Latest and Breaking Mobile Industry News and Top Stories - July 3
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Samsung just announced another mini version of the annual Galaxy S flagship. However, this Galaxy S5 mini doesn't live up to the name. Read on to learn why. The post The Galaxy S5 mini doesn’t do its name justice appeared first on ...
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Got a G Watch or Gear Live headed your way? You'll already have new software to install on day one, with word that early Android Wear updates are arriving. The post Android Wear smartwatches already getting an update appeared first on Po...
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Verizon Wireless will bring LTE data access to its prepaid customers for the first time on July 17, according to a report from Droid Life . Verizon has up until now limited its prepaid customers to its 3G CDMA network.
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It's a Samsung-centric week, but there's much more to this podcast than just a Galaxy S5 Prime review. Join us for much more mobile tech talk on Weekly 103! The post Galaxy S5 Prime review, custom Moto 360, luscious new Lumias & mor...
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Two similar products from the same company couldn't be more different in cost, usage and social acceptance. One represents the very next step in mobile computing while the other envisions a future that isn't yet guaranteed.
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So far 2014 is the biggest year for deals among chipset companies since 2011--and it's not over yet. Almost $11 billion worth of North American semiconductor transactions were announced in the first half of 2014, according to data co...
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Amazon said it is prepared to go to court with the Federal Trade Commission rather than submit to increased oversight and other measures the FTC says are needed to ensure children do not make unauthorized in-app purchases from apps ...
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Check out our LG G3 vs Oppo Find 7 video to see how these two compare, and help you decide which one is for you. Spoiler alert: they have a lot in common! The post LG G3 vs Oppo Find 7 (video) appeared first on Pocketnow .
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Microsoft will release this fall a wearable fitness band that will display smartphone notifications, according to a report from SuperSite for Windows.
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LightSquared’s path to redemption continues, as the spectrum license holder and satellite communications provider announced a $3 billion restructuring plan. According to The Wall Street Journal, the plan would give Cerebus Capital Manage...
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Want to ride a cycle in your skirt, but don't want to expose yourself? Try Penny in Your Pants! The post Wanna Cycle In Your Skirt, Try Penny In Your Pants (Video) appeared first on Mobile Magazine .
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Check in on the latest HTC quarterly profit numbers, and see how the company's efforts to turn itself around have been going. The post HTC turns a quarterly profit, hits earnings estimate appeared first on Pocketnow .
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Test and measurement company Anite reported that after a challenging first half in handset testing, it saw improved performance to finish out its fiscal year. Overall, its revenues dropped slightly from last year. The company said its n...
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HTC reported a sharp uptick in profit for the second quarter thanks in part to sales of its flagship One M8 smartphone, the release of mid-range devices and cost cutting measures. Although the Taiwanese smartphone maker still has a steep...
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HTC reported its first quarterly profit in a year, not on the back of sales of devices like the One M8, but instead because of cost-cutting measures.
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Qualcomm has bought Wilocity, an Israeli developer of 60 GHz Wi-Fi chipsets that has worked with Qualcomm for some time. Wilocity chipsets are based on the IEEE 802.11ad (WiGig) standard, and 60 GHz Wi-Fi is said to be three-times faster...
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Godfire is a part 3rd person action, a part role-playing and a part adventure game (in that order) with a heavy emphasis on combat. It features beautiful graphics and fun gameplay, although it can feel a bit repetitive at times. Gameplay...
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Kensington had released a new family of ultra-thin keyboard cases for iPad Air. The new products are highlighted by the KeyFolio Thin X3 for iPad Air which introduces a new feature never before seen in the market: PowerLift technology. P...
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Henge Docks today released its Vertical Docking Station for MacBook Pro with Retina Display, a custom-designed dock that provides the best features of a laptop, desktop and a media center PC all from one computer, while simultaneously sa...
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Introduction Ah, it's always fun when we have the chance of putting up a comparison between rivals, and when we're looking at the wireless landscape that's been shaped in the first half of the year, there's one particular rivalry that qu...
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Ivan Mishanin, managing director at Bright Box gave RCR Wireless a recent demonstration of the company’s connected car platform that allows users to control aspects of a car via smartphones and tablets. Aspects that users can contr...
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While most smartwatches unveiled so far haven’t really garnered a lot of positive press, there has been one exception: The Moto 360, which by far has the most stylish design of any big-name wearable computer out there. However, Gfo...
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The beta version of Nova Launcher, which now supports the "Okay, Google" hotword, has just been updated with some of the Material Design looks and animations, which come straight from the upcoming L release of Android. Version 3.0.2beta1...
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The popular encrypted messaging chat app Glassboard has updated its Android version today, adding in a number of new functionals that should be helpful for its users.
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Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless Ne...
