Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Camera users get free 50GB of Dropbox storage
Dropbox and Samsung (005930) on Friday announced that anyone who buys the new Galaxy Note II and Galaxy Camera will get 50GB of free online storage …
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Amazon has no plans for a 10-inch Kindle Fire
Online retail giant Amazon (AMZN) is widely expected to unveil a number of new Kindle devices at its big press event next week, including a sequel …
HTC bringing Beats Audio to Windows Phone 8 devices
HTC’s (2498) upcoming Windows Pone 8 handsets will come integrated with Beats Audio, according to a report from The Verge. The first Windows 8 device to include …
New Motorola phone goes all-screen, ditches bezels
Bezels? Motorola doesn’t need any stinking bezels! According to Bloomberg, Motorola and Verizon Wireless (VZ) may surprise the tech world next week by unveiling a new smartphone featuring …
Amazon shuns Google to partner with Nokia for maps on the next Kindle Fire
Amazon (AMZN) isn’t taking Google’s (GOOG) Nexus 7 challenge lying down. Unnamed sources have told Reuters that Amazon’s next-generation Kindle Fire tablet will include Nokia’s (NOK) location capabilities and map services …
Apple dulls reliance on Sharp for iPad mini production, taps LG and AU Optronics
While Sharp (SCHAY) may have messed up in producing next-generation iPhone screens, the company won’t be making the same mistake for the iPad mini since …
China poised to overtake the United States as world’s top smartphone market
We Americans like thinking of ourselves as No.1 in everything, but there was simply no way we were going to stay on top of China …
Samsung’s new Series 9 laptops match Apple’s Retina with 13-inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel display
Samsung (005930) had better hope that Apple (AAPL) can’t patent screen resolutions. Engadget on Friday got a look at Samsung’s newest Series 9 laptops that made …
Pictures of HTC’s first Windows Phone 8 device emerge
HTC (2498) obviously wants to make a big splash with its Windows Phone 8 smartphones this fall, and the company is planning on launching three …
How an LTE iPhone could lead to an AT&T exodus
AT&T (T) had better hope that consumers like its LTE network better than they like its FaceTime policies. AllThingsD reports that Jefferies & Co. analyst Thomas Seitz sent …
Sprint tears apart rivals’ shared capped data plans in new ad [video]
Sprint (S) clearly thinks that it’s got a winner on its hands with its unlimited smartphone data plans. And more importantly, it thinks that AT&T’s …
RIM’s 2-for-1 BES 10 plans gets detailed in company blog post, confirms BGR report
As BGR exclusively reported last week, companies will need to run two BlackBerry Enterprise Servers simultaneously if they want to support both BlackBerry 10 devices …
Mobile price wars flaring up everywhere but America
In the second quarter this year, the U.S. mobile market was still an oasis of calm, But across the globe, mobile carriers have started struggling …
Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 Pureview revealed in purported press images
Two purported images of Nokia’s (NOK) upcoming Windows Phone 8 handsets appeared on Twitter on Friday morning courtesy of evleaks. The first image features Nokia’s …
Japanese court says Samsung did not infringe upon an Apple syncing patent
A Japanese court on Friday gave Samsung (005930) a much-needed pat on the head by ruling that the Korean manufacturer did not infringe upon one …
Fully-assembled iPhone 5 pictured side-by-side with iPhone 4
French blog Nowhereelse.fr has released another batch of pictures comparing the next-generation iPhone with the previous iPhone models and this time the device appears to be …
iPhone 5 production faces setback as screens delayed at Sharp
Demand for the next-generation iPhone is expected to be huge but the Wall Street Journal today says that Apple (AAPL) may not be able to keep …
Amazon brings its app store to Europe ahead of new Kindle Fire launches
Amazon (AMZN) on Thursday announced the launch of localized Android Appstores in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain. “Amazon has spent years developing innovative …
Bing gets even more social, allows you to search through your friends’ Facebook photos
Microsoft (MSFT) on Thursday announced a new update to its Bing search engine that will bring deeper Facebook (FB) integration to the service. The company’s …
HTC announces Desire X
Struggling smartphone vendor HTC (2498) on Thursday unveiled a new entry-level smartphone it hopes will resonate with buyers who by and large haven’t been sold …
Photos of unannounced Nokia Windows Phone 8 device emerge
Images of what is claimed to be an unannounced next-generation Lumia smartphone from Nokia (NOK) running Windows Phone 8 have been published on Chinese micro-blogging …
Google Now updated with support for movie showtimes, public alerts and sports
Google (GOOG) on Wednesday updated its Android Search app with some extra goodies for Google Now. The new version adds support for movie theaters, public alerts, …
Madden NFL 13 sells franchise-record 900,000 copies during first day
Electronic Arts (EA) has apparently succeeded in convincing gamers that the newest version of its popular Madden franchise is more than just another roster update. …
Windows Phone and BlackBerry are the only things that can slow Android’s rise in enterprise
Workers love their smartphones, and unless Microsoft (MSFT) and RIM (RIMM) do anything about it, workers will soon be loving Android smartphones most of all. …
Mountain Lion adoption surpasses 10% in one month
Apple (AAPL) released the latest version of its OS X operating system, Mountain Lion, just over a month ago and it can already be found on …
Amazon is working on a dual-display Kindle tablet
Have you ever wished that your tablet had two screens, one on the front and one on the back? No? Well, Amazon (AMZN) may be developing …
How Google reworked Android to step around Apple’s deadly ‘915 patent
One of the patents Apple (AAPL) successfully asserted in its case against Samsung (005930) caused some alarm in the tech media earlier this week when …
