Give us a W — now give us a Samsung Galaxy W! Samsung announced the Android-powered Galaxy W smart phone today. What does the W stand for, we hear you ask? Why, it stands for Wonder! W the Wonder Horse is an 11.5mm-thick smart phone, sporting a 3.7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 480×800 pixels. …
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It’s time to lay your cards on the table, double down and go all in: the Orange Monte Carlo is on sale from your favourite citrus-hued network. It’s an Android smart phone for a price that means you shouldn’t have to cash in all your chips. The Monte Carlo features a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, FM radio and a 5-megapixel camera. …
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Y oh Y are there so many new phones today? Here’s two more: The Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro are a brace of blowers aimed at da yoof. The Y stands for Young in both phones, as they’re set to be affordable models, and presumably perfect for annoying everyone with tinny ‘tunes’ from the back of the …
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It’s Monte Carlo or bust for Orange’s latest affordable Android phone. The Orange Monte Carlo is announced today, powered by Gingerbread and packed with features. The Monte Carlo is a ZTE Skate painted Orange. Not actually painted orange, but you see what we mean. It sports a 4.3-inch capacitative touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, and 800MHz processor. It packs 3G and Wi-Fi …
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Patent pile-on! Apple has brought its legal challenge against Samsung to the UK, claiming that the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 copy the iPhone and iPad. Apple filed the suit in British courts this week, as a response to an action brought by Samsung in June. The disputed patents haven’t been identified yet, but we …
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Walls — what are they good for? Absolutely nothing, as a great man once said. Actually, walls are good for one thing: holding up cool posters, and have we got a cool poster for you. It’s the History of the iPhone from the big brains at ZDNet UK! Find out how a 1940s Hollywood star and Captain Kirk shaped the …
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Not cool, dude, not cool. The iPhone, that is — at least according to the boss of HTC. He’s hit out at Apple, claiming the iPhone just doesn’t cut it with the kids, while also decrying his fruit-flavoured rival’s recent legal shenanigans. Martin Fichter, the acting US boss of HTC, blasted the iPhone in front of an assemblage of phone …
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Want to get your hands on the hottest gadget going? 6,000 more HP TouchPads are heading for the UK — but you can only get one if you work for HP. HP’s UK boss told the Register that 5,700 32GB TouchPads and 300 16GB models are set to be offered to HP’s 16,500 staff on a first-come first-served basis, with …
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HTC could strike out with its own smart phone software. Hugely successful with phones powered by Google’s Android operating system, HTC could break out the cheque book and buy an alternative OS. In an interview with Chinese newspaper The Economic Observer, HTC boss Cher Wang said “We have given it thought and we have discussed it internally, but we will not …
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Windows 8 makes its first proper appearance this week — bringing a new tablet with it. Word on the street is that the first Windows 8 tablet, built by Samsung, will be revealed at Microsoft’s annual Build conference tomorrow. Build kicks off in Anaheim, California on Tuesday. The bunfest for software developers will also see Microsoft give us our first …
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