Hasta La Gadget!

This morning you’ll want to head back to our LG Intuition hands-on before we ramp up for our full review later this week – phablet giganticism! A column you may want to peek in on as this week continues with tablets before the massive smartphone storm is Tablets are for fun, Laptops are for work. Then jump in on our hands-on action with Everything Everywhere 4G LTE – brand new and speedy quick!

There’s a lovely strange new little device out there now called the BlueAnt Ribbon for music streaming. The device known as Instacube is ramping up to Facebook photo support – but only if their demands are met on Kickstarter. There’s a whole new YouTube app out there today for iPhone and iPod touch!

Back to Everything Everywhere – aka EE – the Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 will be part of their lineup – with the first confirmed and the second heavily hinted. They’ve also shown 4G LTE roll-out plane and have let it be known that both 4G and Fiber are on the way “in coming weeks.”

Then down the gaming tube you go! Don Reisinger adds a column entitled Is 2014 too late for the PlayStation 4? Those of you planning to play Pokemon Black and White 2 will be glad to see a pre-order bonus in a Genesect – an exclusive catch! Electronic Arts has been tipped to have tried to purchase Valve in the past as well – too late!

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: September 11, 2012 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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Refresh Roundup: week of September 3rd, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The phone that a passel of worldwide lawsuits couldn’t hold back, Samsung’s Galaxy S III, is the company’s most successful yet, as Samsung announced tonight that it’s delivered more than 20 million units in 100 days. That figure puts it at three times the sales rate of the Galaxy S II when it broke 20 million in February, ten months after launch and more than six times the original Galaxy S, which took 17 months. In a rare occasion, Samsung has supplied regional sales figures — revealing six million devices for Europe, 4.5 million in Asia, 4 million in North America and 2.5 million in Korea. According to Samsung’s gleeful press release it’s moving 200,000 units a day — any predictions for where that pace (or sales for its larger cousin, the Galaxy Note II which has its own hard act to follow) will go from here?

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Samsung notches more than 20 million Galaxy S III smartphones sold in 100 days originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Both Apple and Google have reasons to break out the champagne in the wake of ComScore’s latest market share figures. Android is still sitting prettier than ever and just reached a new high of 52.2 percent for US smartphone share as of this past July, no doubt in part through at least a few Galaxy S III sales. Not that Apple is worrying about its US stake just yet, as the iPhone just passed the one-third mark to hit 33.4 percent — it gained share faster than Android in the space of the preceding three months. We don’t have much good news elsewhere, though, as the BlackBerry lost its hold on two-digit market share at the same time as Windows and Symbian continued to cede ground.

As for the overall cellphone space? The familiar pecking order of Samsung, LG, Apple, Motorola and HTC remains intact, although only Apple and HTC gained any traction with their respective 16.3 percent and 6.4 percent slices of the pie. LG has dropped quickly enough that it’s now within Apple’s crosshairs at 18.4 percent. As significant as the shifts can be, we’re most interested in what happens two months down the line, when ComScore can report September share: a certain phone’s launch is likely to skew the numbers, regardless of what HTC and Motorola bring to the table. Just be advised that US market share isn’t everything.

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ComScore: Android tops 52 percent of US smartphone share, iPhone cracks the 33 percent mark originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve barely heard from Orange’s Quick Tap payments system in over a year, but now the UK phone network has decided to dump the underwhelming Tocco Lite and add its mobile payments service to the NFC-capable Galaxy S III. Tying into any British MasterCard, Visa, Debit or credit card, you’ll be able to pay up to £20 from your account without the need for PIN entry. New users on Orange SIM-toting Galaxy S IIIs will also pick up a 50 quid bonus when they activate the feature, which kicks off this Wednesday. Check the press release below for all the details.

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Samsung Galaxy S III gets Quick Tap mobile payments system from Orange and Barclaycard, works with most UK bank accounts originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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