Images and specifications of the iPhone 5 have appeared online, taken from a video of a user browsing Apple’s German website. But we have good reason to suspect the whole thing is an elaborate ruse. The video shows a user visiting the German site, then clicking an invisible link at the bottom of the iPhone’s …
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Want a tablet but can’t stomach the thought of the off-the-rack Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or the despicably mainstream iPad 2? The Pierre Cardin PC-7006 designer Android tablet might be for you. Straight out of the Pierre Cardin stable, this 7-inch Android tablet actually looks rather chunky. It’s 14mm thick, much girthier than the 9.7-inch iPad 2, which measures a …
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Bad news for anyone who was excited about the Nokia N9 — the MeeGo-powered mobile will not be coming to the UK, Nokia has confirmed in a statement to mocoNews. The statement says the decision to axe the phone, which we were actually quite excited about, says, “Although we are delighted with the very positive reception that the Nokia N9 …
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Kent German/CNET Sprint today announced the availability of two McAfee security apps for select Android smartphones and tablets. Now in the Sprint Zone in the Android Market, the McAfee Mobile Security and McAfee Family Protection Android Edition promise additional virus protection, parental controls, and the ability to secure information on lost or stolen devices. McAfee Mobile Security will support both …
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The war between Apple and Samsung has claimed its first casualty: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Android-powered 10.1-inch tablet has been on sale in Britain for barely a week, but must now be yanked from shop shelves. The two companies are locked in a bitter dispute over claims that Samsung’s Galaxy range of smart phones and tablets copies the …
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The Samsung Galaxy R will be the first Galaxy smart phone to pack the dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip. The Android-powered phone will arrive hard on the heels of the popular Samsung Galaxy S2 — and it will even have its own games. Previous Galaxies have used Samsung’s own 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex-A8 processor. Other phones powered by the Tegra chip include the …
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An Ice Cream Sandwich can’t be rushed, who’s Apple suing this week, and free tablets, all that and more on Android Atlas Weekly. Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 60: Get Me An Ice Cream Sandwich Stat! 44:05 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. Subscribe: iTunes (MP3) | iTunes (320×180) | iTunes (640×360) | RSS (MP3) | RSS (320×180) | RSS (640×360) EPISODE 60 …
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Honeycomb tablet and iPad users are in for a new Google News experience, as Google took to its news blog last night to announce a number of tablet-optimized enhancements to the popular news Web site. Google News now features a slightly modified UI with colors and buttons that fall closely in line with other recent changes to the tablet user …
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If you have been on Facebook recently, you may have seen a few of your friends update their status with this warning: ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS of your contacts are now on Facebook! Go to the top right of the screen, click on ACCOUNT, click on EDIT FRIENDS, left side of screen and click CONTACTS. You will see all phone …
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Google Google is reportedly in a hurry to unfreeze Ice Cream Sandwich. The company is hoping to take away a little heat from Apple by trying to roll out its next of version Android before the iPhone 5 debuts, says AppleInsider. Dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, the next flavor of Android was initially slated to appear toward the end of the …
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With a roomful of journalists and a live Webcast audience as his witnesses, Verizon CEO Dan Mead officially launched the Verizon Application Innovation Center in downtown San Francisco today. “Innovation is at the very core of what Verizon does, and what we stand for,” Mead said. “LTE has become one of the signature factors driving innovation.” Known as the App …
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Apple According to sources disclosing information to tech industry site DigiTimes, Apple has moved orders of iPad 2 displays from LG Display to Samsung and Chimei Innolux (CMI) after quality issues with LG Display units caused shipping delays. With shipping times holding at one to two weeks for much of the year, the iPad 2 demand far out-paced LGD’s ability …
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Apple Despite all the new products constantly flowing out of Cupertino, Calif., Apple has a program to get some of its old stuff back. And it will even pay you for the pleasure. Apple has been recycling old batteries and computers at its stores for years. When I worked at an Apple Store several years ago, we would fill our …
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Verizon Communications Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo acknowledged today that he doesn’t really know what will happen once the next version of the iPhone comes out, but said he had expected it to launch sooner. The iPhone 4 has been a successful draw for Verizon, but the company expects a bigger boost when the next iPhone arrives. While the iPhone …
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On Call runs every two weeks, alternating between answering reader questions and discussing hot topics in the cell phone world. As you’ve heard many times over, a new iPhone is due from Apple by the end of the year. Depending on who you talk to, it will come in September or October, and it will be a small upgrade or …
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