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Intel’s new ‘Iris’ integrated graphics offer double or triple the performance

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When you’re buying a new computer with performance in mind, integrated graphics are generally not the ones you want. Even though they’ve improved greatly over the years, “Intel HD Graphics” has become synonymous with “doesn’t play things very well,” continually lagging behind dedicated GPUs from the likes of AMD and Nvidia.

Now, Intel hopes to break the cycle and the naming association in one fell swoop. The company claims its new Intel “Iris” Graphics, embedded in upcoming Haswell CPUs, can offer double or triple the performance of the Intel HD Graphics 4000 that comes with current Ivy Bridge processors. That’s significant: typically each generation offers only a double-digit percentage boost.

That doesn’t mean every new Haswell…

Verizon To Offer Nokia Lumia 928 From Next Month, Reports Bloomberg

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Author: Charity Woods

Nokia looks like it’s hoping to turn up the volume of its Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones in the U.S. by signing another carrier to its cause. Bloomberg is reporting that Nokia and Verizon have struck a deal that will see the carrier offer a forthcoming flagship, the Lumia 928, starting from next month. Neither the deal nor the device have been made public by Nokia or Verizon but Bloomberg said two people familiar with the situation have confirmed the impending launch.

Bloomberg’s report follows previous leaks in which the Lumia 928 was spotted in the FCC’s and Verizon’s systems. An apparent image of the handset was also leaked earlier this month. When approached for comment a Nokia spokesman told TechCrunch it does not comment on rumour and speculation.

If the Verizon deal is true, the Lumia 928 will be the first high end Lumia the carrier has ranged (it does already carry the mid-range Nokia Lumia 822). In the U.S. Lumia devices such as the flagship Lumia 920 have been exclusively carried by AT&T to date. Getting another major carrier on board with a flagship is vital for the once Mighty Finn to try to capture more marketshare. Verizon has some 100 million subscribers.

According to Bloomberg’s sources, the Lumia device that will launch on Verizon will have a metal body, a 4.5-inch touch screen, an 8-megapixel camera and wireless charging. Earlier rumours have suggested it will have a polycarbonate body, however, while the internals have generally been expected to remain the same as the Lumia 920.

North America has traditionally been a weak market for Nokia — historically, back in the Symbian days, but also since Nokia’s Windows Phone reboot. But in its Q1 results last week, the region was the only market in which Nokia saw a small increase in sales (up by 9%) compared to last year. Nokia reported selling a total of 5.6 million Lumias globally in the quarter.

Kantar stats we covered earlier this month indicate that Windows Phone as a whole — so not just Nokia devices but also HTC, Samsung etc — has moved up into a distant third place in the US smartphone market, behind the two leaders: Android and iOS, suggesting the platform is slowly building some regional momentum. That momentum may have helped convinced Verizon to take a punt on a Lumia flagship.

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BBC Worldwide to offer first-run TV to Australia through Foxtel in mid-2014

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Author: Jesus Sargent

Australians have long had access to the BBC, although an existing four-channel schedule on Foxtel won’t completely satisfy fans of British TV when it’s just a sliver of the material they understand. BBC Worldwide should be closing some of that (figurative) distance, though, with plans to provide a premium channel with Foxtel’s network. The as-yet-unnamed service will give Aussies a chance at first-run BBC shows about a year before they ‘d broadcast over the air there. and without advertisements. (Respectable for not having a UK TV license.) The BBC material will naturally be offered in HD, in addition to for mobile streaming with Foxtel Go. About the only drawback to the channel beyond its premium nature is the mid-2014 start date, but that could be a small sacrifice for identified Anglophiles and ex-pats.

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Special Offer – Nokia Lumia 900 4G Windows Phone, Cyan (AT&T)

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Author: Jenny Zhao

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MetroPCS board approves Deustche Telekom’s merger offer, urges shareholders to do the same

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Author: Jade Kim

After delaying a ballot on T-Mobile’s final merger bid a few days ago, MetroPCS’ board of supervisors has voiced consentaneous approval and is motivating investors to vote indeed also. Deutsche Telekom’s offer would lower MetroPCS’ debt by $ 3.8 billion in addition to slash the rate of interest on that debt by half a point. These measures should increase both the carrier’s overall value and cash flow– hopefully that will help in developing out LTE more rapidly. For people fearing that T-Mo will deal with buyer’s sorrow, don’t. The offer also specifies that Deutsche Telekom will abstain from selling its shares in the incorporated business for 18 months. It remains to be seen if stock owners will be encouraged enough to vote yes on April 23rd; and so the legend continues.

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Verizon to offer one year payment plans on smartphones costing over $349.99

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Author: Brandon Zimmerman

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In addition to the dour news that Verizon will be strictly enforcing a 24-month upgrade cycle, the company is extending a small olive branch. Customers who want to get a new phone before their contract is up (or, presumably, anytime) will be able to do so without paying the full device cost up front. Instead, Verizon will let consumers sign up for a “Device Payment Plan” that will break up the full retail price into monthly payments over the course of a year. A Verizon spokesperson tells The Verge that smartphones and tablets costing more than $ 349.99 will be eligible, but there’s also a $ 24 “finance charge, billed at $ 2 each month.”

