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by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 5:08 PMRead On
If 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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by Stephen Schenck | May 24, 2013 4:28 PMRead On
Just 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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by Anton D. Nagy | May 24, 2013 1:55 PMRead On
Topic 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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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 8:01 PMRead On
Microsoft finds itself in a somewhat unique place in the electronics industry, with products in both the smartphone and console gaming spheres. Sure, Sony hits both those notes, but there's a big difference between manufacturing smartphones and having direct control over a smartphone platform. In theory, that should lead to some fantastically tight integration between ...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 23, 2013 7:00 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG's demo of a smartphone with no bezel, and the possibilities of it ever happening. We later talk about Samsung, the sales results of the Galaxy S 4 and their future Developer Edition. We later go through how the Facebook phone is now being pulled away from the UK because of the obvious bad results on sales, even though ...
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by Taylor Martin | May 23, 2013 6:27 PMRead On
Nokia is a name that is synonymous with great build quality and hardware, awesome mobile cameras, and now Windows Phone. Nokia penned a deal with Microsoft in 2011, pushing its efforts to improve Symbian as a leading smartphone OS and the MeeGo project with Intel to the back burner. As we've learned, however, Nokia's decision to go all-in on Windows Phone ...
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by Taylor Martin | May 23, 2013 4:18 PMRead On
When someone uses a particular platform for any given time, they become invested in the ecosystem – the apps, the built-in and related services, and the way everything syncs up perfectly and seamlessly. You become invested in the platform and the user experience. And switching to any other platform is certainly more difficult than just a context switch and getting ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 045: HTC’s death spiral, Jolla’s rebirth, and yet another Nokia EOS rumor (Podcast)by Michael Fisher | May 23, 2013 1:47 PMRead On
Here at Pocketnow, we like other tech sites. We share the same news space, we share a lot of editorial opinions, and we trade jokes and barbs on the Twitters, the Facebooks, and even in the godforsaken comments section. We're even starting to interact face-to-face with our foreign contemporaries in on-air venues like the Pocketnow VIP, but here at the Weekly, we ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 23, 2013 4:14 AMRead On
We've been huge fans of future possible sapphire solutions for smartphones ever since MWC. We've also visited the factory that can make this possible. Sapphire is known to be an extremely tough material, almost impossible to scratch. It has its own downside though: it's also very brittle. Gorilla Glass, on the other hand, is less brittle, but, it is much easier to ...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 22, 2013 7:00 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG's new Optimus GJ and what's different from the previous Optimus G, if there really is any difference. Then we talk about Microsoft and how it had to water-down its YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 due to a petition from Google. Speaking of Google, their new Google Drive is next as it got significantly revamped in mobile. ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 22, 2013 6:45 PMRead On
It's become a trope in mobile tech: write an article about Nokia, and someone will leave a comment suggesting that all the beleaguered company needs to do to return to prominence is build an Android phone. Mark my words: it'll even happen on this article, despite the contravening headline. And, fanboys being fanboys, a flame war (or at least a small brush fire) will ...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 22, 2013 5:37 PMRead On
When Henry Ford was asked almost a century ago why he focused so intensely on making automobiles a mainstream in complete contradiction to what the experts thought at the time, his response was simple - "If I would've asked people what they wanted, they would've asked for a faster horse". When Steve Jobs almost had a heart attack because Steve Wozniak had to honor a ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2013 5:21 PMRead On
In case you haven't been following, Microsoft and Google have gotten themselves into a minor tiff over YouTube. It started earlier this month when Microsoft updated its YouTube app for Windows Phone. This brought a lot of new functionality, but as was quickly pointed out, seemed to violate some YouTube policies, specifically with how it allowed downloads and didn't ...






























