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Daniel Bader

Daniel Bader has written 1135 posts for MobileSyrup.com
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Pebble blue Samsung Galaxy S III reportedly delayed due to manufacturing issue, shipments to resume in mid-June

There are independent reports from multiple sources today that the Galaxy S III will only launch in marble white on May 29th, as the pebble blue model has been suffering from an unspecified manufacturing issue. According to several Samsung representatives who don’t want to be named, the company has destroyed upwards of 600,000 pebble blue [...]

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Details leak of Nexus tablet: quad-core Tegra 3 for under $200, launching at Google I/O, on sale in July

Some interesting rumours of the Nexus tablet have come to light after TechnoBuffalo received word from a trusted source that the slate will launch during Google I/O next month. The information seems to confirm that the tablet will be manufactured by Asus and will sport a quad-core Tegra 3 chip and a 7-inch screen of [...]

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Apple begins “App of the Week” promotion, Cut the Rope: Experiments is up first

Apple is not known for giving things away for free, but there have been glimpses over the years of its kinder, consumer-friendly side. In the past they’ve handed out promo cards for free apps at participating Starbucks locations, and have made available free songs from popular artists. Now they are now doing an “App of [...]

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Facebook looking to purchase Opera Software and release its own branded browser?

According to sources at Pocket-lint, Facebook is looking to purchase Norwegian browser makers Opera Software for an undisclosed (but likely sizeable) sum. The appeal is obvious: as Facebook moves to expand its presence not just on its main site, but across the entire internet, Opera would be a relatively easy and powerful gateway to embedding [...]

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Google snatches up core members of webOS framework team

It appears that a few important members of the now-open-source webOS team are moving over to Google from HP. Despite announcing in January that webOS would be open-sourced and bits of pieces of the Enyo framework would be released between then and a final September unveiling, the unnamed members of the team have likely decided [...]

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Absinthe 2.0 untethered jailbreak now available for iOS 5.1.1

They promised it was coming and it’s here! The first untethered jailbreak for the new iPad, plus any other iOS device running 5.1.1, has been made available under the name Absinthe 2.0. It works very similar to the last one-click app, and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. pod2g, the main exploit finder [...]

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Nvidia’s Icera LTE baseband nears market as company boasts 30 Tegra 3 devices for 2012

Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 chipset is doing quite well, if comments made by the company general manager are to be believed. During an investors’ conference today, Mike Rayfield claimed that 30 smartphones will be released in 2012 running Nvidia’s latest silicon, and that some of them will ship with its Icera-based i410 LTE baseband. At [...]

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Dell’s first Windows 8 tablet specs leak, Atom chip and 2GB RAM in tow

The Windows 8 tablet market is something we haven’t really touched on since the hardware isn’t there yet to be considered “mobile,” but reference designs are coming fast and furious. The specs for Dell’s first Windows 8 tablet, the Latitude 10, have been leaked and, like most of its contemporaries, it will run an x86-based Intel [...]

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Facebook launches Camera for iOS with filters and batch uploads, Instagram looks confused

Facebook has launched a Camera app for iOS that allows users to see photos and albums as well as upload pictures in bulk, with the option of added Instagram-like filters. If this all sounds very confusing, it should: the team began work on the app months ago, before the $1 billion Instagram purchase was even [...]

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Because We May sale heavily discounts many of your favourite Android and iOS games

Google, like Apple, Microsoft and RIM, takes a portion of each app sold from its growing Play Store. In Google’s case it is 30% off the top, a sizeable portion of revenue from an already-tough market. But the Play Store is not the only way of distributing and promoting apps and games. Because We May [...]