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Malware On Mobile Grew 163% In 2012, Infecting Around 32.8M Android Devices, Report Says
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Mobile service provider NQ Mobile today released a study of malware covering 2012, using data gathered from the company’s Security Labs. It found that malware threats in general on mobile platforms grew 163 percent in 2012, totally more than 65,000 identified distinct forms of app repackaging, malicious URLs and SMS...
HTC One gets camera update, improves HDR images and audio recording
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Despite recent strong competition, several Engadget editors' love affair with the HTC One continues unabated. We've mused plenty on its Ultrapixel camera, but we're not going to refuse improvements, which is good, because that's exactly what HTC's offering its European customers. An incoming software update for existing handsets promises...
AT&T to start offering HD Voice this year
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HD Voice is coming to AT&T this year. At the VentureBeat Mobile Summit in Sausalito, California, AT&T VP Kris Rinne told the audience that "HD Voice is part of our voice over LTE strategy," reports All Things D. The news follows T-Mobile’s announcement that it will begin offering HD...
T-Mobile's LTE ambitions get real: network expansion, the BlackBerry Z10 and an OTA update for the Galaxy Note II
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AT&T's failed acquisition was the best thing to ever happen to T-Mobile. As a consequence of the failed merger, the fourth place wireless carrier received AWS spectrum in over 100 markets, a cash payout in the billions and an extensive roaming agreement with Ma Bell. All of which pushed...
T-Mobile's LTE ambitions get real: network expansion, the BlackBerry Z10 and an OTA update for the Galaxy Note II
Alleged press shots out LG Optimus F5 as Verizon's mid-range Lucid 2
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About a week ago, we went hands-on with LG's new mid-range LTE-capable Optimus F5 and F7 smartphones at MWC. At the time it was unknown where these handsets would land in the US, but it appears that we now have the goods on the former. According to a pair...
China Says Google Controls Too Much Of The Country's Smartphone Sector
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc has too much control over China's smartphone industry via its Android mobile operating system and has discriminated against some local firms, the technology ministry said in a white paper. The white paper, authored by the research arm of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,...
Nigeria's BlackBerry addiction offers hope for Research in Motion
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In Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, Africa's three biggest economies, BlackBerrys outsold smartphone competitors this quarter"What's your BB pin?"The question is the ultimate social status badge for many young, urban Nigerians. Standing in front of a row of gleaming BlackBerry handsets in a Lagos phone shop, sales assistant Remi Olajuwon...
Some huge, some small, all over the place: the Android phones of MWC
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Google wasn't especially visible at this year's Mobile World Congress—the company didn't have a stand anywhere on the show floor—but it nevertheless found a way to be nearly ubiquitous. Nokia (and others) introduced a handful of new Windows Phone 8 handsets, and there was some buzz around both Mozilla's...
The state of the smartphone
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Florence Ion The last six months or so has seen a veritable storm of high-end smartphones. While you can generally count on new hardware being released year-round, this holiday season is particularly busy. Between the iPhone 5, iOS 6, the Nexus 4, Android 4.2, and Windows Phone 8, things...
Hands On With LG And Google's First Smartphone Collaboration, The Nexus 4
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After having seen its mug plastered all over the internet in the days leading up to its release, actually playing with LG and Google’s new Nexus 4 seemed a bit anti-climactic. I mean, when you’ve seen a device like that cracked open and posed for your pleasure, it felt like...
CES 2013: Smartphones roundup
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Smartphones at CES? Believe it or not, the mobile industry had a somewhat unremarkable presence at this year's show, as key handsets were few and far between. Most phone makers are much more keen to announce flagship devices at either Mobile World Congress in February or their own press...
Interview: How News Corp's Times will use cheap tablets to sell content
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When I reported this week that News Corp’s The Times was selling a Nexus 7 tablet for just £50 with its digital newspaper subscriptions, it attracted much interest. It is one of the first major papers to leverage content and tablets in a bundle. So I caught up with News International customer...
Samsung Galaxy S 4 preview: a flagship with some familiar roots
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You say you want a revolution? Too bad, because this Galaxy smartphone update is just that... an update. Samsung's newly unveiled Galaxy S 4 is an incremental step up, an evolution less "inspired by nature" and more by last year's GS III. Don't believe us? Just take a look...
Google gets a place at the NFC top table, joining the NFC Forum board of directors
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Google has upgraded its membership of the NFC Forum, giving it a place on the organization’s board of directors. The NFC Forum was founded in 2004 as a non-profit industry body aimed at encouraging advances in Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies. Google joined in March 2011 as a ‘Principal’ level...
Your Galaxy S IV Will Probably Be Plastic, And That's For The Best, Says Samsung VP
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We’re just over a week away from the Galaxy S IV’s official unveiling in New York City, and the pieces are starting to fall into place. Sure, we still don’t know what the thing is going to look like, but persistent rumors have pegged the device as sporting the same...
