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As I’m sure you all know, HBO Go crashed last night, denying millions of people access to the season four premiere of Game of Thrones. GoT wasn’t the only season premiere last night, though. Mike Judge’s new half-hour show that takes on the tech scene, Silicon Valley debuted right after GoT on HBO. In case…
Verizon is apparently preparing to add another Kyocera phone to its portfolio, EVleaks is saying. Unfortunately, it’s not clear what the upcoming Kyocera Brigadier will be all about. Chances are it will be a rugged device that will keep working even under the harshest of conditions. However, it’s not clear whether it will be smartphone…
Motorola (or that’s Lenovo?) is working on the successor to its popular Moto X smartphone, EVleaks is reporting. The upcoming Moto X + 1 device will likely build on top of the current model which we learned to love due to its slick interface and voice commands. That said, we’re not sure what else could…
Just the other day, Verizon Wireless has started accepting pre-orders for the Samsung ATIV SE, the Korean company’s first Windows Phone device in years. That model, however, is still shipping with Windows Phone 8 and will get the platform update (to Windows Phone 8.1) later in the year. Meanwhile, we may see the other Sammy…
At one point we thought that Lenovo could acquire NEC. Apparently, the Chinese firm isn’t looking for the Japanese company’s handset portfolio, but its patents. We’ve no information how much Lenovo paid for the privilege, but we do know they got NEC’s 3,800+ patent families filed in numerous countries around the world. The portfolio includes…
After many rumors and leaked photos, we’ll finally see the Huawei announcing the Ascend P7 on May 7th. The event will take place in Paris, France, hinting us that outside China, Huawei expects to sell a ton of these in Europe. From what we’ve heard before, the P7 will build on top of the last-year’s…
Microsoft is apparently working to make Windows Phones compatible with hi-res 2K screens and next-gen chips. In fact, a Windows Phone device marked as Qualcomm LiQUID has been caught at GFXBench, and from its listing we learn that it will come with a 2K / QHD screen and Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chip. Unfortunately, the listing…
We haven’t talked about TAG Heuer phones for more than a year; the luxury brand is back in the game and this time they’ve made sure their phone packs a neat technology under the hood. Actually, that’s under the screen which hides solar photovoltaic cells that are able to charge the phone while not in…
We can’t say we’re really surprised to see the special, dual-SIM version of the Galaxy S5 being unveiled in China. Samsung did this in the past, though we always hoped such model will eventually hit the Western hemisphere. Alas, as I’m writing this – that hasn’t happened. Anyway, the dual-SIM Galaxy S5 does come with…
Almost missed this… During the recent BUILD conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced two additional partners that will be making Windows Phone devices – Micromax and Prestigio. The two aren’t exactly household names in the West but they could help the Redmond giant grow its market share in the growing economies. Micromax is especially interesting…