January, 2013

• 7 January

  Sprint to sell Samsung and HTC Windows Phone 8 devices

  

  Sprint announced today that it will unveil two Windows Phone 8 devices by this summer — one from Samsung and another from HTC. The mobile carrier made the announcement with Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show today. “Sprint has had a strong relationship with Microsoft for many years so we are excited to reinforce our …

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• 7 January

  iPhone mini mooted for 2014, set to be cheapish

  

  Big phones are set to be all the rage in 2013, but just to buck the trend, it seems Apple could be releasing a smaller iPhone next year, according to one analyst. Strategy Analytics’ Neil Mawston reckons Apple will launch a mini mobile in 2014 to combat Samsung. The Korean company has fingers in many mobile pies, whereas Apple is …

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• 7 January

  Samsung details Galaxy S2 Jelly Bean update

  

  We heard whispers a few months ago that the venerated Samsung Galaxy S2 would be updated to spangly new Android Jelly Bean, but then it all went quiet. Until now, that is, as Samsung has posted some details on its website. It’s its Korean website, admittedly, but if it’s coming to our Seoul sisters, surely us Brits with S2s can’t …

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• 7 January

  Spy fears lead nuke lab to dump gear from HP unit, not Huawei

  

  Los Alamos National Laboratory is reportedly removing network switches made by a partnership that once included controversial Chinese telecommunication gear maker Huawei because of national security concerns. But Huawei, which was rebuked last fall by the House Intelligence Committee for posing a national threat because of potential ties to the Chinese government, hasn’t been part of H3C Technologies, the partnership …

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• 7 January

  Jelly Bean on 10 per cent of Android phones, Gingerbread falls

  

  The latest version of Google’s mobile software, Jelly Bean, has reached 10 per cent of all devices, according to the latest numbers just in from Android Developers. That’s calculated in the two weeks ending 3 January, and is up from just under 7 per cent at the start of December. The other big news is that crusty old Gingerbread is …

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• 7 January

  Man retrieves lost iPhone using dating service

  

  Picture the scene: you lose your iPhone on New Year’s Eve, only to see someone using it the next day on an online dating service. What would you do? If you’re a 27-year-old New York trombonist named Nadav Nirenberg, you pose online as a busty female to ensnare the thief into a date with destiny. Then you turn up with …

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• 7 January

  How to transfer files from an SD card onto a Nexus 7

  

  Google’s Nexus 7 is both cheap and powerful and its small size makes it easy to carry round. It has no SD card slot as standard, but with only a few steps and minimal fuss, you’ll quickly be able to transfer your images from your digital camera’s SD card. You can then review, edit and quickly share them without needing …

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• 7 January

  Tegra 4 is most powerful mobile phone chip yet

  

  Mobile phones just got a whole heap more powerful. Announced at annual gadget-fest CES in Las Vegas, the Nvidia Tegra 4 packs four cores, 4G and head-swimming graphics power to speed up the Web, gaming and video. The Tegra 4 chip sports four ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores, with 72 GeForce GPU cores to handle graphics, giving it around six times …

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• 7 January

  Samsung expects fourth

  

  Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, expects to post another record profit when it reveals its fourth-quarter results later this month on continued strong handset sales . The South Korean electronics giant estimated today that its fourth-quarter operating profit had jumped 88 percent to 8.8 trillion Korean won ($8.3 billion) over the year-ago period. The forecast, which would …

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• 7 January

  Samsung Galaxy S4 coming in May, could ditch home button

  

  Is this the Samsung Galaxy S4 — and has Samsung ditched the home button? We may have to wait until May to find out, as Samsung apparently confirms a release date for the next generation of Android powerhouse. That’s if we believe Samsung Lebanon, which told a Facebook fan that the S4 “won’t be released before May 2013”. Meanwhile a purported …

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