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Motorola has sent out invitations to an event on September 4, where the company is expected to launch four new products. The Verge shared a copy of the invite sent by the company for an event to be held in Chicago. The invite to "a Moto Launch Experience" includes a cootie catcher that opens up to reveal the phrases "Choose To Discover" and "Choose to Have Fun." When the cootie catcher closes, the report notes, there are four icons: A phone with an X in the middle, a phone with a G, a watch, and what appears to be a Bluetooth headset. This seems to be a hint from the company that we will likely see four new products at the September 4 event. While there is no official word from Motorola, the two smartphones are widely expected to be successors to the popular Moto X and Moto G - rumored to be called the Moto X+1 and Moto G2 respectively - while the watch is almost certainly the Moto 360 smartwatch. The identity of the Bluetooth headset is a bit of a myst...

Galaxy S6 Release Date and Rumors: Will Samsung’s Upcoming Flagship Phone be Made of All Metal? By Larry Ong, Epoch Times | August 15, 2014 Last Updated: August 16, 2014 1:31 pm An employee shows Samsung's Galaxy S5 smartphone at a mobile phone shop in Seoul, South Korea, in this March 27, 2014 file photo. Samsung Electronics will add two safeguards to its latest smartphone in an effort to deter rampant theft of the mobile devices nationwide, the company said Friday April 4, 2014. The world's largest mobile-phone maker said users will be able to activate for free its An employee shows Samsung's Galaxy S5 smartphone at a mobile phone shop in Seoul, South Korea, in this March 27, 2014 file photo. Samsung Electronics will add two safeguards to its latest smartphone in an effort to deter rampant theft of the mobile devices nationwide, the company said Friday April 4, 2014. The world's largest mobile-phone maker said users will be able to activate for free its "Find...

iPhone 6 rumours have been floating around the web since just days after the launch of the iPhone 5s, but with just weeks to go until the expected iPhone 6 release date, speculation is hotting up and evidence is mounting. We've been assessing all the iPhone 6 rumours as they come in, and have collected the best in this iPhone 6 rumour round-up so you don't have to. When will the iPhone 6 come out? Will it be joined by an iPhone Air? We answer all that and more here, so read on to find out about the latest iPhone 6 release date rumours, plus clues about the new iPhone's specs and features and convincing leaked images. We've got five juicy pages worth of iPhone 6 rumours here for you to delve into. Each page is overflowing with speculation, rumours, images and evidence that help paint a picture of what we can expect from Apple's next iPhone. If there's something in particular you're looking for, you can follow the links below to be transported to the relevant...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined a dramatic future for the mobile web this afternoon at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Facebook will partner with between three and five major wireless carriers to provide free, basic mobile phone access to everyone on the planet - with the emphasis on developing countries. Only about 1 billion of the Earth's 7 billion people have mobile phones currently. But 80% of the rest of the population lives within areas covered by 2G or 3G mobile web access, Zuckerberg said. The problem is that those people, who have never accessed the web, don't know why it might be useful to them. And they also can't afford the hundreds or thousands of dollars a year it costs in the U.S. and Europe to maintain a phone and its data plan. But they might have a dollar or two to pay for basic access to messages and Facebook. So Facebook wants invest, with a set of wireless carriers, in basic phone access for everyone. The effort is part of his vision for I...