Samsung wants to cut ties with Android by developing its own Tizen software — and new leaked pictures show Tizen in action on the cutting edge Samsung Galaxy S4. The pictures, appearing on Tizen Indonesia via UnwiredView, show Tizen 3.0. The software appears to be somewhere between Android, iOS 7 and Windows Phone. The general look …
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September, 2013
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9 September
iPhone 5S new graphite colour revealed in leak video
For your second helping of iPhone 5S leakery today — after this morning’s specs sheet — we have this in-depth hands-on video, courtesy of deal-finders uSwitch.com. It’s a slightly odd ‘reveal’, because as the presenter explains, they’ve basically sourced all the components needed to make an iPhone 5S and then put them together. The bits don’t all match, so it …
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9 September
Dryft could make tablet typing tolerable
Typing on the tablet can be almost as laborious as typing on the phone. Randy Marsden invented Swype to make smartphones easier for touch typists and is now looking to reinvent the tablet-typing experience with Dryft. Dryft uses a tablet touch sensor and accelerometer to dynamically find your fingers as you type and tries to keep them under it. It …
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9 September
BBC America hit Copper lands on LoveFilm
‘Allo ‘allo ‘allo, what’s going on ‘ere then? One of BBC America’s most successful shows, Copper, comes to LoveFilm this week. Set in 1864 New York, Emmy-nominated Copper is the highest-rated premiere on Auntie Beeb’s US channel. Produced by Barry Levinson and US TV legend Tom Fontana, Copper follows the truncheon-swinging adventures of a detective — played by Tom Weston-Jones …
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8 September
Amazon denies plans to offer free smartphone this year
Contradicting rumors, Amazon said Sunday it has no plans to offer a smartphone for free. Two days after former Wall Street Journal reporters Amir Efrati and Jessica Lessin reported that Amazon was considering the give-away strategy for “its long-planned smartphone,” the company broke its silence with a statement dismissing the suggestion. “We have no plans to offer a phone this …
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8 September
iPhone 5S parody ad: ‘the S stands for same’
On 10 September, Apple will reveal its new range of iPhones, expected to be the iPhone 5S and the lower-cost iPhone 5C. CNET Australia will be there to bring you all the news from the event, but in the meantime, here’s a slickly produced parody ad for the new phones, a suggestion that Apple might need to work on its …
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8 September
LG sends G2 smartphone into the stratosphere
LG’s next flagship phone, the G2, is likely to hit Australia in November, where it’ll be an Optus exclusive. (Screenshot by Nic Healey/CNET Australia) Until then, LG has produced a video designed to show off the phone’s 13-megapixel camera in style. A team used a weather balloon to get the LG G2 to around 30km high, well into the stratosphere. …
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8 September
LG’s 77
Over in Berlin, the IFA show was filled with innovations in home entertainment, with LG bringing out the big guns with its 77-inch Ultra HD curved OLED. (Credit: Andrew Hoyle/CNET) LG is claiming it as the world’s largest Ultra HD OLED, and it joins a growing crop of TVs sporting 4K resolution on an OLED screen. LG hasn’t made any …
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6 September
Sony SmartWatch vs. Samsung Galaxy Gear: The first big battle in the wearable tech war
Sony’s latest wearable tech creation, the SmartWatch 2 (SW2) is attractively styled, water-resistant, and sports plenty of apps and watch faces. The Samsung Galaxy Gear is a strong contender too, running a specially tweaked version of Android powered by an 800MHz processor, and flaunting a big color OLED screen. Heck, it even has a mic and speaker plus a camera. …
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6 September
Case makers gear up for iPhone 5S and 5C launch
Not a day seems to go by without some new leaked image of an iPhone 5S or 5C part, which has taken a lot of the mystery out of what Apple will unveil on September 10. But that’s a good thing for accessory makers who want to have cases ready to go at launch (if you remember, Apple didn’t have …
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