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Apple Worldwide Developer Conference is over. The Cupertino-based tech giant showed off MacBook Pro with Retina display, along with iOS 6 at the show. Apple iPhone 5 eventually will be the first smartphone to feature the highlighted mobile operating system. However, there was no announcement regarding the sixth generation iPhone at the show. Apple made it clear that the highly anticipated smartphone is not coming anytime soon.
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With more than 9 million preorders, Samsung Galaxy S3 has turned out to be the most popular smartphone made ever. Due to heavy demand for the smartphone in European and Asian market, the U.S. release date seems to be in danger after Canada debut of the highly anticipated smartphone has been pushed back by one week.
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Apple was rumored to refresh MacBook Pro lineup of its laptops with Retina display update at WWDC 2012. However, the 15-inch model of MacBook Pro is the only ultrabook manufactured by Apple that received the Retina display update. Now the tech giant is reported to be working on 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, which is scheduled to arrive in October this year.
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Sony Xperia Ion, the first Sony-branded smartphone in U.S., is all set to release on AT&T this month. AT&T will be selling Sony’s LTE-powered high-end smartphone at an affordable price tag of $99.
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Motorola Droid Razr Maxx has surprised us with its sales in the ongoing quarter. If the recent reports are to be believed then Apple iPhone 4S has been outperformed by the Droid Razr Maxx in terms of smartphone sales at Verizon Wireless.
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It is getting common day by day that online retailer mistakenly put the products up for preorders before the device maker announces any official release date. And this time, the same story has happened with Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, which Amazon U.S. by error put on preorders indicating that tablet is coming to market very soon and subsequently took down the product page after a while.
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For the first time, Apple is about to lose the top dog spot at Verizon Wireless as Motorola Droid Razr Maxx has crossed iPhone 4S to become the top selling smartphone at the carrier for second quarter of 2012.
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If you are not preordering Samsung Galaxy S3 just because Apple has filed an injunction to place ban on Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone in U.S., then you no need to fear any longer as District Court has ruled out Apple’s bid to place ban on the smartphone in the country.
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Apple has showed off iOS 6, which will be coming to iOS devices this fall. Apple fanboys will be eagerly waiting for Apple’s new mobile operating system, but not all of the key feature will work on all Apple devices.
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It looks like that S Beam is not the only NFC based feature in Samsung Galaxy S3. The Korean semiconductor giant unveiled on Tuesday programmable NFC sticker tags called TecTiles which let you perform an array of tasks when the device is waved across a TecTiles sticker.
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Despite of being built around its own Android-based operating system, Amazon Kindle Fire has enjoyed comparably higher success than Android tablets. The tablet is, at the moment, available in U.S. alone. However, a new notion is hitting blogosphere today indicating that Kindle Fire is headed to Europe and may release as soon as this summer.
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While Samsung Galaxy S3 was released in UK last month, Samsung fanboys located in U.S. are still waiting to get their hands on the device. And if the latest reports surfacing online are to be believed, then it is coming to AT&T by June 21.
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As expected, a new version of Apple’s mobile operating system was unveiled at the company’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday. The beta version of iOS 6 has been released for developers, while it will be hitting iGadgets no earlier than fall.
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