When we haven’t been tinkering with our RaspBerry Pi computers or foaming at the mouth trying to buy a bargain-priced Nexus 4 from Google, we’ve spent 2012 in the cinema, feeding our geeky sides with a slew of movies that feature awe-inspiring gadgetry, push cinema forward using new technology or employ existing techniques to devastating …
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As we predicted late last year, OLED and Ultra HD have been a strong opening focus at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, with LG using its press conference (the first of the show) to reaffirm its commitment to the TV technologies. LG North America’s president and CEO Wayne Park on-stage at CES 2013. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) OLED had …
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The smartphone industry will ship more than 1 billion units before the year is over, according to a preview of a Deloitte report due out next week. And that number could actually come closer to 2 billion, at least based on Deloitte’s definition of a smartphone. Most analysts and industry watchers consider a smartphone a device that runs a specific …
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HTC has slumped to its lowest profit in all its time making Android smart phones — could the impending M7 turn things around? As rumours swirl about the forthcoming M7 — and new Sense 5.0 software that comes with it — HTC is hitting new lows. Having made £21.5m profit in the past three months, the results for the final …
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 2‘s 5.5-inch frame may have looked gargantuan when it first lumbered its way onto the tech scene, but it’s now being dwarfed by many a rumoured mobile — the latest ZTE P945, for example. Spied by Unwired View (through binoculars, as it tears strips out of skyscrapers, I imagine), this smart phone has a 5.7-inch screen. …
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Sprint announced today that it will unveil two Windows Phone 8 devices by this summer — one from Samsung and another from HTC. The mobile carrier made the announcement with Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show today. “Sprint has had a strong relationship with Microsoft for many years so we are excited to reinforce our commitment to the Windows 8 …
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Big phones are set to be all the rage in 2013, but just to buck the trend, it seems Apple could be releasing a smaller iPhone next year, according to one analyst. Strategy Analytics’ Neil Mawston reckons Apple will launch a mini mobile in 2014 to combat Samsung. The Korean company has fingers in many mobile pies, whereas Apple is …
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We heard whispers a few months ago that the venerated Samsung Galaxy S2 would be updated to spangly new Android Jelly Bean, but then it all went quiet. Until now, that is, as Samsung has posted some details on its website. It’s its Korean website, admittedly, but if it’s coming to our Seoul sisters, surely us Brits with S2s can’t …
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Los Alamos National Laboratory is reportedly removing network switches made by a partnership that once included controversial Chinese telecommunication gear maker Huawei because of national security concerns. But Huawei, which was rebuked last fall by the House Intelligence Committee for posing a national threat because of potential ties to the Chinese government, hasn’t been part of H3C Technologies, the partnership …
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The latest version of Google’s mobile software, Jelly Bean, has reached 10 per cent of all devices, according to the latest numbers just in from Android Developers. That’s calculated in the two weeks ending 3 January, and is up from just under 7 per cent at the start of December. The other big news is that crusty old Gingerbread is …
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Picture the scene: you lose your iPhone on New Year’s Eve, only to see someone using it the next day on an online dating service. What would you do? If you’re a 27-year-old New York trombonist named Nadav Nirenberg, you pose online as a busty female to ensnare the thief into a date with destiny. Then you turn up with …
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Google’s Nexus 7 is both cheap and powerful and its small size makes it easy to carry round. It has no SD card slot as standard, but with only a few steps and minimal fuss, you’ll quickly be able to transfer your images from your digital camera’s SD card. You can then review, edit and quickly share them without needing …
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Mobile phones just got a whole heap more powerful. Announced at annual gadget-fest CES in Las Vegas, the Nvidia Tegra 4 packs four cores, 4G and head-swimming graphics power to speed up the Web, gaming and video. The Tegra 4 chip sports four ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores, with 72 GeForce GPU cores to handle graphics, giving it around six times …
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Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, expects to post another record profit when it reveals its fourth-quarter results later this month on continued strong handset sales . The South Korean electronics giant estimated today that its fourth-quarter operating profit had jumped 88 percent to 8.8 trillion Korean won ($8.3 billion) over the year-ago period. The forecast, which would …
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Is this the Samsung Galaxy S4 — and has Samsung ditched the home button? We may have to wait until May to find out, as Samsung apparently confirms a release date for the next generation of Android powerhouse. That’s if we believe Samsung Lebanon, which told a Facebook fan that the S4 “won’t be released before May 2013”. Meanwhile a purported …
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