BlackBerry passion pays off: T-Mobile gives fans $250 to upgrade… to BlackBerry
T-Mobile wants peace with BlackBerry fans and BlackBerry itself, which were both enraged in recent days by the carrier’s recent marketing push that offered a cheaper …
Chris Smith has been covering consumer electronics ever since the iPhone revolutionized the industry in 2007. When he’s not writing about the most recent tech news for BGR, he closely follows the events in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and other blockbuster franchises.
Outside of work, you’ll catch him streaming new movies and TV shows, or training to run his next marathon.
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Video: A smarter keyboard is finally ready for the iPhone (updated)
After an Android keyboard app sort-of launched on iOS devices – SwiftKey’s keyboard tech is only available inside a special Note app – another Android …
Sprint is the first U.S. carrier to update the Galaxy Note 3 to KitKat
After being the first to release the Galaxy S4 Android 4.4 KitKat update a few days ago in the U.S., Sprint is also the first …
Video: Did this Ubuntu superphone concept inspire the upcoming iPhone 6?
In a Town Hall Hangout on Wednesday, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed that the Ubuntu Edge – a high-end expensive concept smartphone the company failed …
Samsung’s own ‘marketing gimmick’ may be unveiled at MWC 2014
While some said Apple’s A7 64-bit processor found in some of the company’s 2013 iOS devices was nothing more than a “marketing gimmick,” Apple will …
Video: Here’s how Flappy Bird should end
A new video posted on YouTube imagines how the endless Flappy Bird game might actually end. User pipocaVFX proposes that once the 999 score is reached, the …
Samsung, Paypal may secretly be working on joint mobile payment solution
Details are scarce at the moment, but Samsung and PayPal may secretly be working on a joint mobile payment solution that will launch sometime in …
Get your free 100GB of cloud storage right here
In celebration of the launch of OneDrive, the Dropbox rival formerly known as SkyDrive, Microsoft is offering 100GB of free cloud storage to the first …
This is the thinnest smartphone money can buy
The Vivo X3 isn’t the slimmest phone out there anymore, Engadget reveals, as Gionee has launched the Elife S5.5, which appears to be the thinnest smartphone …
Video: Beer drinking has just gotten cooler… and geekier
Beer aficionados who also share a passion for Android mobile devices may be interested in backing a Kickstarter project that aims to leverage the power of mobile …
Video: iWatch concept proposes some awesome advanced iOS 8 features
A new iWatch concept video posted on YouTube tries to imagine what Apple’s smartwatch will look and feel like, proposing some advanced iOS 8 features …
The Galaxy S5 will have an invisible button
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 camera specs and software features have been further detailed by SamMobile, a source with a good track record of reporting on unreleased …
New report claims Apple will do the unthinkable with the iPhone 6’s phablet counterpart
A new report from Taiwan’s Economic Daily News agrees with countless others in claiming that bigger iPhones are coming this year. According to this report, however, Apple …
When will Samsung’s Galaxy S5 actually be released?
The Galaxy S5 will be unveiled at MWC 2014 in just a few days, but it may be a while until the phone will hit …
You won’t believe how easy it is for just about anyone to track your smartphone (updated)
It’s not just spy agencies that can track smartphone users… in fact, almost anybody can do it as long as they have the right equipment, a …
Report claims NSA spied on WikiLeaks and all of its readers
New documents leaked by former NSA employee turned whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the NSA and GCHQ consistently spied on WikiLeaks in the past years, …
Video: LG invents a novel new way to unlock your smartphone
Instead of using a PIN number or drawing a pattern on the screen to unlock a phone, LG G Pro 2 buyers will be able …
Apple in advertising: ‘The best-looking girl at the party, forced to wear a bag over her head’
Despite ruling two giant empires when it comes to personal data they can collect and analyze, Apple and Amazon are not willing to share that …
Video: Flappy Bird game may actually live on after all
While the simple, yet infuriatingly difficult to play Flappy Bird game has been officially removed from app stores out of guilt, the game name may actually live …
Video: This is how Android mirroring on Chromecast works
After teasing the feature on his Google+ account a few days ago, well-known CyanogenMod developer Koushik “Koush” Dutta has posted two short videos that demo …
Galaxy S5 camera specs confirmed in new photo leak
After various leaks, including a boring first photo taken with the Galaxy S5, claimed that Samsung’s upcoming smartphone will feature a 16-megapixel main camera, a …
S5 or 5s? Samsung Galaxy S5’s fingerprint scanner will be in the home button
The Galaxy S5 will apparently not pack a fingerprint scanner under the screen, as many leaks have recently suggested, but instead it will embed the …
Leak: This is Sony’s next flagship tablet
After leaking hardware details for Sony’s Xperia Z2 Tablet, which may be unveiled soon at MWC 2014, @evleaks has provided an image of the unreleased …
Sony hits PlayStation 4 sales goal well ahead of target
Sony on Tuesday announced it hit its internal PlayStation 4 sales goal well ahead of target, with the company having sold over 5.3 million new …
Details surrounding Sony’s next high-end tablet leak
Sony is expected to unveil new products at the annual Mobile World Congress trade show on the same day Samsung introduces the highly anticipated Galaxy …
Xbox One’s first big software update has been released
Microsoft on Friday released the first big Xbox One software update, which may have already rolled out to certain users. “For the vast majority of Xbox One …
Video: Huawei does a great job of trolling Apple and Samsung in MWC teaser
Huawei posted a video on YouTube teasing some of the products it will unveil at the upcoming MWC 2014 show in Barcelona, Spain, while taking …
Here’s how Apple may one day save your life
Apple may be working on some advanced medical features for its wearable devices The San Francisco Chronicle has learned. According to the publication, Apple “is …
How Google might use Android to finally eliminate the need for passwords
Google has bought SlickLogin, TechCrunch reveals, with both companies confirming the acquisition. Google’s purchase proves that the Search giant is more and more interested in improving Internet …
Solid report claims to reveal Apple’s 2014 and 2015 iPad roadmap
While many reports claim that Apple will launch a bigger 12.9-inch iPad model this year, also called “iPad Pro,” MacRumors reveals that KGI Securities analyst …
