Why a 4-inch iPhone makes sense (Hint: not due to Android)

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Apple’s next iPhone model will reportedly have at least a 4-inch display  according to sources “familiar with the matter” and reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. Apple hasn’t officially commented, which is expected as the company doesn’t make statements on unreleased products. However, the WSJ has a history of reporting on solid information about future Apple products, possibly as planned leaks from Apple itself

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HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE Indefinitely Delayed by Patent Issue [Htc]

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If you were looking forward to getting your hands on an HTC One X or Evo 4G LTE , you're in for a wait. Yesterday, it was announced that they'll be indefinitely delayed at US Customs for investigation of an Apple patent infringement

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‘Voices in your head’ audio tech appears in 1st Kyocera phones

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We only wrote about Kyocera’s new ceramic transducer audio technology last week at CTIA Wireless, where the company said it would appear in phones “very soon”. Well, very soon came even faster than we thought. On Tuesday, Kyocera unveiled two new phones for Japanese carriers that do away with old audio speaker technologies and use ceramics to pump sound waves directly into your skull.

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HTC Desire C gets official ‘First Look’ video and UK pricing

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Just a day after being papped in Portugal , the HTC Desire C has turned up in this official video. There's not much new info to take away, bar a quick glimpse of the Sense interface

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Baidu’s New Forked Android Phone: China’s Search Giant Wants To Make Windows Phone, iOS Versions Too

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Big mobile plans afoot for Baidu, the Google of China that leads in search and has launched a host of other services in the wake of that business. The company today unveiled the first smartphone to be built on its own platform , the Changhong H5018. And while that device is designed on a “forked” version of Android — forked Android devices being very popular in China — Baidu says that it doesn’t want to stop there: the idea is to take its platform, the Baidu Cloud Smart Terminal, to other operating systems like Windows Phone and iOS.

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Nokia’s new 110 and 112 dual-sim phones are cheap and chatty

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Nokia may be serving up polycarbonate slabs of smartphone with one hand, but the other is still dishing out candy bars for the masses. The new 110 and 112 models, announced today, are perfect examples of this. Once again , these phones are dual sim, which should appeal to the Asian / Indian market, and offer money-saving features like cloud-crunching of websites -- which Nokia claims reduces data consumption by up to 90 percent.

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Sharp unleash three new android phone in Japan

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Sharp announced that it will propose three new Android 4.0 phones on KDDI’s network including the : AQUOS PHONE SERIE ISW16SH : Comes with a 1.5GHz single core MSM8660A CPU, 16GB of ROM, microSDXC card, NFC, 4.6” 720p screen, 12.11Mpix Camera, Wi-Fi BGN, DLNA, WiMax… AQUOS PHONE SL IS15SH :
Comes with a 1.4GHz single core MSM8655 CPU, 4GB of ROM, microSDXC card, 3.7” 960

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Samsung Galaxy S III gets permission to enter US, still only with HSPA+

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This is the same European version we've already spent so much time with, just stopping by the FCC to get its wireless paperwork in order. There's no LTE onboard, but the phone would handle HSPA+ on AT&T or just EDGE on T-Mo if it was (now legally) carried into the States

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Do You Remember Your First Mobile Phone? [Past Perfect]

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These were my dumb phones. In fact other than a short-lived Treo (returned!) this is every phone I owned prior to the first iPhone.

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Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D’Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money

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Q&A site Quora has raised $50 million at a $400 million pre-money valuation  according to a report  by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed to me by the founders themselves. We had reported that Quora was raising in this range  back in April and it looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel has beat out many other investors including a much-rumored KPCB to lead the round

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