Apple just plonked its new iPad mini — the one with the fancy retina display — on sale here in the UK, and if you hurry it’ll be in your hot little hand by the middle of next week. It’s only available online for now, with Apple’s Regent Street store unable to tell me when …
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12 November
Amazon launches Kindle Fire HD and HDX into Australian retail
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD and HDX tablets have finally made it into Australian retail stores, available at Dick Smith and Big W from today. Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 inch. (Credit: ) The lower-end 7-inch Kindle Fire HD sports a 1280×800 resolution screen (216ppi), with a dual-core 1.5GHz processor and 10 hours of battery life. It’s also aggressively priced at …
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12 November
Retina iPad mini now available through Apple Store
You can now order your Apple iPad mini with Retina display through the Apple Store with most deliveries expected in 5-10 days at time of writing. Update: in-store reservations also available. Caption (Credit: Screenshot/CNET Australia) At the launch of the new Apple iPad line up all Apple would say about the availability of the new iPad mini with Retina display …
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12 November
Intelligent Energy offers Upp, a $200 phone
There are plenty of battery-powered chargers on the market to top up on your smartphone during a long day’s use. But a company called Intelligent Energy hopes to go a step beyond that with a $200 hydrogen fuel cell device called Upp. The device has a detachable cartridge that has 25 amp-hours (25,000mAh) of charge — more than 10 times …
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12 November
Motorola’s Moto G event: Join us Wednesday (live blog)
Motorola Mobility is set to unveil the successor to its Moto X flagship phone. The handset maker, a unit of Google, is expected to pull back the curtain on the Moto G, a low-cost version of the Moto X. The event is expected to kick off on Wednesday, November 13, and we’ll be there to bring you all the news. …
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12 November
Android dominates 81 percent of world smartphone market
For the first time ever, Android has hit more than 80 percent market share for smartphone shipments worldwide. The new Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker was released on Tuesday by IDC, which detailed third-quarter numbers for all smartphone shipments worldwide. A total of 261.1 million smartphones were shipped during this quarter, 81 percent of which run Google’s operating system. A …
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12 November
It wasn’t easy, but Camera Awesome for Android is here
SmugMug’s Camera Awesome, a well-reviewed iOS app for taking and editing photos, has arrived on Android, too. But it wasn’t easy getting it there. For the SmugMug programmers behind the $3 app, it took three tries wrestling with the difficulties of Android development before Tuesday’s release was possible. The company began developing the two versions at the same time, but …
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12 November
Nexus 5 in white faces 10
In the latest round of stock headaches for the Google Nexus 5, orders of the white version threaten to be delayed by as much as ten days. Up until now the white model hasn’t been troubled by the stock woes of the black version, with dispatch promised in one or two days. But both the 16GB and 32GB white versions of …
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12 November
HTC One 2 on the cards as M8 set for spring 2014
The HTC M8, successor to the HTC One, is set for launch early next year. Could the One 2 land a one-two punch that would see HTC off the ropes and back to fighting fitness? The HTC One went on sale in March last year, and trusty Twitter tipster @evleaks reckons the M8 will land at the end of Q1 …
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12 November
Roku adds WatchESPN and Watch Disney channels
Sarah Tew/CNET Roku recently passed the 1,000-channel mark and that list is about to get even longer. Roku announced today that WatchESPN, Watch Disney, Watch Disney Junior, and Watch Disney XD will be added to the company’s streaming boxes. It’s a bit of catchup for the company, as the same collection of apps were added to its main competitor, the …
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