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The newest beta version of Apple’s recently released iOS 7 is available today, rolling out OTA to developers at the moment. According to Cult Of Mac, the update is only available for download OTA right now, with the files expected to become available through the iOS Dev Center sometime today. Apple released iOS 7 beta…
FreedomPop is expanding to Sprint’s 4G LTE network today, providing LTE coverage to its customers across the U.S. FreedomPop is adding a new mobile hotspot, the FreedomSpot 5580, which will allow FreedomPop customers 500 MB a month of free 4G LTE data access. “With LTE network coverage reaching critical mass, we are now able to…
According to Phone Arena, Samsung and AT&T are offering some relief to Galaxy S4 Active owners with water-damaged phones. Sources claim there is a memo in AT&T’s internal system that instructs representatives to offer customers a replacement for their water-damaged Galaxy S4 Active. Customers must have purchased their S4 Active from AT&T, and they can…
Samsung is anxious for the world to know that it is bringing the upcoming BlackBerry Messenger for Android to its Galaxy smartphones. Though RIM has been silent on the launch of the pending BBM mobile applications, Samsung is at the forefront, announcing that the app is coming to the Google Play store and Samsung App…
An Australian woman was duped by a fraudster who sold her two iPhones that were actually real apples. In the case reported by the Herald Sun, a 21-year-old woman posted an ad to online classifieds service Gumtree that said she wanted to buy two iPhones. She promptly received a response from another lady who said she…
Acer unveiled a new Android smartphone, its fifth this year. The new Liquid Z3 doesn’t follow the trend of super-big devices; quite the contrary, it comes with a 3.5-inch screen and will thus easily fit into any pocket. In addition, this phone also packs a 1.7GHz dual-core processor making sure apps will run as fast…
We know that Nokia will soon launch Amber updates for the Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 smartphones. The good news is that you can already cram the new software to your Windows Phone, though it’s not as easy as it would be using the official Microsoft’s tool. First you’ll need to download the ROMs –…
Samsung has started mass production of the industry’s first 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory, which can scale the limit of existing NAND flash technology and gain in performance and area ratio. Today’s flash memory planar structure has a scaling limit due to cell-to-cell interference, while that shouldn’t be the problem with 3D V-NAND, plus…
We’ve been experiencing few glitches on our mobile app discovery platform and having received input from developers, we’re looking at the code and trying to fix some of the problems. We’ll make sure things go better from here, and in the meantime – here are the games that we think are worth checking out: Valkyrie:…
OK we get it – everyone and their mama are looking to buy a smart watch. The new HOT Watch project, where that “HOT” stands for “Hands On Talk”, is yet another confirmation that there’s money to be made in this market. The device is similar to other smart watches we’ve seen before with the…