No Apple Store Black Friday discounts; have a gift card instead

This might be a disaster zone come tomorrow Apple stores will offer gift cards on Black Friday instead of the discounts expected by shoppers. The day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday, is a day of blissful debauchery for eager shoppers, who swarm retail stores in the wee hours of the morning and all through the day in search of unprecedented...

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Eight-core Huawei G750 joins the festivities in photo leak

Check out the first glimpse of the Huawei G750 (credit: MyDriver) It seems Huawei has some Android tricks up its sleeves, one of them being the newly leaked eight-core Huawei G750. The previously unheard of device reportedly packs MediaTek's powerful new octa-core processor, according to the photos and info that leaked on the Chinese site MyDrivers. ...

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Geeksphone announces high-end Firefox OS phone with Android too

There's some powerful, albeit nonsensical, imagery on the Revolution teaser site Geeksphone said "Happy Thanksgiving" today with the announcement of a new, reportedly higher-end Firefox OS device, the Revolution. There's a catch, though: the mysterious new smartphone isn't technically running Firefox OS. According to CNET, the Geeksphone Revolution actually...

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Nokia Asha 502 Dual SIM and Asha 503 go on sale

Nokia put two Asha 50x phones on sale – the 502 Dual SIM and the 503. The two are based on the Asha 501 design, but add a transparent outer layer on the back (while being every bit as colorful underneath). The Nokia Asha 502 Dual SIM improves the phone's photography skills by bumping the camera to 5MP and adding an LED flash. The video recording is still at the abysmal...

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HTC Desire 500 review

HTC Desire 500 review Ratings in depth HTC offers a mean flagship, in the form of the HTC One. But the firm knows that a lot of the mobile market now lies in the budget sector, and this is where the HTC Desire 500 is pitched. It might not have the super low price...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 will not have OIS camera

Before the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 came out there were rumors that it will have a camera with optical image stabilization (OIS). It didn’t and rumors had it that it was due to the insufficient supply of stabilized modules in time for the launch. Then there were a couple of OIS-enabled cameras linked to Samsung – a 13MP one and a 16MP one – with speculations coming that...

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HTC One Dual SIM with microSD slot coming to UK

HTC One hit the shelves in late March and despite its initial production issues, it's still one of the most popular smartphones in the market. Unfortunately HTC One didn't have a microSD card slot for memory expansion and it faced a lot of negative feedback about it. What's really odd is that HTC was offering a microSD-enabled dual-SIM model of the One on the Chinese...

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Windows Phone still a no go for Sky Go in UK

Sky Go favouring Android over Windows Phone Windows Phone users may have got a little excited after news from Italy confirmed that Sky Italia would be providing Sky Go support for the Microsoft platform. Unfortunately we've been brought back down to earth with a bump, as BSkyB in the UK has confirmed that it does not have any similar plans at this time....

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Oppo Find 7 teased in a first official photo

Oppo has posted the first official photo of its upcoming Find 7 flagship on its Weibo page. The teaser image shows just the back of the phone - but its enough to give us a better idea of what the phone would look like. The photo shows that the Find 7 will have some sort of reflective material used for its back panel and won't stick with the matte finish of the Find...

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HTC One with microSD slot destined for UK

Oh, no, it's broken! Wait... The five star HTC One may be about to get even better as word that the dual-SIM version is heading to our shores, complete with microSD slot. We didn't find much wrong with the HTC One when we reviewed it, but one of the minor points against the handset was the lack of expandable storage - but that's about to be rectified. ...

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BlackBerry Z10 review

BlackBerry Z10 review The BlackBerry Z10 was the first handset from the company formerly known as RIM, now renamed BlackBerry, to run its new operating system BlackBerry 10, and there was much more on the line here than simply making a few pennies – arguably the company's survival rested on the success of this device and the BlackBerry Q10. It's no secret that BlackBerry...

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Nokia working on a dual-SIM Lumia smartphone

We already knew Nokia is working on a some sort of smartphone with the codename Moneypenny. Now a new info from popular leakster @evleaks says the company is also releasing a dual-SIM variant of the upcoming device. Nokia planning a dual-SIM version of Windows Phone Blue-powered Moneypenny.— @evleaks (@evleaks) November 27, 2013 Nokia's Moneypenny along with Goldfinger will be the first smartphones to feature the WP 8.1 Blue out of box. It appears that the new release will finally bring support for dual-SIM smartphones...

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