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T-Moblie is expanding its 4G network by purchasing 10 MHz of Advanced Wireless Services, or AWS, spectrum from regional carrier U.S. Cellular. The $308 million cash purchase will allow T-Mobile to offer 4G LTE service to around 32 million people in twenty-nine markets in the Mississippi Valley region. “In today’s marketplace, spectrum is gold. This…
Today, CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed that the BlackBerry Playbook will not be receiving the BB10 update during the company’s quarterly earnings call. The company missed estimates, leaving the stock down more than 25%. BlackBerry itself has seen quite a few setbacks, to put it nicely, in the past few years and this news certainly won’t…
With the age of Android micro-gaming consoles upon us, BlueStacks has announced another version of its GamePop gaming console, the GamePop Mini. The GamePop Mini hardware is basically free, after subscribing to a 12-month $7 per month content delivery service. That makes the GamePop Mini just a little cheaper than the Ouya, and a little…
Google is apparently getting ready to more seriously interfere in the Android market. According to the Wall Street Journal, the search giant is working on its own Android-powered console that will compete with a number of existing products like OUYA, GameStick and Project M.O.J.O. Moreover, it is said that we may see the Google smart…
After the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, the super-thin Huawei Ascend P6 may get its Google Edition version, as well. The information comes from Pocket-lint which managed to corner Kevin Ho, president of the handset product division at Huawei, to tell them the company is indeed negotiating with Google over something like that. “We…
Looks like Motorola is working on a couple of new handsets that will soon be available through Verizon Wireless. According to EVleaks, the carrier will be adding the Droid RAZR Ultra and RAZR M Ultra in the near future. We’re not sure what these two are all about and can only speculate they either bring…
Google is bringing its Play Books marketplace to 4 additional countries – Austria, Belgium, Ireland and Portugal. Guess dealing with publishers isn’t as easy as Google has hoped for when we see the service rolling out at a such slow pace. Google Play Books is now live in total of 18 countries, including Australia, Austria,…
We’ve already talked about the upcoming Sony Xperia i1 Honami, saying that it could easily turn into the best Android camera-phone ever. It is said that the Japanese company may even use the Cyber-shot brand for this phone to emphasize the power of that camera, which BTW will likely have a 20-megapixel sensor. The good…
It’s a sort of trend among Chinese handset makers to launch devices with powerful front-facing cameras. We’ve seen the Oppo Ulike 2 and Huawei Ascend P6 with 5-megapixel front-facing cameras, and MeituKiss that has a whopping 8-megapixel camera sensor on the front. Now we have a new device with dual 13-megapixel cameras coming from THL.…
Huawei is the latest company to join the 5G race, saying that it is “at the cutting edge of technology exploration and development for 5G wireless.” This is despite the fact that we still don’t know what 5G will be all about, except that it will bring even faster download and upload speeds. The Chinese…