Move along, Z10: BlackBerry has another flagship stewing for the holidays

BlackBerry, party of four? Could 2013 bear more than two phones from the ripening branches of BlackBerry? It's looking like that's an affirmative as the company's CEO earlier today said there's an upcoming flagship phone he's "very excited about." Speaking with CNET, Thorsten Heins teased, "There's one new product I'm really excited about, but I can't...

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Microsoft's improved Bing Voice app has word-by-word streaming

The new app streams words as they're spoken, meaning faster search results Voice recognition is one of those mobile services that has been on the cusp of brilliance for quite a while, yet no-one seems to have it down to a fine art. Apple's Siri and Google's Voice Search do an ample, if not always reliable, job, but Microsoft has demonstrated how it intends...

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Google Now iPhone app not submitted to Apple, despite Schmidt's comments

Mmm....Google Now and Later (credit: Engadget) Maybe Google Now used Apple Maps to get to the App Store, because Apple said today that Google never submitted the intelligent personal assistant app to its online store. A Google representative also told TechRadar, "Yes, I can confirm for you: We have not submitted Google Now to Apple's App Store," backing...

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Apple dances the two-step to boost iCloud, Apple ID security

Dancing to the tune of Apple's latest security measures Apple has rolled-out a two-step identity verification measure to allow users to choose "trusted" devices to confirm the legitimacy of changes to their Apple ID, iTunes, or iCloud accounts. Users in the UK, Ireland, United States, New Zealand and Australia can sign-up for the new security protocol on...

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Pandora opens its box of special features for Windows Phone 8

Pandora's Windows Phone 8 features make it special Streaming music services are all the rage these days, and fighting for users in the crowding marketplaces on various operating systems is no doubt a daunting task. Pandora has had the benefit of being one of the more recognizable and reliable streaming services, though upstarts like Spotify have no doubt...

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RUMOR: The next iPhone will likely be a marginal update

Sources from the Apple supply chain are at it again. This time the rumors circulate around the end of May arrival of components, which would point to an arrival of the next iPhone in the the third quarter of this year. According to said sources the next iPhone will allegedly be a marginal upgrade of the iPhone 5 (perhaps called the iPhone 5S). The next-gen iPhone should...

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HTC One release date and price: where can you get it?

The HTC One features an aluminium body, 4.7-inch HD screen and intriguing camera tech The HTC One is one of the world's best phones - but amid talks of delays to shipping and unconfirmed pricing, when will you actually be able to buy one? Don't worry - we've spent some time browsing the relevant catalogues and come up with the prices, plans and pontifications...

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BlackBerry Q10 pre-orders start in UK and US, launches in late April

Various UK retailers have started taking pre-orders for the upcoming BlackBerry Q10 smartphone. The QWERTY-featuring and BB10 OS powered Q10 pre-orders start at £530 and go a bit higher depending on where you do your shopping. According to one of the retailers the phone will ship around April 22, while the listings of the others' say just late April. We also found...

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Facebook for iOS could soon badger you for updates

Jeez Facebook, get a life (credit: @bijan) Not content with its overly pally web-based status questions (What's on your mind, TechRadar? What's happening? How's it hanging?), Facebook is trying out push notifications for iOS requesting that you update your status. "Bijan, tell friends what's on your mind," it suggests in the screengrab taken by one lucky...

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Galaxy S4 to help Samsung double its market share lead

Samsung is looking to take an even larger lead over the competition this year, thanks largely to its new Galaxy S4 flagship. In 2011, just two short years ago, Nokia was the top dog in terms of phones sold, holding some 30% of the market. Then Samsung, which rides the Android wave better than anyone else, took center, rising to 29% in just one year, with most of that...

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Google Keep vs Evernote vs Apple Notes

Keep isn't Google's first note-taker: Gmail has tasks, and before that there was Google Notebook Google never saw a good idea it didn't want to emulate, and this time it's got the photocopiers set to Evernote: the new Google Keep is an Android app with cloud-based syncing to keep tabs on your thoughts and photos. But it's entering into a competitive market,...

