t be the only company entering the car market; Microsoft also wants a piece of the action. The Redmond giant has already tried to do this in the past and has even teamed-up with few auto-makers such as Ford, Fiat, Kia, BWM and Nissan. Alas, Windows is still not present in many cars, leaving…
The popular lock-screen replacement app for Android Cover has been acquired by Twitter. We’re not sure what they’ll do with the app, and can only hope it won’t be cancelled along the way. Heck, I would imagine Twitter would want to use this technology to cram Twitter feeds to as many phones as possible, even…
Google keeps adding additional markets to its Play Gift Cards scheme. The latest countries to join-in include Austria, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, where these cards are available in increments of 15, 25 and 50 EUR (Austria, Italy and Spain); or 30, 50 and 100 CHF (Switzerland). With these 4 markets added, Google has… well… another…
Sprint and two of its subsidiaries, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, are launching the Kyocera Verve, a side-sliding feature phone made for heavy texters on a budget. The device comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) screen, 2-megapixel auto-focus camera, 256MB of RAM, 512MB of internal storage, TTY/TDD support, and GPS receiver. Perhaps…
Sony keeps launching its apps to the Google Play Store, allowing for easier updates in the future. The two new titles they’ve released are Sony SmartBand and LifeLog apps, both of which are made to work with their SmartBand accessory. Alas, it’s still not available and as far as we know, it won’t hit the…
MediaTek is already offering quad- and octa-core chips, but what about hexa-core SoCs? Well, they may be looking at that market as well, GizChina is reporting. The still unannounced MT6591 has been caught at Antutu and we get to learn how its 6 cores compare with MediaTek’s other chips. As one would imagine, this SoC…
Mozilla is having hard time convincing many users to try out their Firefox OS. That, however, doesn’t stop the company from further working on the project as they go for the next billion of smartphone users. What we have here are screenshots of the upcoming Firefox OS 2.0 which could be out by the end…
It looks like Siri and Cortana have a beef, one that rivals the east cost west coast rivalries on the 90’s. Arsenio Hall hosted an epic cage match between the two digital personal assistants, and it got downright ugly. Siri has been around for a while, while Cortana is fairly new to the scene. At…