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Xiaomi Phone gets a Youth Edition, a less powerful, cheaper alternative for students

Xiaomi Phone gets a Youth Edition, a less powerful, cheaper alternative for students

Many of you are already familiar with the Xiaomi Phone and its reverence in the MIUI community, but now the Chinese manufacturer has introduced a less expensive counterpart to the original, which is aptly known as the Youth Edition. Priced at 1,499 yuan ($ 237), this smartphone will sell for a full 500 yuan less than its elder and will retain many of its components, which include a 4-inch, 854 x 480 display, an 8-megapixel camera, 4GB of ROM and a 1,930mAh battery. In fact, the only significant changes are the dual-core 1.2GHz CPU (which is down from 1.5GHz), and 768MB of RAM instead of the original 1GB. Xiaomi will produce 150,000 Youth Edition handsets, which seems like a healthy number, but if you want to stake your claim to one, you’d best join in the pre-registration process, which runs now through May 18th.

Xiaomi Phone gets a Youth Edition, a less powerful, cheaper alternative for students originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 May 2012 09:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gartner: mobile phone sales fell two percent last quarter, Samsung confirmed as numero uno

Gartner: mobile phone sales fell two percent last quarter, Samsung confirmed as numero uno

Gartner’s latest dispatch reveals a wobbly global trade in mobile phones. Although our love of smartphones continued to blossom, with sales of that subcategory up nearly 45 percent, it wasn’t enough to stave off a two percent overall decline compared to the same quarter in 2011. A total of 419.1 million handsets were sold, representing the first hiccup after nearly three years of growth and leading analysts to point fingers at a slow down in the Asia / Pacific region as well as a lack of product launches at the start of the year. Meanwhile, these figures also confirm what was already gleaned from IDC’s shipments data: Samsung has knocked Nokia off its 14-year-old perch to become the padrone of the mobile phone market, with a cut of over 20 percent. It also replaced Apple as the number one smartphone vendor, claiming ownership of almost half of that segment. Damn, it feels good to be a pebble.

Gartner: mobile phone sales fell two percent last quarter, Samsung confirmed as numero uno originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 May 2012 05:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Virgin Atlantic To Launch In-Flight Cell Phone Service

Virgin Atlantic logoHaving in-flight access to WiFi is quickly becoming a standard feature on modern airliners, but (thankfully) in-flight  cell phone service for voice calls is still a rarity and even outlawed in a number of countries, including the United States. If you’re flying Virgin Atlantic between London and New York in the near future, though, chances are that at least a few of your fellow travelers will be happily chatting away on their cell phones while you’re riding the jetstream somewhere over the Atlantic. Later this month, Virgin Atlantic is launching cell phone service on this route and plans to expand this service to ten more routes by the end of the year.
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Hold The Phone — How The Future Of Web Advertising Is Linked To The Call

phoneWe’re all now familiar with how adwords campaigns on Google work. You buy keywords commonly used in search terms, such as “plumber in X town”, and send people to a response mechanism, usually a web site. But increasingly that response mechanism is not a just a web site but a phone number as well – sometimes it’s even just a phone number. But these days it’s rarely an ordinary number – it’s usually a ‘smart number’ that performs certain kinds of actions and sends data, just like browser calls a web page and sends data from that page. These smart numbers can be made to grab an RSS feed, play a sound file, make the caller fill out a form with their voice – just about anything.

Increasingly we are seeing tech startups address what you do with that phone call and the data and analytics that can be pulled from it, just like on the Web.

While Google and Facebook look at this area with their pet own projects, startups have appeared on the market to address this, such as AdInsight, Tropo, Twilio and Iovox, among others.
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Samsung launches low-end Windows Phone with 4-inch display

Samsung Electronics Friday announced the Samsung Omnia M, a Windows Phone with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display that will first become available in Europe.
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Samsung announces Omnia M Windows Phone

All eyes may be on the Nokia Lumia 900 in the United States and Europe, but there are still other OEMs supporting Windows Phone. Samsung has today announced its latest Windows Phone handset, the Omnia M. It looks to be a refreshed version of the Omnia 7, with specs that you’re probably familiar with by

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A Phone You Can Hear in Your Bones

Kyocera teases a smartphone using bone-conducting sound technology.

