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My Frustrating Journey To Replace A Bent iPhone

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You’ve read the few stories floating around, you’ve seen our round up of ‘#Bendgate’, and you’ve even watched some fools bend iPhones on YouTube only to dismiss the issue just like I did. It wasn’t until I discovered my own iPhone was bent that I started to believe those YouTube bending fools. It’s not as bent as some iPhone 6 Pluses I have seen mind you, but when placed face down it certainly doesn’t sit flat.

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Report: Best Buy Reaching Limit On Galaxy Note 4 Pre-orders

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courtesy arstechnica

Some early reports from Best Buy stores around the country indicate that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is selling out for all carriers. The Galaxy Note 4 is Samsung’s fourth generation smartphablet. Samsung’s first generation kicked off the smartphablet craze, and even Apple has finally caved in this year offering their iPhone in phablet form (iPhone 6 Plus).

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EU Approves Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp

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Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp has been approved, but don’t expect it to merge with Facebook Messenger.

I still have a hard time getting my head around the fact that lines of code can be worth $19 billion, but EU regulators have approved the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp, the widely used cross-platform messaging app. WhatsApp is a really popular app and currently has over 500 million users. It functions over a data connection, so if you get your friends using it you can stop paying for that painfully overpriced SMS and MMS plan of yours, and, at the root of it, it basically does the same thing as Facebook Messenger.

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Sway: Microsoft’s Easy to Use PowerPoint Alternative

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Today Microsoft released a new application that is designed to help you make a functional, good-looking presentation with a focus on doing it fast. At first you might think, “PowerPoint…?” No, this new app is called Sway. The idea behind this app is that you can almost instantly turn anything you have in writing, pictures, and, well, anything really, into something presentable, pretty much right then and there. The app should be available for iOS soon, followed by Andriod and Windows at a later date.

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UPDATED: New Apple Tool Helps Buyers Of Used iPhones Determine If They’re Stolen

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courtesy tecnoblog.net

With the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus finally on the market people will start getting their used iPhones ready to sell across the internet. From Craigslist, eBay, Swappa and Bookoo you’re going to probably find listing after listing. The tricky part is knowing if these used iPhones are legit or possibly stolen.

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Verizon Grandfathered Unlimited Data Users Will Not Be Throttled

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Verizon has been throwing around the idea of throttling its users who were grandfathered in with an unlimited data plan after a certain amount of data usage. You can imagine this brought forth a storm of protest seeing as people are paying for unlimited and expect unlimited. Even FCC chairman Tom Wheeler commented that Verizon’s choice to throttle these users was “disturbing”.

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