The first device powered by Samsung’s Android-rivalling Tizen software has emerged blinking into the daylight. Making its debut at Japan’s Smartphone & Mobile Expo gathering, the Tizen tablet is built by Systena and is the first public outing for new operating system Tizen. The as-yet-unnamed tablet sports a 10.1-inch high-definition screen with a 1,920×1,200 resolution. …
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This week has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous — from the sublimely high-end new iPad Air, Nokia Lumia 2520 and Microsoft Surface 2, to the ridiculously cheap Carphone Warehouse Avoca 7, costing just £50. You read that right: a 7-inch Android tablet for £50. Carphone Warehouse has slashed the price of the Avoca 7, usually £100, to fire back …
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BT Sport and YouView are coming to Plusnet. The Internet service provider kicks off BT Sport’s live Premier League games next month, with YouView to follow. Plusnet is holding trials over the next few months of YouView, the online-connected set-top box that puts catch-up and on-demand viewing into your telly alongside your regular channels. YouView is currently given away free …
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Samsung smashed moneymaking records once again this summer, raking in £5.9bn profit thanks largely to the lower-priced footsoldiers of the Samsung Galaxy smart phone army. Samsung did boffo business once again this Q3, the three months up to September, with continued strong smart phone sales and decent performance from the part of the business that makes memory chips. Revenue hit …
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Is this our first look at the new Google Nexus 10? With the Google Nexus 5 and new Android KitKat software just around the corner, we could be set for a streamlined 10-inch Google tablet too. Pictured above on the left is the current Nexus 10, and on the right is an alleged press snap of the Google Nexus 10, as shared with …
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You could struggle to get your hands on a new Apple iPad mini with Retina display. Revealed this week alongside the slimline iPad Air, the new 7-inch tablet may find supply “ridiculously tight.” Industry expert Rhoda Alexander, director of tablet research at IHS, reckons that supply of the new iPad mini with Retina display is going to be “ridiculously tight.” Experts …
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BT Broadband broadbanned! Advertising watchdogs have vetoed a BT Home Hub advert that tried to blame your Wi-Fi problems on your phone. “There’s no end of things around the home that can disrupt your wireless Internet,” burbles the now-banned advert, followed by shots of mobile phones and radios. Look at those fiendish mobile phones and radios, whispers BT between the …
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Google could be turning on your goggle box with KitKat. The Android 4.4 update could do more for your television than it does for your phone, if new reports are to be believed. Korea’s ETNews reports that KitKat will feature an interface that’s designed to scale up to a connected smart TV’s larger screen, as well as improved interaction between a …
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The fire is rising: the LG Fireweb is the latest Firefox phone, but this particular fire is unlikely to spread to our shores. The evocatively-named LG Fireweb boasts a 4-inch screen and a 5-megapixel camera. It runs the Firefox OS mobile phone software made by Mozilla, the people behind the popular Web browser. That comes with access to the Firefox …
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Apple OS X Mavericks is free. The new Apple software won’t cost you a penny to upgrade your iMac or MacBook today. You read that right: the OS X Mavericks price is zero, zip, nada, and the OS X Mavericks release date is today. You can upgrade for nowt on Apple computers going back to 2007. Apple’s iLife and iWork …
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