20

May

2013

Jolla smartphone with Sailfish OS now available to pre-order

Author: The Fonecast

Finnish smartphone company Jolla has started taking pre-orders of its first device.

Its phone, which runs the Sailfish OS and has a 4.5-inch display, is currently priced at €399 (£337) plus shipping. Full details aren’t known but it’ll run a dual-core chip and will support 4G.

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20

May

2013

Last week at The Fonecast: 20th May 2013

New products from BlackBerry, Google, HP and Nokia

Author: The Fonecast

Mark Bridge writes:

Last year, the Google I/O developer conference gave us plenty of product announcements: Google Glass, the Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus Q device and the Jelly Bean version of Android. This year’s announcements were less dramatic: a streaming music service, a Google-friendlier Galaxy S4 and some game development tools. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) Apple announced its 50 billionth app download in the middle of the event.

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May

2013

HP announces a convertible Android tablet

Author: The Fonecast

HP has announced a new Android device with a detachable keypad, enabling it to transform between notebook and tablet.

It’s called the HP SlateBook x2 and was revealed alongside a convertible Windows-based computer.

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16

May

2013

50 billion apps downloaded from the Apple App Store

Author: The Fonecast

Customers have downloaded more than 50 billion apps from the Apple App Store since the service launched in July 2008, according to a new announcement from the company.

Current download rates have reached 2 billion mobile apps per month… or more than 800 apps every second.

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16

May

2013

Google launches streaming music service in the USA

Author: The Fonecast

Google has used its annual Google I/O developer conference to reveal a new streaming music subscription service called Google Play Music All Access.

At the moment it’s just available in the USA and will cost $9.99 per month, although early adopters receive a $2 discount. Customers can store up to 20,000 of their own songs and listen to them alongside millions of online tracks.

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