While financial analysts are looking forward to cashing in on an iPhone 7 for the masses, there has been a contingent that’s been looking at an underwhelming year for Apple if we’re to trust the looks and other changes that have made their way across tech circles.Add this piece to the hedge pile.Quartz commissioned a survey through SurveyMonkey Audience. It asked 525 ...
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Microsoft has officially changed the goalpost in overtime.The previous minimum memory requirements for Windows 10 Mobile have been annulled and replaced on Microsoft’s Hardware Dev Center. Instead of 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage, phones will need at least 1GB of RAM and 8GB of RAM.The move was made after several Windows Phone 8.1 devices that were promised an upgrade didn’t get ...
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We talk about phones here a lot. No kidding. We really do. I know you’re shocked. But, we really do talk about phones a whole ton. And it’s often about the newest and latest gadget coming out that does everything superbly well. We also field a lot of questions here at Pocketnow and one of the most common questions we here is, “should I get this phone or that phone?” It got us to thinking, why are you buying a new smartphone at all?We used to think that people got new phones and upgraded their gear on a two-year cycle. This was consistent with the two-year contract cycle that many ...
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You’ll need another fiver for this upgrade.AT&T has just raised its activation fees for AT&T Next plans as well as brought-in devices up to $20. Upgrade fees for the Next Plans are also $20. All these fees are up from $15 and now match Verizon’s costs.Unlike Verizon, while the upgrade fee for two-year contracts hasn’t changed, AT&T charges $5 more than its main competitor with the fee at $45. And as far as we know, third-party upgrade programs like the
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The Windows 10 Mobile upgrade for existing Windows Phone 8.1 devices has started to show up. Most people probably have the automatic updates option turned on which will probably notify you when an update is ready to install and allow you to proceed. There’s a few things you might want to be wary of when that Windows 10 Mobile upgrade comes along though.Do you even want the upgrade?Many people think the newer version of an operating system is going to be better than the current version. That is how things should normally go, but that’s not often the case with Windows Mobile. In ...
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It’s funny to be a college graduate when you’re looking at friends still in school and one of them is asking to suggest a cheap phone they could buy because their iPhone (it’s always an iPhone [and it’s already has a cracked screen]) has bit the dust.Well, if they plan on ...
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Stats and figures have been running thick these past several days. Earlier today, we had some quarter-to-quarter smartphone shipment numbers from TrendForce that took some wind out of the two biggest players in the industry, Samsung and Apple. But before that, we had a larger-scale OS market share report that kept the iPhone in terrific universal standing (and likely on more nightstands).This past weekend ...
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Depending on your perspective, the HTC One is either the biggest Android success story of 2013, or the most overhyped piece of mobile tech since the iPhone. Debate continues to rage between the two camps across our various comment sections, and fanboys being what they are, a resolution seems unlikely anytime soon. One thing is clear, though: a timely HTC One update is critical to the ...
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Those of you who are regular readers probably remember that my “old” Nexus 4 met with what I like to call “premature end-of-life” caused by a “gravity-event”. Many of you probably have an old smartphone laying around like I did. Switching back to it while I waited for my replacement was fairly simple: pop the SIM out of the broken phone and into the old one, boot up, and done! For my temporary phone I opted for my (very) old T-Mobile G2 ...
Sitting on the couch the other night, I saw a commercial that really piqued my interest. Lumia 920 from AT&T – buy one get one free. Holy Crow! That’s just the excuse that I’ve been looking for! Sure I’d have to go on contract again – I haven’t bought an AT&T phone since June of 2010 – but this might just be worth it. But wait. As much as a Lumia 920 would fulfill a good portion of my smart phone naughty dreams, is this REALLY the best time to pony up $100 and the next two years of my life on a new phone? Can the Lumia 920 still be considered a “new” phone? It ...