BlackBerry have today officially unveiled their new BlackBerry Classic smartphone (although it went up for pre-order a few weeks back) and the company said shipments of its new handset would begin this week. However, in the UK it seems you’ll have a while to wait yet as the handset is not set to begin shipping until mid-January. Continue reading “BlackBerry Classic UK shipments begin mid-January 2015”
BlackBerry is all set to announce the details about the Classic device which has already been revealed partially.While the features and pricing have been revealed already,it would be interesting to see what the company has to announce today.The Classic can be seen as a successor to the BlackBerry Q10 and is priced at $449 and is already up for pre-order.
Vodafone are set to re-enter the US market as a MVNO running on the T-Mobile network. The network, who sold their large chunk in Verizon back tot he company for $130 billion, is not focusing on consumer and will instead cater to hundreds of multinational customers based across the pond. Continue reading “Vodafone to re-enter the US Market”
Mozilla has announced that it is replacing its default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the U.S. The company has entered into a five year partnership with Yahoo to be the default search engine on mobile and desktop.
Continue reading “Yahoo to become default search engine for Firefox in the U.S.”
Motorola has announced the DROID Turbo, the latest flagship smartphone in the DROID for Verizon Wireless in the U.S. as expected. It has a 5.2 (1440×2560 pixels) AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, powered by a 2.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 21-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash, 4K video recording and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Motorola DROID Turbo with 5.2-inch Quad HD display, Snapdragon 805 and 21MP camera announced”
ZTE ZMAX is the latest phablet from the company that would head to T-Mobile in the U.S. next week. It has a 5.7-inch HD display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “ZTE ZMAX with 5.7-inch HD display, Snapdragon 400 processor announced”
T-Mobile will offer Wi-Fi calling on the newly launched iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in the US while EE will provide the same in the UK. The popular US and UK carriers will be the first one to partner Apple for this feature that will allow users to make phone calls using a Wi-Fi network.
Continue reading “Apple teams up with T-Mobile in the US and EE in the UK for Wi-Fi calling”
Google Glass Google Glass Explorer Edition is now available in the U.S. Google Play store, along with its accessories. The move comes from Google after the wearable device was available via beta program earlier in May.
Continue reading “Google Glass Explorer Edition hits the US Google Play Store”
With an aim to put a curb on growing smartphone thefts, Governor Jerry Brown of California has signed the ‘Kill switch’ bill into a law. Starting July 1st, 2015, the law will require all smartphone makers to install kill switch on the phones that lets users remotely lock them in case they are stolen.
Continue reading “Smartphone ‘kill switch’ bill passed into a law in California”
ZTE has launched the nubia 5S mini smartphone in the U.S. It is calling the smartphone nubia 5S mini LTE in the country. It was first launched in China back in November last year and packs a 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) IGZO display. The U.S variant is powered by a 1.4 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean), compared to Snapdragon 600 processor in the Chinese variant. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, full HD video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “ZTE nubia 5S mini LTE launched in the U.S for $279.99”
Samsung and Apple announced in a joint statement that they will drop all ongoing patent lawsuits outside the U.S. However, the smartphone rivals have not yet settled the dispute. The two companies have sued each other in a total of eight countries viz, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Netherlands, the UK, France, and Italy, and all these cases are being dropped, without being settled and without any cross-licensing agreements being negotiated.
Continue reading “Apple and Samsung to end all their patent disputes outside the US”
The US President Barack Obama has signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act into law. This essentially means that it is now legal to unlock a cell phone in the United States.
Continue reading “Cell Phone Unlocking now legal in the US, President Obama signs bill”
I was at the Microsoft Store in downtown San Francisco yesterday and store employees were readying a new sign at the entrance of the store. It read “Trade in your MacBook Air and get up to $650 toward a Surface Pro 3”. Microsoft has been heavily comparing its latest Surface Pro 3 Tablet with the Apple Macbook Air and looks like Microsoft wants to send out a bold message. Continue reading “Microsoft will pay you $650 when you trade in your Macbook Air for a Surface Pro 3 in the US and Canada”
Motorola announced the Motorola Moto X nearly nine months ago and it was the company’s first smartphone after being taken over by Google. The smartphone was the company’s flagship and at that time, it could not compete with the top of the range specs laden flagships that came with 1080p displays and powerful quad-core processors. Moto X took a different approach by making the smartphone extremely compact and it was branded as Made in USA.
Continue reading “Motorola slashes price of Moto X 32GB by 100$ in US for a 48 hour sale”
Verizon Wireless has launched XLTE, a new LTE service for their customers in select cities that would offer twice the LTE bandwidth. This uses 1700/2100 MHz AWS spectrum, in addition to the usual 700 MHz spectrum. Verizon promises faster peak data speeds and a minimum of double the bandwidth in high traffic areas with XLTE. Continue reading “Verizon launches XLTE, offers twice the 4G LTE bandwidth”
