Mobile World Congress hasn’t even started yet, but Acer has jumped the gun and announced two budget smarties. The Acer Liquid E3 and Liquid Z4 will be on show at the mobile industry trade show next week, and both are wallet-friendly Android smarties. The E3 is the higher-specced of the two. It has a 4.7-inch, …
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All the big announcements may have been made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but there’s still plenty happening there. We’ve found the Samsung Galaxy S5‘s hidden superpowers, tried out a Chinese mobile that stays secure just by recognising your face, uncovered some new Samsung goodies, and found some of the craziest concepts of recent years. And it’s all in …
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It’s been dubbed the M8 and even the HTC One 2, but now HTC has confirmed the name of its next flagship phone. The successor to the HTC One will just be called The New HTC One. HTC revealed the name in a bizarre teaser trailer ahead of the handset’s unveiling next month. Rest assured: it continues the company’s quirky …
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If you’re wondering what has happened to Google’s Project Ara modular mobile project, seeing as Google is selling Motorola to Lenovo, there’s no need to worry. Google has held onto Motorola’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group which was the home of Project Ara. And the latest news is that Google intends to start selling the modular smart phone next …
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Wednesday is usually the hump day of any tech trade show. The big guns have announced their main products, and everyone is generally a bit tired. But there’s still plenty going on at MWC. Like Sony’s SmartBand, for example, that we went hands-on with. Throw in Sony’s wearable camera concept that tracks everything you do, some cool new in-car tech, …
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If you’ve been umming and ahhing over whether to buy a Kindle Fire tablet, this latest Amazon sale could sway you. Until 4 March, the retailer is slashing the price of all its tablets by 20 per cent. It does these kinds of sales quite often, but this is the biggest price cut yet. That means the Kindle Fire HDX …
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Amazon launched its Prime Instant Video service today — which is basically Lovefilm rebadged — and to celebrate, it’s breathed some new life into an axed BBC show. Amazon will fund a new series of Ripper Street, and show it exclusively on Prime Instant Video. After two series, the period crime drama was cancelled last year because of low viewing figures. Filming …
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The big news from Mobile World Congress is that Samsung has finally unveiled the Galaxy S5. And it’ll reach British shores in April. Jolly good. So what else happened at that big festival of phones? Samsung launched another wrist-worn device — its third this week — BlackBerry outed a pair of new handsets, the Geeksphone Blackphone broke cover, and Panasonic …
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Amazon’s newly rebadged film streaming service launches tomorrow in the UK. Amazon Prime Instant Video was previously known as Lovefilm Instant, until Amazon renamed it recently. Day one sees the premier of Alpha House, a political comedy starring John Goodman. Alpha House is the first fully commissioned series from Amazon Studios, in a bid to take on Netflix’s own House …
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Nokia boss Stephen Elop might have missed out on the top job at Microsoft, but he’s still going to be a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory Redmond company. According to an internal memo that’s leaked to TechCrunch, Elop will become head of Microsoft’s Devices and Studios business. That means he’ll take charge of Xbox, Microsoft Surface, all …
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