February, 2013

• 19 February

  Find cool Kickstarter stuff for your iDevice

  

  Kickstarter has birthed some pretty cool accessories for iPhones, iPods, and iPads. The ChargeCard, for example, which I recently saw and loved at CES. And the Woxom SlingShot video stabilizer/tripod. If you sometimes feel like you might be missing out on the good stuff, or perhaps you just don’t have time to troll Kickstarters listings …

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• 19 February

  HTC explains why 4 megapixels are better than 8

  

  Now playing: Watch this: HTC One wows with stunning design, premium parts 3:17 With its new flagship phone, the 4.7-inch HTC One, HTC has made the seemingly baffling choice of opting for a 4-megapixel camera, instead of an 8- or 13-megapixel unit of the kind seen on the high-end smartphones of its rivals. That doesn’t seem to bother the Taiwanese …

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• 19 February

  HTC One aims to make good first impression with all

  

  Take that, Apple. HTC believes it has one-upped its competition — including the marquee iPhone 5 — with its latest flagship smartphone. The HTC One features an all-aluminum construction that the company believes will set the phone apart at retail stores. “This takes premium to the next level,” Scott Croyle, HTC’s design guru, said in an interview with CNET. “It …

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• 19 February

  HTC’s ‘One’ phone to rule them all: Meet its latest flagship

  

  Now playing: Watch this: HTC One wows with stunning design, premium parts 3:17 NEW YORK — HTC gets another shot at a turnaround with its One smartphone. The company unveiled its latest Android smartphone today in a global launch that included simultaneous events in New York and London. HTC is getting even more serious about its push to streamline. Following …

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• 19 February

  Tegra 4i processor: small, fast and made for smartphones

  

  Nvidia hopes to challenge Qualcomm in the smartphone space with its Tegra 4i chipset. The Tegra 4i.(Credit: Nvidia) It’s no secret that flagship phones are getting faster and faster as processor speeds previously only seen in the likes of tablets make their way onto smartphones. At the moment, the market is mostly dominated by Qualcomm and the Snapdragon series of …

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• 19 February

  Google Nexus 7 and 10 first to try new Ubuntu tablet OS

  

  Ubuntu for tablets is a new operating system for slates, joining Ubuntu for phones — and you can try out features such as phone apps sharing the screen with tablet apps on your Google Nexus 7 or Nexus 10. Although it’s optimised for the ARM chips that power tablets, the tablet version of the OS shares most of its code with …

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• 19 February

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  Wireless carrier T-Mobile expanded its prepaid offerings today with the nationwide launch of GoSmart Mobile, a budget wireless service targeting consumers interested in low-cost unlimited plans. The service, which has been in beta mode in nine markets since December, is geared toward consumers more interested in voice and text services than high-speed Internet access. As such, GoSmart’s target audience includes …

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• 19 February

  HTC One takes display pixel density crown

  

  The HTC One has taken the pixel density crown, leaving phones like Retina iPhone 5 in the dust. First, to get a sense of the HTC One screen’s density, a quick comparison to Microsoft’s Surface Pro, which has also been praised for its display chops, puts this into perspective. The Surface Pro packs a resolution of 1,920×1,080 into a 10.6-inch …

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• 19 February

  Nexus 4, Galaxy Nexus enjoy exclusive Ubuntu Phone preview

  

  Is your Android phone too easy to use? Worry not! Canonical, the company behind the mildly popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, has promised an exclusive preview version of its Ubuntu Phone software will be available to download from 21 February — this Thursday. It won’t be open to every Android user though, with only two lucky Nexus devices able to install …

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• 19 February

  HTC devices held up at German airport over patent spat

  

  HTC’s big event today isn’t enough to overshadow an issue the company is having with Germany’s customs officers. According to the company, customs officers at the Frankfurt-Hahn airport held up HTC device shipments between February 4 and February 10. The seizure resulted from an ongoing patent war HTC is waging against patent-licensing company IPCom. Foss Patents was first to report …

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