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Samsung is proving to be the Kings of Bling, releasing another variant of their flagship Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, this time in emblazoned with crystals. The Galaxy S4 Crystal Edition is now available in Thailand from the Samsung store, and carries a price tag of 20,300 baht, or $630. Considering the device has Swarovski crystals…
Since its launch iTunes Radio has been somewhat of a mixed bag. It wasn’t long ago when plenty of pundits quickly rushed to the thought that Apple’s music service would crush the rest of the competition — a pool that includes Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, and others. Since things have moved relatively slow when it comes…
While we didn’t see a new Apple TV at Apple’s WWDC last year, Apple is by no means writing the platform off. A number of channels have been added to Apple TV today, keeping the streaming media box competitive against the likes of Roku and Google TV enabled streaming boxes. Apple added the ability to…
Spotify made a few big moves today, signing the iconic classic rock group Led Zeppelin to the streaming music service’s huge library, and offering users the ability to stream or “shuffle play” your Spotify music, favorite artists and customized playlists. Spotify will periodically insert audio ads into the mix, much like Pandora does. The move…
They are everywhere, we just can’t see them. Ghosts? Spirits? No, something way more interesting, cell phone signals. With cell phone penetration at an all time high in the United States and the world, the signals that are constantly being sent to and fro blanket the globe in an invisible cloak. But what if we…
The day has finally come for us to go karting with our favorite birds. Rovio today released its long-awaited Angry Birds Go! game to the masses worldwide. The new racing game mimics that of the super-popular Mario Kart games played on Nintendo game consoles. Angry Birds Go! is free-to-play and is available now for Android,…
While some of us can’t wait to get Ubuntu for Android, Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) would rather want us to buy a device that runs their own platform from the get-go. Alas, their effort to crowdfund the Ubuntu Edge failed despite raising a record-breaking amount of cash from Linux enthusiasts all around the world.…
ASUS has officially announced the PadFone Mini. The device we’ve seen leaked few days ago isn’t a powerhouse, but it does manage to deliver a solid bang for the buck. Specs wise, the Mini’s “phone part” rocks a 4.3-inch qHD (540 x 960 pixels) display, 1.4GHz quad-core Snapdragon MSM8226 chip, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera…
It’s your lucky day if you hopped to get the hot-new Oppo N1. The device is now available from Oppo Style website, selling for €449 or $599, whatever works for you best. As you probably already know, what makes this device unique is its fancy 13-megapixel rotating camera that is not found on any other…
MediaTek is racing against time, now that 4G is live in China. To achieve this, the Taiwanese chip maker is working round the clock to make its 4G-ready 8-core chip MT6595 available to manufacturers as early as January. It was previously believed that the company’s first 4G LTE processor would not be available until mid-way…