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Hollywood types apparently enjoy mixing and matching phones and platforms, taking what they deem the best for broadcast TV. As spotted by WMPoweruser, Netflix’s newest independent series, Orange is the New Black, features an unbranded Lumia handset running a flavor of iOS. In one segment, the boxy and beautiful Windows Phone handset has received an…
Speculation out of the Wall Street Journal suggests Apple is working on iPhones and iPads with larger screens. Sources told the WSJ that Asian suppliers are providing the Cupertino company with iPhone screens larger than 4-inches and tablets with displays that measure almost 13-inches. Apple is reportedly testing these displays in prototype devices. There is…
Nokia announced on its Conversations blog that it plans on unveiling something BIG tomorrow at 9 AM UK time. The orange teaser image on Nokia’s website reveals little to nothing about the announcement, leaving us to speculate what the company is trying to hype. Could it be a new Asha phone, a partnership with Orange,…
Apple is acquiring mobile transit app, HopStop, according to reports in Bloomberg and Mashable. Bloomberg first reported the acquisition on Saturday, and Mashable then contacted Apple which confirmed the deal. Details on the dollar amount Apple will pay to acquire the mobile transit app was not disclosed. HopStop provides users with route and schedule information for subways and…
On Sunday, Apple confirmed its developer portal was hacked and that some information from its developer database may have been stolen. In a statement sent out to developers, Apple said it detected an intrusion last week and shut down the site immediately. Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers…
What we have here is apparently the Oppo Find 5 running Windows Phone 8. The problem, however, is that we’re not sure whether the image above is the real deal or just a mockup made by a fan of Microsoft’s mobile platform. We’d like to think that Chinese Oppo is looking beyond Android to reach…
Looks like Lenovo is working on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800-powered device. We don’t have much, but we do know the phone or tablet (we think it’s the former) marked as X910 has been caught at Antutu, or at least the image above suggests something of that sort. As you can see for yourself, it says…
Apple has acquired the Toronto-based Locationary in an effort to beef-up its mapping service, which still has that work-in-progress stigma around it. Locationary, in case you don’t know, provides accurate local business listings, relying on combination of crowd-sourced data and a federated data exchange platform called Saturn. The company collects, merges and continuously verifies information…
We’ve already told you that lucky Koreans got the better version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, one that not only has a newer and faster processor (Qualcomm Snapdragon 800) but also support for faster mobile data transfer with LTE-Advanced (or just LTE-A). Well that model will also be released in other parts of the world…
Two of the largest carriers in Canada, Rogers and Bell, are bringing additional live TV content to their customers’ devices. Actually, the two are not only adding new but also swapping existing channels to provide even more choices o the users. For instance, Rogers expanded its portfolio with the addition of TSN and TSN2, as…