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Rumor: Samsung prepping smartphone with 2GHz dual

Samsung expecting desktop-like performance out of their mobile devices with dual-core 2GHz processors. Samsung If you thought this year’s dual-core smartphones were fast and powerful, wait until you hear what Samsung has cooking. According to an unnamed official, Samsung is planning to go a step further and release a 2GHz dual-core smartphone by next year. Yes, that means that your …

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Angry Birds gets a free Easter update

There’s a major holiday approaching, and that can mean only one thing: a new Angry Birds Seasons update! Sure enough, version 1.4.0 just roosted in the App Store, bringing with it 15 new levels for everybody’s favorite chocolate-infused holiday (besides Halloween): Easter. As Angry fans know, this is becoming a regular happening. After Angry Birds Halloween made its debut last …

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iPad as sketchbook: Hands

Sketching on an iPad 2 with the Wacom Bamboo Stylus: Feels great, but will the precision satisfy? Sarah Tew/CNET Can the iPad be a valid artist’s tool? Wacom, maker of professional digitizer tablets and computer peripherals for artists, has gone ahead and put its vote in the affirmative, with the upcoming release of the Wacom Bamboo Stylus for the iPad. …

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Telstra adds Xoom, Optimus Black, Bold Touch to database

A leak from within Telstra has revealed that the company today added several high profile new products to its internal database. The Motorola Xoom with its dock accessory. (Credit: Motorola) The unnamed source told ZDNET Australia that the company has added the Motorola Xoom tablet alongside the Android-powered LG Optimus Black and the as-yet unannounced BlackBerry Bold Touch to its …

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Toshiba tablet momentarily priced and named

Click to enlarge. Newegg (Update: Toshiba has since announced their tablet’s official product name — the Toshiba Thrive.) We may finally have a price and a name for Toshiba’s Android Honeycomb tablet, thanks to a product listing on Newegg (pictured right) that has since been taken down. The listing showed the tablet in three capacities: 8GB (for $450), 16GB ($500), …

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Samsung Galaxy Prevail review: Surprisingly elegant

Take a look at the Samsung Galaxy Prevail and you may agree, it’s one classy-looking smartphone. A silky-smooth 3.5-inch touch screen is rimmed with metallic gray, and the phone’s sides and back are robed in soft-touch material. However, this is no premium Android phone, and that’s OK. The handset runs a respectable Android 2.2 Froyo operating system (sans TouchWiz), has …

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Ask Maggie: Flipping out over recent Flip purchase

What do you do when you buy a cool new gadget, and the company that makes it suddenly and without warning announces it’s canceling it, even though that device is the hottest one in its category? That’s what millions of Flip camcorder customers are asking themselves this week. Despite being ranked as the No. 1 mini camcorder on Amazon, Cisco …

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