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Today Microsoft just released its Xbox Music streaming service to Android device owners. Of course, to use the app, users are required to have an Xbox Music account similar to other services offered by Google, Apple, or Amazon. Microsoft’s service allows access to all of a person’s songs and albums on Windows, Xbox and Windows…
Google dropped the price on its Nexus 4 amid rumors it was prepping its next generation Nexus handset, the Nexus 5. Details have been sparse on the Nexus 5, with the latest leak coming from an official Google video that showed a Google employee possibly using the phone on the company’s front lawn. Now, the…
Last week, rumors spread that Amazon is working on launching its own free smartphone to all Prime users sometime this year. We originally got the scoop from former Wall Street Journal reporters Amir Efrati and Jessica Lessin. Interestingly, the WSJ reached out to Amazon this past Sunday, where a spokesman flat out denied any rumors…
Maxthon has teamed-up with RollTech, the value-added services arm of MediaTek, to preload its web browser into upwards of 100 million smartphones in 2014. MediaTek is the third largest global supplier of chipsets used in Android smartphones and tablets. This collaboration builds on Maxthon’s continued mobile expansion in fast-growing markets like Brazil, Russia and India,…
BlackBerry is apparently looking for an exit with plans to sell the company by November. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the Canadian company’s board of directors wants to hold a fast auction, selling the whole company or parts of it by the end of the year. The WSJ cites anonymous sources…
Just when we thought Verizon and Motorola forgot about the three-year-old Droid X, an update has been released. Yes, that’s a year and half after the phone got its previous software release. The new software brings firmware version to 45.621.10.MB810.Verizon.en.US and it’s a maintenance release that doesn’t come with major feature enhancements. Included in the…
Both Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition will run Android 4.3 out of box. What about Sammy’s older products, like the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S III? According to SamMobile, they will follow suit at some point next month. Earlier we’ve heard that the Galaxy S III will skip Android 4.2.2…
HTC has teamed up with David Koma, the famous designer whose work have been worn by such stars as Beyonce, Rihanna and Lady Gaga. Yeah, this guy is a fashion star these days and his show is one of the most anticipated events at the bi-annual London Fashion Week. Anyway, together with HTC, David Koma…
In a recent phone interview with Bloomberg, Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam said that his company is “not going to Canada,” dismissing speculation about Verizon’s potential incursion into the country as “way overblown.” Or it could be that pouring out $130 billion for Vodafone’s stake in Verizon Wireless left the parent company (Verizon Communications) without much…
The newly announced Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition has been caught while getting the regulatory approval at FCC’s website. The model government-employed engineers got to try out comes with Wi-Fi connectivity only, and we’ll rather have to wait a little longer to see its LTE-enabled counterpart following suit. Samsung hasn’t said when its new…