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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 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 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 ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 10:57 AMRead OnIn the days following Google I/O 2013, we've been seeing Google distribute updates to a number of its Android apps; Drive and Google+ saw such updates land over the past week. It shouldn't be much of a surprise that more are on their way, and today we get what could be an early look at one of them, upon the discovery of what looks like a screenshot of an upcoming Gmail ...
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Android
by Anton D. Nagy | May 24, 2013 8:39 AMRead OnWhen Samsung announced it managed to sell 10 million Galaxy S 4 units through its global channels yesterday they also unveiled new color options for the near future. Among these is the Red Aurora Samsung Galaxy S 4 and AT&T was quick to make it public that customers will be able to grab this color flavor, in 16GB internal storage version, starting June 14, in ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 24, 2013 8:01 AMRead On
Most new-device launches go the same way: usually the press gets review units before they’re widely available, and we get to use them for a few days -or a week if we’re lucky- as we work on our review. Then press day arrives. The embargo on media coverage lifts, and everyone posts their reviews and videos at the same time. It’s a huge frenzy, commenters go nuts, ...
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Android
by Joe Levi | May 24, 2013 7:29 AMRead OnGoogle introduced some very cool things at I/O 2013, primary among them was a renewed focus on services. In addition to talking a lot about new Google Play Services which will bring a whole new set of features and functionality to every Android handset and tablet from Froyo on up, we were also shown "Auto Awesome" and Hangouts (the replacement for Talk). Auto Awesome ...
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Android
by Michael Fisher | May 24, 2013 7:02 AMRead OnSprint's Kyocera Torque is a real monster. A rugged phone for the rough-and-tumble construction crowd, the phone features mil-spec toughening to the 810G and IP67 standards for dust, shock, extreme temperatures and pressures, solar radiation, blowing rain, salt fog, and immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to a meter of water. When we reviewed it several months back, ...