It’s practically axiomatic that for a device to transmit sound to you, it needs to have a speaker. But the keyword there is practically, as evidenced by emerging bone conduction audio technology that Kyocera has recently been teasing (most recently, to Engadget at the CTIA conference in New Orleans).







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Microsoft touts 98-percent ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ success rate, a few beg to differ

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Microsoft’s “Smoked by Windows Phone” challenge has been long on claims that Windows Phone can outrace your smartphone platform of choice in day-to-day tasks, but it’s been short on hard numbers. Until now, that is. Company Evangelist Ben Rudolph claims that over 50,000 smartphones — or 98 percent of all contenders — have been beaten in the challenges since the company started running them back at CES, with just 638 people having proved their devices faster at a trade show or a Microsoft Store. That’s good news for advocates, although it doesn’t come without its share of controversies over fairness and whether or not the challenges overlook the advantages of your Android phone, BlackBerry or iPhone. Ultimately, the real challenge for Microsoft may be translating those successes into real improvements for its so-so market share.

Microsoft touts 98-percent ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ success rate, a few beg to differ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 May 2012 14:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mobile Component Marketplace Verious Expands, Adds Hundreds Of Windows Phone & HTML5 Listings To Site

verious_logoVerious, a new mobile component marketplace (and recent Disrupt finalist), is announcing an expansion of its service today, to also include components for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform as well as those for HTML5 mobile apps. The addition means there are now hundreds more components, SDKs, and open source projects available on Verious’s platform, which previously focused primarily on offerings for iOS and Android.

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Infant version of Android gets a walkthrough on Google’s Sooner development phone

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No, that’s not a QWERTY feature phone you’re looking at — it’s Google’s earliest Android development device, the Sooner. While the HTC-sourced phone itself hasn’t been a secret, the build of Android on this particular specimen, obtained by Steven Troughton-Smith, is something few eyes outside of Mountain View have seen. As Mr. Smith notes, this isn’t the first public build of Android that was detailed in November 2007 (M3), but rather an earlier version from May of that same year. The non-touch UI is almost totally unlike what eventually shipped with the touch-friendly HTC Dream, aside from obviously housing Android’s basic framework and apps including G Talk and the like. We won’t spoil it for you, though, so hit up the source link below to see Smith’s full walkthrough and analysis of the device that once served as the initial development vehicle for Android.

Infant version of Android gets a walkthrough on Google’s Sooner development phone originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 May 2012 17:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HBO Go and Max Go get Android 4.0 phone support, skip tablets for now

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Those with Android 4.0 phones like the HTC One X have been left out of watching HBO Go and Max Go on the road so far. New updates to the respective mobile apps take care of that: either premium channel will now stream directly to a phone running Google’s latest OS (assuming you’re subscribed to pay-TV, that is). Speed-ups and bug fixes are in the upgrades, too. Oddly, Android 4.0 tablets have yet to make the leap, ruling out your Transformer Pad TF300 for catching up on episodes of True Blood.

HBO Go and Max Go get Android 4.0 phone support, skip tablets for now originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 May 2012 11:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ditch the iPhone for an Ice Cream Sandwich phone?

In this Ask Maggie I help a reader figure out whether to leave Apple for one of the latest Google Android phones.
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Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits

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Financial maven and maker of beautiful graphs Horace Deidu has found that between the top eight mobile phone vendors, Apple and Samsung share 99 percent of the total spoils. Of RIM, LG, Sony (Ericsson), Motorola, Nokia and HTC, only the latter made a profit — claiming that left over one percent. The remaining six all recorded losses for the quarter, Mr. Deidu adding that several of those companies are carrying feature phone businesses that they should shed before they become an albatross around their neck.

Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 May 2012 12:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung “Mandel” Windows Phone snapped in the wild

What other phone made by Samsung has a similar back to the Galaxy S III? The elusive “Mandel” handset, supposedly hitting AT&T soon and adding to Ma Bell’s ever expanding lineup of Windows Phones. The Lumia 900 may still be the flagship Windows Phone device, but maybe Samsung have a little something up its sleeve

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Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport

Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport

If you’ve been holed up in Thailand, waiting to browse the latest and greatest apps for your Windows Phone online, then things are looking up. Microsoft has just announced that 22 new countries are being graces with their own online Marketplace. The full list covers Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam. The same blog post advises that work is also underway to improve the search results delivered by the site. So you might not have to play Hungry Birds for much longer.

Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 07:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Windows Phone Developer Summit coming June 20th, makes for one busy month

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Just in case June wasn’t busy enough for mobile app developers, between Apple’s WWDC and Google I/O, Microsoft has thrown its hat into the ring. It’s scheduling a Windows Phone Developer Summit in San Francisco for June 20th and 21st, just a week before Google’s meetup. Details are scant in the notice Engadget received, although Microsoft teases us with the prospects of learning “developer opportunities and platform capabilities in Windows Phone.” Whether that means Apollo or just more about Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh (Tango) is still very much a mystery. Either way, it’s likely to be good news for Metro-friendly developers crestfallen after MIX was shut down.

Windows Phone Developer Summit coming June 20th, makes for one busy month originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 May 2012 20:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG backs off Windows Phone for now, report says

Smartphone-maker LG Electronics has backed off producing Windows Phone devices for now and will instead focus on Android phones, according to a report.
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Microsoft links Metro theme to jQuery Mobile, Windows Phone

With Microsoft Open Technologies release, websites and mobile apps can use Metro style
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Google patent app points to possible Nexus slider phone

A patent application from Google’s head of Android seems to be on the fast-track to create a phone to appeal to BlackBerry fans.
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Woz: Windows Phone is ‘beautiful,’ Android ‘no contest,’ still loves iPhone, ask again tomorrow

Woz: Windows Phone is 'beautiful,' Android no 'contest,' still loves iPhone, ask again tomorrow

When Steve Wozniak talks mobile, people love to listen. Last time we checked in, he was lauding some of Android’s finer points, and now he’s raining praise on Windows Phone. In an interview with A New Domain, the Apple co-founder was all too happy to share his recent positive experiences with the Espoo / Redmond collaboration. In particular, Woz waxes about how intuitive the interface is, and how naturally apps lead you around. He goes on to say how there’s nothing he’s seen that isn’t more beautiful (than iOS and Android) on the Windows system, before claiming Android is “no contest” when it comes to the interface. It’s not all lemonade and roses, however, as he then admits he’s no fan of the voice control functionality compared to the other two platforms. When pushed to admit what he uses as default, it’s still the iPhone — two of them in fact — but Woz’s ability to see the best in all mobile operating systems will be sure to further confirm his status as one of tech’s most liked. Head down to the source to hear for yourself.

[Thanks everyone who sent this in]

Woz: Windows Phone is ‘beautiful,’ Android ‘no contest,’ still loves iPhone, ask again tomorrow originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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FCC moves to crack down on phone bill cramming

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to require telephone carriers to provide their customers more billing information in an effort to crack down on mysterious, unauthorized charges on phone bills.
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IP tin can phone slightly better than string version

Plug this Kickstarter project into your USB port and chat it up old-timey style. You can even bring it into your secret base!
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Carriers desperately seeking Windows Phone

AT&T and Verizon Wireless want Windows Phone smartphones to succeed in the U.S., partly to provide leverage against Apple’s demands for subsidies required for selling the popular iPhone.
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The Facebook Phone Is in Your Pocket

As more “Facebook phone” rumors surface, a reality check.

