We’re just a matter of weeks away from Oppo’s launch of the N3, with an announcement due near the end of October. The company hasn’t been shy about dropping teasers for the new hardware already, and while the unofficial renders we’ve seen have us more than a little suspicious, there’s also good info out there. The latest to arrive from ...
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Hey, Moto 360 owners! Digging your eye-catching round-screened smartwatch? Why wouldn’t you be? But in the interest of making a good thing even better, Motorola’s got a new software update for the wearable coming out today (and unlike the iOS 8.0.1 update Apple users are dealing with, thus one has the benefit of not appearing to introduce any new ...
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Samsung sure seems to be taking the metal-edged look from its new Galaxy Alpha and running with it, bringing the same design to a series of additional Androids tipped to arrive as the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7. Last week we got to take a look at some leaked pics that appeared to show off the A5, as well as talking specs on both the A3 and A5 (with the A7 remaining cool and mysterious). Now the latest gossip on this bunch is out, and ...
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We’ve seen strong emphasis from Samsung on its Tizen ventures these past few years, but with the continued failure to launch a phone running the mobile OS, things aren’t looking so great for the upstart operating system. Sources close to Samsung from the Wall Street Journal are reporting Samsung mobile division staff cuts – what could be a gloomy sign for this division of the company.Approximately 500 of its engineers in the mobile division are being repurposed to other parts of Samsung, including the printer and television-manufacturing sides. Samsung says the move is to ...
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It’s not happening overnight, but little by little, many carriers are becoming more friendly to users interested in bringing their own devices. It can be an incredibly freeing change, and independent retailers have been eager to offer customers seeking such flexibility their choice of the latest hardware. One such retailer is GSM Nation, and earlier this summer its co-founder and CEO Ahmed Khattak joined us on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast to discuss his business, followed by
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If you watched Pocketnow’s Moto X vs Galaxy S5 comparison, you’ll remember that for a huge swath of the US, Samsung’s Galaxy S line is the de facto iPhone alternative. If you’re not buying Apple, odds are you’re shopping for The Next Big Thing (despite the fact that there’s
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Yesterday evening we were checking out the latest rumors about what’s next for iOS 8, looking at a leaked list of improvements to expect in iOS 8.0.1. With word that the update was already in the hands of carriers, we were optimistic that a release could be just around the corner. As it turns out, that expectation was right on the money, and today we see Apple go ahead with distributing its iOS 8.0.1 update.Sure enough, the official release notes mention some of those bugfixes we told you about yesterday, ...
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Will LG ever deliver smartphones powered by its own SoC, like Samsung does with its Exynos chips? We’ve been discussing the possibility going all the way back to February 2013, with this idea that LG was brewing up an “Odin” series of chips to call its own. Ever since, we’ve been trying to get a sense for when Odin-powered handsets might be ready to debut, and despite a stray lead here and there, there really ...
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Two weeks ago Friday, I was sitting up in bed at 2:50 AM waiting on the flood gates to open. The iPhone 6 pre-orders were about to begin and I needed to make sure I ordered an iPhone 6 Plus before the dreaded backorder prompt appeared.Turns out, I was pretty lucky. After refreshing the Apple Store webpage at least four hundred times, I grabbed my iPad mini and opened up the Apple Store app. I added a 64GB Space Gray iPhone 6 Plus to my cart and finally checked out around 3:40 AM. According to Twitter at the time, ...
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Apple’s first smartwatch is coming… eventually. While the company introduced the Apple Watch earlier this month, it will be some time before the wearable is ready for public release, and Apple’s been talking about a timetable that would see sales begin in “early 2015.” But just how early is “early?” A new report published by The Information attempts to reveal the Apple Watch’s path to market, including missed targets for a 2014 release, and mentions a possible goal for the ...
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Earlier today in South Korea, Samsung held the press conference we were looking forward to, where it confirmed plans for the Note 4 to become available in the nation a little ahead of schedule, with the phablet being released to the public this Thursday. The company also took the time to talk a little about release plans for the Gear S, Gear Circle, Gear VR, and one we’ve been super-curious about, the Note Edge. But is Samsung already trying to temper our expectations for that unique phablet? Some comments ...
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When Android Wear was announced, I had a difficult decision to make: stick with Pebble or take a chance on a smartwatch that I’d only seen in pictures. I was one of the gazillions who backed the Pebble Kickstarter project, putting money down on a product that hadn’t even been created yet, let alone made it to display-room floors. Jumping into the Android Wear ecosystem wasn’t much different.When the first watches powered by Android Wear were announced, only the two with square faces ...
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For those of you familiar with my weekend debate column on Sundays, you know that I like to sometimes take a step back and look at both sides of an issue. Sure it might be a little like fence riding, but I prefer to think of it as arguing both sides of a point to make sure it is understood fully. Well, today and tomorrow, I’ll be outlining two sides of another issue – reasons you should and should not switch to iPhone.So before you see this headline and immediately jump down to the comments to call me an Apple ...
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Folks, Apple has begun to flex its marketing muscle. Hot off of releasing new TV ads starring The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and artist Justin Timberlake, the company is now turning to the almost-prehistoric print media to continue advertising its new iPhones. Its latest set of iPhone 6 print ads boasts actual-sized reproductions of the two new phones.There’s nothing too special about these ads other than the fact that they’re ...
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Microsoft’s Cortana may have been late to the party as far as voice assistants go, but you can’t deny the effort the company has put into making its product better. One of the best parts of how Cortana is built is that it can be updated from Microsoft’s servers, which means a full Windows Phone update isn’t necessary to get a couple enhancements for Cortana. The latest batch of enhancements have been thrown together into a server-side Cortana update, and Microsoft is now explaining to us what exactly is new.First of all, Cortana will now give NFL predictions. The ...
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