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Sprint to offer three levels of iPhone service, 'yellow' AppleCare+ repairs will cost $49
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Thinking about buying an iPhone 4S from Sprint? Depending on how clumsy you tend to be with mobile devices, you might want to consider adding the $99 AppleCare+ option at purchase, since those Total Equipment Protection plans are definitely out. A Sprint employee wrote in to detail us on upcoming service procedures, which include grouping a damaged device within three categories -- green, yellow and red -- after diagnosis. As you might imagine, green repairs are the easiest to deal with, and include 'minor damage' (i.e. cracked screens are out). These repairs will be handled for free within the first year for all customers, and within two years for those who purchased AppleCare+. Next up, th...
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Siri features lacking for UK users: Disappointment due tomorrow
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Picking up your iPhone 4S tomorrow? We’ve got some Siri related sorrow to go with the mirth from earlier: we’ve learned that not only are navigation look-ups US-only, but local directory searches won’t work in the UK either.
One of the much-hyped features of the Siri voice assistant for iPhone 4S has been its ability to look up stuff around you. As iOS boss Scott Forstall demoed at Apple’s press conference earlier this month, you can ask it to find nearby restaurants, or even show you the way home.
That’s great, except new owners of the iPhone 4S are in for a shock. They will find that they can’t. As Stephen Fry touched on in his review for the Guardian, maps and direction Siri requests ar...
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Grand Theft Auto III headed to iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and Android
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Grand Theft Auto III is a game us Pocket-linters remember with great affection. We have so many fantastic memories of tearing through one of the first ever truly open world games, wrecking every car in our path and generally smashing people to pieces.
Since then, the GTA series has continued to innovate. Chinatown Wars is one of the best gaming apps currently available on iOS, its top down open world adventuring being quite unlike anything else on smartphones or tablets. It never, however, quite achieved the levels of greatness that were possible in GTA III, leaving our iPhones and iPads free from the joys of decimating liberty city.
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RIM: BlackBerry fully restored but no compensation news
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“You expect better of us, I expect better of us.” So RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis opened the company’s apologetic BlackBerry press conference this morning, before swiftly pointing out that services have now been “fully restored”. As for compensation, however, fellow co-CEO Jim Balsillie said RIM has no idea, at present, what or even if that could be “Our focus has been 100-percent on getting services restored,” he told investors and journalists, “that’s something we’re going to focus on now, but it hasn’t been our priority overnight.”
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iPhone 4S already sold out at AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint
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If you weren’t among the million to sign up for an iPhone 4S on preorder day, odds are you’ll have to wait for more stock to come in. All three major U.S. service providers selling Apple’s latest handset are indicating that they’re out of stock. AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon will be dishing out devices to those that have reordered starting tomorrow, and if you haven’t ordered one, wait times may be upwards of four weeks. Pricing across all three carriers on a two-year contract is $199 for the 16 GB model, $299 for the 32 GB version, and $399 for 64 GB.
The iPhone 4S has the same 3.5-inch 960 x 640 touchscreen as the iPhone 4, but it bumps up the processor to a dual-core processor clocked at 800...
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Coming soon to Orange UK is the BlackBerry Curve 9360 in white
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The BlackBerry Curve 9360 has already landed on the Orange UK network sporting the traditional black paint job but now the same smartphone will be arriving in white in the near future.
White has become increasingly popular among manufacturers when it comes to a secondary choice of color. There was the white Apple iPhone, the white HTC EVO 3D and even Samsung joined the party by making a white version of their flagship Galaxy S II. RIM has produced a few white BlackBerry handsets before and now you can add the Curve 9360 to that list.
Orange UK currently has the white BlackBerry Curve 9360 listed as coming soon. It will be free on a monthly plan. The Curve 9360 is an entry-level device that...
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Motorola PHOTON 4G getting a software update
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A software update is now being pushed out to the Motorola PHOTON 4G for Sprint that will bring some bug improvements and a few new features such as support for Google Talk with video chat.
Motorola is recommending that owners of the PHOTON 4G download this update for peak performance. In addition to the newly added Google Talk with video chat, the smartphone will now support the Motorola laptop dock and the webtop application. Some bug fixes are also present with this update, such as improved audio when connected to a car stereo system while the handset is charging. The PHOTON 4G will also be able to take improved panoramic photos.
If you haven’t already received the notification that the ...
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HTC Hero S Designed For Sprint
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The US version of HTC's Hero S - just released for US Cellular - contains hardware supporting Sprint's unique network, including WiMAX, and CDMA in the ESMR (old iDEN) band, according to the FCC approval documents for the phone. Much like the Motorola Electrify for US Cellular is essentially the Photon with WiMAX disabled, HTC has done the same for the Hero S. The FCC has approved a version of the Hero S for Sprint with WiMAX, and a distinct variant for US Cellular that FCC documents describe as having WiMAX "operation disabled by software change only." The original Hero was Sprint's first Android phone. The new "S" model contains major upgrades, including a 1.2 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, ...
