Smartphones

The Korea Economic Daily reports that Apple and Samsung officially signed an agreement that will see the two companies working together on future A-series chips for Apple’s iOS devices, with the deal specifically covering A9 chips based on a 14-nanometer process node starting in 2015. The claim comes just weeks after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Continue Reading →

A 23-year-old Chinese woman has allegedly died from an electric shock when using Apple’s iPhone 5 while it was being charged, her family members claim, according to media reports. The older sister of alleged victim Ma Ailun took to Sina Weibo, China’s popular Twitter-like social network, over the weekend to demand an explanation from Apple Continue Reading →

AT&T said on Friday it will acquire prepaid wireless provider Leap Wireless in a deal valued at about $4 billion, including debt as large carriers scramble to accumulate valuable spectrum. Under the agreement, AT&T will acquire all of Leap’s stock and approximately 5 million subscribers for $15 per share in cash or about $1.2 billion. Continue Reading →

eBay has announced a new iOS app called eBay Exact that lets you buy customizable 3D-printed merchandise on the go. You can download the new addition now directly from Apple’s App Store. The products in question are available from three leading 3D printing companies, according to eBay: Brooklyn-based MakerBot, France-based Sculpteo, and Toronto, Canada-based Hot Continue Reading →

Sprint announced new unlimited plans with lower pricing that come with a guarantee promising customers limitless talk, text and data for life. For the Unlimited, My Way plan, customers choose the number of lines they want (starting at $50 for one) and pay $30 per line for unlimited data. By comparison, Sprint’s current Simply Everything Continue Reading →

Though there wasn’t much mystery left after months of steady leaks, Nokia on Thursday finally took the wraps off of its new Lumia 1020 smartphone during a press conference in New York City. The new handset features a 4.5-inch AMOLED display, a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 32GB of internal storage, 2GB of RAM and the Continue Reading →

The upcoming Moto X smartphone represents something of a rebirth for Motorola, and Google is reportedly willing to spend top dollar to get that message across. According to The Wall Street Journal, Mountain View is prepared to spend upwards of $500 million on the marketing campaign for Motorola’s customizable, assembled-in-the-USA flagship. That budget is said Continue Reading →

T-Mobile announced a new device upgrade program for its no-contract customers Wednesday. The program allows these customers to get their hands on the latest and greatest phones at subsidized prices. The upgrade program, called Jump, makes it easier for people to upgrade to new devices and pay a lower price instead of replacing their current Continue Reading →

Sometimes getting beat to market isn’t a bad thing. Though AT&T was a full year behind Verizon Wireless in deploying its LTE systems, it’s now routinely outscoring Verizon on multiple network speed and performance tests. Last spring, RootMetrics clocked AT&T’s average LTE network speeds a full 4.3 Mbps faster than Verizon’s. PCMag’s recent extensive nationwide Continue Reading →

Ever since Google Maps returned to iOS with a completely new UI last December, we knew it was only a matter of time until the Android app followed suit. The search giant even said this much when it launched a revamped web edition of Google Maps at I/O. On Wednesday, version 7 of Google Maps Continue Reading →