If you want something done, do it yourself. Chipmaker Nvidia is reported to be the latest to take those words to heart with its own Tegra Tab tablet. Just like Google slapped its own name on a range of Nexus devices to show off Android, and Microsoft did the same with the Surface to show …
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The new Google Nexus 7 costs from £200 and lands in your hands on 13 September. That’s according to PC World, the first British shop to reveal prices and dates for the new 7-inch Nexus tablet announced by Google yesterday. The 16GB model costs £200, and the 32GB version is £240. The price tag is slightly more than the bargain-tastic …
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The entry-level Amazon Kindle Fire is going HD. As its bigger brothers get a specs boost, the basic 7-inch tablet is also getting upgraded to make way for high-definition movies and games. The Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the larger Kindle Fire HD 8.9 are set to be updated to match the eye-popping screen on the new Google Nexus 7. …
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This is what the Samsung Galaxy Gear could look like. The mock-up above shows what we could expect from the hotly-anticipated smart watch that talks to your Android phone. The rumoured wrist-worn smart device is tipped to run a cut-down version of Android on a small curved screen that displays alerts and messages, so you don’t have to get your …
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Kids today typically get their first phone at the age of 7, according to new figures. Mobile Phone Checker‘s survey asked around 1,000 parents about the mobile habits of their children, discovering that most parents issue mobile phones to their offspring for safety reasons. Telecoms watchdog Ofcom recently found in a wider survey that anklebiters tend to get their first …
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HTC is looking to stir more desire in your loins with its latest phone to come to the UK, the HTC Desire 500. The Desire 500 is a new 4.3-inch mid-range Android smart phone with a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, officially announced today and potentially in shops this month. On the front you’ll spot a 1.6-megapixel camera for video chat, and …
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Vodafone 4G will offer unlimited data when it launches on 29 August, the big red network has has announced, but it’ll only be available in London at first. Vodafone Red 4G-ready plans will offer unlimited data for three months, with unlimited calls and texts also thrown in. You can sign up to a 4G plan from 12 August, before the …
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PCs and laptops are at “make or break point” in the UK as sales continue to plummet, hitting nearly three years of freefall. That’s according to industry watcher Gartner, which records consumer sales of desktop PCs and laptops declining by a quarter this spring. In total, British PC shipments fell by 13 per cent between April and June — the …
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LG reveals its new Android powerhouse, the G2, today — and you can see the action unfold on our LG G2 launch event live blog on CNET at 4pm. Update: CNET.com went hands-on with the LG G2 at the launch. Check out their first impressions here. In perhaps the oddest launch of recent times, LG has dripfed information on the …
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BlackBerry Messenger for Android is coming to Samsung Galaxy phones first — if you’re in Africa. Samsung Africa spilled the beans, revealing that the new BlackBerry Messenger app will become part of the Samsung Messenger Hub. The BBM app will be available “soon” for Galaxy phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 across Africa, for free from the Google Play Store …
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