Although Sprint has been the wireless world’s whipping boy for years, the carrier has been showing some signs of competitiveness in recent months and this week it’s announcing its boldest move yet. Per Re/code, Sprint this week will start offering a new pricing scheme “that it claims will halve the bills of customers who defect from AT&T and Verizon in the latest salvo of an increasingly bitter price war.”
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Big companies like Apple spend millions of dollars on smartphone designs. Research and development costs add up fast, and countless man-hours are devoted to perfecting every internal component, every material and every curve of a handset’s housing. People buy these modern marvels for hundreds of dollars and fawn over their sleek lines and smooth curves, openly adoring them online and in person with friends.
Then, they cover these amazing smartphones with $2 worth of atrocious, glossy hard plastic.
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Android 5.0 Lollipop might be the biggest overhaul Android has ever received and giving it a proper review requires a lot of time and a lot of words. The good news for Android fans is that AnandTech has done just that and has posted the most through breakdown of everything new we’ve seen in Android so far.
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Apple is interested in equipping future iPhone models with extra durable sapphire glass covers that can better protect the screens from accidental drops, In fact, Apple was rumored to use such sapphire displays on the iPhone 6 models, though significant production issues prevented the company from achieving this goal. However, Apple is also devising other means of protecting the displays on future iPhone models, as shown in a newly awarded patent.
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When it comes to deals on HDTVs, tablets and other gadgets, there’s no question that Best Buy has been one of the top retailers this holiday shopping season. The nationwide retailer had a killer Black Friday sale and it followed it up with a big Cyber Monday sale, but the deals aren’t over just yet.
The two biggest shopping days of the holiday season might be behind us, but Best Buy on Tuesday kicked off five days of deals for Cyber Week 2014, and we have everything you need to know right here.
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Apple in December will have to defend against decade-old iPod antitrust allegations in the third major antitrust case since Steve Jobs died, The New York Times reports, with Apple’s co-founder and iconic leader expected to play a major role in the lawsuit. Interestingly, however, he will be used as a witness against Apple.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday might be behind us, but there are still plenty of opportunities left to enjoy huge savings on HDTVs, other electronics, clothing, jewelry and just about anything else you can think of, thanks to ongoing Cyber Week sales. Online retailers do everything they can to show consumers that they can offer bigger savings than their brick and mortar-only rivals, and the week-long sales shoppers can take advantage of during Cyber Week 2014 are yet another example of that push.
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After a report late last week revealed more details about Apple’s upcoming 12.2-inch “iPad Air Plus,” including schematics for the rumored tablet, YouTube channel Canoopsy posted a comparison video showing Apple’s current iOS devices, including iPhones and iPad models, and MacBooks next to a mockup of a 12.2-inch iPad Air Plus, also referred to as the “iPad Pro,” based on last week’s schematics.
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Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone is already a hotly anticipated device for next year — at least by those smartphone users who’d like to be able to take smartphone customization to a whole new level — but the device won’t be the only handset with such abilities.
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A new advanced phishing scheme going after a specific type of target has been discovered by security firm FireEye, which detailed the cyber attack in a new report. Specifically, a highly educated group going by the name of FIN4 has been discovered to target certain Wall Street companies, looking to obtain sensitive information about certain companies, transactions, and special deals, in order to later make use of it for financial gain.
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