More Smartphones Shipped In Q1 Than Feature Phones, Samsung Leads

For long time, smartphone makers had been trying to ship more smartphones in a quarter than regular mobile phones. Unfortunately, it always remained a dream until recently. Research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has reported that for the first time, more smartphones have been shipped in the first quarter of this year than regular mobile phones; Korean tech giant Samsung leads the battle.

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Study: Voice Apps Don’t Make Texting While Driving Any Safer

In order to avoid road accidents, for long time drivers have been advised not to text anyone while driving. But almost no one seemed to follow that advice. As people were not able or not interested to restrain themselves from texting while driving, so to keep their eyes focused on road, hands-free texting using voice-operated technology was legalized. Recently a study has found that drivers who use a voice recognition application to compose their text messages are just as distracted as drivers who choose to manually text while driving.

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Galaxy S4 Scores High Marks On Repairability, Says iFixit

Folks at iFixit have a knack of tearing down every new gadget on the market and then discern how repairable it is. While most of Apple’s products have score fairly low when it comes to repairability, Samsung Galaxy S4 is apparently easy to disassemble and repair, earning it a high repairability score.

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WWDC 2013 Tickets Sell Out Within Two Minutes

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is one of the most anticipated tech events of the year. Last year, tickets for the event sold out within two hours of availability. This year, however, the tickets were sold out within two minutes.

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Foxconn May Have To Replace More Than 5 Million Faulty iPhones

Over the years, Apple’s iPhone sales have grown exponentially. This has put a lot of pressure on the likes of Foxconn, which is among the chief manufacturers of the flagship smartphone, affecting the quality of iPhone production. Apple has returned as much as 8 million faulty iPhones to Foxconn to date.

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[Rumor] Front-Facing Camera Module Of iPhone 5S Leaked

We have seen purported images of iPhone 5S before. Besides these photos, lots have of rumors and leakages on iPhone 5S also came out time to time. In continuation of the trend, NowhereElse blog has released purported images of iPhone 5S’ front-facing camera module.

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Facebook May Be The Key Player Behind Billion-Dollar ‘Project Catapult’

A tech giant is currently working on the plan of building a huge billion-dollar data facility in Altoona, Iowa. So far, it is not clear which company is behind this state-of-the-art facility, but multiple hints indicate that Facebook may be behind this data center which is being touted as ‘Project Catapult.’

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