Nokia is taking wireless charging one step further. Its new Lumia 920 comes with wireless charging using the Qi (pronounced “chee”) standard, which is found in other products like some BlackBerry devices and third-party inductive chargers. Nokia knows it isn’t enough to integrate Qi, but that it also has to provide the ecosystem for people …
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Well, this is a new one for AT&T and Pantech. The two have teamed up to offer the Pantech Flex, a budget Android phone designed to ease first-time smartphone users into the Android experience. The Flex has an “easy experience” mode that limits Android 4.0 to a single home screen imbued with large text and buttons, and a simplified menu …
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September 19 could be the day that HTC answers the Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 with a 5-inch supersize smartphone of its own. Related stories Best VR Headsets of 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage The Metaverse Is on the Way: Here’s What You Need to Know Rumors point to a 1,920×1,080-pixel “true” …
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Imagine a smartphone that charges completely in 5 minutes and lasts a full 10 hours before running on empty. Crazy, right? Toting along the charging cord is just another part of life with 4G streaming and a power-hungry screen. Back in January, Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx offered the first real glimmer of hope for long-life batteries with the 3,300mAh ticker …
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Lenovo left a lot of room to improve its IdeaTab S2109, and so far the tablet’s successor, announced today at IFA 2012, is a step up. In a nutshell, the 10.1-inch Lenovo IdeaTab S2110 Android tablet promises a larger screen, a better processor, and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. That camera comes with autofocus and LED flash; fingers crossed it captures …
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If you’ve been wondering what the first dual-core Windows Phone would look like, this is it. Today, the Korean electronics giant took the wraps off the Samsung Ativ S, the world’s first smartphone running Windows Phone 8. The Ativ S (Ativ is “Vita” spelled backward) features a slim design, a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. …
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Editor’s note: This live blog has concluded, but here are some stories on what was announced: Samsung unveils ATIV S, world’s first Windows Phone 8 device; First impressions of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2; Samsung bets on Android-powered, networked camera; Samsung adds a Windows RT tablet, the ATIV Tab. You can also replay the live blog by clicking the link …
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After a year and a half of offering an unlimited smartphone rate with a built-in music download feature, Cricket Wireless will make its Muve Music plan standard on all Android phones, beginning September 2. This is excellent news if you’re a fan of the music rate, which wraps music software for downloading songs and ringtones into the monthly package alongside …
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Huawei is a Chinese smartphone and infrastructure manufacturer with heaps of ambition and just as much to prove. U.S. executives, speaking at a variety of mobile conferences, have boldly shared Huawei’s vision to be a top 5 vendor in three years (they have two more to go to hit that mark). Before that happens, Huawei must also quell the U.S. …
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The midrange Android handset known as the HTC Proto should soon go by another name, the HTC Desire X, according to a handful of online retailers that are surfacing placeholder Web pages for the device. Swedish site Technytt spotted the listings on four online retailers, including three Swedish sites and one Norwegian retailer: ClickOK, Elgiganten Business, Elkjop Business, and Multitech. …
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