Samsung wants to cut ties with Android by developing its own Tizen software — and new leaked pictures show Tizen in action on the cutting edge Samsung Galaxy S4. The pictures, appearing on Tizen Indonesia via UnwiredView, show Tizen 3.0. The software appears to be somewhere between Android, iOS 7 and Windows Phone. The general look …
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For your second helping of iPhone 5S leakery today — after this morning’s specs sheet — we have this in-depth hands-on video, courtesy of deal-finders uSwitch.com. It’s a slightly odd ‘reveal’, because as the presenter explains, they’ve basically sourced all the components needed to make an iPhone 5S and then put them together. The bits don’t all match, so it …
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Typing on the tablet can be almost as laborious as typing on the phone. Randy Marsden invented Swype to make smartphones easier for touch typists and is now looking to reinvent the tablet-typing experience with Dryft. Dryft uses a tablet touch sensor and accelerometer to dynamically find your fingers as you type and tries to keep them under it. It …
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‘Allo ‘allo ‘allo, what’s going on ‘ere then? One of BBC America’s most successful shows, Copper, comes to LoveFilm this week. Set in 1864 New York, Emmy-nominated Copper is the highest-rated premiere on Auntie Beeb’s US channel. Produced by Barry Levinson and US TV legend Tom Fontana, Copper follows the truncheon-swinging adventures of a detective — played by Tom Weston-Jones …
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Contradicting rumors, Amazon said Sunday it has no plans to offer a smartphone for free. Two days after former Wall Street Journal reporters Amir Efrati and Jessica Lessin reported that Amazon was considering the give-away strategy for “its long-planned smartphone,” the company broke its silence with a statement dismissing the suggestion. “We have no plans to offer a phone this …
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On 10 September, Apple will reveal its new range of iPhones, expected to be the iPhone 5S and the lower-cost iPhone 5C. CNET Australia will be there to bring you all the news from the event, but in the meantime, here’s a slickly produced parody ad for the new phones, a suggestion that Apple might need to work on its …
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LG’s next flagship phone, the G2, is likely to hit Australia in November, where it’ll be an Optus exclusive. (Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) Until then, LG has produced a video designed to show off the phone’s 13-megapixel camera in style. A team used a weather balloon to get the LG G2 to around 30km high, well into the stratosphere. …
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Over in Berlin, the IFA show was filled with innovations in home entertainment, with LG bringing out the big guns with its 77-inch Ultra HD curved OLED. (Credit: Andrew Hoyle/CNET) LG is claiming it as the world’s largest Ultra HD OLED, and it joins a growing crop of TVs sporting 4K resolution on an OLED screen. LG hasn’t made any …
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Sony’s latest wearable tech creation, the SmartWatch 2 (SW2) is attractively styled, water-resistant, and sports plenty of apps and watch faces. The Samsung Galaxy Gear is a strong contender too, running a specially tweaked version of Android powered by an 800MHz processor, and flaunting a big color OLED screen. Heck, it even has a mic and speaker plus a camera. …
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Not a day seems to go by without some new leaked image of an iPhone 5S or 5C part, which has taken a lot of the mystery out of what Apple will unveil on September 10. But that’s a good thing for accessory makers who want to have cases ready to go at launch (if you remember, Apple didn’t have …
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Android remains top dog among all mobile platforms as seen by mobile ad network Millennial Media. For the second quarter of 2013, Android snared 51 percent of all ad impressions on the network, according to the latest Millennial Media Mobile Mix report released Friday. That number was up from the 46 percent seen in the second quarter of 2012 and …
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Google Glass owners can now control the interface by swiping and tapping their way on an Android phone or tablet via the MyGlass app. Updated Thursday in the Google Play story, MyGlass offers an altenative to Google Glass owners who may not always want to nod their head or speak a command to control the device. The app takes advantage …
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Like the idea of Google Glass, but don’t fancy swiping the side of your specs the whole time? There’s an app for that. It’s called MyGlass, and it’s just been updated to let you control your hi-tech spectacles from your Android-powered mobile. I know, part of the appeal of Glass is that you don’t have to fetch your phone out …
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Amazon is going to give away its long-rumored smartphone for free, according to a report from former Wall Street Journal reporters Amir Efrati and Jessica E. Lessin. Unnamed sources told the pair that Amazon is considering the offer for “its long-planned smartphone.” While it has talked to wireless companies about selling the phones through the carriers’ channels, Amazon will probably …
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Consumers looking for the new LTE flavor of Samsung’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab 3 can now pick one up through AT&T. The carrier’s Tab 3 order page shows the tablet selling for $299.99 regularly. But buyers can trim that down to $199 by choosing the standard two-year agreement. Alternatively, subscribers can opt for AT&T’s Next plan, which eliminates the down payment …
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