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Apple’s iPhone 5S has this unwanted Windows feature
It appears that Apple’s iPhone 5S includes a surprising and unwanted Windows-like feature. Some of Apple’s iPhone 5S users have been encountering the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death” error when trying to access multiple iWork apps at the same time, reports...
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Analyst: Apple’s iPhone 5C sales lower than expected
Well-connected KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has lowered his iPhone 5C sales estimate for the September quarter, reports Business Insider. Kuo cut his original estimate by 33 percent and is now forecasting sales of 11.4 million iPhone 5C units for...
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Get ready for the Galaxy S5: New flagship phone may debut in January
Numerous reports have suggested that sales of Samsung’sflagship Galaxy S4 have fallen well short of the company’s internal projections, and Samsung might not be confident that its universally panned smartwatch and new curiously curved smartphone can pick...
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Samsung launches world's first smartphone with curved screen
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which moves the Asian giant a step closer to achieving wearable devices with flexible - even unbreakable - screens. Curved...
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Apple’s iOS grows as Google’s Android slows
Is Apple’s iOS taking rivals’ market share? Apple grew its share of the smartphone platform market in the U.S. during the three-month period ended August 15, while Google’s Android and BlackBerry lost market share, according to the latest data from comScore’s...
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iPhone 5s orders launch to 7-10 day estimates in Australia/China, 'October' in Hong Kong/Singapore
As we've been documenting in updates to our article about shortages of gold iPhone 5S models in Australia, shortages of all models of the device are rapidly coming apparent as Apple's online stores in the Asia-Pacific region are coming back online. In...
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Nokia was testing Android on Lumias before Microsoft sale
Before Nokia bet its smartphone ambitions on Windows Phone, the idea of an Android-powered Nokia device was not so hard to believe. Now, according to a new report from The New York Times, it turns out Nokia engineers did develop Lumia phones that ran...
Sales of Samsung’s new Note 10.1 tablet are expected to be ‘small’
Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear smartwatch shared the spotlight during the company’s Unpacked press conference earlier this week, but a third new device was also unveiled. Dubbed “Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition)” — seriously, that’s...
Sony unveils new smartphone in bid for top three ranking
Sony Corp. unveiled a new smartphone on Wednesday in its push to become the world's third-biggest maker of smartphones after Samsung and Apple. Sony's Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai told a news conference in Berlin, where Europe's largest consumer electronics...
Next Android mobile software version dubbed 'KitKat'
Google on Tuesday said the next version of Android will be called "KitKat" in keeping with its penchant for giving tasty names to its software for powering mobile devices. "Since these devices make our lives so sweet, each Android version is named after...
