Daily Archives: 03/01/2013
Facebook testing free voice calling in Messenger app!
Facebook started today testing free phone calls feature in it’s Messenger app in Canada. Facebook users in Canada can now make free phone calls via Facebook’s messenger app anywhere they have WiFi or cellular connection. New feature is currently available only for iOS users, but could also roll out to Android users, as well as all of us outside of Canada. Users outside Canada will also receive new update to both Facebook Messenger apps for iOS and Android that let’s users to make short “push to talk” voice messages. As there’s already some voice message apps in both App Store and in Google Play, it’s not so big deal, but if you could make free calls through Facebook, it would be a game changer to all who don’t want to receive big phone bills every month.
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Apple rumored of buying social navigation service company Waze for $750 million!
update: New reports are now telling that Apple has no interest of buying Waze anytime soon.
First rumors popped up on Wednesday, saying that Apple is interested of buying social navigation service Waze. New reports now suggests that Apple is willing to buy Waze for $750 million, and that negotations are even further than first believed. Waze is open minded for the idea of being purchased by Apple, but the price of $750 million is too high for Apple. Apple is said to be offering $400 million plus additional $100 million in incentives.
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Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
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Samsung confirms that it will bring Tizen OS devices this year!
Samsung has confirmed, that it’s going to bring Tizen OS based devices to the market this year. First Tizen OS device rumors showed up earlier this week. Samsung also wants to reduce it’s reliance on Google Inc.’s Android operating system after the internet search company purchased handset maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in May.
“We plan to release new, competitive Tizen devices within this year and will keep expanding the lineup depending on market conditions,” Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung said in an e- mailed statement today.
Samsung is going to bring first Tizen OS based smartphones to the market with NTT DoCoMo later this year.
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Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
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Apple to report Q1 2013 earnings on January 23rd!
Apple announced that the company will announce it’s Q1 2013 earnings on January 23rd at 4:30 p.m Eastern time with the numbers and follow with a conference call at 5:00 p.m Eastern time. CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer and more Apple’s executives will participate on the earnings call. This will give us a close look of how Apple did during the holiday shopping season. You can check out the earnings call webcast by heading the source link after the break.
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Google to deliver Q4 2012 earnings on Janury 22nd!
Google is going to announce Q4 2012 earnings on January 22nd at 4:30 p.m Eastern time. Google will provide live webcast of Google’s earnings call and the replay of the webcast will be available later the same day. You can check the webcast by heading the source link after the break.
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Samsung unveils the Series 7 Ultra, and The Series 7 Chronos Windows 8 laptops!
Samsung has announced tow new high-end Windows 8 laptops, just ahead of CES2013. The new Series 7 Ultra and Series 7 Chronos, both are added to the company of Series 7 Slate and Series 7 Gamer, with everything now optimized for Windows 8.
Samsung Series 7 Ultra has very sharp 13.3-inch 1080p display with optional touch, a Core i5 or Core i7 processor, AMD HD8570 GPU, 1GB of RAM, and can be customized up to 16Gb, and a 256GB SSD. Samsung promises 8 hours of battery life for the 1.36kg weighing laptop. There’s also option for purchasing the laptop with LTE connectivity. No price tag revealed yet, but surely we’ll hear more from this laptop at the CES2013.
Samsung Series 7 Chronos is aimed for professional users and offers up to 1TB of hard drive storage. The Series 7 Chronos has 15.6-inch 1080p display, Radeon HD 8870 GPU, Intel’s quad-core i7 processor, and up to 16GB of RAM. Samsung promises 11 hours of battery life for the Series 7 Chronos even with high-end specs, and it weights 2.34kg.
Read the full press release after the break.
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Nexus 4 sales estimated at 375,000 by enthusiasts at XDA-developers!
There’s no LTE support for Nexus 4, but it seems that i doesn’t matter much, as the device is sold out in Google Play. In a thread in XDA-developers forum, the users has used serial numbers to see where and when their device was made, and give us a clue how many devices Google actually has sold. In that serial, first three letters produced tells the year, month and country where the Nexus 4 was made. Example, 212K, device was made in the 12th month of the year 2012 in Korea.
By using this system users were able to provide roughly how many devices were being produced per month, 70,000 in October, 90,000 in November, and 210,000 in December. There’s still many Google Play customers waiting their devices, but as you can see from the numbers Google and LG are trying to cope with the high demand, and manufacturing more and more Nexus 4 smartphones.
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Nokia Lumia 920 wins 12 media awards in 2012!
Year 2012 was important year for Windows Phone 8 devices, and especially for Nokia. HTC 8X, Samsung Ativ S and Nokia Lumia 920, Windows Phone 8 flagship models, with almost similar specs, but very different looks. We are not going to concentrate in all of those, but to check how did Nokia Lumia 920 was appreciated in media in 2012.
Nokia announced that company’s Lumia 920 Windows Phone has won 12 media awards from appreciated tech sites. It’s already known that Lumia 920 is very popular smartphone, almost sold out around the world. It also could mean that Nokia can’t answer to high demand of Lumia 920, or simply Nokia can’t produce enough. Check out the full list of media awards Nokia Lumia 920 received last in 2012, after the break.
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