Monday
Feb242014

HTC releases mid-range friendly 5.5" Desire 816 at MWC

HTC revealed its new mid-range Desire 816 smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Featuring a large 5.5-inch 720p HD display, 4G-LTE connectivity, a 1.6GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 with 1.5GB of RAM. Geared towards the phablet market, it is also the first HTC smartphone with a nanoSIM and it is expected to come to the Chinese market in March.

Monday
Feb242014

XBox One Titanfall Edition bundle coming on March 11

Why pay $499 for a vanilla XBox one when you can get the exclusive Xbox One “Titanfall” special edition bundle. Available March 11th, the limited edition console features a digital download copy of Titanfall and one month Xbox Live Gold membership, along with the standard console and accessories for $499. Sounds like a good deal for anyone who has been holding out for the XBox One and Titanfall. Pre-order here.

Monday
Feb242014

Nokia sets to battle budget Androids with new Nokia X devices

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop recently launched the new Nokia X family of budget smartphones targeting emerging markets. The Nokia X devices feature Nokia's popular look and construction but use a forked version of Google's Android OS. While the move to launching Android-powered devices seems contraryto Nokia's focus on Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, it makes perfect sense as a business decision.

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Monday
Feb242014

BlackBerry Messenger coming to Nokia X and Windows Phone devices

BlackBerry Messenger or BBM is expected to come to Nokia's new Android powered X devices as well as to exisiting Windows Phone handsets. BlackBerry confirmed the news earlier, John Sims, President, Global Enterprise Solutions at BlackBerry said, “BBM continues to grow in popularity as millions of people use our mobile platform for chatting and connecting with friends or colleagues, and we are very excited that we will soon welcome Windows Phone and Nokia X users to the BBM community."

 

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