The Reg Mobile: Web showered in golden iPhone 5S vid glory - but is it all a DISTRACTION? [Tue Sep 3 2013]

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Eggheads turn Motorola feature phone into CITYWIDE GSM jammer
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Nokia drives cars into the clouds: Hear HERE, you're here, hear?
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HTC trio suspected of pilfering design IP
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Apple to accept iPhone trade-ins at US Retail Stores
Don't be seen with that ratty old thing when the GOLD ones come out
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Fandroids blow $200,000 on secret PANIC BUTTON for their smartmobes
Handy if you're being tailed, need to record someone, report a WinPho
sighting etc
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Now your iPhone apps can be FAT losers: Apple gobbles data diet upstart
File too big to decompress? Børk! Børk! Børk!
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Huawei Ascend Mate: The phondleslab for the skint
Good screen, decent performance, nice price
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Finance watchdog: Big fingers + tiny mobe screen + banking = doesn't
end well
I meant to send £100 to 'The Dev', not £1,000 to Silent Kev
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/29/fca_identifies_screen_size_risks_associated_with_mobile_banking_and_payments/

Web showered in golden iPhone 5S vid glory - but is it all a
DISTRACTION?
What's Cupertino really holding back for its 2013 'One more thing...'
moment?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/28/gold_iphone_reveals_its_champaign_glory/

Huawei Ascend P6: Skinny smartphone that's not just bare bones
Android landfill? No, not this time...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/27/review_huawei_ascend_p6/

Apple's Siri 'hurls insults' at Google Glass
Why are you so petty about tech specs, Siri?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/27/siri_making_nasty_cracks_about_google_glass/


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Steelie Neelie accused of killing €0.01-per-megabyte roaming fee cap in
Europe
Fresh plan for Euro telecoms leaked, appears to be stuff missing -
report
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/29/neelie_drops_roaming_caps/


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Intel: Our new mobile chip SoCs it to its predecessor
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real deal
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Three axes data-roaming fees in SEVEN countries
Calls and texts home no more costly than they are in the UK either
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/28/three_slashes_roaming_costs/



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