AT&T is planning to discontinue the HTC First, better known as the “Facebook Phone,” reports BGR. Released on April 12, the HTC First was touted as the first device to come with Facebook Home preinstalled, a feature that has not enticed buyers to purchase the phone. Our source at AT&T has confirmed that the HTC [...]
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Nokia parodies Apple-Samsung phone wars in latest ad
Posted by Gary on April 30, 2013
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Lumia, Windows Phone portrayed as being above the fray In a new TV ad that vaguely recalls the Tareyton cigarette slogan “I’d rather fight than switch” from the 1960s, a new commercial for the Nokia Lumia 920 and its Windows Phone 8 OS pokes fun at the war between Apple and Samsung (and their respective [...]
Facebook reportedly in discussions to bring ‘Home’ to Apple’s iPhone, Microsoft Windows Phone [u]
Posted by Gary on April 16, 2013
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Coming on the heels of Facebook’s debut of the Google Android-based “Home” app launcher earlier in April, the company is now said to be in talks with Apple to possibly collaborate on such an initiative for the iPhone. Update: A source with knowledge of the situation has told The Next Web that Facebook is not [...]
T-Mobile’s iPhone 5 is a Tweaked Model A1428 Phone with AWS Support
Posted by Gary on March 27, 2013
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The iPhone 5 that will be sold through T-Mobile is a modified version of the A1428 iPhone 5 that is currently produced for AT&T’s network, among others. The new version of the A1428 has been tweaked on the hardware side by Apple to support Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) bands for T-Mobile’s network. According to an [...]
US Senators introduce bill to allow phone unlocking
Posted by Gary on March 13, 2013
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Adds to political support for A group of US Senators, including Al Franken and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have introduced a bill that would restore rights to unlock phones after a contract has expired. Called the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, the legislation would undo a Library of Congress ruling from [...]
Apple, Samsung gain phone marketshare; pull from HTC, Moto
Posted by Gary on March 7, 2013
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ComScore report emphasizes continuing Apple, Samsung dominance The latest marketshare reports from analyst firm ComScore have become available. Since the end of October, phones manufactured by Apple share of the US market jumped by 3.5 percentage points, and in the same time period Samsung gained 1.9 percent. The leaders grew at the expense of HTC [...]
Adobe Photoshop Touch for Phone brings powerful image editing to the iPhone and iPod touch
Posted by Gary on February 27, 2013
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Adobe on Wednesday officially released the latest iteration of its mobile Photoshop software, Photoshop Touch for Phone, bringing powerful image editing to the iPhone and iPod touch. Photoshop Touch for Phone is surprisingly full-featured for an app built to take on small format screens like the iPhone, boasting niceties users of the desktop version have [...]
Adobe Photoshop Touch for Phone brings powerful image editing to the iPhone and iPod touch
Posted by Gary on February 27, 2013
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Adobe on Wednesday officially released the latest iteration of its mobile Photoshop software, Photoshop Touch for Phone, bringing powerful image editing to the iPhone and iPod touch. Photoshop Touch for Phone is surprisingly full-featured for an app built to take on small format screens like the iPhone, boasting niceties users of the desktop version have [...]