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Android
by Anton D. Nagy | May 22, 2013 5:09 AMRead OnSamsung and Pantech are direct competitors, and, even more, they're from the same country, South Korea, together with LG. According to a press release today, the announcement says that Samsung buys stake in Pantech. 10%, to be more specific, according to the wording. That tenth slice will cost Samsung 53 billion won (about $47.6 million), but, on the long run, it is ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Anton D. Nagy | May 22, 2013 4:54 AMRead OnThe captain is the last one to abandon a sinking ship. HTC's Peter Chou promised that he'd resign as the CEO of the company if the HTC One isn't going to bring the Taiwanese manufacturer above the floating line. However, until then, some important crew members have either left, leaving, or urging fellow HTC-ers to leave. Is HTC sinking? Jason Gordon, HTC's vice ...
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Windows Phone
by Anton D. Nagy | May 22, 2013 1:23 AMRead OnThe probability for a Nokia phablet is still unknown. However, such a device has been nonetheless subject to rumors in the past, alongside the mystery EOS PureView Lumia device. If a six-incher made by Espoo will become a reality, that would happen only in 2014, according to a recent report. Information coming from "industry sources" might go either way, so we're ...
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Multi-Platform
by Jaime Rivera | May 21, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Sony's launch of the Xperia Tablet Z, price points and the reason why it's worth your money. We then move into Apple territory as reports call the next-generation iPad ready for trial production. Later it's HTC in the news as we talk about a Google HTC One in the works and when we assume it might be launched. Then we talk ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 21, 2013 5:19 PMRead On
We all love smartphones. Without them, Pocketnow wouldn't exist, and my decades-old dream of living in Star Trek's universe of awesome pocketable gadgets would never have been realized. It's fair to say that everyone here -editors and readers alike- understands and appreciates smartphones and other connected devices. But sometimes we take our eye off the significance ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 5:11 PMRead OnYesterday, we got what seems to be our first real look at the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active, the waterproof version of the Galaxy S 4 that's been the subject of a number of rumors in recent weeks. What we saw looked great, and the rumored specs suggested that the phone would keep much of the original GS4's abilities, only really taking a small hit when it came to camera ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 4:35 PMRead OnIt's been about six months since Nokia launched Here, its new mapping service. It all sounded very promising, with a rich SDK for letting devs add content to the experience. Of course, Nokia itself continues to tinker away at Here, and today announced a pretty substantial update for the Windows Phone app, adding support for LiveSight augmented reality. We heard Nokia ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 3:42 PMRead OnMillions of shoppers turn to Consumer Reports for unbiased, in-depth comparisons to help them shop for anything from cars to chainsaws. That includes smartphones, and we've looked at the company's ratings a number of times in the past. CR recently reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S 4, and found itself so enamored with the smartphone that it gave the handset its ranking ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 2:59 PMRead OnShortly after we learned of the special Google edition of the Galaxy S 4 running stock Android, we started hearing rumors about the HTC One getting the same sort of treatment. It wasn't long before HTC took the air out of those claims, announcing that it was "not currently planning a 'Nexus Edition' of the HTC One." In spite of this, the rumors refuse to fully ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 1:12 PMRead OnFingerprint scanners are one of those weird features that have been around forever, yet have never really found a way to catch on in the mainstream. There are some good reasons for that, as the tech itself is a bit of a paradox: it can feel like a paranoid, high-security burden, while at the same time can be quite trivial for a determined attacker to bypass. We've seen ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 12:10 PMRead OnThe ruggedized Android dominating our thoughts for the moment may be the Galaxy S 4 Active, and while we're still waiting for much of this info we have on the phone to be confirmed, one item seems like a given: it's going to be expensive. If a reliable elements-proof construction is important to you but you don't have $600 to drop on a new smartphone, you may want to ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 11:39 AMRead OnMuch of the Galaxy S 4 talk over the past week has been about this Google AOSP edition of the phone, but we're also still waiting for it to hit one more carrier in the US: Verizon. Last week we got word that Verizon would no longer wait until the very end of the month to get things started with the GS4, and instead was pushing-up its plans for the handset. As we get ...
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Android
by Joe Levi | May 21, 2013 10:45 AMRead OnOne of the announcements at Google I/O this year was somewhat unexpected. We'd heard a few scattered rumors of another Samsung-made Nexus based on their new Galaxy S 4 platform, but I don't think anyone was ready for what we actually got: an unlocked, cross-carrier version of the Galaxy S4 -- the Galaxy S4 Google Edition. Earlier today Pocketnow's Stephen ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 10:42 AMRead OnEarlier this month, LG distributed invitations to a May 30 event where news about a "G" phone was teased. When first hearing about this, we speculated as to just what LG might hope to reveal, with something like the regional launch of the Optimus G Pro for China high on that list. Still, images of an unknown LG smartphone kept appearing, and we couldn't quite shake the ...
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Multi-Platform
by Taylor Martin | May 21, 2013 10:18 AMRead OnThere is no shortage of options when it comes to communicating with a modern smartphone. There are literally hundreds – likely even thousands – of different ways to communicate. There's the voice call, which is no longer a staple in mobile communication for many. And there is an endless supply of different IP messengers available, free of charge, depending on what ...
