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Best Buy shopper gets to take home the Samsung GALAXY Tab 8.9 before the masses
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An anonymous Best Buy shopper told Android Central about how he ended up taking home an un-released Samsung GALAXY Tab 8.9. As we reported, that tablet is now up for pre-order at Best Buy. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. Anyway, the subject of the story had purchased the Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 from the big box retailer, but was disappointed to see that his tablet suffered from a manufacturing defect. So he decided to return the tablet from whence it came.
So far, there is nothing strange or unusual to the story. When the Best Buy rep inside the store took the defective GALAXY Tab 10.1 to the back room to exchange it with a new unit, he accidentally came out with a Samsung GALA...
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New simple, affordable solution floated by LightSquared to solve its GPS interference problem
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As we reported a while ago, interference with nearby GPS signals has plagued LightSquared's attempt to offer a wholesale LTE network. And even though the company has a huge deal with Sprint to put up a nation-wide LTE network, we recently told you that the FCC wants more testing of LightSquared's signal to see if the recent improvement seen in the GPS interference is continuing. The FCC needs LightSquared to completely solve this problem since some of the GPS interference is taking place with military equipment.
LightSquared has come up with solutions before, but this time it claims to have a "simple, affordable solution" that won't require huge changes to its network The only change will co...
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Best Buy Employee Flips Epic 4G Customer the Bird
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A member of the Android Central forum uploaded a picture of a Best Buy employee waving his middle finger, which came pre-loaded on his newly purchased Samsung Epic 4G Touch (Galaxy S II) smartphone. After discovering the surprise extra, he sought out a store manager who dismissed the situation, saying it's not uncommon for Best Buy employees to open new merchandise and play with the hardware before boxing them back up and selling as new.
"Yeah I have to admit the camera quality is petty nice, lol. But yeah I spoke to their manager and he just made excuses, 'When we get in new devices the techs like to open them up and explore them a bit,' was his reasoning," Android Central forum member "rem...
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Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch
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Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion, an average drain of $1 billion per quarter, on Bing since it introduced the search engine in 2009, CNNMoney reported on Wednesday. Despite the losses, Microsoft’s Bing reached a 30% share of the U.S. search engine market in April of this year, slowly narrowing the gap with Google, although comScore’s figures pin the search engine’s share at just 14.7%. Despite the constant drain, Microsoft still has a plan for Bing. During the company’s financial analyst meeting in California recently, Microsoft’s president of online services Qi Lu said his company hopes to use Bing to “reorganize the web” to “change the game fundamentally” instead of taking on Google in a he...
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Twitter poets hint at Nexus Prime variant with QWERTY
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A few days ago The Panda King, who apparently has inside ties to Verizon, was exchanging lines of poetry with Tom Fleming and the riddles pointed to a November 3rd launch date for the Samsung Galaxy Prime (aka Nexus Prime). Well, Tom Fleming has come out of the woodwork again with some more poetry that points to a variant of the Nexus Prime that may contain a physical QWERTY keyboard.
The poetry also says that LTE is a "sure bet", that the device will have an HD screen and a dual-core CPU as we expected. It mentions "fancy new widgets" and then in the last line refers to "the one with a keyboard". This seems to point to a variant of the Prime having a QWERTY keyboard, and based on history it...
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Motorola ELECTRIFY available online from U.S. Cellular tonight, stores on Monday
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U.S. Cellular has announced that the Motorola ELECTRIFY, its answer to Sprint's PHOTON 4G, will be available for purchase at midnight tonight from the carrier's online store. Those who prefer to open physical doors when they buy things will have to wait until Monday, September 26 to purchase the smartphone in stores. The ELECTRIFY will set you back $199.99, after rebate, with a new two-year contract.
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Adobe unveils Flash Player 11 and AIR 3
Like UnlikeAdobe announced Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, both of which will be publicly available in early October. The new versions are made to enable the “next generation of immersive apps across platforms including Android, iOS (via AIR), BlackBerry Tablet OS, Mac OS, Windows, connected TVs and other platforms.”
Among the new features included, we find the following most interesting:
Hardware-accelerated 2D/3D graphics which should provide for up to 1,000 times faster rendering performance over Flash Player 10 and AIR 2, enabling smooth 60 frames per second rendering animations.
AIR Native Extensions – including access to device data, vibration control, magnetometers, light sensors, dual screens, NFC a...