The plan was originally leaked by Droid-Life earlier today, and it’s mainly an extension of a program…

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HP and Samsung offer setup-free printing on the Galaxy S 4, with others to follow

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Author: Mark Jeffries

As ubiquitous as wireless printing has become, there remains the occasional hoop to jump through for printing from mobile devices if you don’t happen to have either a special app or iOS gear that supports AirPrint. HP and Samsung are teaming up to remove many of the headaches for the Galaxy S 4: when the phone launches in April, it should have setup-free WiFi printing to almost 200 HP inkjets and LaserJets, as long as any given printer is either on the same network or is otherwise accessible through direct printing. Don’t expect ubiquitous support, though. Beyond being limited to the one phone, you’ll have to stick to some of its preloaded apps, including the browser, contacts, email client, photo gallery, Polaris Office and S Note. It’s far from a truly universal solution, then, but the two partners are at least promising zero-setup printing on both the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note II through firmware updates coming later in 2013. We’ll take the approach if it saves time snagging an old-fashioned boarding pass or some concert tickets.

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Switched On: Tablets offer a new choice for voice

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Author: Nancy Kennedy

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Changed On, a column about consumer innovation.

The term “phablet” has actually constantly been, at best, a relative descriptor. It pitched in with the launch of the original Galaxy Note even though the voice-enabled Dell Streak had actually beaten that item to market. And while the portmanteau raises the question of whether there is any significant difference between a phone and tablet besides size, all it suggests is “a huge phone.”

Up till just recently, and barring using Bluetooth headsets, the constraints specifying the upper useful limit of a phone included the capability to suit a wallet and be held against the side of an (grownup) head to help with a voice call. At Mobile Globe Congress in Barcelona, 2 companies smashed through a minimum of the first of those requirements. Turning the name of the PadFone, which extended the display of a smartphone to that of a 10-inch tablet by use of a touchscreen shell enclosure, ASUS presented the FonePad.

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How much should I offer for a Motorola Droid?

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A friend of mine got the new Droid X and she is selling her droid. She says she will not sell it for much, and she bought it for the brand-new agreement cost ($ 149.99) so it shouldn’t be even more than that. However the quote is between me and an additional one of her friends. How much should I provide?

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U.K. Phone Retailers Offer Cheaper BlackBerry Z10 Tariffs A Month After Launch — Soft Demand For First BB10 Handset?

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Author: Jade Kim

After taking so long to transition to its next-gen OS platform, the company formerly known as RIM has an awful lot riding on its first BlackBerry 10 handset, the Z10. The handset launched at the end of January in the U.K. and early February in Canada (and is due to make its official U.S. debut this month). Not a great sign, then, that some U.K. phone retailers appear to be cutting the price of Z10 tariffs, a mere month after launch — suggesting demand isn’t as strong as hoped, and that the device isn’t as competitive against the high end of Android and iOS as BlackBerry needs it to be.

Both Carphone Warehouse and Vodafone have slashed tariffs, according to the Telegraph. It also appears that Phones 4u is offering cheaper deals now. BB10 is BlackBerry’s attempt to turn around its sliding smartphone fortunes by offering a device to compete with the likes of the iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy SIII. BlackBerry’s global smartphone marketshare fell to just 3.5 per cent in Q4 2012, according to analyst Gartner, down from 8.8 per cent in Q4 2011, while Samsung and iOS took 52 per cent of all smartphone sales in Q4 2012.

Carphone Warehouse initially priced the BlackBerry Z10 from £36 per month on pay monthly contract, bundling the cost of the handset into that tariff. It is now offering the phone from as little as £29 per month, although that tariff includes a £29 up-front free for the handset. The Telegraph also says Vodafone has introduced a new web-only deal for the Z10, costing £33 per month (this tariff also requires an up-front fee of £129). Phones 4u is also offering the Z10 on a £29 per month contract (again with a £29 charge for the handset), having initially launched the phone on contracts starting at £36 per month. It is also offering even cheaper tariffs, of around £20 per month, but with a much higher up-front fee for the device.

The Telegraph quotes James Faucette, an analyst at Pacific Crest, who said the tariff cuts move the Z10 away from the highest margin segment of the smartphone business. “We believe that meaningful price cuts so soon after launch, while probably at the initial discretion of the carriers, is likely to relegate the Z10 to being a mid-tier device with very low gross margins,” he said.

BlackBerry has been making a lot of noise about Z10 sales but hasn’t backed up its hype with any hard numbers, saying only that demand had exceeded expectation and that the Z10 is selling in “large numbers“. We’ve reached out to BlackBerry, Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4u for comment on the tariff reductions and will update this story with any response.

Asked how sales were going in the Z10′s launch market, the U.K., at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona last week, BlackBerry’s U.K. & Ireland MD Rob Orr also shied away from sharing any numbers, saying he was unable to provide much detail ahead of BlackBerry’s quarterly results.

Early sales in the U.K. have been “very positive”, he told TechCrunch, adding: “I’m in a quiet period so I’ll caveat my statement with the fact that our fiscal year ends on [March 1st] and we publish results on the 28th. Regulated from a quiet period perspective I can’t share too much detail but I’m very pleased with the results, the partners are very pleased with the results. Take a look at some of the feedback on Phones 4u’s site or Vodafone’s site are very positive.

“The feedback from our enterprise customers has been brilliant. Really really good. They love what we’ve done with BES 10, they’re aligned with the approach that we’re taking, they’re cracking on with all their internal trials and their user testing and all the stuff that enterprises do before they do mass rollouts. So I’m really pleased. Couldn’t really have asked more from the support I’ve had in the market.”

Expect to get more concrete details on exactly how positive (or not) the BB10 launch has been when the company announces its fiscal Q4 and fiscal full year results at the end of this month.

While the introduction of cheaper monthly tariffs may not help BlackBerry’s bottom line in the long run, it may help to drive a few more Z10 sales in the short term to help buoy up its results. In the mean time, all the vague, non-quantifiable statements aren’t helping dispel the sense that RIM isn’t yet doing enough to dig itself out of the smartphone doldrums.

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