Dan Lesser

BlackBerry Bold 9790 emerges, looks just like 9780

Photos have emerged of the upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9790, and it looks virtually identical to the older Bold 9780. Boy Genius has the snaps. The Bold 9790 (up there, on the left) is basically a cross between the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 (on the right) and the Bold 9780. From the 9900, it takes a 1.2GHz …

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Samsung Nexus Prime UK support page confirms release

A support page has been found on Samsung’s UK website for the upcoming Nexus Prime, strongly suggesting that Samsung is preparing for its release in this country. The almost-empty page, likely a dummy or placeholder, bears the name GT-I9250. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the emergence of this support page comes only a day after the discovery of the …

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KT Spider Concept is phone, laptop, console in one

At CES, we saw the keyboard dock of the Motorola Atrix. At Computex, we saw the Asus Padfone, and its tablet dock. And now, at IFA, Korean company KT has taken the idea of ‘phone plus dock’ to another level with its Spider Concept, which has both laptop and tablet docks — and adds a gaming dock to the mix. …

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Lenovo IdeaPad A1 is an Android tablet on the cheap

This year’s IFA has seen some manufacturers breaking the tablet mould, and doing it noisily too. Lenovo, on the other hand, has stuck with the formula of a big screen in a rectangular body, with its IdeaPad A1. The only noise here is the price. At first glance, the A1 seems distinctly average, with a 7-inch, 1,024×600-pixel display, a single-core …

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, Note and Wave 3 could be ‘something big’

Update: As predicted all three products launched at IFA and we got hands-on with them. Check out our Samsung Galaxy Note preview, Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 preview and Samsung Galaxy Wave 3 preview. Original article continues below. Samsung’s Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Wave 3 look set to be the ‘something big is coming‘ it promised earlier this week. …

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Motorola Defy+ to brave UK elements from September

Motorola’s souped-up hard-hitting roughty-toughty smart phone, the Defy+, will slam full-tilt into the UK in September. Based on last year’s defiant Motorola Defy, the new Defy+ is still a water-resistant, scratch-resistant and dust-proof phone, but it packs both hardware and software improvements compared to its predecessor. The most notable change in the Defy+ is its processor: the tardy 800MHz chip …

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V leads Android 2.3.4 upgrade charge

Following Monday’s Live with Walkman, Sony Ericsson has revealed its second awkwardly named phone of the week, the Xperia Neo V. The Neo V — as in the Roman numeral for 5 — is intended as a replacement for the Xperia Neo from earlier this year. Sony Ericsson also promised new software for all of its Xperia phones released in …

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