Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders Ended By Future Shop And Best Buy, Caused By “Tremendous” Response
The Samsung Galaxy S III has been on sale in other countries for a couple weeks now and will officially land on Canadian soil on June 20th. It’s widely known that Samsung has had pre-orders top 9 million and the following carriers have already committed to release the 16GB and 32GB Galaxy S III: TELUS, Bell, Rogers, WIND, SaskTel, Mobilicity, Virgin, and Videotron. When the official release date of June 20th was announced both Future Shop and Best Buy announced they too will have the GS III available. Both retailers communicated that those interested in scoring it thought them could pre-order by dropping down $50, in return would received a $20 Gift Card.
MobileSyrup
Love ‘Em Or Hate ‘Em, These Are The Top 5 Features Of iOS 6
iOS 6 is chock-full of new stuff, with over 200 new features. Some are minor, like Mail VIPs which probably should have been implemented a long time ago, and some are pretty intense, like a brand new Maps app complete with 3D rendering. Now, Apple only showed off ten of the new features today, but which ones will go unnoticed (like the ultimately creepy “Find My Friends” app in iOS 5) and which will pick up like a basketball game on a public court?
TechCrunch
HTC One X Users Report iPhone 4-Like ‘Death Grip’ For Wi-Fi
The HTC One X may be one of the spiffiest new Android devices so far this year but some One X users are reporting that design flaws are impeding their ability to connect to Wi-Fi. As Dustin Karnes at Android Guys reports, an Xda-Developers member called bigoliver has found that the One X can potentially have several Wi-Fi related problems that will either adversely affect the device’s battery life or render it totally incapable of connecting to Wi-Fi networks. Bigoliver says One X users can test out their devices to see if it suffers from Wi-Fi problems by “gently [squeezing] the side back of your phone, between the camera lens and the volume buttons.
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Mobile Devices Bring Cloud Storage -- And Security Risks -- To Work
Dropbox made headlines this week when Gawker.com was the first to report that an unnamed hacker broke into Mitt Romney's hotmail account with the same password used for a Dropbox account also associated with the GOP presidential candidate. That followed on the heels of a decision last month by IBM to rollout a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy that bans the use of Dropbox.
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