The 84-inch Toshiba L9450 Ultra HD TV. Aloysius Low/CNET Toshiba will soon be selling its Ultra HD L9450 range in Singapore and the rest of Asia starting at the end of the month. The 4K TV can run Android 4.4.4 (though not upgradable to the Android 5.0), and comes in 50-, 65- and 84-inch sizes. …
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Lenovo already already has its own smartphones (such as the S850 seen above), but the company is forming a new subsidiary to focus on smart devices. Andrew Hoyle/CNET It appears Lenovo wants in on the lucrative online sales action that Xiaomi’s been enjoying so far. The Chinese tech company known globally for its notebooks will be setting up a new …
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Opera Here’s one more reason why the Samsung’s Galaxy Gear S will keep you looking at your wrist — the Opera Mini web browser will be available for download from the Gear Apps store. According to Opera, the Mini is the first web browser for the Samsung smartwatch based on the Tizen platform. Opera Mini will have finger-friendly controls that …
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The Sony Xperia Z3 Andrew Hoyle/CNET Having made its debut earlier this month at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin, Sony’s Xperia Z3 , Z3 Compact , Z3 Tablet Compact , Xperia E3 , SmartBand Talk and SmartWatch 3 have turned up in Singapore for a regional press event. The good news is that the aforementioned devices will be available Singapore, …
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The Spice Android One Dream UNO is one of the first three Android One devices. Spice Google has just unveiled the three new smartphones based on the previously announced Android One initiative at an event in New Delhi, India. Android One was the company’s solution to cut down development time for low-cost handsets and was announced back in June at …
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Andrew Hoyle/CNET The Sony Xperia Z3 Despite competitors like LG and Samsung announcing smartphones with 2K (“quad HD”) displays (2,560×1,440 pixels), Sony is sticking to its guns with its flagship Xperia Z3 , which has just a full HD display (1,920×1,080pixels). Calum MacDougall, Sony’s director of Xperia marketing, said in an interview that the company doesn’t “believe the trade-off between …
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Redmi 1S Xiaomi By any other measure, Xiaomi’s latest flash sale in India would have been a roaring success. The up and coming Chinese smartphone maker just announced that it sold out all 40,000 units of its new Redmi 1S Android phone. But the sale was over in just seconds, and that appears to have left some of its Indian …
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Aloysius Low/CNET If there was one thing lacking in the Asus ZenFone 5 , it was LTE. Now the Taiwanese company has remedied that with a new version of the phone. The latest model of the 5-inch Android device drops the Intel chipset for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 and gains 4G connectivity as a result. LTE comes at the cost of …
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LG LG’s accidentally leaked G3 Stylus will make its official appearance at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin next week, and the announcement timing is anything but coincidental. The Korean manufacturer’s main rival, Samsung, will be launching its next iteration of the popular Galaxy Note phablet at the show, and LG is perhaps looking to steal some of the stylus-shaped limelight. …
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Concept art of the next iPhone. Sina News Correction at 8 a.m. PT August 25: The image used in China Telecom’s Weibo post is concept art — as pointed out by CNET readers. Call it a big oops moment followed by a bigger oops moment. Last week, it seemed that the next iPhone and an official tagline — “Even Better” …
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