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T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 9360 Hits Stores September 28
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T-Mobile USA today announced the availability and pricing details for the BlackBerry Curve 9360. The new smartphone from Research In Motion is available to business customers via T-Mobile's web site starting today, and will reach store shelves on September 28. The 9360 will cost $79.99 after $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year agreement. The 9360 runs BlackBerry 7, and features a 2.44-inch display with 360 x 480 pixels and RIM's Liquid Graphics; optical trackpad; 800MHz processor; 5-megapixel camera with flash, face detection, and VGA video capture; and built-in near-field communications. It also includes GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 512MB of RAM, and support microSD cards up to 32GB.
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AT&T Samsung GALAXY S II launches October 2nd for $199.99
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AT&T confirmed on Wednesday that its Samsung GALAXY S II smartphone will be available on October 2nd for $199.99 with a new two-year contract. The Samsung GALAXY S II is equipped with a dual-core 1.2GHz Samsung Exynos processor, a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 16GB of storage, an 8-megapixel camera capable of recording HD video chat and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats. AT&T’s version of the smartphone also supports its 4G HSPA+ network. BGR went hands-on with AT&T’s S II last month, and we’ll have our full review in the coming weeks.
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Microsoft And Nokia Release Windows Phone Porting Guides For Symbian Developers
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Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up on a package of new tools aimed at getting Nokia developers prepared for the transition to Windows Phone. Announced today are three jointly developed tools and guides, the most notable being the addition of Symbian Qt to the Windows Phone API mapping tool.
The Windows Phone mapping tool, which already supports iOS and Android, serves as a translation dictionary between the Windows Phone platform and other mobile operating systems. With it, developers can pick out the API calls in their apps, then look up the equivalent classes, methods and notification events in Windows Phone.
To be clear, this is not a direct porting tool – it doesn’t do the work for you. ...
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HTC Raider 4G arrives bearing South Korean LTE, looks a lot like the Holiday
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HTC has bestowed a sparkly new handset upon its South Korean customers today, with the release of the Raider 4G. Sporting a 4.5-inch qHD display, this Gingerbread-coated device is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and boasts 1GB of RAM, along with 16GB of internal storage. Graced with what appears to be HTC's Sense 3.0, the Raider also features an eight megapixel camera, 1.3 megapixel front-facing shooter and supports 1080p Full HD video recording, as well as the usual smattering of WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS capabilities. When connected to a South Korean LTE network, this handset can reportedly achieve downstream / upstream speeds of 100Mbps and 50Mbps uploads, respectively, wi...
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LG 'Enlightens' Verizon Wireless's Budget Lineup
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Verizon Wireless today announced the LG VS-700 Enlighten, a budget Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone. The Enlighten features a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 display, 800MHz processor, sideways slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and video capture. Other specs include Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, GPS, microSD card support, seven home screen panels, and 3G mobile hotspot. The LG Enlighten will be available online September 22 and in stores September 29 for $79.99 after a $50 mail in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.
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Apple's Fall event set for October 4th, Tim Cook to unveil iPhone 5
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We’re getting closer and closer. According to AllThingsD, Apple is currently planning to hold the company’s Fall event on October 4th. The report also notes that Apple CEO Tim Cook will be introducing the iPhone 5 most likely without Steve Jobs, though it’s certainly possible Jobs could attend. As far as availability: “Sources added that the plan is now to make the new device available for purchase within a few weeks after the announcement.” We’d suggest that Apple is just setting expectations a little too low and if we had to bet, we’d say that the iPhone 5 would be available within two weeks of the announcement, possibly even a week after.
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T-Moblie puts all its smartphones and tablets on sale this Saturday
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Remember when we told you that T-Mobile may have something special in stock for this Saturday? Well, it turns out that the rumors were definitely on the right track. On September 24, T-Mobile will be holding the rightfully-named “Yes, Every Smartphone Is on Sale” sale, during which all of the carrier's smartphones, tablets, and mobile broadband devices will be available at discounted rates.
The discount comes in the form of a mail-in rebate ranging from $25 to $200, depending on which device you choose to walk out with. For example, a brand new HTC Sensation 4G comes with a $100 mail-in rebate, which effectively drops your net down payment to $99, and picking a BlackBerry Bold 9900 will bri...
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Google Voice enters internal testing across Europe, international launch on the horizon?
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Lather up your vocal cords, Europe, because it looks like Google Voice is on its way over. That's according to the company's European Director of Business Development, Jens Redmer, who told The Next Web yesterday that Google is taking "concrete action" to expand the service to the Old World. Redmer later confirmed that he's currently conducting internal tests with Voice, adding that its voicemail transcription feature has performed particularly well within Europe. He stopped short, however, of offering a precise launch date, saying only that the service's release would hinge upon legal and regulatory issues, rather than any technical obstacles. Now that the train has rolled into the testing ...
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