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Nokia rolls out Camera Extras and Cinemagraph apps for WP7

Nokia has just launched two new camera apps for the first generation Lumia devices.The new apps are Camera Extras and Cinemagraph and are available for Lumia WP7-running 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900. Both camera apps were previously only available on Windows Phone 8-powered Lumias. The Camera Extras offers Smart Shoot, Action Shot, Panorama and self-shot feature, while the Cinemagraph shoots a few seconds short video and transforms in into an animated picture (gif). You can find both apps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace right now. You...

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iPhone 5S to be slightly better than iPhone 5, reports Digitimes

Weird, we thought it might be slightly worse We've come to expect a certain outlandish quality from the pronouncements of Digitimes' upstream supply chain sources, but today's iPhone 5S rumour is positively pedestrian. The industry rag has had a quiet word with its people and come up with the following: the iPhone 5S will launch in Q3 (September, we expect)...

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What Rubin's replacement thinks about Chrome v Android

Android on a laptop? Not yet Back when Sundar Pichai was showing off the Chromebook Pixel, before he had taken over as head of Android from Andy Rubin, he was asked about how Chrome OS for touch fitted alongside Google's mobile OS. Just a month on from that event, those answers seem even more relevant given Pichai's new role. "So far we have been in...

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BlackBerry Q10 release date and lofty price revealed

Those keys better be worth it. We've got our first sniff at a BlackBerry Q10 release date and price, as an online retailer pops the keyboard-toting handset up for pre-order. According to Unlocked-Mobiles a SIM-free BlackBerry Q10 will set you back a princely £529.98 (around $800/AU$770) - that's more than the flagship BlackBerry Z10 which is currently floating...

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Nokia Lumia 720 and 520 prices revealed but prompt confusion

How much are you?! Prices for the Windows Phone 8 toting Nokia Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 have appeared online, but there seems to be some discrepancy between sites. Amazon.co.uk has the Lumia 720 listed for pre-order at £382.97 SIM-free, but pop over to Expansys or Unlocked-Mobiles and the same handset will apparently set you back just £299.99 / £294.98 respectively....

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Here's the Samsung Galaxy S4 versions breakdown by countries

Samsung announced the Galaxy S4 with an Exynos 5 Octa chipset, but what the presenters didn’t say during the announcement is that a lot of countries will be getting the Snapdragon 600 version instead. And it’s not just North America either. SamMobile has compiled a list that shows which country gets which model. The I9500 is the non-LTE Exynos model while the...

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Apple reverse engineers cats to invent phone that always lands on its back

Sunny side up Another day, another new Apple patent discovered – but this could be the most useful one we've seen so far. Apple filed a patent for a "Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device" with the US Patent and Trademark Office in September 2011. The invention essentially shifts the insides of a device when it's falling in order to reduce chances...

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EE rolls out 4G to the internet-less country folk

They'll still just watch YouTube videos of cats though EE's 4G plans continue apace as it serves up to 10x faster speeds to rural areas, with average speeds of 8-12Mbps. Currently the UK's only 4G provider, EE has been running a 4G trial in Threlkeld for months now, and has now extended that to larger parts of Cumbria. It's claiming that speeds of up to...

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Some Sony Xperia Z handsets reportedly suffering sudden death

A number of Sony Xperia Z users have reported their devices suffering from sudden death. Apparently, Sony's flagship has been shutting down for no apparent reason with subsequent efforts to bring it back to life proving unsuccessful, save for a hard reset in a few cases. There is no particular reason for the occurrence. Some users have blamed low battery for...

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Awesome renders of budget iPhone concept

Aw, look at the baby iPhones (credit: iPhoneclub.nl) Rumours of a budget version iPhone have been around since the launch of the iPhone itself, and while it may or may not be on the Apple roadmap, a Dutch artist has knocked up a computer-generated render of what he imagines these cheaper iPhones could look like. Rather than just sketching out a smaller...

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