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Sprint now offering free international roaming
4/10/2015 11:27:00 PM
Sprint is taking another page out of T-Mobile's playbook and announced Friday that it was offering International Value Roaming. This new feature gives customers unlimited data roaming and texting while traveling to select countries in Europe, Latin America, and Japan.
The data roaming, like T-Mobile's plan, allows no charge use at 2G speeds, enough for email, messaging and basic browsing. Voice calls are billed at 20-cents-per-minute, to any destination.
The initial batch of eligible countries is small, but not insignificant. International Value Roaming is available in Argentina, ...
Google X labs working on next-gen battery for mobile devices
4/10/2015 10:38:00 PM
According to a story in Friday's Wall Street Journal, a small four person group inside Google X labs shifted in 2013 from testing third party batteries, to looking at new technologies that Google could use itself on devices like smartphones, wearables, tablets and more. The group, led by former Apple battery expert Dr. Ramesh Bhardwaj, was originally formed back in 2012.
One concept that Google is working on is a flexible solid-state battery similar to the project that Dyson recently invested $15 million in. These batteries replace liquid chemicals with a solid that current is transmitted ...
Nokia wants to sell Here Maps (and its entire maps business)
4/10/2015 7:09:00 PM
One year after selling its mobile phone division to Microsoft, Nokia is now reportedly pondering the sale of its maps business, which currently develops Here Maps. According to Bloomberg, the Finnish company might do this in order to focus on its wireless network business.
Bloomberg has it that Nokia has already contacted potential buyers, including Uber, and unspecified German carmakers (BMW, Mercedes-Benz, or Volkswagen Group might be included here).
Right now, Nokia's maps business is evaluated at $2.1 billion, considerably less than the $8.1 billion that Nokia paid in 2008 to ...
Android Lollipop updates for HTC One E8, Desire EYE and Butterfly S now rolling out
4/10/2015 5:26:00 PM
HTC today started updating three of its non-flagship smartphones to Android Lollipop: the One E8, the Desire EYE, and the Butterfly S (which is a pretty old device, as it's been released almost two years ago, in mid 2013).
According to HTC ROM developer LlabTooFeR, the Desire EYE and Butterfly S are being updated to Lollipop in Taiwan, while the One E8 is getting the update in Hong Kong. Users in other regions will likely receive the update pretty soon, too, though for now we can't say exactly when it's going to happen. In any case, as previously reported, all three devices are getting ...
Tim Cook says pre-order sales for Apple Watch are "great"
4/10/2015 5:19:00 PM
Apple CEO Tim Cook, visiting an Apple Store in California on Friday afternoon, told financial cable channel CNBC that pre-order sales for the Apple Watch are great and that consumers' reaction to the timepiece has been "extraordinary." Cook also showed reporters his favorite model, a stainless steel Apple Watch with a white band.
The Apple Watch was available for pre-orders starting at 3:01am EDT (12:01am PDT) today. The latest device from Apple starts at $349 for the Apple Watch Sport and runs as high as $17,000 for the Rose Gold Apple Watch Edition. "Customers have been giving us great ...
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