Happy Saturday, everyone. Are you ready to catch up on all the big stories you missed this week? So without question, the biggest story of the week was this - Samsung’s Galaxy S III was officially announced. But that's not the only thing we covered. Other big stories hit the waves over the past few days, like - Facebook’s IPO has been set at $11.8 billion and Oracle vs Google verdict expected on Monday. Also, after all the excitement about Blackberry 10, existing customers will be disappointed to know that there are no Blackberry 10 upgrade plans for existing phones
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SlashGear Weekly Wrap-Up: May 5, 2012
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Happy Friday, everyone. It's the end of another week, and we've got all the tech stories you need to know before you head into the weekend. We'll start with an update to the phone that made all the headlines this week - Galaxy S III USA carriers leaked. Speaking of leaks, Google might spring one once the Oracle vs Google verdict drops, which is expected to happen on Monday. You know what else might happen by Monday? Yahoo's CEO will be fired, if the company responds to the increased pressure.
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Walmart selling iPhone 4S as low as $114
Select Walmart stores are offering a major discount on the iPhone 4S, perhaps just in time for a nice Mother's Day present. Earlier this morning, Cult of Mac reported that a Walmart location in Edmond, Oklahoma had listed the 16GB iPhone 4S for only $114. The Verge then found that another Walmart location in Austin, Texas was also offering the same deal.
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Nokia Lumia 900 pre-orders begin on AT&T
AT&T has begun pre-orders for the Nokia Lumia 900, which is arriving on April 8 for $100 with a new two-year contract. The Windows Phone will be available only in matte black and cyan at launch, but a white version is expected to follow on April 22. AT&T has promised that the Lumia 900 will be one of its biggest launches ever---a formidable task considering its exclusive iPhone launches in the past.
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Samsung apes Apple with store-in-a-store
Samsung has borrowed a leaf out of Apple's retail guidebook, announcing a deal with UK handset merchants Phones 4u to put a special Samsung-branded store inside its flagship London location. The new concession will open on Friday this week, and offer what's promised to be the largest range of working Samsung demo hardware available to the public. Meanwhile, Samsung and Phones 4u have apparently been coaching staff to levels of Samsung enthusiasm that presumably match Apple retail fervor.
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Best Buy nearly matching Apple in iPhone sales
While Apple stores are immense in popularity, their scope doesn’t reach quite as wide as some other retail outlets. A few years ago, Apple partnered up with Best Buy in order to shift more iPhones. Best Buy host miniature Apple stores wtihin their own retail space, typically in locations Apple feel aren’t financially justifiable. That partnership is definitely paying off, as Best Buy sells almost as many iPhones as Apple.
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Avi Greengart’s Toy Fair 2012
I have attended and spoken at a lot of trade shows over the years – consumer electronics, telephony, computing, broadcasting, database programming, home theater, whatever SXSW is – but I have always wanted to go to Toy Fair. Even the name of it sounds like fun – who doesn’t like toys? This year I finally found an excuse to go, and it wasn’t to see Star Wars toys. (Well, at least it wasn’t the only reason.) At CES this year, there were tons of connected toys – board games that interact with an iPad, children’s educational tablets, and lots of flying things with iPhone controllers. I covered a few of these in my holiday gift guide, but thought that it would be worth attending Toy Fair 2012 and seeing how deeply connectivity really went in the toy industry. What new gadgets would I find? Are vendors embedding 3G and 4G radios into toys, or just WiFi? Toy Fair agreed, and gave me a press pass.
T-Mobile offers new Monthly4G unlimited plans
As the only major US carrier still without the iPhone, T-Mobile gets creative with its plan offerings to stay in the game and entice new customers. Today, the company introduced four new wireless plans that include a Monthly4G unlimited plan as well as three Pay by the Day plans that let customers pay for only the days they intend to use their mobile phones.
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SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – June 26, 2011
New hope for the Nokia and Microsoft partnership came this week with the unveiling of the N9 MeeGo handset and the Windows Phone Mango version of it dubbed the “Sea Ray.” The N950 sports a similar styling but will have a larger screen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and be deemed a developer-only device. All in all, a positive week in developments for Nokia, but not so much for RIM. The BlackBerry maker began layoffs this week and further cut back sales estimates of the PlayBook tablet.
HTC Sensation 4G On Sale Early At Some Walmarts
HTC's new flagship phone, the HTC Sensation 4G, is reportedly going on sale early at some Walmart locations. The phone was recently knocked for having an iPhone-like "death grip" signal strength problem, which the company quickly dismissed as false. If the issue doesn't perturb you and you'd like to grab one early, then be on the look out at your local Walmart.
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Walmart Drops Price on iPhone 4 to $149 in Select Stores
The hard part will be finding one in the store. We were unable to confirm which stores will participate in the price drop or how many were still in stock. Walmart has sold out of the iPhone on-line at $199 in both Black and White. Verizon still has the iPhone 4 at $199 with new 2-year agreement. With the Holidays so far away, we can only guess that this move was based on the mounting rumors about the iPhone 5.
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Barnes & Noble NOOK: Smaller, touchscreen & $139 tag
Barnes & Noble has outed its latest ereader, an all-new B&N NOOK, complete with a touch-enabled display and a 6-inch E Ink Pearl e-paper screen. The new NOOK weighs in at a mere 7.5oz - the third-gen Kindle is 8.5oz in comparison - and the new display apparently has 80-percent less flashing as it refreshes than the dual-display original NOOK.
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