If you’re desperate to pack ultimate power into your pockets, but don’t want to change out of your jeggings, the Huawei Ascend P1S will help you out by packing a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and Android Ice Cream Sandwich into a ridiculously thin body. Huawei has typically aimed its phones — such as …
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Fujitsu F07D and F01D flaunt waterproof skills in video
Now playing: Watch this: Fujitsu waterproof phone and tablet hands-on 1:10 Here at CES in Las Vegas we often find ourselves drenched in champagne poured by local beauty queens. Fujitsu came prepared for just such a soaking with the F07D smart phone and F01D tablet — two Android devices with waterproof skills. The F07D phone, while not exactly creatively named, …
Read More »Best TVs of CES
The Consumer Electronics Show in sparkling Las Vegas is full of the latest, shiniest technology and we’re there checking it all out. While there are heaps of new gadgets flying around, the new TVs have been causing quite a stir. We take you through some of our favourites of the show so far. Organic light-emitting diode technology — or OLED …
Read More »Asus Transformer Prime delays, updated model explained
The Asus Transformer Prime may have only officially gone on sale yesterday, but it’s already creating quite an uproar, with shipping delays and the announcement of a revised model irking those of you who have just shelled out for one. The Transformer Prime officially went on sale on Thursday 12 January and many customers were expecting to immediately kick back …
Read More »Best mobile phones of CES
The Consumer Electronics Show — that’s CES to you — is in full flow now in the wonderful Las Vegas. We’ve already had our heads blown off by a raft of new gadgets. Here we take a look through our favourite mobile phones of the show so far. The Sony Xperia S was one of the earliest to catch our …
Read More »Samsung inTouch brings Android
Sick of your boring old, non-Android TV? We bet you are. Luckily for you, Samsung has developed inTouch, a TV webcam that brings Skype video-calling and other Androidy goodness to your existing TV. inTouch may look identical to Microsoft’s Kinect system for the Xbox 360, but rather than make you look daft by waving your arms around, inTouch acts primarily …
Read More »Lenovo K91 is first Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Lenovo may be best known for its humble laptops, but it’s now striding confidently into the TV world with the K91 Smart TV, an ambitious 55-inch 3D LED TV running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich is the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, designed to provide a unified experience across mobile phones, tablets and now, apparently, …
Read More »Samsung claims 300 million phones sold in 2011
Korean tech colossus Samsung — maker of the Galaxy S2 smart phone, our favourite mobile of the year — claims it has sold over 300 million blowers worldwide in 2011. We may not be total whizzes when it comes to numbers, but 300 million sure seems like a big one and Samsung is no doubt pretty chuffed with it — …
Read More »Five best mid
Not everyone is looking for the newest, shiniest, most powerful smart phone available. Some people are much happier with a decent-performing handset, a few useful features and a low price tag. When you’re shopping round, it’s easy to be distracted by phones such as the iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Nexus or the HTC Sensation XL. They tend to hog all …
Read More »Angry Birds pecks through half a billion downloads
The Angry Birds games have reached half a billion total downloads since its original launch in 2009, its developer Rovio proudly boasted today. The figure — that’s 500,000,000 if you’re impressed by zeroes — includes all games featuring the frustrated fliers: the original Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. Across all the many mobile and web …
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