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Facebook wants your pictures, really badly.
It was national news when Facebook bought photo sharing app Instagram for a whopping billion dollars but today Facebook expands its photo enhancing arsenal. After quietly enhancing the mobile version of its applications yesterday Facebook hired the two-man-team behind the popular Android photo sharing app Lightbox. The service will be shut down a [....]
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Nokia announces the 808 PureView with a 41-megapixel camera
Nokia has kicked off Day One of MWC with a new Symbian Belle device called the Nokia 808 PureView. It features the ancient Symbian OS, which Nokia admits that they won’t be supporting it as much because of their commitment to Windows Phone 7. Looking deeper into the hardware of the phone, it [....]
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HTC One-Series and Sense 4.0 – Mobile World Congress 2012
HTC starts off Mobile World Congress 2012 by revamping their Android line with a new line up of phones called the “One-Series” and Sense 4.0, which cleans up Sense and adds some new smart features. There’s lots to talk about, so we’ve broken each announcement in peaces. HTC One X Starting off with [....]
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AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Fails
Back in March, AT&T announced that they were going to acquire T-Mobile USA, so they can expand their spectrum and enhance their network. While this sounded like a good idea, it would ultimately lower competition in the US mobile market and this didn’t cut it for many people, especially the FCC. The FCC [....]
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iPhone 4S Announced!
Today, Apple announced the continuation to the iPhone line. The iPhone 4S was unveiled, after tons of rumors and speculations. The iPhone 4S is just like the iPhone 4 in design, being just that it’s a slight difference in weight. It’s also featuring the fabulous A5 processor, and an 8 megapixel camera. The [....]
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray now available in the US off-contract
Sony Ericsson first announced the Xperia Ray back in June, which no confirmed release date. Finally after months of waiting, it’s finally here. This phone features a high-res 3.3-inch FWVGA display with Sony’s Mobile BRAVIA Engine, a single-core 1GHz processor, and an eight megapixel camera with 720p HD recording. All of that is packed [....]
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iPhone 5 Event Announced
Apple finally announced the iPhone 5 event date and honestly I can not wait for it! Apple has the date scheduled for October 4th at 10AM at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif. campus. It’s very clear that the event is all about the iPhone as you can see in the invite that they sent out. So [....]
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iPhone 5 Launch Set for October!
For those who are waiting for the iPhone 5, prepare for it to come in a few months. This launch date does not surprise me at all. It would be pointless to release the new iPhone 5 without iOS 5 already installed on the iPhone. Apple might have the unveiling of the iPhone [....]
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HP discontinues TouchPad and webOS phones, might also pull the plug on PCs
Just 16 months after the acquisition of Palm, HP announced that they will be discontinuing the TouchPad and webOS related operations. With this, the unreleased Pre 3 and the unsold TouchPads will remain unclear, but HP will still explore and optimize webOS. “In addition, HP reported that it plans to announce that it [....]
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HP’s worst nightmare: Best Buy has only sold 25,000 TouchPads
This is not good. According to Arik from AllThingsD, Best Buy was only able to sell 25,000 TouchPads out of 270,000 (doesn’t count returns!) that they’ve initially ordered. With that, Best Buy has 200,000 more units in hand and they are threatening HP to buy back those unsold units. Because of that, an [....]
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Sony Announces PSP E-1000; Lands in Europe this Fall
We’ve all heard about the delay of the PSP Vita until early 2012, but it looks like Sony still want a new kid on the block for this holiday season – at least, in Europe. In conjunction with the new PSP, they also cut the price of the PS3, interestingly. It’s sporting [....]
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Fusion Garage raises from the dead, reveals Grid 10 tablet and Grid 4 phone
If you’re familiar with Fusion Garage, you’ll know that they released the JooJoo tablet that tried to compete with the first generation iPad. Unfortunately, it (not surprisingly) failed, and it brought down the company to the grave. The JooJoo had buggy, clunky software, and the performance was terrible. But, the JooJoo had some [....]
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HTC Now Allowing Official Unlocks
Now that jailbreaking, or the unlocking of devices for custom software, is now one-hundred percent legal in the US, we haven’t seen too many phone manufactures do anything about this change just yet… except until now. HTC has been known for their customizable phones. You can run many operating systems on a good number [....]
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Could this Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich?
According to Android Police and RootzWiki, they claim that they have snapshots of Google’s next major release of Android: Ice Cream Sandwich. From first glance, the theme is similar to Honeycomb and blue accents. The snapshot from Android Police shows that there’s a revamped notification pull down, which might contain mini apps, similar [....]
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