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by Richard Devine
Feb 20, 2013
British sports fans rejoice, the BBC Sport application for Android is finally here. Following on from a pretty decent mobile website that streamed live video such as the Olympic Games, and the relea...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 20, 2013
The UK's long-delayed 4G spectrum auction has completed today, resulting in the sale of 800MHz and 2600MHz airwaves to the country's largest operators for a total of £2.3 billion.
Her...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 19, 2013
Hopefully you've already checked out Phil's HTC One hands-on impressions from the press conference in New York. But that event was just half of the HTC One launch story, as the manufact...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 19, 2013
The Jelly Bean update for the Sony Xperia T first started pushing out at the very beginning of February to unlocked devices. Since then, in the UK, O2 started pushing it out around a week later, and...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 19, 2013
This one perhaps has a slight taste of the better late than never, but the WiFi Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in Australia is now getting its Jelly Bean update. The Note 10.1 WiFi started receiving Andro...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 18, 2013
It looks like Germany isn't the only country getting an early chance to pick up the Sony Xperia Z. The phone has just gone up for sale on the Sony Mobile France online store. Purchased SIM-free,...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 17, 2013
Update: LG expects to begin rolling out the new Optimus G Pro in overseas territories including the U.S. during the second quarter.
LG technically officially announced the Optimus G Pro for the K...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 17, 2013
As Phil mentioned in this week's column, the next two weeks in the smartphone world are going to be particularly crazy. We've got events from HTC and Sony next week, and Mobile World Congres...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2013
The Sony Xperia Z isn't due to go on general release until the end of the month, but already we've seen some European retailers allowing buyers to sneak an early peek at Sony's next big ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2013
The BBC continues to roll out improvements to its suite of Android apps, and today the broadcaster has published updates for its (UK-only) iPlayer and BBC Media Player apps. The latest iPlayer ...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 14, 2013
First seen in the wild back at CES in Las Vegas, the Archos Platinum line of tablets has now been officially announced, dated and priced. The range of three slates -- the 80, 97 and 116 -- will rang...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 14, 2013
Ever since the 5-inch Sony Xperia Z debuted back in Las Vegas at CES, a lot of folks have been eager to get their hands on one and try it out. That includes certain members of the AC staff that didn...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 13, 2013
Fresh from CES where they announced a whole raft of new Android devices, Alcatel has announced yet another smartphone. The latest in the company's One Touch line, the One Touch Star is a disti...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 13, 2013
It's a slightly bizarre feeling, but in Brazil, this Android smartphone is the iPhone. And, thanks to a ruling by Brazilian regulators, it can continue to be called the iPhone, as Apple has been...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 13, 2013
HTC started pushing out the Android 4.1.1 update to eager owners of the unlocked, international One S back on Christmas Eve. Fast forward just over a month and Three UK has today announced that they...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 13, 2013
Samsung likes to release funky colored versions of its devices, particularly when it ties in with a holiday like Valentine's Day. This year it's the Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE that's getting a...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 13, 2013
Three UK has announced that it'll offer the Samsung Galaxy Fame for sale in the near future. The Galaxy Fame was one of two devices recently announced by the Korean manufacturer, which expects to ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 13, 2013
Latest round of pre-release rumors says no S Pen, but "contactless gestures" are likely
As it's prone to do in the weeks ahead of a major Samsung announcement, the Korean press is ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 12, 2013
Some official information was released just earlier today on the larger Optimus G Pro headed to Korea, and now LG has spilled the beans on the new version of the device. This Optimus G Pro, w...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 12, 2013
As has been rumored recently, the LG Optimus G Pro is indeed heading to South Korea, with a 5.5-inch display in tow. The device, which first appeared in Japan with a 5.0-inch screen, was reported to...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 12, 2013
As promised, Three UK has just launched its "Ultrafast" Galaxy S3 variant online and in stores. Coming in the familiar marble white and pebble blue color options, the new model is essentia...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 11, 2013
If you follow obscure app-related news, you might remember that Samsung, MusicQubed and the Official Charts Company launched a UK Top 40 app last summer for owners of certain Samsung devices. That p...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 11, 2013
We're less than two weeks away from heading off to Barcelona, Spain for Mobile World Congress, and we're starting to see more reports of what LG might have to unveil at the show. Last week w...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 10, 2013
We're two weeks out from Mobile World Congress, and just over a week away from learning what HTC's been cooking up for its 2013 flagship device. That means there's plenty of internationa...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 08, 2013
Three UK is marketing its DC-HSDPA and upcoming LTE networks under the the consumer-friendly name "Ultrafast," and today sees the launch of a new Galaxy S3 variant intended to ta...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 08, 2013
Following Sony's official announcement yesterday, British network O2 has revealed that it's now pushing out the Xperia T Jelly Bean update. As well as bringing the device up to Android 4....
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2013
The LG Optimus G Pro became official on Japanese carrier NTT Docomo last month, but we've yet to hear anything official about where else the phone might launch. Today brings a rather tantal...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2013
Hot on the heels of the Nexus 10, the Wifi+3G version of Google's Nexus 7 tablet is set to go on sale in Japan in a couple of days. Like its big brother, the Nexus 7 3G has been available elsewh...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2013
Much of the HTC-related buzz in North America and Europe may be centered on the rumored "M7" handset, but let's not forget that China is a hugely important mobile market. That's wh...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2013
Carrier promises 55% UK population coverage in 65 markets by mid-year
Sole UK 4G carrier EE has announced that it intends to expand its LTE coverage to a further 27 towns and cities across ...
