Joe Svetlik

Samsung Galaxy S3 pops up on Amazon Germany, has 12MP camera

The latest Samsung Galaxy S3 news: the long-awaited phone has made an appearance on the Amazon Germany site, flaunting its specs. They’re pretty much as expected, with a couple of exceptions. The screen is listed as a 4.7-inch Super AMOLED, while we were expecting a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED Plus, but let’s not quibble. (Though among …

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Samsung to announce new tablet alongside Galaxy S3 on 3 May?

Samsung’s cryptic invitation to “Come and meet the next Galaxy” at an event in a couple of weeks offers us precious little information about what we can expect from the new device. All signs point to it being the unveiling of the Galaxy S3, but new rumours suggest that Samsung might launch a new tablet alongside the keenly-anticipated phone. According …

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HTC One V landing in UK on 23 April, costing £226

Good news if you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the HTC One V — it’ll be on sale in the UK a week from tomorrow, SlashGear reports. And it’ll be free on contract from Orange, O2, and Vodafone, with monthly bills starting at £20.50, over at Carphone Warehouse. (Or £13.50 if you’re happy being tied in for two years.) …

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HTC Golf revealed in first official pic

With a name like HTC Golf we were expecting this phone to rock up with a caddy bag slung over its shoulder. Or perhaps some checked trousers. Well now the first official snap of the handset has leaked, and sadly it looks like our mock-up was slightly wide of the mark. This first snap comes courtesy of Pocketnow, and shows …

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Panasonic Eluga on sale 24 April, £365 SIM

Panasonic’s Eluga smart phone has a UK price and release date. Head over to the Expansys site and you can see it’ll be on sale on 24 April — just nine days away. And the price? If you want it SIM-free you’ll have to shell out £365, Unwired View reports. That’s a pound for every day of the year. Not …

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LG is making a phone that thinks for itself

LG is looking to take the whole ‘phone as a personal assistant’ thing to a completely new level. The South Korean company is hard at work on a mobile that can think for itself, The Verge reports. Let’s hope it doesn’t include an ‘overthrow humanity’ mode. Kwon Bong-suk, LG Mobile’s managing director, told South Korea’s iNews24 that LG was in the …

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HTC revenue drops 35%, Samsung profits double

HTC has released its unaudited financial results for the first three months of 2012. And things aren’t looking too good. Total revenue fell 34.9 per cent compared with the same period last year. Ouch. Samsung, meanwhile, is sitting pretty, anticipating its operating profits will double compared to the first three months of 2011. I don’t want to get too deep …

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LG D1L landing next month, will take on the Galaxy S3

Look out Samsung Galaxy S3. You’ve got some fierce competition heading your way. LG is readying a flagship mobile with the code name D1L, according to Korean site DDaily, via The Verge. And it looks to be a whopper. The screen is said to be a 4.7 incher, with a resolution of 720×1,280-pixels — equal resolution to what’s thought to …

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Teen sells kidney to buy iPhone, five charged

A teenager in China has sold a kidney so he can buy an iPhone and iPad, leaving him in a potentially fatal condition. Five people including the surgeon who carried out the operation have been charged with intentional injury, Reuters reports. The 17-year-old was only identified by his surname Wang. The operation was carried out last April, the government-run Xinhua …

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Sony losing 10,000 jobs, Japanese newspaper says

Looks like HTC isn’t the only one having a tough time of it at the minute. Sony is planning on cutting 10,000 jobs from its global workforce, possibly before the end of the year. That’s 6 per cent of its total employees worldwide. But that’s not all. It may also ask its seven executive directors — including chairman Howard Stringer …

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