It’s a rumor that surfaces again and again: reports come today that Facebook and HTC are working together on a “Facebook phone.” Digitimes even says we’ll see the phone in Q3 this year. Facebook has repeatedly said it doesn’t intend to build a dedicated handset, so I’m going to diagnose this rumor as overblown, for now.







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T-Mobile guarantees $50 for old phone trade-in, $200 for iPhone

T-Mobile really wants you to jump ship from the carrier you’re currently using and make your way over to the company represented by a magenta “T.” It is currently offering a promotion through May 8 where customers can trade in their old phone, from any carrier, for a guaranteed $ 50, as long as it still

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Skype for Windows Phone working on Nokia Lumia 610, scoffs at memory restrictions

Skype for Windows Phone working on Nokia Lumia 610, scoffs at memory requirements

Remember the unfortunate news that Skype’s new Windows Phone app wasn’t compatible with low-memory devices? Well, the app is now working fine with the incoming Nokia Lumia 610. After “some challenges early on”, Nokia tells us that the app is primed for use when the entry-level Windows Phone eventually hits Asian store at the end of April. Now one problem remains; which color?

Skype for Windows Phone working on Nokia Lumia 610, scoffs at memory restrictions originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Windows Phone Exec Gavin Has Kim Left Microsoft For Security-Focused NQ Mobile

gavinkimGavin Kim certainly knows how to keep things interesting. After spending years at Samsung and winding up as the company’s VP of Content and Services, Kim jumped ship to take point on Microsoft’s Windows Phone marketing efforts only to resign his post after five months.

So what greener pastures has tempted Kim this time? As it turns out, he has found himself a new home at NQ Mobile (formerly known as NetQin), a provider of mobile security services and applications where he will fill the newly created Chief Product Officer post.
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How Windows Phone can help your profile as a developer

Yes, Windows Phone isn’t exactly the most popular platform to work on. But it’s best to jump on the bandwagon before it takes off.
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Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta title, graduates to v1.0

Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta title, graduates to v1.0

Skype’s fledgling Windows Phone app broke out of beta today, adding contact searching and landline calling to it’s VOIP repertoire. The update comes just shy of two months of the Beta’s introduction in February, and boasts a handful of minor improvements that should keep your calls connected. You’ll still be making those calls yourself, however, as the full version doesn’t yet have support for receiving calls in the background — if the app isn’t running, your phone isn’t ringing. Hit the source link below to update.

Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta title, graduates to v1.0 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung countdown teases next Galaxy phone with anagram

Samsung Galaxy countdown teases you with anagrams

Sammy’s latest marketing ploy kicked off with a string of nonsense that could just as easily have come from the Sunday morning jumble: “Destination: tgeltaayehxnx,” declared the Samsung Mobile Twitter account. Anagram wizards will read that as, “the next Galaxy,” and wouldn’t you know it, it’s also the URL for a auspicious countdown clock. Sammy promises to let visitors take “the next step” in about 17 hours and counting. Bonafide internet sleuths can find an extra carrot strung up in the site’s source, reading, “discover how Samsung is about to challenge the way you view the Galaxy once more.” Is Samsung about to break its own May 3rd unveiling? We’ll let you know in 16 hours and change.

Samsung countdown teases next Galaxy phone with anagram originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If You Have a Smart Phone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move

Navizon I.T.S. makes it easy to pinpoint Wi-Fi devices anywhere its listening nodes are installed.

Location services company Navizon has a new system, called Navizon I.T.S., that could allow tracking of visitors in malls, museums, offices, factories, secured areas and just about any other indoor space. It could be used to examine patterns of foot traffic in retail spaces, assure that a museum is empty of visitors at closing time, or even to pinpoint the location of any individual registered with the system. But let’s set all that aside for a minute while we freak out about the privacy implications.







