If you’re looking forward to the iPhone 5… you may be in for a bit of a wait, we’re afraid. The latest rumour says it’ll come in the autumn, a year on from the iPhone 4S, BGR reports. And it’ll be wearing rubber. Yes, you read that right. It’ll use rubber or plastic, according to …
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An oddity. That’s how we described the Samsung Galaxy Note back when we reviewed it in November. And it’s fair enough: with a 5.3-inch screen, it sits halfway between a phone and a tablet. It’s thin ice territory, as some have failed before when they’ve strayed so far from the standard product classifications. But it seems the Galaxy Note is doing quite …
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Research In Motion may be gearing up for an overhaul in its leadership. RIM co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie are preparing to relinquish their titles as co-chairmen, possibly giving way to independent director Barbara Stymiest, according to a report by the Financial Post. Stymiest is the leading candidate to replace the two, the …
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It may look like a little like a Transformer (don’t tell Hasbro), with its stainless steel and leather casing, but on the inside the Porsche Design P’9981 is all BlackBerry — and it’s on sale now at Harrods, Phone Arena reports. Apparently the device is “in very high demand and is selling fast” a Harrods spokesperson told Phone Arena. Considering …
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Half of the web surfing performed on phones or tablets is done on an Apple iPhone or iPad. It seems owners of Apple phones and tablets are more likely to hit the Internet than owners of Android, Nokia or BlackBerry devices. Data from NetMarketShare reveals smart phones and tablets running Apple’s iOS software performed 52.1 per cent of mobile browsing …
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LG has spilled the beans on its upgrade plans to the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android — although it’s not all good news. The upgrades won’t start until the second quarter of 2012 (April-June), with some being held back for the third quarter (July-September), Engadget reports. So if you own an LG handset, you could be looking at a …
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More news on Apple’s much-rumoured forthcoming standalone TV set: it’ll come in 32- and 37-inch sizes, according to a report on Digitimes, and will launch sometime between April and September next year. The size is presumably to keep the price down, because if it comes packing all the abilities we’re expecting, including Siri for voice control, it should make other …
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LG has already let us know about some of its CES plans, but this could be the gigantic cherry on top. It’s a mammoth 84-inch TV, with a resolution of 3,840×2,160 pixels. That’s classed as ‘ultra definition’ — with four times the resolution of HD. Four times. Insane. Oh, and did we mention this thing is 84 inches across? It …
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If you’ve never seen an OLED TV screen, do yourself a favour and right that wrong. The images are brighter, colours more vivid, but the only problem is the price. Now LG has thrown caution to the wind and come out with the world’s largest OLED TV panel. And the best news? It won’t mean remortgaging the house. The 55-inch …
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Cumbersome glasses are undoubtedly one of the main stumbling blocks preventing 3D TVs becoming truly mainstream. Well LG has redesigned its 3D glasses for next year, offering lighter, more curvaceous designs to tempt us Brits into spending. But will it be enough? All three new pairs are passive, like the ones you get in cinemas, so there’s no flickering or …
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It’s been a roller coast ride this past year for mobile phone carriers with several unexpected twists and turns. And 2012 will likely be filled with a similar sense of excitement. The biggest news for 2011 in this sector was AT&T’s $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile. And when the deal was announced in March, AT&T seemed confident it could …
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WebOS was destined to fail from the beginning, according to former Palm employees who spoke with The New York Times. The mobile operating system, which powered Hewlett-Packard’s famous flameout TouchPad, was intended to compete with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. But people involved in its creation say the platform was doomed from conception. “Palm was ahead of its time in …
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Well, that was fast. Verizon Wireless caved to pressure from outraged consumers and a possible probe by the Federal Communications Commission and backed off of a plan to charge customers a $2 fee to pay their wireless bills online. In a statement issued this afternoon, the company said it would drop the plan announced yesterday. “At Verizon, we take great …
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Skype is giving people in the Big Apple free access to Wi-Fi on New Year’s Eve so they can call and video chat with friends and loved ones at the stroke of midnight. Skype The company, which allows people to make phone and video calls over the Internet, offered free Wi-Fi in airports around the U.S. from December 21 through …
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Early in 2011, when the Optoma Neo-i iPhone/iPod projector made its debut, the price tag was a stiff $450. Today only, and while supplies last, Woot has the Optoma Neo-i projector for $219.99, plus $5 for shipping. Unlike much of what Woot peddles, this Neo is new, not refurbished. The Neo-i combines an iPhone/iPod speaker dock with a 50-ANSI-lumens pico …
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