Unbreakable blower! The Samsung Galaxy S4 will have an indestructible screen when it arrives in the new year, according to new reports. The follow-up to the smash hit Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy S2 is expected in Spring, and could sport a screen made of plastic substrate that will fight off cracks and scratches …
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Benedict Cumberbatch is the undoubted star of the first trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness, beaming down today. The Sherlock star is the villain in the new film, the sequel to the 2009 Star Trek reboot. Once again written and directed by JJ Abrams and starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Simon Pegg, Star Trek Into Darkness tells the continuing …
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Huawei has given the strongest hint yet that it’s squaring up to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with an oversized phone. Previous leaks have revealed that the Huawei Ascend Mate is to be a 6.1-inch behemoth of a phone-cum-tablet, and a Huawei boss has spoken out to apparently confirm the rumours. Speaking on Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, a Huawei boss …
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HTC is going for its guns in the shootout with the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3. Reports say a new flagship phone called the HTC M7 will come out all guns blazing in 2013. The magnificent seven is still unconfirmed, but rumours have begin to circulate that HTC intends to take the fight to the iPhone, S3 and other …
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One does not simply walk into a British cinema and watch The Hobbit at its best — with less than a month to go before Bilbo Baggins sets off from the Shire, only selected screens are confirmed to show The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at&48 frames per second. It’s apparently due to a need to upgrade projectors.Update 3/12/12: With just …
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The Google Nexus 4 is back on sale, and Google is limiting sales to one per person to avoid selling out again. But if you do get your hands on one, it’ll take a month to arrive — so no Nexus 4 for Christmas. After several weeks out of stock, the Nexus 4 went back on sale today. Delivery time initially …
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Fancy a bargain-basement BlackBerry? The BlackBerry Curve 9320 has dropped in price to less than a hundred quid, as sales fall off a cliff. The 9320 can be yours for just £99 from Phones4U. That’s about £50 less than equivalent Android phones — cheap as chips considering the 9320 only debuted six months ago. Contract deals are incredibly affordable too, …
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Press red to get connected: the BBC has reinvented the red button, unveiling the new connected red button for smart TVs. Developed with Virgin Media, the new Web-powered red button will add extras to Internet-connected TVs — unless you’re a Sky viewer, that is. The new red button launches today on Virgin Media TiVo, and shows up on other Web-connected …
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Steve Jobs biopic jOBS premieres in January, and the first official picture of Ashton Kutcher as the Apple founder has been revealed. In a pose reminiscent of a real photo of Jobs, Kutcher hangs out in a cubicle next to an Apple II and a poster of IBM slogan ‘Think’. Filmed by little-known director Joshua Michael Stern this summer, jOBS …
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Fancy a slice of Key Lime Pie? A Google employee has served up a tasty treat of a cartoon giving us the strongest hint yet for the name of the hotly anticipated next Android update. Google software engineer Manu Cornet, who also produces the tech-themed webcomic Bonkers World, doodled the evolution of Android pictured above. The image is “just for fun” …
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