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Motorola Atrix 2 docks to work with other phones

Following last week’s leaked pictures of the Atrix 2, we have some more concrete details, and the good news is there’s a new dock coming, and that it’ll work with other Moto phones too. The Atrix 2 will have a 4.3-inch qHD display, 8-megapixel AF camera with single LED flash, and 1GB of RAM, according …

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Apple: Samsung seeks ‘excessive’ price for patents

Samsung is reportedly looking to exact a hefty price on Apple in their patent dispute. Samsung wants to charge Apple 2.4 percent of its chip price for every patent, according to Andreas Udo de Haes, an editor at Dutch publication Webwereld, who was tweeting today from one battleground: a courtroom in the Netherlands where Samsung is demanding a ban on …

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Samsung shows off Android

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1 1:53 Samsung is holding an event tonight in New York City to show off its new Galaxy Tab 8.9 Android tablet. Billed as one of the world’s “thinnest tablets” when it was first introduced back in March at CTIA 2011, the Tab 8.9 measures just 0.34 inches deep (the iPad …

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Samsung Galaxy S2 HD is a super

Samsung will soon launch a new version of its brilliant Galaxy S2 Android phone. The Samsung Galaxy S2 HD will pack a 4.7-inch display and a 1.5GHz processor. The bad news? At the moment, this souped-up smart phone is only coming to Samsung’s native land of South Korea. The S2 HD was announced alongside another new version of the S2 that has a 1.5GHz processor …

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Retailers offering discounted PlayBook tablets

Let the BlackBerry PlayBook sale begin. RIM Best Buy’s Canadian Web site and Staples were the first retailers to offer steep discounts on Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet. Staples is selling the low-end 16-gigabyte model for $299.99 after a $100 discount and another $100 mail-in rebate. Best Buy, meanwhile, is selling the same model for $399.99, but throwing in a …

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Huawei Honor packs three

They may have spelt the name wrong, but there’s not much else to begrudge Huawei’s newest smart phone, the Huawei Honor — a 4-inch Android beastie that will apparently last for three days away from the mains. That’s right, thanks to a 1,900mAh battery, the Honor is set to offer three — count ’em — days of use without having to …

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Just because T-Mobile is the underdog of the litter doesn’t mean it relishes its place as the runt of the litter, especially when it comes to the iPhone. The carrier’s chief marketing officer, Cole Brodman, made that plain enough when addressing attendees at the Mobilize conference today in San Francisco. “We’ve made public our desire to have the iPhone,” he …

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Security becoming a must on smartphones (Inside Apps)

When writing a weekly column about the apps business, it’s easy to get caught up in the new opportunities, capabilities, and trends emerging in this burgeoning area. It’s equally easy to forget they come with new threats. DRDDream was identified as the first major Trojan embedded in an app. McAfee These threats, which include rogue apps that can swipe your …

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Star Wars now bestselling Blu

The movies have been around for decades, but it seems we still can’t get enough of Star Wars. Launched on Blu-ray last week, the collection of all six movies in the series has already sold over 1 million copies. Even Jar Jar Binks couldn’t stop it becoming the bestselling Blu-ray of all time. More than 515,000 of those sales are …

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LightSquared makes 4G case to the public

LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja delivers a speech at CTIA 2011. Marguerite Reardon/CNET LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja is taking his case for building another 4G network to the public. Ahuja and LightSquared plan to publish an open letter in major newspapers tomorrow advocating the need for the company’s planned 4G LTE network, which has come under fire over concerns that it …

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