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Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)

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If you don’t have a fancy NFC-enabled phone then it’s hard to join the mobile wallet club. Fortunately, Barclays has introduced the PayTag that turns any phone into a contactless card. It’s a square of plastic a quarter the size of a credit card that’s sticky on one side — yup, you just jam it on the back of your phone and hey presto, you can buy sandwiches, or any purchase up to £15 (£20 from June), without opening your wallet. The sticky squares will be rolling out exclusively to British Barclaycard customers over the next few months, although we’re not sure what it’ll do to the trade-in value of your handset.

Continue reading Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)

Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Windows Phone exec exits five months after being poached from Samsung

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Microsoft’s Gavin Kim was a high-profile capture for Redmond, as it poached the former Samsung and Motorola exec to bolster its Windows Phone marketing team. Now, just five months into the job, he’s departing after marshaling the “Smoked by Windows Phone” campaign into the world. The company wouldn’t go into specifics beyond saying that it was a personal decision to leave and Microsoft bears him no ill will — but then that’s what they always say. He’ll be replaced by Eugene Ho, who now has the job of continuing the burgeoning platform’s upward trajectory and winning around those European carriers who’ve greeted it with little more than apathy.

Windows Phone exec exits five months after being poached from Samsung originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Leaked benchmarks suggest Motorola is working on a Snapdragon S4 phone

Leaked benchmarks suggest Motorola is working on a Snapdragon S4 phone

You slave away on your company’s Next Big Thing, of course you want to see how it performs. And we’re glad that you do decided to dabble, hypothetical engineer, because we can pore over those numbers for a glimpse at what’s coming next. According to benchmarks discovered by Blog of Mobile, Motorola might be looking to move on from the Texas Instrument chipsets it’s used in the past. In the purported system details included with the benchmark results, the Ice Cream Sandwich-decked phone houses a 1.5GHz MSM8960 chip — that’s Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4. Could these be more details on a possible RAZR HD — even an Atrix 3? Unfortunately, more concrete information remains scant. The repeated mention of Qinara, however, tallies with Motorola’s XT928, China Telecom’s version of the Motorola RAZR released last year, codenamed Dinara. (So, would that be Q for Qualcomm?) If, according to the leak, the device does use a 720p display alongside the aforementioned dual-core processor, it would find itself up against HTC’s One X, which packs the same Snapdragon S4 hardware in its AT&T guise. Hopefully, Motorola is making some similarly lofty efforts with its hardware design to ensure we’ve got yet another phone to get excited about.

Leaked benchmarks suggest Motorola is working on a Snapdragon S4 phone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BBS version of Google takes you back in time, won’t hog your phone line

BBS version of Google takes you back in time, won't hog your phone line

If the third digit of your birth year is a nine (or heck, a zero), you’ll likely never have experienced the true agony joy that was BBS or Bulletin Board Systems. Well, thanks to nostalgic developer Norbert Landsteiner, you can take a glimpse at how your dad got online with an HTML / JavaScript emulation BBS Google. Likewise, more seasoned travelers of the internet can take a trip down memory lane and see what Mountain View’s search engine might have looked like “back in the day.” All the details are there, right down to the familiar modem tones and ASCII graphics, it’s even somewhat functional (when the API isn’t over its limit.) So, want to appreciate that browser you complain about on twitter all the time over your LTE connection? Tab on down to the source link for a lesson in gratitude.

BBS version of Google takes you back in time, won’t hog your phone line originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft battles delays in Windows Phone app approvals

Microsoft is battling to reduce the time it takes to approve and publish Windows Phone apps, and to improve the responsiveness of its developer portal App Hub, following complaints from developers, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
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Samsung confirms Windows Phone 8 for October

Samsung was recently rumored to be preparing three new Windows Phone handsets this year, with two of them likely to run the Windows Phone 8 Apollo update. Now Samsung’s Taiwan division has confirmed that the company plans to release at least one Windows Phone 8 handset as soon as October, the earliest that Microsoft might

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Flawed Windows Phone Earns You $0.01

Glitch on much-hyped Nokia model will get you $ 100 back from your $ 99.99 investment.

