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We’ve been telling you about this in the past and now it’s apparently official. Starting from next year, Samsung won’t make chips used inside Apple’s products, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Rather that business will be picked up by Taiwanese TSMC. In the meantime, however, the Korean giant will continue to provide chips for…
In an interesting twist of events Motorola and Verizon decided to bring the Jelly Bean update to the carrier-specific versions of the Motorola Xoom 2 (and Xoom 2 Media Edition) while leaving Wi-Fi only models stuck to Ice Cream Sandwich. Yeah, it sounds weird but apparently that’s going to happen as you can see for…
In order get its Lumia smartphones to the hands of more users, Nokia is launching a trade-up program in the U.S. Under the deal, users are able to get up to $300 for their old phone towards buying a new Nokia device like the Lumia 925 or Lumia 928. The process is pretty seamless –…
Spanish mobile network Telefónica announced that it will help Microsoft push Windows Phone devices to more users in an effort to end the “current duopoly of Android and iOS.” Microsoft and the carrier have signed a one year “enhanced marketing agreement” under which Telefónica will boost advertising of Windows Phone 8 devices in several markets…
Not all operators around the world are wetting their pants over the iPhone. NTT DoCoMo is one of them as it has been refusing to sell Apple’s device for quite some time despite losing customers to competing networks that carry the iPhone. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, DoCoMo’s Senior VP Kazuto Tsubouchi…
Google Now got two new cards – Google Offers and TV Cards. The former is especially useful as it will remind you on saved offers when you’re near the store, which is right when you need it. Google Now will pull up the offer so you can quickly use it. As for the TV Cards,…
While Intel is already present in the mobile market, it has a long way to go to reach anywhere near ARM-based chip numbers. The company is well aware of this and is planning to do something about it, focusing more of its vast resources to speed-up mobile Atom chip development. At the moment, Intel is…
Verizon may be pushing ahead with its plans to expand to the north in the near future. It is said that the Big Red carrier is looking at several options, including acquiring WIND Mobile or Mobilicity, and/or participating in the forthcoming 700Mhz spectrum auction that will start on January 14th, 2014. According “to two people…
HTC has started rolling out Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update for dual-SIM version of the HTC One, which is sold in China. We’re not sure what’s all included in the new firmware though we guess some HTC-specific changes are there alongside various Android platform enhancements. That’s all nice, but what about the international, single-SIM version?…
Later today, Sprint will finally shut down its iDEN network, making room for a wider launch of LTE. No longer will you be able to push-to-talk using your old iDEN device with Sprint suggesting users to pick-up some CDMA Direct Connect phone, instead. Even 911 calls won’t work as the network infrastructure is shutting down.…