Samsung Galaxy Pocket is a teeny

Samsung seems determined to have every single screen size covered by its all-encompassing Galaxy range — its latest creation is the Galaxy Pocket, a tiny 2.8-inch mobile running Android version 2.3 Gingerbread. For your money you’ll get a 2-megapixel camera sitting on the rear, while the Pocket is powered by an 832MHz processor. There’s a measly …

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Mass Effect: Infiltrator, hands

Hungry for Mass Effect? Buy the console game. As far the simultaneously-released iOS game for iPhone and iPad goes, I’d recommend downloading Dead Space instead. So, maybe it’s a tiny bit unfair to compare a $60 console game to a $6.99 iOS game, but when the name “Mass Effect” is slapped on a download, there is some expectation of a …

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iPad 3 improved camera is most wished

iPad 3 fans want an improved camera, better battery life and 4G. New figures suggest that potential buyers of the next Apple tablet — which is announced tomorrow — want an improvement on the basics. It seems potential buyers aren’t worried about looking like a bit of a plank by holding up a camera the size of a Beano annual. …

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Verizon rivals to FCC: Halt review of cable spectrum deal

T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel have asked the Federal Communications Commission to suspend its review of Verizon Wireless’s purchase of wireless spectrum from cable operators. The wireless operators want Verizon to disclose more information about the marketing deals it struck with cable operators as part of its $3.6 billion deal with these companies hashed out late last year. The companies …

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ACCC set to approve Foxtel, Austar merger: report

According to a report in The Australian (subscription required), the acquisition of Austar by Foxtel is set to be approved today by the competition commission, the ACCC. This is one of the last major hurdles to the long courtship between the two pay TV operators. After the ACCC’s initial go ahead has been given, the details of the merger will …

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Toshiba ZL2 glasses

Toshiba’s ZL2 glasses-free 3D is going on sale on Monday — yours for the wallet-combusting cost of £7,000. That’s right folks, from 12 March you’ll be able to walk into the John Lewis on London’s Oxford Street and throw down seven grand to acquire this hoity-toity telly. It’ll be available from Harrods from the 16th. The telly itself measures a …

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Samsung Smart Touch Remote and keyboard (hands

Samsung has unveiled its new flagship control peripherals–the Smart Touch Remote and optional Smart Wireless Keyboard–at an event in New York today. The new remote will ship with the company’s Smart Interaction televisions, the ES7500 and ES8000 LED and E8000 plasma. The keyboard is an optional accessory ($99). Now playing: Watch this: Talk to the TV remote 2:25 Last year, …

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Samsung’s home theater line gets pricing, available now

Samsung showed most of its home theater line at CES 2012, but the company finally got official with pricing at a media event in New York this morning. While the products weren’t new, they’re now officially available, with pricing (estimated selling price) breaking down as follows: Samsung 2012 home theater products (photos) +5 more See all photos Blu-ray players Samsung …

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Samsung 2012 TVs get pricing and release dates (hands

Updated March 7 with more information and new videos. Just two months ago at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung–along with all of its competitors–talked up its new line of of 2012 TVs. As is always the case at CES, the new product info was long on hype and short on details. That changed today, when Samsung began …

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Orange Tahiti budget Android is a totally tropical tablet

Now playing: Watch this: Orange Tahiti hands-on 1:28 Orange is the first British phone network to offer its own tablet. The Orange Tahiti is a budget Android Honeycomb tablet that comes with an Orange contract, for free with an Orange San Francisco 2 phone and two-year contract. It’s a 7-inch tablet, putting it in competition with the Samsung Galaxy Tab …

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Samsung Galaxy S2 to get Ice Cream Sandwich on 15 March

Ice Cream Sandwich is coming to the Samsung Galaxy S2 this month. It may be later than hoped, but it seems the S2 will update to the latest version of Android on 15 March. That’s according to a post on Samsung’s official Facebook page in Israel — which has since been deleted. Fingers crossed, folks… Ice Cream Sandwich coming to …

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LG’s changes to Ice Cream Sandwich in hands

Now playing: Watch this: LG’s Ice Cream Sandwich changes 1:20 One of the surprises for me at Mobile World Congress was that the big players had so few phones running the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. One of the reasons for that is the phone manufacturers just love to mess around with it, chopping and changing the menus …

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Does the iPad 3 really need a redesign?

Back before the iPhone 4S was officially unveiled, there was a lot of buzz over whether Apple would give its iPhone a revamped look. The look, in fact, stayed identical. I argued that the iPhone didn’t really need a redesign, and to my surprise, 59 percent of you said the opposite: that the 1.5-year-old iPhone needed a makeover. Now that …

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Asus Windows Phone will launch ‘when time is right’

Asus is preparing a Windows Phone, and is just waiting for the right time to launch it, Pocket-Lint reports. Asked whether the company would make a Windows Phone, Benson Lin, global head of Asus’ handheld division, said: “We are very close with Microsoft. When we think it is the right time of course we will do it.” He made the …

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iPad 3 leaked parts assembled into makeshift tablet

We’re just days from the official iPad 3 announcement, but if you really can’t wait, here’s a makeshift effort cobbled together from leaked parts by the team over at M.I.C. Gadget. The case — which we brought you news of days ago — looks identical to the iPad 2, with the Home button intact, if this is indeed the official …

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