All hail the Samsung Galaxy S4! Down with the Samsung Galaxy S4! Hooray! Boo! The S4 has arrived and it’s packed with features. Some are good and some are, well, not so good. But which are the best and which are the worst? Glad you asked, phone fan. Here, in no particular order, are the …
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Judging from a T-Mobile press conference invite that just crossed our desks, the carrier apparently has big changes in store. Scheduled for 11 a.m. ET in New York, the March 26 event will supposedly demonstrate the wireless provider’s intentions to not act like a typical “wireless company.” While that’s not a lot of info to go on, I’m betting this …
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Expecting the Exynos 5 Octa processor in your Australian Galaxy S4? Don’t count your core-chickens before they hatch. (Credit: Samsung) When the Galaxy S4 launched last week (although it already seems like longer than that), we noted that Samsung had two variants of the handset CPU. In one corner is the monster Samsung-made Exynos 5 Octa core, while in the …
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Hot — or at least warm — on the heels of the 5-inch Xperia Z, Sony’s lifted the lid on two new smart phones, one of which features a flashing disco strip along its undercarriage. The Xperia SP (seen above) has a 4.6-inch, 720p screen, as well as NFC and 4G capabilities. It should be compatible with every UK 4G …
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Hey hey hey, fresh leaks have lifted the lid on a pose-striking Huawei tablet, reportedly dubbed the MediaPad 7 Vogue. The tablet in the picture above comes courtesy of notorious leakster Evita @evleaks on Twitter. The tweet also points to a spec sheet for the mysterious gadget, which tips a 7-inch screen with a 1,024×600-pixel resolution. Elsewhere, two processors are mentioned …
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Apple isn’t the only company itching to get its hands on the wristwatch market. A Samsung executive tells Bloomberg that it too has been working on wearable devices that act like smartphones. “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, said during an interview with Bloomberg in Seoul. “We …
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The first pricing details concerning the Samsung Galaxy S4 have emerged, hinting that Samsung’s next smart phone will be cheaper than its Apple-flavoured rival. Samsung has kicked off a US online giveaway that awards Galaxy S4 smart phones to lucky winners. As GSMArena spied, the competition small print specifies that the phone’s ‘approximate retail value’ as $579. That translates to roughly £383, …
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Sony today unveiled two new Xperia phones for people who may find the 5-inch Experia Z and ZL too big to handle. The Xperia SP offers a super-bright 4.6-inch 720-pixel HD Reality Display. Sony’s Reality Display borrows technology from the Bravia TV lineup, which the company says enhances the brightness and picture sharpness. Courtesy of the Mobile Bravia Engine 2, …
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Gmail for Android updated today to let users respond to e-mails directly from push notifications. That’s not all: the update also allows archiving and searching Gmail from the notifications window. The company suggests tweaking your settings to limit the amount of push notifications you get for e-mails: “You can combine this with existing notification features like the ability to customize …
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ST-Ericsson, the chipmaking joint venture between STMicro and Ericsson, announced today it will dissolve its partnership, dividing up the parts of the business between the two. Market share for ST-Ericsson in the mobile space has shrunk as rival chipmakers Nvidia, Intel, and Texas Instruments succeeded in getting their components into popular mobile devices. As top customer Nokia lost market share …
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BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins thinks it’s about time Apple starts innovating again. Speaking to the Australian Financial Review in an interview published today, Heins acknowledged that Apple “did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices to market [and] they did a fantastic job with the user interface,” but he thinks the company might have become too complacent. “History repeats itself …
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Samsung has already said it would launch phones that use the Tizen operating system, but now here’s confirmation the company will launch a high-end device running that OS at the end of the summer. “The Tizen phone will be out in August or September, and this will be in the high-end category. The device will be the best product equipped with …
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Having ruled out the stetson and the fez, the Doctor’s new headware is set to be a tin-foil hat. Doctor Who returns in less than two weeks’ time with a new companion, new monsters — and a Wi-Fi warning. Matt Smith is back as everybody’s favourite Time Lord, joined by Jenna-Louise Coleman as mysterious companion Clara Oswald. And in the …
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Pinch of salt time: a render of what purports to be the Nexus 5 has surfaced online, along with a spec list. There are plenty of reasons to think it’s fake, but a few that hint it could be the real deal too. An anonymous source claiming to work for Google sent the image and specs to Android and Me. …
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If you’re having problems with your Samsung Galaxy S3 or other Samsung Galaxy, it could be down to your SanDisk memory card. SanDisk has owned up to microSD cards causing problems with Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets. S3 owners and owners of other devices, including the Galaxy Note, report cards failing in both their phone and computer. Even worse, some cards …
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