We’re probably only a couple of months away from the launch of the fourth-generation Motorola Moto X, following in the footsteps of last year’s Moto X Style, aka X Pure Edition. Ergo, the third-gen can be unsurprisingly purchased at lower prices than ever before, i.e. $300 ...
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Forget one or two flagship phones. Huawei appears to want to break some sort of record, working on a high-end Mate 9 phablet even after recently unveiling the premium P9 and P9 Plus, and gearing up to announce the equally top-notch Honor V8 on May 10.It’s market flooding at its best, but chances are the P9 duo and yet-to-be-introduced V8 ...
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We’ve been livin’ on the EDGE for a long time, but AT&T figures it’s about that time that the sky started falling on GSM. CFO John Stevens says the network’s remaining 2G networks will be shut off by the end of this year.In AT&T’s Q1 earnings conference call, Stevens said that the company moved off six million customers from 2G in the past 12 months. Some stubborn feature phone-wielding subscribers may end up getting lost in the transition, ...
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If you like to watch your music in motion and maybe, just maybe, you have up to five other relatives or close groupies that like listening to and watching music, you have a lot of choices to sort through. Simply put,
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Google’s recent changes to its store, where we no longer see products like the Nexus 9. Then we talk about some of the recent Sony quarter results, and what these mean. LG follows as we notice smartphone losses as well. The HTC Nexus smartphones then make the cut as we get more details on code names. We end today’s show talking about a possible iPhone Pro in the works.All this and more after the break.Stories:– Google no longer selling Nexus tablets, as Nexus 9 ...
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After its dismal growth reading on smartphone shipments, market research firm IDC has released both its quarterly shipment reports for tablets and the trend line continues groundward.39.6 million tablets went across the world last quarter with 87.6 percent of them being regular slate tablets — plenty of them in the form of Apple’s older iPads and Amazon’s
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Twitter hasn’t been making enough money for investors. It has struggled to grow its userbase over the past few years, stuck at a rate of a few million per quarter, with gimmick after gimmick to improve the experience. But one of its big strengths has been to deliver and propagate breaking news minutia. The company seems to ...
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Have you ever texted a friend about how cool Khloe Kardashian is — because, you know, your appetite for reality TV stars is just that big — and ended up talking about how fat she was? You know, because autocorrect decided that her name was actually Khloe Lardasses?Surely, there are some pretty bad examples of ...
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Voice-powered assistants are becoming more and more popular ways for users to get access to data, using them to conduct searches and connect with the websites holding answers. But for as powerful as they are, use of such services can mean making certain compromises. Take Google’s voice search on Android devices, for instance: you can ask it to search for anything you choose, but it’s only going to give you results from Google’s own servers – there’s no easy way to ...
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Doing a video about VR is complicated in its own way, but when you talk about the HTC Vive, well, one video might not be enough. Just like in the case of the average gaming computer, there is nothing simple about the HTC Vive. The Fedex guy needed a trolley to drag the box to my doorstep, not because it’s heavy, but because it’s huge.Cutting through the external cardboard, you’re greeted with a large dark package that’s held in place by foam and plastic protection. The added padding padding may seem to be overkill, but it starts making sense when you dig within. The Vive’s box is ...
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Creating apps that give users powerful new ways to access Twitter has long presented an uncomfortable situation for developers: get too successful, and your app essentially shuts down. The problem’s been Twitter’s use of tokens that allow distinct users to connect with a third-party app, and so far there’s been a hard limit of 100,000 per title – hit that many, and you couldn’t sign on any new users. Earlier this week, popular Android Twitter app Fenix found itself ...
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Google’s acquisition of Motorola meant a lot of changes for the smartphone maker, but the company had some great talent on board that helped it through that period of adjustment. And no sooner had it adapted to life at Google than Motorola found itself being passed on to a new owner, as word of Lenovo’s acquisition plans arrived in early 2014. That meant some staffing shake-ups, and a few ...
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Mobile software and advertising have a long and sometimes tumultuous history. Ads help compensate developers for their time and effort, and a successful campaign can go a long way towards encouraging those devs to create more of the apps we love. But sometimes we’ve had enough of ads, and we pay to upgrade to an ad-free experience; sometimes we pay to upgrade and ads (in one form or another) continue to persist. And then there are those times when we’ve simply had enough, and we don’t want to ...
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Smartphone users today have more opportunities to try out in-development software than ever before. From Apple’s public iOS betas, to Android’s developer preview for Nexus hardware, to the Microsoft Insider program, users who aren’t afraid of dealing with a few rough edges can check out the latest software well in advance of any wide release. Sometimes the inevitable beta bugs are minor, and while the user experience may be a little wonky, everything’s ultimately still functional. ...
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Apple’s quarterly earnings have fallen for the first time since 2003. As iPhone sales slow, what are the ramifications for Cupertino? Is Nokia getting into the smartwatch game by buying up Withings? Google is bringing Android app support to Chromebooks, but will we ever see Android and Chrome OS merge?We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and
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