Rocket Internet's Mobile Payments Startup Payleven Expands Android Support Outside Germany: App Now Also In UK, Italy, Poland
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More news in the European mobile payment dongle space this morning: Rocket Internet’s Payleven is expanding the availability of its Android app — previously only offered in Germany — to three more markets: the U.K., Italy and Poland, where the app can now be downloaded from Google’s Play Store. Payleven’s...
Rocket Internet's Mobile Payments Startup Payleven Expands Android Support Outside Germany: App Now Also In UK, Italy, Poland
HTC, Huawei, LG and Samsung join Power Matters Alliance, AT&T pledges wireless charging by 2014
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The Power Matters Alliance (PMA) just scored another major boost. AT&T has announced that it will integrate wireless charging within select smartphones by 2014. Those TBA handsets may be manufactured by BlackBerry, ZTE, or any of the organization's latest members: HTC, Huawei, LG and Samsung. Notably absent is Apple,...
Sony unveils new low-end Xperia L and mid-range Xperia SP Android smartphones, launching Q2 2013
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Sony has announced two new Android smartphones today that will join its Xperia range later this year – the Xperia SP and the Xperia L. Both are designed to fill out the refreshed portfolio kicked off by thehigh-profile launch of the Xperia Z, Sony’s 5-inch flagship Android device with LTE...
ZTE deal to pay Microsoft Android royalties leaves Motorola exposed
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Deal with Chinese handset maker means 80% of Android smartphone sellers in US are covered and 'majority' worldwide by patent deal - but will Google subsidiary sign?Chinese handset maker ZTE has signed a deal to pay Microsoft royalties on every device that uses Google's Android and Chrome OS software, a...
Swype takes SwiftKey head on, debuting on Google Play
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Swype and SwiftKey have long competed for Android users’ attention, each proffering their own version of an intelligent touchscreen keyboards. But SwiftKey has always had a big advantage: easy availability. Anyone can go to Google Play and download the SwiftKey software onto their Android smartphones or tablets. Swype’s maker Nuance...
Google Play adds Private channel hosting for internal enterprise apps
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It's not just IT departments the world over that've adjusted to the burgeoning BYOD (bring your own device) movement, it's Google, too. Responding to the increase in Android handsets now used in the enterprise space, Mountain View's announced the availability of a private Play store channel meant solely for...
Nokia's maps app soars from No.101 to No.32 in iOS App Store in just 15 minutes
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Nokia (NOK) managed to get its HERE Maps app to Apple’s App Store about 3-4 weeks faster than had been expected. This means it beats Google (GOOG) in offering a much-needed mapping solution for the iPhone 5. And iOS device users are enthusiastic: the HERE Maps app moved to No.101 on...
Lumia handset sales rise puts Nokia back in the smartphone race
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Finnish manufacturer reports 27% increase in demand for its touch screen phone but some analysts remain scepticalNokia appears to be edging back into the smartphone race, after reporting a 27% rise in sales of the Lumia touch screen handsets on which chief executive Stephen Elop has staked the future of...
Acer announces Liquid E2 smartphone with quad-core processor, optional dual-SIM slots
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We haven't heard much from Acer on the smartphone front since it announced a pair of handsets at Mobile World Congress, but the company's now back with another that it hopes will improve its standing in markets outside North America: the Liquid E2. Expectedly, this one is an update...
Nokia Shares Are Tanking On Awful Earnings
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - A big fall in sales of Nokia's basic phones overshadowed a stronger performance from its Lumia smartphones in the first quarter, and it said it expected operating margins to deteriorate, sending its shares tumbling. The Finnish mobile phone maker also reported an unexpected fall in sales at...
Samsung's 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega is real, and real big
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Samsung's Galaxy Mega 6.3 is its latest volley in the Giant Phone Wars. Samsung Last week, we heard our first rumors about Samsung's Galaxy Mega line, which would introduce phones with 6.3-inch and 5.8-inch screens to Samsung's ever-growing Galaxy family. Today, Samsung made them both official: the phones are...
Windows Phone 7.8: After Months Of Silence On WP7′s Last Ever Update, Microsoft Says "We Hope To Share More Details In The Near Future"
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Windows Phone fans have had a plethora of news about Windows Phone 8 in recent weeks, with the WP8 launch event taking place at the end of October and shiny new phone hardware finding its way into shops. But when it comes to Windows Phone 7.8 — the last ever...
Windows Phone 7.8: After Months Of Silence On WP7′s Last Ever Update, Microsoft Says "We Hope To Share More Details In The Near Future"
How to buy a cell phone
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Few tools of modern technology have become as prevalent as the cell phone, which allows you to be in touch from almost anywhere, almost all the time. And you can do more than just talk: Today's phones let you send and receive email and text messages, surf the Web,...
See Ya, Symbian: Q4 Was The "Last Meaningful Quarter For Symbian Sales" Says Nokia
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Nokia is slowly turning around its ailing mobile handset business and today that effort had a nice fillip, by way of some revised figures in which it “exceeded expectations” for Q4 sales. Within that, Nokia says that in Q4 it sold 4.4 million Lumia devices — exactly twice as many...
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