The Samsung Galaxy S3 is less than a week away — but if you can’t wait that long you can now get the S3 experience on the best phone of 2011, the Samsung Galaxy S2. An S3 fan is giving you a sneek peek at the S3’s software, allowing you to try the new and …
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Eugene Polley, the man who invented the television remote control, has died at the age of 96. Polley pioneered the clicker in 1955. While working for Zenith Electronics, he came up with a handheld zapper that shone a beam of light at four photo cells in each corner of the TV, giving you the four options of either turning the …
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How far would you go to buy a Samsung Galaxy S3? Would you go to Dubai to buy a Samsung Galaxy S3? Hop on a plane to the sunny UAE and you could bag the year’s hottest phone a full week early. It seems Samsung’s hot new quad-core Android behemoth, successor to the Galaxy S2, has hit shops in the …
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Ice Cream Sandwich isn’t coming to the Sony Xperia S as soon as we’d hoped. After hinting that we could be seeing the latest version of Android on the Xperia S as soon as this month, Sony has admitted it spoke too soon. This isn’t a delay as such, but a return to the original timescale for the Ice Cream …
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Excited about extra-fast web browsing on your brand-new Samsung Galaxy S3? We certainly were — but Samsung has backtracked today, admitting that the S3 won’t support DC-HSPA after all. Samsung contacted CNET to sheepishly inform us that the S3 won’t in fact support 42Mbps DC-HSPA here in the UK, despite telling us that it would just yesterday. Samsung has apologised …
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The new Samsung Galaxy S3 will boast some of the fastest Internet speeds in the UK, Samsung has confirmed. The hotly anticipated Android powerhouse will connect to the Web via DC-HSPA, the next step up from current 3G speeds. The S3 will let you surf the Net and stream music and video while you’re out and about at up to …
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On your marks, get set… Note! An Olympic version of the Samsung Galaxy Note has jumped the gun ahead of this summer’s London 2012 Olympic Games. The special edition Galaxy Note tablet and Galaxy Y smart phone are offered by O2. They come with a Union Jack design on the back cover, and a chance to win a trip to …
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The new Nokia Lumia 900 is hard as nails — literally. The screen can not only survive having nails hammered into it, it can even be used in lieu of a hammer when there’s some nailing that needs doing. Nokia set out to prove the toughness of the Lumia 900’s screen by heading down to the hardware validation lab with …
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Motorola has laid its cards on the table over Ice Cream Sandwich, admitting that some of its phones actually get worse if updated. And if yours is one of the phones Motorola judges not to be improved by the update — no Ice Cream Sandwich for you. “We work very closely with Google and cell phone carriers for every software …
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Nokia has unveiled a brace of new super-cheap phones, the Nokia 111 and Nokia 113, able to browse the Web and boasting impressive battery life. The two phones come with a small but colourful 1.8-inch display. The software is Nokia’s venerable S40 software, which powers Nokia’s cheaper phones. The look and feel of the phone draws on Android and other …
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