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Box.com offering 50GB free storage for new users Posted: 10 Feb 2013 10:51 AM PST As more and more of us start to truly embrace our mobile devices, it’s only natural that we begin to really take advantage different means to save the different pieces of content on our devices. That’s why online storage solution Box.com is offering a sweet deal for new users. While this special 50GB of free storage offer is listed as a “Dell Exclusive Offer” exclusive, it appears that anyone and everyone can take advantage of this sweet, sweet deal— so you don’t need to necessarily own a Dell computer or be a Dell employee to enjoy this awesome offer. The cool thing about this offer is that Box.com generally offers a pretty solid 5GB of free storage for new users, so it’s pretty cool that its 50GB promotion is ready to be taken advantage of by new prospective users. There’s no word on how long this promotion will last, but we’re pretty sure that you’ll want to head on down to the source link and take advantage of this awesome opportunity as soon as possible. source: Box.com Come comment on this article: Box.com offering 50GB free storage for new users Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!

Verizon rates apps for “overall experience” on user devices Posted: 10 Feb 2013 10:37 AM PST Verizon is hoping to add some value for its customers by helping them rate the value of the apps they run on their smartphones. Rather than rating apps based on things like graphics or usability for a certain task, Verizon is looking at qualities that may affect the overall ownership experience. Major areas that are assessed include battery drain and data usage along with some other factors. Verizon makes a couple lists available, one that assesses top Google Play apps and another that highlights apps they find especially worrisome. In looking at the most popular apps, in terms of downloads during the preceding 30 day period, Verizon ranks each app on security, battery consumption and data usage. The apps are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 represented by circles with more circles being better. If an app has a lower number of circles, users can click through to see details of the app on each of the three factors. Verizon maintains a separate list of apps that they think may be particularly negative on the ownership experience. Some of the factors that could result in an app making this list include things like heavy battery usage, or excessively high data consumption, privacy or security issues, or apps that cause a loss of other functions when in use. All of the apps that made this list have one thing in common – they prevent smartphones from going into sleep mode, resulting in fast battery drains. A couple of the apps continue to use data even when idle which could result in unexpected data usage levels, particularly important for those users not on an unlimited data plan. Even if you are not a Verizon customer, you may find the lists useful in assessing apps and whether you really want to install and use them. Hit the source links to see the full lists. source: Verizon App Reviews, Verizon High Risk Apps via: Gigaom Come comment on this article: Verizon rates apps for “overall experience” on user devices Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!

Solavei and Ready SIM promise to offer LTE for customers as soon as T-Mobile launches their LTE network Posted: 10 Feb 2013 10:19 AM PST Solavei and Ready SIM, MNVO’s who operate off of T-Mobile’s network, have announced that they want to offer LTE speeds for their customers as soon as T-Mobile’s LTE networks are ready. The problem for the companies like Solavei and Ready SIM is that if T-Mobile doesn’t want to let them use their LTE network, they simply can’t do it. There are very few prepaid services that are able to offer LTE yet, as it’s a great draw for consumers to stick with postpaid plans. We can hope T-Mobile would be willing to share that LTE, but we’ll just have to wait and see by the end of the year, when T-Mobile is expected to have completed a large chunk of their LTE rollout to cover 200 million people, despite getting off to a slow start. source: Fierce Wireless Come comment on this article: Solavei and Ready SIM promise to offer LTE for customers as soon as T-Mobile launches their LTE network Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!

New Data Suggests That There Will Be More Mobile Devices Than People Soon… Very Soon Posted: 09 Feb 2013 05:31 PM PST We know that more and more people are using devices, but a new report suggests that mobile devices will eventually outnumber the world’s population by the end of 2013. According to a report by Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, not only has society’s demand for mobile devices grown– but the number of connected devices and mobile data usage is growing at a record pace as well. A major example is the increase in usage for mobile tablets: the number of tablets being used grew 2.5x to 36 million and generated 2.4x more mobile traffic than the average smartphone did. So all-in-all it appears that we have not only embraced mobile device usage, but it’s growing faster than we could have ever imagined. Hit the source link for additional details. source: Mashable Come comment on this article: New Data Suggests That There Will Be More Mobile Devices Than People Soon… Very Soon Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!

Hangout with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn for The Internship trailer debut Posted: 09 Feb 2013 03:21 PM PST   Celebrities Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn will be hanging out Google style with fans on February 13th, 2013 at 11 am pacific standard time (PST). The hilarious duo will be a part of a Google+ hangout session to debut the trailer for the pair’s new movie “The Internship”. If you’re not familiar with “The Internship,” it’s a comedy where both Wilson and Vaughn play Google interns. They had great chemisty in “Wedding Crashers,” so this one should be a blast. Oh, and in case we forgot to mention this little detail, this event will be hosted by none other than Conan O’Brien. Don’t miss your chance to hangout with Wilson, Vaughn and Conan on February 13th. Check out the teaser video after the break. Click here to view the embedded video. Source: Twitter Come comment on this article: Hangout with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn for The Internship trailer debut Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!

HTC One (aka M7) test photo shows up on Flickr Posted: 09 Feb 2013 12:23 PM PST HTC has been the focus of a ton of rumors lately specifically related to their next rumored flagship phone, the HTC M7. It has been recently suggested that the name M7 will not be the official name given at the launch of the device but rather is a codename as is common with manufacturers and their products. The official name has been rumored to be the HTC One following in line with the slew of devices already available including the HTC’s current flagship phone the HTC One X. A new image has shown up on Flickr with details suggesting that it has been taken with the anticipated smartphone, and as you can see in the EXIF data, it’s called the HTC One, which supports yesterday’s rumor. Also, the image was uploaded at a maximum resolution of 1158 x 2048 which could mean several things. It could be that the image was cropped, re-sized or even evidence of the rumored “ultrapixel” technology set to debut along with the device as one of its key features. With the One, M7 or whatever it is to be called, HTC has sparked quite a buzz for themselves and this image might just showcase one more key feature to look forward to on February 19th. Source: Flickr Via: Pocketnow