The company has thumbed India and Vietnam to get the refurbished Note 7 units that will be equipped with a smaller battery than the one originally provided.
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Are you still bitter about Facebook Messenger being its own, bloated, starchy app? Feel like sacrificing your high-end phone and your first world living to at least get a Messenger app that’s less packed, less convenient and more minimalistic?Facebook Messenger Lite is just for you! In addition to the Marketplace that it introduced today, the company ...
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The latest Tizen push is merely days away and it seems that the whole show may have been spoiled to us at this point. Samsung’s Z2 smartphone should be making its entry-level presence known to entry-level countries (better known as emerging markets) late this month and it seems that SamMobile has an idea of what will go down in this device, when and ...
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Samsung has added one more market to its target demographic for the Tizen-powered Z2.From ETNews’s industry sources, lingua franca from South Africa has been included into the Z2’s language packs besides India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria.The Z2 will be Tizen’s first effort with 4G connectivity and will help customers jump onto developing LTE infrastructure at a ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook took a couple of hours to deliver the state of the company to his employees.Along with celebrating another fantastic holiday sales season, teasing the second office campus for a January 2017 ribbon-cutting, expanding employee benefits and more, Cook had some interesting outlooks for its mobile hardware and services.The executive said that the iPhone is the “greatest business of the future,” perhaps for decades. Apple has made
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I am mandating a switch of a whole bunch of my team over to Android, just because people, when left up to their own devices, will often prefer an iPhone.— Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer, FacebookFacebook, it seems, can’t afford to miss out on the world that’s using Android. The company is on the offensive to service its emerging markets and took to reporters to show that it was ready.Many developers, ...
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Microsoft spoke recently about their future plans, stating that they planned to continue the Nokia tradition of focusing on low-end smartphones for emerging markets. After all, there are a lot more people out there NOT using smartphones than there are using them. But when one hears something like that, one might become concerned. Does a focus on low-end devices mean a lack of focus on flagship devices? I for one sure as heck don’t think so. Flagships and other higher-end devices are just as important to a product line up as low end emerging market type smartphones. Windows Phone in ...
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