Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear smart watch will go on sale on 3 October in Australia, with pre-orders starting from 3pm AEST today, 18 September. Note 3 and the Galaxy Gear. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) The 5.7-inch Note 3 will be available outright for AU$999, with carrier pricing plans yet to be announced. …
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At the launch last week, Apple made much of the camera quality on its flagship iPhone 5s, both for still images and video. The iPhone 5s takes centre stage. (Credit: Burberry) To highlight the camera capabilities of the 5s, the company paired up with fashion label Burberry and, overnight in London, the iPhone 5s was present to capture the full …
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Apple may be the first to offer a 64-bit handset, but Samsung promises that more are on the way. Apple this week unveiled the iPhone 5S, which features a 64-bit processor. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) Samsung Mobile co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun told The Korea Times that the next generation of Galaxy phones will come with 64-bit processing. He wasn’t able to give …
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Were you expecting a bit more excitement from Apple’s iPhone launch yesterday? So were investors, apparently. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) After the event, which took place on Tuesday morning, US time, Apple’s stock was down around 2 per cent, at US$494. But come the opening of trading on Wednesday morning, the stock plummeted over 5 per cent to US$467. Much of …
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Unless you’ve been under a rock all morning, you’re probably aware that Apple launched two new iPhones this morning, and that one of them has a built-in fingerprint reader. Touch ID on the iPhone 5s. (Credit: Apple) The biometric scanner, called Touch ID, is located under the home button on the front of the iPhone 5s. It’s capacitive and just …
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opinion Long rumoured as being Apple’s low-cost entry-level handset, the iPhone 5c definitely has reduced features, but it doesn’t have much of a reduced price tag. Apple and the amazing technicolour iPhone. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) When the leaks about the iPhone 5c began, the joke was that the “c” would stand for cheap. On the surface, a lower-end phone made …
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The new iPhones have arrived, and it turns out that a lot of the rumours were actually true: there is an iPhone 5c, there is an A7 processor and there is a fingerprint sensor. The iPhone 5s. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) To look at, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of difference between the now-defunct iPhone 5 and the iPhone …
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BlackBerry has laid off dozens of workers in another wave of sackings, according to reports from Canadian tech blog Cantech Letter. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) The blog is reporting that sources close to the matter are describing the company’s consumer sales force as “gone” and enterprise as “gutted”. The reports are being echoed by The Wall Street …
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Apple’s four-digit pin codes might be a thing of the past, if new rumours regarding the next iPhone are true. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the high-end iPhone 5S, which is presumably being launched overnight in the US, will have a fingerprint-scanning function. Last year, Apple bought Authentic, a fingerprint sensor and identity management software …
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Over in Berlin, the IFA show was filled with innovations in home entertainment, with LG bringing out the big guns with its 77-inch Ultra HD curved OLED. (Credit: Andrew Hoyle/CNET) LG is claiming it as the world’s largest Ultra HD OLED, and it joins a growing crop of TVs sporting 4K resolution on an OLED screen. LG hasn’t made any …
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