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Editorial: Dear Samsung Korea, It’s Time To Clean House

The latest blogger scandal shows how systemic the company’s corruption runs. It’s time for Korea to clean house, and fast, or face irrelevance in the tech sector abroad. In case you missed the...

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Most Locked Out of Motorola’s Android 4.1 “Upgrade Promise”

If you’re in a two-year contract, Motorola’s $100 offer does little, unless they can convince carriers to offer customers two-year contract pricing (teaser: they won’t be able to convince the carriers...

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Google Kills Off Motorola Webtop, Grabs Defeat from Jaws of Victory – Verizon...

Just when Motorola Mobility got Webtop working, word from sources is that Google ordered its demise. With the RAZR HD lacking Webtop, Verizon is selling off Lapdock 100′s for $50 out the door. We’ll...

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Rubin v. Aliyun: The Makings of An Alien-Android Hybrid

A Quiet War This past week has been an active battleground between Google’s Andy Rubin, SVP & Founder of Android at Google, and Alibaba. Alibaba, an e-commerce giant in China, has created their...

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On the Unlocked iPhone 5 And The nanoSIM: Where Prepaid Options Stand

Apple recently announced that it would make factory unlocked iPhones available several weeks after the launch of the carrier versions in the US. While the news itself is unsurprising and pricing is...

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Galaxy Nexus vs Nexus 4 – Clear Winners, Losers

How the hack this happened And boy do we mean hack… As you may know, the Galaxy Nexus was the design mule for the Samsung Galaxy S II. Samsung intentionally ensured Google’s shared designs and efforts...

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An Open Letter to HTC: Ads Aren’t Your Problem

Howdy Hi HTC? This is PhoneNews.com. More specifically, the people that run PhoneNews.com. We don’t hear from you guys much these days, but based on what your CEO said this week, we’re guessing you...

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Editorial: T-Mobile Needs to Shape Up on Firmware… or Write Off Tech Savvy...

T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile’s lackluster performance on firmware claims another victim; the Lumia 710. I’m sick and tired of catching fire from them, for talking about it. Here we go again… Today word...

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In-Depth: User Frustration Rises as Verizon Galaxy Nexus Falls Further Behind

While others are still selling the LTE variant of the Galaxy Nexus, Verizon stopped long ago. While Google issues firmware updates for it, the carrier has yet to approve any of the last four major...

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Nokia N9 Owners Ask Nokia to Uphold Their Commitment to Updates Through 2015

Nokia N9 owners are approaching a thousand signatures on a petition asking Nokia to uphold their commitments related to the Nokia N9. The Finnish phone manufacturer originally promised to maintain,...

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Review / Editorial: Two Years with Straight Talk Unlimited Prepaid – Life...

After living with and paying for Straight Talk for 2 years, this review /editorial will serve as the official follow-up to my initial review filed in May 2011. Keep in mind that my experiences will...

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PS Vita: Where’s the GPS (Apps)?

The PlayStation Vita would probably have a great second coming, if it offered up one killer app. While the hardware may be there, the software sure isn’t. The PlayStation Vita is in a unique spot....

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Editorial: Why We’ve Been Quiet on PRISM, et al

You may have wondered why we’ve sat on our hands when it comes to the recent wave of national security topics involving cell phones, and telecommunication in general. It’s a good question, and one we...

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What the BYOSD? Sprint Blocks MVNOs from Using Nexus Devices They Don’t Even...

News has come out over the past 24 hours that Sprint has given MVNOs until tomorrow to stop activating several new devices, including Nexus 5. Sprint’s BYOSD finally became relevant over the past...

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Sprint’s Free for Students Plan – A Sign of Things To Come

Sprint’s plan to offer free service to students is part of a larger plan, to eventually offer free service to all. Free is the start of something big. Granted, Sprint MVNOs like RingPlus and...

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Sprint Responds to Criticism, Drops Nexus 5 from BYOSD Ban List

Sprint has confirmed to PhoneNews.com that the Nexus 5 is no longer banned from BYOSD. PhoneNews.com led the brutal, community-wide criticism when Sprint imposed the restriction on Nexus 5 from being...

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Caveat Emptor: On FreedomPop’s (Broken) BYOSD Program

Ever since FreedomPop announced its expansion of its free phone service to include the BYOSD program this week, I was initially quite excited, as I have three spare Sprint devices, two of them being...

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CyanogenMod 1-Click Installer Removed from Google Play Store

The recently incorporated CyanogenMod previously released a 1-click installer app into the Google Play store, ostensibly to allow owners of specific devices to chance to test out the Cyanogen custom...

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A $20 USB Widget Could Save Surface

We talk one of the cheap, easy things Microsoft could do to save their starving-for-sales Surface tablet. Now that the Lumia 2520 is available, we’re starting to see how Windows RT shares some of the...

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Editorial: On Facebook’s $19 Billion Purchase Of WhatsApp, From A Frequent...

With yesterday’s news of WhatsApp being bought by Facebook, many US-based and English-speaking outlets were expressing shock and surprise at the amount paid for the messaging service compared to...

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