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  • Niantic will hold AR photo contest for Pokemon Go

    With AR all the rage this year, Niantic – the developers of the popular location-based game Pokemon Go is holding an AR photo contest. The contest is open to any person “at least the age of majority in your country, state, province, or jurisdiction of residence”. Which presumably means you must be 18 to enter…

  • iOS 11 is already on 47% of Apple mobile devices, overtaking iOS 10

    iOS 11 was released a little over three weeks ago, and now it’s already managed to overtake its predecessor as the most used version on Apple’s mobile devices. According to analytics company Mixpanel, iOS 11 now has 47% market share, compared to 46% for iOS 10. To achieve such a feat this fast is undoubtedly…

  • Alleged Razer phone appears on GFXBench leaking its specs

    Just yesterday, Razer posted a teaser on Twitter about an event that it would be holding on November 1 where it will allegedly be announcing its first smartphone. The company acquired small startup smartphone maker, Nextbit, back in January and the upcoming event will reveal what a gaming company can do with a smartphone form…

  • Sony Xperia Touch lands in the US, priced at $1,699.99

    Sony’s Xperia Touch went on sale in Europe back in June, for the pretty insane price of £1,299.99 or €1,499.99 (depending on where you purchased from). Now it’s finally made the big journey across the big pond and arrived in the US. You can buy an Xperia Touch from Amazon, the Sony Square display room…

  • Samsung Galaxy S8 Active may be heading to T-Mobile

    AT&T has had an exclusivity deal to offer a ruggedized variant of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone since the Galaxy S4 Active. In fact, Sprint did offer a “Sport” branded Galaxy S5, but it was a watered down version of the “Active” (if that makes any sense). Anyway, Evan Blass of Venture Beat tweeted a…

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