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by Michael Fisher | May 25, 2013 1:01 AMRead On
There's a big gulf between an unboxing and a full review, and we're always looking for ways to fill it. Our friendly neighborhood FedEx man dropped the Sony Xperia Tablet Z on our porch this morning, whereupon we promptly tore, cut, and otherwise fought our way into its packaging - all to give our fellow geeky voyeurs a rough idea of what the first few moments of ...
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Multi-Platform
by Anton D. Nagy | May 25, 2013 12:39 AMRead OnPocketnow Insider is not only about video. It is a collection of posts from where you can get to virtually go behind the scenes of Pocketnow and the people behind it. This new recurring text series will give you the opportunity to find out more about our Editors, their lives, before and outside of Pocketnow. Our first installment of "Get to know Pocketnow's Editors" ...
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iOS
by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 8:00 PMRead OnFrom everything we've heard, Apple's iOS 7 is set to be the Jonathan Ive Show, with the designer tearing into the skeuomorphic-heavy look we've been familiar with. Reports have again and again reiterated a focus on a clean "flat" look for the platform, and today we get a few new details about what in specific will be changing. Beyond just a flat, light-on-textures look ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Jaime Rivera | May 24, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the red aurora Samsung Galaxy S 4 and why you shouldn't be excited. Then it's more Samsung news as some leaked photos of their Tizen phone have emerged. Google is next as the company seems to be collaborating with Microsoft to fix the compliance issues with the YouTube app on Windows Phone 8. More Google news continues as ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 6:42 PMRead OnWindows 8 and RT tablets didn't exactly get off to a booming start. The initial absence of the Surface Pro and a lack of compelling products from OEMs failed to add up to a lot of holiday season retail success. Still, Microsoft and its manufacturing partners continue to soldier on, and we're already hearing about what's next on the hardware side. Now a source has ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 5:08 PMRead OnIf we're to believe the rumors, HTC has found itself in a pretty dark place lately. Executives are jumping ship, and high-profile phones like the First with its Facebook integration are failing to resonate with users. As such, it's probably a more important time than ever to take a step back and look at where HTC has come from – that this is a company that has been ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 4:28 PMRead OnJust the other day, we saw Microsoft release an update to its recently redone Windows Phone YouTube app, removing one of the features Google found objectionable. As you might remember, the app initially generated controversy due to how it allowed users to download videos to their phones, and how it played clips without the advertisements YouTube attached to them. ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 24, 2013 3:21 PMRead On
Time was, you couldn't get a 9xx-series Lumia on any U.S. carrier but AT&T. For over a year, the nation's second-largest wireless provider has exerted a fierce stranglehold on the high-end Nokia segment, forcing competing carriers to offer only midrange handsets if they wanted to carry the finnish OEM's wares. Things change, though. The Nokia Lumia 928 is the first ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 24, 2013 2:12 PMRead On
Everything we do here at Pocketnow is for you: our readers, our viewers, our listeners, our fans and our biggest critics. We wouldn't be here if it weren't for you, and it is all of you who made this happen: I'm delighted to announce that Pocketnow has reached 300,000 YouTube subscribers! We like doing videos, we know how to do videos, and boy, we make a lot of videos! ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Anton D. Nagy | May 24, 2013 1:55 PMRead OnTopic Jolla unveiled their first phone this week, together with "the other half", which brings an interesting concept to the mobile world. HTC's executives are leaving the company which makes us wonder whether this is a good or a bad things. Samsung officially sold 10 million Galaxy S 4 units through its global channels and unofficial sources talk about 5 million HTC ...
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Android
by Taylor Martin | May 24, 2013 1:19 PMRead OnEven today, we consider the HTC EVO 4G and Motorola DROID as the two phones that helped kick-start Android's rapid rise to the top. They were once the two most popular Android smartphones ever. And, sure, some other popular hero devices followed suit in the following months and years. But the EVO 4G and original DROID were the two that everyone looked back on, the two ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 12:56 PMRead OnWhat's next for HTC? It's starting to look like the First is a bust, putting even more pressure on the One. We've already talked a little about possible new directions for the One, including that of a version running stock Android and a more petite edition, known by codename M4 and possibly arriving as the One Mini. Now a new rumor has things going in the opposite ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 12:18 PM
Read OnDespite Google not announcing it at I/O 2013, it's been clear that Android 4.3 has been under development, leaving many of us wondering just when Google might hope to finally make it official. While most of the 4.3 evidence has come from the likes of server logs, today we get a first-hand look at the software in action, with a number of images appearing to show Android ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 24, 2013 11:39 AMRead On
When we first laid hands on Sony's Xperia Tablet Z back at MWC in Barcelona, only our stalwart professional detachment kept us from falling in love at first sight. The tablet, impossibly thin at 6.9mm and with a just-right weight of 495g, felt incredible in our hands - a feeling that only intensified upon learning the tablet was rated for water resistance to IP55 and ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 11:35 AMRead OnYesterday, we started getting to the bottom of rumors surrounding Samsung's first Tizen hardware, taking a look at the User Agent Profile for the Samsung GT-I8805. That was a model number we heard before, when a previous rumor claimed the GT-I8805 was under development as codename Redwood, and there was also a model GT-I8800, which Samsung was calling Melius. Since ...
