Trouble ahead? 4G LTE Kindle Fire doesn’t yet have FCC approval for sale

Amazon is marketing its new 4G LTE Kindle Fire HD tablet despite the fact that it hasn't yet received approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The situation has been described as unusual by attorneys and analysts familiar with the FCC's procedures. You’d hope Amazon knows exactly what it’s doing, but the fact that it announced its new high-end 4G...

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Report: iPhone 5 will have international LTE support

Apple's LTE is going global The Apple iPhone 5 may support LTE globally, allowing users to jump from country to country and continent to continent without losing their lightening fast connectivity. This is according to a recent report, with sources telling the Wall Street Journal the device can pick up on LTE in places like the U.S., Europe and Asia. ...

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Sources: two lower end Nokia Windows Phone 8s are coming

Lower than the 820? With the launch of its first two Windows Phone 8 handsets earlier this week - the Lumia 920 and 820 - Nokia's been riding a roller coaster of positive reviews and lowered expectations. Perhaps the introduction of another pair Windows Phone 8 smartphones, this time on the shallower end of the spectrum, will peak consumers interest even...

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Samsung OS a viable option, Verizon CEO says

Bada bing, bada boom (credit: Samsung) Samsung has the potential to be a strong No. 3 in the mobile operating system race, at least in the eyes of Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. During an investor conference call Friday, he painted the Korean electronics giant as a "dark horse" that could rival Apple iOS and Google Android. Currently, Samsung's smartphones...

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Apple ditching Siri processor provider

Is Apple switching up Siri? Siri voice control may become a bit more robust and stretch it legs in the near future, according to an announcement from digital signal processing company Audience. Apple uses Audience noise suppression technology, called earSmart, in the iPhone 4S to boost Siri's signal processing abilities. It's believed to be one of the reasons...

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Rumored HTC One X+ specs leak on Twitter

Specs out of the bag for another HTC phone (credit: Football4PDA) Though the HTC One X+ hasn't officially been announced yet, that hasn't stopped a healthy dose of details on the phone from spilling. Last month, a possible benchmark for the One X+ was discovered on NenaMark's website, leading many to believe HTC was about to announce a successor to their...

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Flipboard now an in-magazine shopping destination for Levi’s clothing

Flipboard announces its partnership with Levi's to kick start its foray into m-commerce. Users can now purchase clothing from within the app. For years now, reader apps have slugged along with an advertising business model that hasn’t exactly been lucrative. With the debut of Flipboard’s new social shopping catalogue, however, its e-commerce strategy could...

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FedEx preparing for 'surge volume' Sept. 21-24, hinting at iPhone 5 release date

The shadow for the "12" looks conspicuously like a "5" A FedEx insider has released an internal memo that provides yet another hint of a Sept. 21 new iPhone 5 release date. The memo describes as "surge volume" that'll take place Sept. 21-24, exactly when the new iPhone 5 release is rumored to be taking place. The FedEx communiqué instructs employees that...

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Best Windows Phone Games

Microsoft might be a distant third in the mobile race, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of fun, addicting games for the Windows Phone. Check out our roundup of Best Windows Phone games. It’s not often that one can say Microsoft is an underdog. The company is one of the largest in the world and easily the most notable name in personal computing. But...

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New Intel chips coming as sales outlook takes a hit

Can the chipmaker turn things around with new processors? Intel is one of the top chipmakers in the world, but according to analysts' predictions and the Santa Clara, Calif. company's own financial outlook, things are not looking up in the PC business. Reuters reports that at least eight analysts have shared bad tidings for Intel, with poor economies in...

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Motorola Razr M first impressions: Maximized screen real estate at its finest

Here's our first look at the budget-friendly model of Motorola's new Droid Razr line ahead of its September 13 release date. Motorola announced an updated line of its...

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HTC announces One SC, SU and dual-SIM ST for China

HTC unveiled three exclusive droids for China Mobile - the One SC, One SU and the dual-SIM One ST. They all run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich skinned with HTC Sense 4.0 UI. HTC One ST Let’s start with the one we already met yesterday – the One ST. As it turned out, the previous leak turned out perfectly accurate. The One ST packs a 4.3-inch SuperLCD2 WVGA display...

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Report: Expect 6 iPhone 5s priced to match iPhone 4S

N42, aka iPhone 5, blasts off next week Apple has all but officially confirmed the launch of its iPhone 5 Sept. 12, thanks largely to a "5" hiding in plain sight on its invites to an event that day. While we can expect the next-gen iPhone to hold the quintuplet moniker, Apple has reportedly been referring to the iOS handset as "N42." No one will call...

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The HTC One X+ and the HTC 8X leak online

HTC is holding a press event on September 19, but it seems it couldn’t keep the curtain over the TBA phones. The Twitter user Football4PDA (obviously a reputable XDA dev) spilled the beans on the HTC’s next flagships. The first one is the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean-running One X+. The smartphone is based on the latest quad-core Tegra 3 AP37 chipset with a quad-core 1.6GHz...

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What I want to see from Apple on September 12: Absolutely nothing

Apple doesn't need to debut the iPhone 5 on September 12 -- it needs to debut nothing at all. Less than a week from today, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook will take the stage at the obnoxiously named Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to drop yet another bomb on the U.S. mobile phone industry: The so-called iPhone 5.  If the rumors...

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Nokia Lumia 920 release date set for November?

Will the 920 be a bright spot in a dreary month? Word on the street is that Nokia's impressive Lumia 920 will launch in Europe in November. That's later than we're expecting the iPhone 5 to launch but still early enough to make its way onto a fair number of Christmas wishlists. The rumour comes from an unidentified European network who reckons that the...

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Apple cuts back chip orders from Samsung, the war rages on

You are all aware of the recent major US patent lawsuit involving Apple and Samsung. So far their patent quarrels had not have any impact on their component supply deal, which has Samsung provide most of the memory chips that Apple uses in its mobile device. According to Reuters and several other news outlets, all citing anonymous sources, with the iPhone 5, Apple is...

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Nokia Lumia 920 to start selling in only 10 weeks time

The Nokia Lumia 920 is a marvelous piece of technology. Nokia has really put its back into making the smartphone standout in several respects such as the extraordinary display and the innovative camera. Among the last pieces of info that we didn't know about it was its availability schedule. We heard Steve Ballmer saying we are going to see a lot more of Windows...

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