Sony Honami leaked pictures are finally high-quality

The upcoming Sony Honami, which the company will almost certainly unveil at its September 4 pre-IFA Berlin special event, has been subject to numerous leaks and rumors in the recent past. We’ve seen pictures from Mr. Blurrycam and his friends but today’s Sony Honami leaked pictures seem to be a clear and sharp representation of what the phone might end up to be. Whether we’re looking at a dummy unit, a prototype, or the real deal, is unknown. However, the back of the phone, where the camera is, has labels attached, which are missing from the official Sony teasers. Sony ...

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iPad 5 dates, Google’s Hugo Barra departs, Galaxy Gear specs & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the the launch of the Verizon Moto X, aside from some rumors of the European Moto X getting a replaceable back. Then we talk about some leaked Galaxy Gear specs, aside from the horrendous price tag of the Samsung Galaxy NX. Nokia is next as we discover the first leaked photo of their project Bandit, AKA Lumia 1520. Then we cover some iPad 5 rumors which are both good and bad. We end today’s show talking about the departure of Hugo Barra as Google’s Android VP, and what this means to the platform. All this and more after the ...

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Will T-Mobile pass all Moto X sales responsibility to Google?

T-Mobile’s relationship with the new Moto X is positively nutty. The other carriers have been very direct with their plans: AT&T got it first (along with the custom option), Verizon’s now joined in with sales, and Sprint and US Cellular will follow along in due time. But T-Mobile’s role in all this has been ridiculously difficult to get a solid read on. Will T-Mobile actually be selling ...

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Two new Dell Windows tablets expected before the year’s out

Dell really hasn’t had much luck in recent years with smartphone and tablets. The company was once a heavyweight back in the Windows Mobile days, but its portable offerings have really hit tough times lately. The Dell Streak was one of the first products we could call a phablet, yet it never really caught on, a fate shared with the Dell Venue and Venue Pro, leading to their cancellation last year. Since then, we’ve seen a couple tablets from the company, and now we’re ...

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Screenshots of Galaxy Gear smatwatch companion app leak

A little earlier today we brought you the latest rumors to address what hardware Samsung may be using to build its Galaxy Gear smartwatch, confirmed for launch on September 4. While that was very useful to come across, and had us reconsidering earlier claims of the watch’s specs, it still left a pretty big aspect of the device unaddressed: how it would interact with our phones. That could ultimately make or break the watch, so we’re well curious to get the full story. What we get this evening is more of a teaser ...

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BlackBerry serves up cross-platform BBM signup page; so when’s the launch date?

A cross platform version of BlackBerry Messenger has been teasing us at the periphery of our vision for weeks now. We know the app’s coming to iOS and Android, we’ve heard about wide-scale testing being underway, and Samsung looks anxious to get started promoting the service in Africa. All that’s left, so it seems, is for it to finally leave testing and go public. While we still lack any hard date – or for that matter, even rumors of a specific date – we ...

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New iPad 5 imagery emerges, as rumored September 10 launch gets rejected

Yesterday, we were talking about Apple’s launch plans for the new iPad 5 (and iPad Mini 2, by all accounts), and the idea that surfaced in a new Bloomberg report that Apple could have these new tablets ready to introduce on September 10, along with the new iPhones. This flew counter to what we had been hearing, but from a source like Bloomberg, it was hard to fully dismiss. Well, while we were left not knowing whom to trust, insiders a little more plugged-in to Apple have heard the same reports, and are soundly rejecting ...

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Our favorite Moto X color combinations

One of the most unique and intriguing features of Motorola’s latest handset, the Moto X, is the fact that you can customize the appearance of the device to your liking, assuming you’re on AT&T. The online design portal, Moto Maker, allows you to choose between 18 different back colors, two front colors, and seven accent colors for your own, unique spin on the device. Michael and I both had the opportunity to customize our own Moto Xs a few weeks ago, and the entire experience, although ...

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New evidence arrives for start of iPhone 5S sales

Apple has yet to get around to distributing invitations to its next launch event, where we’re expecting to see the company go public with the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Despite that, we continue to look at September 10 as a strong possibility for when this event might occur. Beyond that, we’ve also been trying to work out just when this new hardware would be available for sale, and have heard a couple rumors talking about that getting underway on September 20. ...

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Leaked Samsung Galaxy Gear specs include some weird storage options

Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch is coming; we’ve already heard a company VP confirm the watch’s presence for the upcoming September 4 event. With that already known, we’ve been left trying to work out the specific component details that will make up the Gear’s hardware. We’ve talked a little about screen size, processing power, and

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Motorola Droid Ultra unboxing (Video)

The new Motorola is among us, or so the company says. The US-based handset maker has been on cruise control since being acquired by Google early last year. And ever since, we’ve been eagerly awaiting post-acquisition Motorola handsets in hopes of a beautiful fusion of an adept hardware manufacturer and the maker of one of our favorite mobile operating systems. In the last month, Motorola drew the curtains on its new outlook on the mobile market, which consisted of four new phones: Droid Ultra, Droid ...

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Why are some YouTube videos not available on mobile devices?

At Pocketnow we celebrate mobile devices as well as the mobile lifestyle. Being able to carry the world around with you is taken for granted in this day and age. Whether you prefer iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, or some other operating system to power your smartphone or tablet, you want to be able to do pretty much anything you could do on a desktop or laptop computer while you’re “on the go”. One of the things that’s becoming more popular with every passing day is mobile video — being able to watch content, streamed from the Internet directly to ...

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