Nvidia’s big chance to expand into smartphones has arrived and it’s called Tegra 4i. The company today unveiled its new mobile chip that integrates its app processor and 4G LTE on the same piece of silicon. The processor, previously codenamed “Project Grey,” includes 60 Nvidia GPU cores, a 2.3 GHz quad-core CPU based on ARM …
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19 February
HTC One out in UK on 15 March, £500 price tag likely
HTC’s freshly unveiled HTC One smart phone will be out in the UK in a number of weeks, slated to hit shops on 15 March. The Taiwanese phone-maker’s newest smart phone, which has a 4.7-inch 1080p display and a 9mm metal chassis, will be lining the shelves of British brick-and-mortar shops in less than a month, HTC has confirmed to …
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19 February
Nvidia Tegra 4i to supercharge mid
Nvidia’s plucky new Tegra 4i processor will soon be powering the next generation of mid-range smart phones. Its increased power and small size means it’s apparently able to deliver performance easily matching today’s super-phones while keeping both size and costs down. The 4i might have its sights set on the lower end of the phone spectrum, but there’s nothing basic …
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19 February
Canonical cracks the slate code, brings Ubuntu to Nexus tablets
Today Canonical, makers of the Linux-based Ubuntu OS, unveiled Ubuntu for tablets. Specifically targeting those of the Nexus variety. The OS will be available for the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 beginning Thursday. Owners of the Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus smartphones will receive access to the OS on the same day and the OS will be featured at Mobile …
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19 February
Nokia Lumia 720 likely to lead four new Windows Phones
Nokia could unveil four phones in less than a week. Clues point to a quartet of new Windows Phone 8 devices in the Lumia line-up, including the already-rumoured Lumia 520 and 720. The unknown phones have appeared in logs for US network Verizon, spotted by Windows app wonk Alan Mendelevich. The gang of mystery blowers consists of the Nokia RM-914, …
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19 February
BlackBerry Z10 costs about £99 to make, teardown reveals
BlackBerry’s new Z10 smart phone may cost you an arm and a leg to acquire, but a recent teardown reveals that BlackBerry isn’t spending nearly as much on actually bolting the thing together. The analysis was conducted by the intrepid chaps at TechInsights, who pulled a 16GB model of BlackBerry’s new blower apart and tallied the cost of each individual …
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19 February
Samsung Galaxy Note gets Jelly Bean, new features in tow
Samsung’s shaggy old St Bernard phone, the Galaxy Note, is being taught some new tricks with an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The upgrade is reportedly rolling out now either as an over-the-air update or using Samsung’s Kies desktop software. The update brings a brandy-barrelful of new software features, including the split-screen app view first seen on the Note …
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19 February
Nexus 4 sequels promised to make ‘insanely great’ cameras
Google has something special up its search-engine sleeves for the next Nexus phone’s camera capabilities, a holiday-bound Google exec has hinted. Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra, who last year posted holiday photos from the then-unreleased Nexus 10 tablet, took to Google+ to discuss camera tech, saying “We are committed to making Nexus phones insanely great cameras.” In the …
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19 February
HTC’s flagship launch: Join us Tuesday (live blog)
HTC will try yet again to mount a comeback with a flagship smartphone, and you can get all the details right here. HTC is planning a global launch of its latest big product at an event that kicks off at 7 a.m. PT today. The company is readying simultaneous events in New York and London, and CNET will be at …
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19 February
HTC One looks great. But will anyone care?
As sexy as the HTC One is, it is doomed to failure if the company doesn’t quickly shake things up. HTC’s design and software teams did their jobs in creating an attractive, unique, and premium-feeling phone, taking Apple’s love for metal construction and taking it to the next logical progression. But guess what? HTC’s One family of phones met with …
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