6 Apps That Must Disappear from iOS 8

As the years pass, iOS customers are finding that more and more of the stock apps bundled with their Apple smartphone or tablet are becoming useless. Some of them were useless right from the start, yet the company has been very reluctant to pluck them out. Apple prides itself on not shipping phones with bloatware, this being one of the reasons why the company’s advertised storage capacity is among the closest to reality from all smartphone vendors out there (if not the closest). But the OS itself still takes a great deal of space on the phone, and for those who are buying the 8GB iPhone 5c, for example, every megabyte starts to count. Which is why Tim Cook & Co. would be doing themselves a huge favor by handpicking some apps for...

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Premium Galaxy S5 Leaks in Live Pictures, Shows Same Design in Aluminum Body

Not a day goes by without another rumors surfacing about the unannounced premium version of Samsung Galaxy S5. The smartphone many are convinced Samsung should have launched first is nowhere to be seen yet, but sources close to the matter claim the South Korean company is very close to make it official. Now it looks like Phonearena received the first images of the so-called premium Galaxy S5 from a loyal reader, so given the anonymous source we recommend our readers to take it with a grain of salt until more sources come up with additional photos. At first glance, the premium verison of Galaxy S5 looks exactly like the standard model, but the back cover and the frame seem to be made of aluminum. The loudspeaker has been moved from...

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Xiaomi’s MiPad Tablet Gets Massive Score in New Benchmark Results

Earlier this week, Xiaomi introduced what seems to be the most blatant iPad mini clone we have seen so far, the MiPad. The tablet has obviously borrowed designed cues from the iPhone 5c too, with its plastic back and colorful paint jobs. Nevertheless, putting that aside, the tablet comes with an intriguing set of specifications, including a Retina-like display resolution (2048 x 1536 pixels) and a NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC under the hood fit, which is a quad core Cortex A15 clocked at 2.2GHz fitted with 192 graphical cores. The slate also has 2GB of RAM included plus 128GB of internal storage. Xiaomi provided a few benchmark scores when the tablet was launched a few days ago, so we could get an idea regarding the tablet’s performance compared...

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