So much for all that talk about the HTC One not making its way onto Verizon Wireless. Big Red has confirmed through their Twitter account that the handset will be available on their 4G LTE network later this summer.

So, HTC fans on Verizon won’t have to force themselves to try “the awesome” HTC Droid DNA. But no other details are available such as whether or not the One will be available as 32GB and 64GB versions or what the device will cost.

But Sense will certainly be there. Sundar Pichai, senior vice-president of Google’s Chrome and Apps division, announced last week that the HTC One Google edition will be available on Google Play starting June 26. But the stock Android handset will only run on GSM networks such as T-Mobile and AT&T.

The HTC One is currently available on AT&T and Sprint, and will be launched on T-Mobile this week. The availability on all the four major US carriers is of course great news for HTC. So who all are imagining themselves playing with the One on Verizon? Or do you have another handset in mind?

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News flash: Apple’s iOS is more locked down than Android … okay, that’s not exactly a secret. This is why something like Facebook Home is not available on any iDevice at the moment. But they did bring deep integration for Facebook and Twitter earlier, and are apparently going to do the same trick once again, this time with Flickr and Vimeo.

According to 9to5Mac, the photo-sharing service and the video sharing site are going to get new connections in Apple’s upcoming iOS 7.

The rumor says iOS 7 users will be allowed to sign into their Flickr and Vimeo accounts through the settings menus, like how you can integrate Facebook and Twitter accounts now. And both the services could be accessed by third party apps. You will be able to upload photos and videos to both the services directly from the iOS Photos app.

The iOS users who have Flickr and Vimeo accounts will certainly benefit from the integration, if it happens that is. It will also be good for both the services as well. Yahoo would certainly welcome more traffic to Flickr, which has just been updated in a major way.

But the inclusion of Vimeo is a surprise, as the site is mainly for short films and high-quality videos. Videos shot in a smartphone end up most of the time on YouTube. But, Apple’s OS X is integrated with both Flickr and Vimeo, so the new rumor can’t be pushed aside that easily.

We will keep you updated about iOS 7, so stay tuned to Mobilemag.

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The Facebook Home app hasn’t had a solid start, but Zuckerberg and his team certainly scored by being the first social network to take over Android handsets. Twitter, on the other hand, seems focused on Google’s promise for the future, the search giant’s Glass.

Earlier, a twitter user by name of Shivster Muddler tweeted a picture (posted below) of a lemon tree. The message, which has been uploaded via “Twitter for Glass”, said “just shared a photo #throughglass”.

This guy could have been testing a new Twitter app for Google Glass. Of course this could have been made up, though it’s not nonsense to believe that the app is in the works especially since venture capitalist John Doerr hinted earlier that Twitter is working on one.

So we might see a new Twitter app for Google’s high tech specs, which may or may not be the next big thing. What other apps would you like to see on the Glass when it reaches your hands? Wanna play Angry Birds with you pupil? Hopefully, the device will allow you to do more than just launching the apps.

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The in-store release of the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S4 has been delayed by both Sprint and T-Mobile. AT&T appears to be capitalizing on this and have made an announcement via their Twitter account that the AT&T S4 smartphones will arrive in-store on the earlier announced date with no delay.

The handset will be in-stock on April 27^th. This of course is not a surprise since the AT&T Galaxy S4s are already in the hands of those who pre-ordered the device. It will be interesting to see how the carrier performs this quarter with this early availability advantage.

As for the other carriers, Sprint has moved in-store availability of their S4 from April 27th to an undetermined date. While T-Mobile’s S4, which was originally planned to be made available on May 1^st, will only be available in “select stores” starting May 8 and in “all stores” on May 15, according to the carrier’s Twitter announcement.

But the Verizon version will arrive only on May 30^th. They might be focussed on another device at the moment.

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Rumors and leaks about the Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon have been flying around for a while now. Now we might finally have leaked images showing us exactly what the 928 looks like.

The leaked press shots, which come to us courtesy of @evleaks on Twitter, allow us to take a peek at both the black and white versions of the 928. This probably is what’s heading to the Big Red as this Twitter account holder has a reasonably solid track record of leaking press shots of unannounced devices (though even he gets things wrong from time to time).

Looking at the images, the 928 features a PureView camera with Carl Zeiss optics and both a xenon and LED flash. It also appears to have an upgraded speaker and is compatible with 4G LTE.

The device is expected to be a bit lighter and thinner than the 920, but it still looks quite bulky. As for the specs of the device, most likely it’s coming with a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB RAM and 32GB storage. That might appear to be primitive by modern standards, but Windows Phone 8 is lighter than Android and does not need the best available specs to run smoothly.

We have heard reports that the 928 will be announced on April 25^th. We will let you know as soon as we get more info, so stay tuned to Mobilemag.

Are you looking forward to getting the Verizon Lumia 928?

