You could be unwrapping a flexible smart phone this yuletide, as LG has reportedly vowed to launch a mobile with a bendy screen before Christmas. LG’s vice president of mobile has said he will work with the company’s display division to craft the flexible phone, the Wall Street Journal reports (paywall link), tipping the mysterious …
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25 April
HP Slate 7 Android tablet just £129, in UK on 1 May
HP’s new 7-inch Android tablet, the Slate 7, undercuts the brilliantly bargainous Nexus 7 by £30, going on sale next week for the jaw-droppingly low price of £129, direct from HP. The Slate 7 is HP’s new effort at a touchscreen tablet for normal people, after the utterly disastrous TouchPad. Its strategy now seems to be to make it as …
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25 April
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Contrary to what T-Mobile is promising, there are actually some strings to its new wireless service plans. That’s according to Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who ordered T-Mobile to change its alleged “deceptive advertising” that omits charges that consumers have to pay for leaving early. Related stories When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier …
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25 April
Samsung posts $6.4B Q1 profit, down slightly from Q4 2012
Samsung Electronics posted a first-quarter profit Thursday that beat estimates on strong sales of handsets in emerging markets. Net income rose to 7.15 trillion won ($6.4 billion) in the three months ended March 31, an increase from the company’s 5.05 trillion won ($4.55 billion) profit of a year earlier but a slight decline from the fourth-quarter’s $6.6 billion net profit, …
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25 April
Galaxy S4 quad
Most people won’t really notice or care whether their Galaxy S4 has four cores or eight, according to Samsung mobile boss JK Shin. Hardcore phone fans were disappointed to learn the S4 wouldn’t be coming to the UK with Samsung’s cutting-edge Exynos5 eight-core processor. We have to make do with a still powerful, but rather less exciting Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 …
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25 April
Samsung Galaxy S4 rocks the best phone OLED yet, says report
Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s Galaxy S4 powerhouse 3:28 The Samsung Galaxy S4 may have a 5-inch screen with a killer 1080p HD resolution, but that doesn’t tell you as much about its display quality as you might think. That’s because, as any display guru (like CNET’s David Katzmaier) will tell you, a screen’s ultimate rating spans resolution and pixel …
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25 April
LG eyes flexible OLED
LG will be launching a device featuring a flexible OLED display sometime later this year. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, LG vice president of mobile, Yoon Bu-hyun, said that his company has plans to launch a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen in the fourth quarter. According to the Journal, he failed to say what other features …
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25 April
Alexander Graham Bell speaks for first time, via 3D camera
“Hear my voice… Alexander Graham Bell.” With these words, the inventor of the telephone speaks to us across more than a century, as new technology finally unlocks a fragile early recording. The voice of Alexander Graham Bell was recorded on a wax and cardboard disc on 15 April 1885 in Washington DC. But the ageing disc can no longer withstand …
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25 April
The end of plasma?
Recently, there was quite a hoopla when it was reported that Panasonic would no longer be developing plasma as a TV technology. According to Panasonic, this isn’t true. However, it does bring up some interesting questions. Because there will be a time when plasma television development (and production) does come to an end. LCD too, for that matter. The timing …
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25 April
Ghostbusters, Spider
Sony is launching the first films aimed specifically at 4K TVs. Ghostbusters, Taxi Driver and not one but two Spider-Man movies are appearing as Blu-ray films “Optimized for 4K Ultra HD TVs” — but before you rush out and drop £35,000 on a new TV, they aren’t really 4K. The packaging screams 4K, but the discs contain 1080p versions of …
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