What do you get if you sew together the sheer size of the Galaxy S4, the chassis of the S3, the innards of the S2 and two SIM-card slots? The Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos, a Frankenstein phone on sale now in the UK for just over £300. Samsung loves to mix and match specs and …
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Samsung is set to unveil a little brother to its powerhouse Galaxy S4 at a glitzy event in London next month. Invites went out today for an event on 20 June called ‘Samsung Premiere 2013 Galaxy & Ativ’, after the Galaxy S4 Mini was spotted on Samsung’s UK website over the weekend. The Wall Street Journal claims to have confirmed …
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Apple boss Tim Cook criticised big-screen phones and Google’s Glass gadget in an interview last night at the AllThingsD conference, explaining why Apple hasn’t made a 5-inch phone and giving a taste of his thinking on wearable tech. “A large screen today comes with a lot of tradeoffs,” the CEO said. “Customers clearly are looking at size, but they’re also …
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Samsung is rumoured to be considering packing optical image stabilisation (OIS) and maybe even optical zoom into its next jumbo super-phone, the Galaxy Note 3. “We are pondering various technologies at this stage — for example, OIS and shutter functions,” an anonymous Samsung Mobile exec told Korean blog ET News. “But, nothing has yet to be confirmed, so we cannot …
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A new fan-made concept video deftly illustrates how Apple could pinch more stuff from Android in its upcoming mobile operating system iOS 7. While it isn’t as black-and-white as recent rumours suggest the new OS might be, it is very flat, in common with Android and Windows Phone, and eschews icons that look like physical objects (what people who like …
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The Samsung Galaxy Young, a 3.3-inch budget blower, is the latest guilelessly named addition to Samsung’s sprawling Galaxy range and it’s out in the UK this weekend. It’s a significant step up from last year’s Galaxy Y, which also stood for Young — maybe Samsung felt that was too subtle for Britain’s youth and has been forced to spell it …
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A new version of the HTC One with stock Android rather than HTC’s Sense software will be announced in the next two weeks and available in the summer, according to “multiple sources” quoted by Geek’s Russell Holly, who correctly predicted the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google edition. That tallies with reports earlier this week that influential HTC developer …
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Are you a lovesick student who likes ‘ROCK AND ROLL’ and pizza? Do you follow girls around and take their photo without their permission? You’ll love the Galaxy S4, Samsung implies in this slightly alarming new ad. The video, which is described on YouTube as “Hi Hey Hello, a musical short film”, is a weird mashup of feature demo and …
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HTC has flogged a very healthy 5 million HTC Ones, according to an unnamed exec quoted in the Wall Street Journal (paywall link) — half as many as the Samsung Galaxy S4. “Orders are pretty good so far and are still more than what we can supply,” the nameless bigwig boasts. “This is partly due to the shortage of components. …
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It might be the kind of mate who crushes your grip in his iron handshake and calls you a girl if you can’t drink 10 pints of Carling, but the mammoth Huawei Ascend Mate is coming to the UK soon, so you’d better grin and bear it. The 6.1-inch Android behemoth has pitched up for pre-order on phone retailer Expansys …
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