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Twitter released their new music discovery app, Twitter #music today, currently only for iDevices. In a world crowded with all kinds of music services how does this new one from Twitter stand out? Well, let’s take a look.

As you already know, there are many other services out there such as Pandora (great for instant playlists and background music), Spotify (to hear something specific), and iTunes and Rdio and Xbox Music and many more. The new Twitter #music puts more fun into music discovery and offers a good looking user interface.

Launch the app and log in with your Twitter account, you can check out accounts of artists you follow. The app presents four categories: Popular for the most viewed songs, Emerging for not so popular artists, Suggested showing musicians recommended specifically for you by Twitter, and there’s also #NowPlaying for checking out songs shared by the people you follow.

The songs are arranged in a grid showing album covers and just tap on an artist to listen to a sample of their music via iTunes. You will need to connect with Spotify or Rdio if you want to listen to the full song. If you want to purchase the song all you have to do is tap the iTunes button. As you will see in the video below, the whole experience is pretty smooth.

The app is certainly very easy to use and it doesn’t overwhelm you with stuff. It just brings to you tracks the people being followed by you have tweeted, and just one song per artist.

Is it perfect? Not exactly, though it is a solid first effort. They can surely improve some things on the new app such as the search function which won’t allow you to search for songs. It’s just for artist profiles.

Check out the video below and Twitter #music is available here on the App Store. An Android version is expected to be available sometime in the not-too-distant future as well.

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Tumblr has passed a big milestone but it appears like they are not too excited about it as there haven’t been any big celebrations so far. Tumblr is now home to over 100 million user blogs with over 44.6 billion posts. Those are certainly pretty good numbers since the number of blogs and posts have more than doubled in just a year.

In April last year, Tumblr flew past 50 million blogs, a mark which they took five years to reach. From there they have taken just a single year to repeat the feat, and 6 million of those were created this month alone. According to Tumblr’s about page, at the time of writing this there have been 80,231,645 posts to the site just today.

So, although Facebook and Twitter are still going on strong, Tumblr has managed to pull in a really nice audience. But will they be able to turn this growth into real money? These numbers will mean nothing if they can’t find a way to successfully monetize from the impressive growth.

What do you think about Tumblr? Are you one among the 100 million?

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The world of social networking is crowded and when we say crowded we do not mean the millions of people using social networking sites, we refer to the websites. As you can see in this list, it’s not just Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, but many more. One that is becoming popular lately is Pheed, which was launched late last year and last month topped the App Store’s social networking category.

Pheed allows its users to post text updates, photos, video and audio clips, and you can even create a live broadcast. So it’s Facebook + Twitter + Instagram + YouTube + UStream.

According to the company, 81% of Pheed users are between the age 14 and 25. This popularity among teens is most probably because Pheed got a lot of publicity on Twitter via many influential teenagers including Acacia Brinley, Pia Mia, and Garrett Backstorm.

One other attractive feature on Pheed is that it allows users to charge $1.99 to $34.99 for accessing their ‘channels’, one can choose either pay-per-view or a monthly subscription. Many celebrities including Miley Cyrus and Paris Hilton are currently on Pheed with thousands of subscribers. But the question is whether users will subscribe to a celeb if they have to pay, since they can follow him/her on Twitter for free.

Pheed is both a website and an app. It’s available via the App Store and online. So, are you already using it or not?

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Unfortunately, that wasn’t before the hacker(s) managed to have possibly gained access to usernames, passwords, email and session data from as many as 250,000 users.

If Twitter believes you were in any way affected by the attack, you will soon be receiving an email from Twitter that will have you reset your account to a new password. Twitter also reminds its users to use strong password practices for Twitter and all accounts on online for that matter.

Twitter concludes their statement about the attack saying it was “not the work of amateurs” and was ‘extremely sophisticated”.

Bottom-line, you might want to check your email for a notice from Twitter to verify you weren’t affected. While you are at it, change your password to something stronger if you currently feel that what is in place might be easy prey.

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We live in a highly social, Internet-connected world. That’s why when major services like Twitter go down, many people take notice instantly– and are often more than a little upset. Especially when such outages have occurred twice in a single month.

Earlier today Twitter when don’t for many users, including those that tried to use Twitter.com or even a 3rd party mobile application. Beyond just Twitter itself, the outage also apparently affected their new “Vine” video sharing service as well.

Twitter posted this status earlier, Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.”

Fast-forwarding a bit, most users are finding that Twitter is back up and running, but that’s not the case for everyone. Personally I’m finding that everything is working for me as it should, but many users on the net are still reporting service issues.

What about you, is Twitter back up and running? Additionally, how do you feel about the outage? Is it just to be expected that such a huge service like Twitter will sometimes have these kinds of issues or should they be doing more to ensure that service is continuous without issue?

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