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Apple has a ton of patents out there, often outlining pretty great ideas that we all just have to hope come to fruition at some point in the future. For a new patent application published today, Apple’s vision of a smart home may b...
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Lua, the mobile first communications platform for any workforce, has today launched a brand new feature of the product called Insights. Insights is a metrics platform that will allow clients to see in real-time the way that their e...
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With fortuitous timing for your very own Finnsider, the Pocket Gamer bandwagon rolled into Helsinki last month . Some time later and after a horribly grey and wet midsummer break, it's time to reflect. So what exactly was PG Connects? We...
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As Evleaks stated, yesterday was a bad day for him. He was wrong about a couple of things. One being the Nexus 9 Volantis with 5GB of RAM. The other being the OnePlus Tab. OnePlus has come out and said that there is no tablet coming this...
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One and the same worn out Google Nexus 5 handset, loaded with the new Android L Preview, and Android 4.4 KitKat, showed a significant gain in battery life in standardized, controlled testing. The Nexus 5 with Android KitKat has been char...
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German outfit InnoGames has announced it will host a 96-hour long game jam on the show floor of this year's Gamescom in Cologne. 12 participants, split into teams of 4, will compete to create 3 new games, with the development frenzy set ...
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If you lived in America as a child anytime from the early 80s until about 10 years ago, there's a fair chance that you have experienced Reading Rainbow. The show, hosted by Lavar Burton, taught kids about the joy of reading. And, we here...
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For the first time ever, Apple reportedly has not one but two brand new, completely redesigned iPhone 6 handsets in store for us this year (last year’s iPhone 5c was just an iPhone 5 in a new plastic case, of course). According to ...
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The Galaxy S5 LTE-A lacks the sheen of the rumored Galaxy F, but it's more powerful than its predecessor. See how much more, in our Galaxy S5 Prime review! The post Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime review: sweeter specs, same shell (Video) appear...
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What are we seeing in these leaked Nokia pics? Could it be a Lumia 830, or possibly a model mentioned on a leaked roadmap? The post New Nokia phone turns up in pics; Lumia 830? Maybe McLaren or Tesla? appeared first on Pocketnow .
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A particularly unique Android game just came to the Play Store today called Bounden, where two players each hold their thumb on a short edge of the screen, and have to move the device together so the center area hits targets around a 3D ...
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In this 9th edition of our fortnightly column on amazing tech that hails from far-away Asian lands, we'll be once again taking a look at a very modern Sharp device -- the SH-04F Aquos. Indeed, this is the third Sharp device that we'll be...
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Android Wear, Google’s new smartwatch platform powering wrist-computers like the LG G, Samsung Gear Live, and Moto 360, now has its own companion application. The app, also called Android Wear for simplicity’s sake (?),...
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In the next year, Google wants to bring a single, consistent user experience to every screen you own — and Android is a central part of that plan This year's Google I/O developer conference was a massively Android-centric affair. The OS ...
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HTC today published financial details for the second quarter of 2014, showing signs of stabilization for the struggling smartphone maker in the months following the launch of its latest flagship phone . With unaudited quarterly revenue o...
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Popular crowdfunding site Indiegogo has been around since 2008, but is only today moving into the mobile era with an iPhone app, launching exclusively in Canada. The company has deep roots in our nation, with many successful Canadian cam...
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Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless Microsoft has clearly decided that it needs to make hardware if it wants to be relevant in mobile, and now it looks like the software giant is moving beyond the Surfac...
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An "infinitely close to the final production version" iPhone 6 glass panel has leaked out again, and from it a few things are becoming quite obvious about the eventual biggest iPhone redesign since the original was introduced about seven...
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Google Play Services 5.0 Back at Google I/O last week, Google announced version 5.0 of the Google Play Services framework. It includes all kinds of new features as well as some stuff for Android L. Well that update has been rolling out a...
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Facebook’s social experimentation rabbit hole goes much deeper than any of us could have imagined. The Wall Street Journal reports that the controversial 2012 experiment in which the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users were altered ...
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If you’re of a certain age, or just a big gamer – or both – then you’ll no doubt have fond memories of the Super Nintendo classic Secret of Mana. As RPGs of the 90s go, it was one of the more accessible RPG...
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They are unproven, unnecessary, and undeniably some of the coolest accessories you can buy today.
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Late last night we saw a software update rolling out for the Samsung Gear Live , presumably to address some glitches and bugs within the early release. Now we're hearing that the same update is rolling out for the G Watch as well with bu...
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Nokia Networks announces two acquisitions Nokia Networks said today that it will buy Nice Systems’ 3D geolocation business to enhance the planning and optimization of mobile networks. “The evolution of small cells and LTE nec...
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One of Apple's latest patent applications that just hit the USPTO describes an interesting security solution, which is contextually-aware automatically alters the security settings of a given mobile device. It's comes with a location-bas...