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EcoATM turns your old phone into cash with its self-service option
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Let’s face it, we all know how much of a hassle it is to try and organize all of our loose change to deposit them for some cool and crisp bills at the bank, but some of us simply hate plopping down all of that unorganized money at the teller counter. Well, that’s where Coinstar comes to mind as it offers a simple and hassle free experience. Thankfully for the rest of us, someone has concocted a similar idea when it comes to getting money for used and old cell phones that are literally lying around collecting dust.
During a stroll through CTIA E&A 2011 in San Diego, we came upon this ATM sized contraption that gobbles up your old cell phone, and then dispenses money according to its value and...
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Apple iPhone 4S gets the teardown treatment
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It was only a matter of time until the guys over at iFixit got their hands on an Apple iPhone 4S to complete a teardown and some of their findings are what we expected while others may be disappointing.
The Apple iPhone 4S does indeed have the dual-core A5 processor that was first used in the iPad 2. They have the processor speed listed at 1GHz while prior reports said the processor was clocked at only 800MHz. When that word broke it was a little disappointing for some despite early tests showing that the iPhone 4S does indeed stack up with the competition in terms of speed.
Another rumor that many dreaded is in fact true as the iPhone 4S only has 512MB of RAM in a time when anything less ...
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UK: Samsung Galaxy Ace Purple now available from O2
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If you’re looking for a “different” budget Android smartphone, maybe O2 UK has something for you. The Telefónica-owned operator is now offering the Samsung Galaxy Ace Purple, which as you can imagine is a version of the Galaxy Ace in purple. Not sure why the name change was needed, but hey – God knows what the marketing folks of today’s mobile operators are thinking. As far as I’m concerned it could be just an SEO trick to get people googling “galaxy” and “purple” to O2′s website.
Anyway, aside from the color change, there’s not a single difference under the hood. In other words, expect the same 800MHz processor, 5-megapixel camera, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth and so on.
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Qualcomm makes an awesome video of the HTC Sensation 4G powered by creepy crawlers
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To demonstrate the power-sipping nature of the third generation Snapdragon chipsets S3, as the one found in the HTC Sensation 4G, Qualcomm has hired some bugs to do their moves, while at the same time generating electricity to charge the handset.
Among spiders, praying mantises, scorpions and other assorted buggery, the dual-core 1.2GHz chipset gets running by the frantic movements in the so-called "Bug Circus Generator" and there is even energy left so the final result is a full battery charge to boot.
The footage is, of course, scripted with hours of preparation behind it, but it has great entertainment value for people who don't know much about mobile chipsets. For the S4 quad-core silico...
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Sprint denies claim that Apple iPhone 4S will be sold with unlocked micro-SIM slot
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Sprint has denied earlier reports that its AppleiPhone 4S would be sold with an unlocked micro-SIM card slot. An unlocked micro-SIM slot would allow travelers to use any local SIM card when traveling abroad, sparing them from paying exorbitant roaming fees.
Unfortunately, it seems like the iPhone 4S will be sold by Sprint with a locked SIM card slot, much like any other version of the phone sold by carriers across the world. Speaking to Ars Technica, Sprint representative Michelle Leff Mermelstein confirmed that the iPhone 4S would have a locked SIM card slot. Sprint will be offering international roaming plans to customers who travel with the iPhone 4S to countries that don't have CDMA netw...
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Some iPhone 4S handsets delivered early
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It's not like the wait for the iPhone 4S since it was announced has been all that long, but we still envy the at least three fortuitous German phone fans whose pre-ordered iPhone 4S handsets were delivered last night.
The proof? The host of photos that the buyers have posted online, of the handset lounging in its box, screengrabs of voice-controlled assistant app Siri and more.
The iPhone 4S goes on general release on Friday 14 October, but pre-orders have broken records, taking in over 1 million orders in the first 24 hours.
Lucky escape
Lucky for Apple, only a handful of the much-anticipated handset have snuck out early; imagine the mess we'd be left with if a million Apple fans had sponta...
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Samsung Galaxy W to be Exhibit II 4G on T-Mobile
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The Samsung Galaxy W has surfaced and looks to be heading to T-Mobile as the Exhibit II 4G. The handset was first revealed back in August, when Samsung unveiled its new naming scheme for its smartphone product lines. The “S” series, as in the Galaxy S, represented its flagship line followed by R, W, M, and Y series in descending order, which marks the Samsung Galaxy W, or Exhibit II 4G, to be a mid-range device.
The Exhibit II 4G, whose name was revealed today by TmoNews, has also been codenamed Ancora in some markets and is expected to feature a 3.7-inch WVGA screen, a 1.4GHz single-core processor, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. Those are pretty d...
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