Weekly mobile news recap: Feuding over filters, CES rumors begin

It's the holidays, so you know what that means: time for feuding, fighting, and battling for customers. Twitter and Instagram duke it out to be the service you send your holiday photos through, Apple and Samsung battle to be the most gifted, and more in this week's mobile news wrap. The holiday season is one that brings thoughts of joy and giving shared...

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean now available for AT&T’s Motorola Atrix HD

On Friday, AT&T announced that its Motorola Atrix HD will be updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. As 2012 comes to an end, Jelly Bean is on a rampage. In a slew of recent announcements concerning Android 4.1, Motorola’s Atrix HD has just been upgraded to Google’s most recent version of its mobile operating system. On Friday, AT&T announced that...

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2013 may be the year of the flexible screen

The flexible smartphone screen may soon lose its science fiction status and become science fact, as Samsung and LG work hard on a new technology which could change the face of smartphone design in 2013. Could 2013 bring with it one of the biggest revolutions in mobile phone design since the advent of the touchscreen? If the growing rumors surrounding flexible...

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Motorola Atrix HD receives Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update

Following closely behind its Verizon Wireless relatives, the Motorola Atrix HD for AT&T got treated to an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The OS update is available over-the-air at the moment. Just like it the case of the Motorola DROID RAZR M and DROID RAZR HD, the Atrix HD gets all the usual Android 4.1 goodies such as Google Now and Project Butter....

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Get some social shopping assistance during the holidays from these Facebook gifting apps

With the holidays two weeks away, we've rounded up just the right Facebook gifting apps to help you find the perfect gift for your friend and family. Facebook Gifts recently launched worldwide with hundreds of partners in tote and the company is taking a second stab at physical gifting. Starbucks, iTunes and even Charities have been added to the expanding...

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Nokia Lumia 505 is now official, pricing remains unknown

Nokia Mexico has made the Lumia 505 official, after teasing it last week. The exclusive low-end Windows Phone device modeled after the Lumia 510 and is going to launch on Mexico's Telcel network in the upcoming weeks. Launching in red, pink or black, the Lumia 505 runs on Windows Phone 7.8 and features a 3.7" AMOLED display and a single-core 800MHz CPU with 256MB...

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Will Dell’s secret 18-inch tablet herald the rise of the Super Tablet?

Dell has an 18-inch tablet in development, and it could open the door for the same type of “board game” computing we first saw on Microsoft’ Surface table. Though the company hasn’t said a word about it publicly, Dell has an 18-inch tablet in development that I recently learned about at a company event. I’ll avoid calling it an iPad killer largely because...

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Verizon DROIDs go up for cheap for the holidays

Motorola unveiled their new RAZR series a few months back at their On Display event in New York, where US residents were pleasantly surprised by the low on-contract prices for the DROID RAZR HD, RAZR MAXX HD, and RAZR M. Verizon has slashed prices even further, and has knocked down the cost of each device by $50 a pop. The RAZR MAXX HD can be had for $249.99,...

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