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Google I/O Part 1: $9.99/Month Streaming Music, Unlocked Galaxy S4

Posted 05/15/2013 at 11:44am | by Paul Lilly

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Plenty happening at Google I/O.

Google I/O kicked off this morning and is still going on at the time of this writing, but rather than make you wait for a roundup of the highlights, we thought we'd pass along some of the more interesting developments that have already occurred. One of the biggest ones is the introduction of a streaming music service, as previously rumored, to go up against the likes of Pandora, Spotify, Slacker, and eventually Apple, to name a few.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown Reveals $229 BOM (U.S. Version)

Posted 05/09/2013 at 12:09pm | by Paul Lilly

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IHS iSupply tears down the Galaxy S4 from Samsung.

Barring a sale price or a promotion, you're liklely to pay $200 for a Samsung Galaxy S4 handset, not including the overall cost of a two-year service agreement to qualify for subsidized pricing. Data fees notwithstanding, that's $29 less than the bill of materials (BOM). Manufacturing costs add another $8.50 per device, so on paper, Samsung is paying $237.50 for every Galaxy S4 device it builds.

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Windows Phone Ad Pokes Fun at Samsung and Apple Feud

Posted 04/29/2013 at 11:20am | by Paul Lilly

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Nokia's Lumia 920 is a lover, not a fighter.

It does seem at times as though Apple and Samsung almost enjoy fighting with each other, doesn't it? A new ad promoting Nokia's Lumia 920 smartphone and the Windows Phone platform it runs on comes right out and says it, and then implores viewers, "Don't fight. Switch." The 1-minute ad spot does little to promote the Lumia 920's features or Windows Phone software, but you have to hand it to Microsoft for at least trying to get into the thick of things.

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Samsung Nabs 30 Percent of Global Smartphone Market

Posted 04/24/2013 at 8:37am | by Paul Lilly

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Three out of 10 smartphones around the world are built by Samsung, DRAMeXchange says.

According to recent data revealed by DRAMeXchange, a division of global research firm TrendForce, smartphone shipments jumped 9.4 percent sequentially to 216.4 million units during the first quarter of 2013. Despite seasonality, smartphone shipments have climbed every quarter since the beginning of 2012, DRAMeXchange says, and no company should be happier than Samsung.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Now Available to Pre-Order, Will You Be Getting One?

Posted 04/16/2013 at 11:48am | by Paul Lilly

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At least two wireless carriers have begun offering the Samsung Galaxy S4 in the U.S.

Anticipation has been running high for Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone, the successor to the wildly popular S3 that's played an instrumental role in capturing mobile market share that might have otherwise gone to Apple. If you've been waiting for your chance to jump, today's the day you can make the leap, provided you're interested in signing up with AT&T or U.S. Cellular for wireless service.

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Your Phablet Looks Small Next to Samsung's Galaxy Mega

Posted 04/11/2013 at 11:38am | by Paul Lilly

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Samsung's Galaxy Mega stretches the boundaries of phablet design.

You better have big pockets if you have any notion of treating Samsung's Galaxy Mega device as a smartphone. It's actually a phablet -- a phone and tablet hybrid -- though even in that category, the Galaxy Mega stands out because of its massive 6.3-inch HD display. That's not a typo; the Galaxy Mega's display is 6.3 inches, or just over half-an-inch smaller than a Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD.

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Rumor: Apple iPhone 5S to Come in Different Sizes

Posted 04/09/2013 at 11:48am | by Paul Lilly

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Different size iPhone models could attract a bigger audience.

There's no arguing that Apple's been mighty successful in telling its customers what they want. Up until the iPhone 5, that meant telling them they didn't need or want a smartphone display larger than 3.5 inches, so that's all that was offered. With the introduction of the iPhone, Apple finally conceded there's a desire for a bigger screen, and so it stretched the display to 4 inches while maintaining the same width. Now we're hearing that the next iPhone model will come in a variety of screen options.

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Amazon May Launch a 4.7-inch Kindle Smartphone

Posted 03/27/2013 at 9:34am | by Paul Lilly

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Another rumor points to an Amazon smartphone on the horizon.

Amazon should do the Internet a favor and either launch a smartphone of its own or come out and say, in no uncertain terms, that it has no intentions of offering a handset. It would save us the trouble of sifting through rumors, which have been permeating the web for about year now. The latest bit of news suggests Amazon is not only still interested in releasing a smartphone, but will go with a 4.7-inch display.

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T-Mobile Finally Inks Deal to Sell iPhones. Launches 4G LTE Network

Posted 03/26/2013 at 12:27pm | by Paul Lilly

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Today was a big day for T-Mobile.

Never say never. Nearly six years after the original iPhone launched, T-Mobile is finally allowed to join the iOS party. Talk about showing up fashionably late, though to be fair, only AT&T was allowed to sell the iPhone up until the beginning of 2011. Since then, however, T-Mobile remained the odd man out, as Verizon Wireless and Sprint both jumped on the bandwagon long before today. Be that as it may, T-Mobile got it done, but will customers dig the unsubsidized price model?

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Blackberry CEO Believes Phones Will Be The Primary Computing Device Within Ten Years

Posted 03/24/2013 at 6:05pm | by Justin Kerr

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Blackberry still believes phones are the future.

Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins shared his vision of the future with ABC’s Joanna Stern, and surprise surprise, the future looks bright for Blackberry. Heins claims that ten years from now the phone will be the only device we carry, and accessories to compensate for the form factor of the device will be commonplace. "We are talking about a mobile computing experience that makes sure that for you as a user, you only have to carry one computing device... then you get peripherals around it that make your life much more easy than it is today carrying a tablet, carrying a smartphone, carrying a laptop, going to your office and having a desktop."

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