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Q1 2012 mobile phone sales were very weak

It continues to be rather amazing to me that the mobile phone market depends so heavily on the iPhone to generate sales and growth. A new report was published recently showing that the number of postpaid customers declined in Q1 2012. That is likely the first time ever that postpaid subscribers have declined according to

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FCC and carriers planning stolen phone database

The FCC and wireless carriers are working together on a new plan that would try and discourage the theft of cellphones by rendering them useless once reported stolen. They hope to create a national database of stolen cellphones in coordination with law enforcement bodies across the country, allowing carriers to disable voice and data services

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Nokia Lumia 900 glitch triggers free phone giveaway

Nokia confirmed a problem with the Lumia 900′s ability to access data and is taking drastic actions to make up for it, offering a $ 100 credit to existing and new customers through April 21.
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Bye bye, pay phone: NYC to add ‘smart screens’ to phone booths

The public pay phone of the future looks like a gigantic iPad. The city plans to unveil 32-inch “smart screens” with Internet connections next month inside 250 old phone booths throughout the five boroughs.




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US carriers agree to build stolen phone database, blacklist hot handsets

US carriers agree to build stolen phone database, blacklist hot handsets

What’s the best way to deter a thief? Ruin the spoils, of course. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have agreed to a broad outline that will culminate in the creation of a central database for stolen cellphones. The goal? To block lifted units from functioning on US shores. Over the next six months, each firm will build out its own stolen device database for integration into a larger, central database, said a Wall Street Journal source, with regional carriers joining the effort over the following two years.

“We are working toward an industry wide solution to address the complexity of blocking stolen devices from being activated on ours or another network with a new SIM card,” said a T-Mobile spokesperson, “This is not a simple problem to solve.” The quartet of wireless providers hope to imitate the success UK carriers have seen with similar efforts. With any luck, the program will put an end to massive phone-heists and the awkward public relations stunts that imitate them.

US carriers agree to build stolen phone database, blacklist hot handsets originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PRADA Phone 3.0 by LG Review

Are you a trend-setter, a dedicated follower, or a fashion disaster? That’s the question we’ve been asking of the PRADA Phone 3.0 by LG, the phone company’s third attempt at a handset suitable for the catwalk, and the first to legitimately fall under the smartphone banner. Running Android with a custom UI in Anna Wintour’s

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Nokia Lumia 900 brings out the Windows Phone lovers

Smartphone seekers brand-loyal to the Microsoft-made mobile operating system Windows Phone will be glad to know that the Nokia Lumia 900 is out now – and reviewers are loving it. Everyone including our own Michael Crider seems to be lauding Nokia’s effort in this device which takes their well-received Windows Phone lineup thus far and

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Windows Phone seen as driving a wedge between iPhone, Android

Nokia’s Lumia 900 smartphones will reach AT&T stores on Sunday for $ 99.99, and one analyst said it could be the start of something big: Windows Phone as a market disrupter between the successful iPhone and Android phones.
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Review: Hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone

Microsoft and Nokia are all in on the latest Windows Phone: the Nokia Lumia 900. I’ve been testing it for about a week and I’m disappointed. 




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Nokia Lumia 900 review: My favorite Windows Phone yet

With its pop-art aesthetic and satisfying specs, the $ 100 Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T is the Windows Phone I’d rather use.
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A Comeback Phone, Hampered by a Lack of Apps

Nokia’s Lumia 900, powered by Microsoft’s software, is a good high-end smart phone with relatively few compatible apps.

When the Lumia 900 smart phone made its first public appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show this January, we asked “Can one phone save Nokia and Microsoft?” It’s still too early to say, but after testing the phone, which goes on sale April 8, I can answer a different one: “Is it any good?” The answer is yes, with some caveats.







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Is the AT&T iPhone 4S a 4G phone or not?

Ask Maggie explains how AT&T is confusing consumers with its aggressive campaign to market the iPhone 4S as a 4G device.
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