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A phone insurance company created a dedicated “mobile graveyard” website for the public to honor their old handsets and how they met their bitter end. The site also highlights various facts about mobile phone loss, theft and breakages, and includes a counter representing the estimated total cost of mobile phone replacements in the UK in…
We’ve learned to appreciate BLU Products for their affordable smartphones which in many cases offer a decent bang for the buck. Their latest product, BLU Dash 4.5, fits that bill, featuring a 1.2GHz quad-core processor (though that’s MediaTek MT6589M) and a price tag of $139. And yes, that’s how much users will pay for an…
Just when you saw the front of the upcoming BlackBerry A10 Aristo, we have its back to show you. As you can see for yourself, the back cover doesn’t really look like the one Z10 sports and it reminds us more on the one Q10 has. The problem, however, is that the phone looks kinda…
After dual SIM HTC One, the Taiwanese company is bringing such version of the Butterfly S to China. According to LeaksChina, it will be the same Butterfly S that was announced in Taiwan, sporting a 1.9GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM, 5-inch full HD screen, Ultrapixel camera and a memory card…
LG may finally get into the Windows Phone 8 game. According to Soon H. Kwon (LG India’s Managing Director), the company is “actually working” on a Windows Phone 8 OS powered smartphone. Unfortunately, that’s all he said and we’ll rather have to wait for another few weeks and months to get additional information. Hopefully this…
You may know that CRTC announced a new Wireless Code that would officially be implemented on December 2nd. This country-wide initiative is created to fix some of the concerns users have with their mobile operators, including the ever-long 3-year contracts which are more often than not presented as a default option. The Commission considers it…
ZTE Geek, which uses Intel’s Atom Z2580 aka Clover Trail+ dual-core processor clocked at 2GHz, is now available in China where interested users can grab it for around $307; or for $372 in case they want the phone alongside a wireless charging pad. Aside from the mentioned CPU, ZTE’s baby also packs 2GB of RAM,…
As BlackBerry is rebuilding its position in the smartphone market, the company’s CEO Thorsten Heins said that it is “important to know what you stand for,” adding that they’ll focus on “no more than six” devices. This focus, however, has its casualties, one of them being the PlayBook tablet which won’t get its BlackBerry OS…
AT&T has acquired Leap Wireless for a sum of $1.19 billion in cash today. Leap Wireless, which is also known as Cricket is a gigantic telecommunications company in the U.S., with over five million subscribers. AT&T is buying Leap Wireless shares for $15 per share, which totals $1.19 billion. Along with Leap Wireless’ spectrum, AT&T…
Someone in Best Buy’s web marketing department has a sense of humor, apparently, and a love for 80’s punk rock. It’s long since been taken down, but a Photoshop of Henry Rollins’ face showed up on the box art for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag on Best Buy’s preorder page. Henry Rollins was one of…