Rivals have taken note of the Samsung Galaxy Note‘s success: details are emerging of the HTC DLX, a 5-inch Android phone-cum-tablet. Well-informed HTC modder Football quotes specs for the rumoured DLX, which at 5 inches straddles the divide between smart phone and tablet. That 5-inch display is a high-definition 1080p job. Underneath that sizable slab …
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10 October
HTC makes no promises for new tablets
HTC doesn’t plan on announcing a new Android-based tablet for the United States anytime soon, according to statements directly from the Taiwanese company. Calling its previous efforts (HTC Flyer, Evo View 4G, and HTC Jetstream) its “first foray”, HTC indicates it was pleased with results. In a written statement provided to CNET, Jeff Gordon, HTC’s global online communications manager, suggests …
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10 October
Can BB10 save BlackBerry from disaster?
I remember picking up my email for the first time on my mobile over 10 years ago. I was using one of the first BlackBerry phones, and it felt a little bit like magic. If someone sent me a message, it just arrived — I didn’t need to ask the phone to check for it, and the Qwerty keyboard was …
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10 October
New wave of complaints hound Huawei, ZTE in U.S.
Now playing: Watch this: Lawmakers telling US companies not to buy from Huawei… 5:26 Huawei and ZTE, two of China’s largest and most successful mobile companies, are once again under fire in the U.S. Over the last couple of days, the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has received “dozens and dozens” of calls complaining about Huawei and ZTE, Reuters …
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10 October
Samsung exec confirms Galaxy S3 ‘mini’ is on the way
The Galaxy S3 close up. On Thursday, Samsung will announce the ‘mini’ version of the popular smartphone. Samsung has confirmed that it will unveil a smaller version of the popular Galaxy S III smartphone tomorrow. Speaking to Korean media this morning, Samsung mobile chief JK Shin said that Samsung will lift the lid on a 4-inch version of the Android-powered …
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10 October
iPhone 5 so easy to scratch, factory can’t meet shortages
Shortages of the iPhone 5 are down to the material it’s made of — which is so easy to mark and scuff that factory workers are reportedly struggling to build them to a standard that’s up to scratch. Factory workers are finding it difficult to keep the iPhone’s anodised aluminium casings pristine enough to meet Apple’s lofty standards, Bloomberg reports. And …
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T-Mobile USA may be behind its rivals when it comes to 4G LTE, but that doesn’t mean it’s mincing words about its ambitions. T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray. T-Mobile AT&T and Verizon Wireless may be able to boast of a super-fast wireless connection now, but T-Mobile believes it can one-up both of them when it finally gets its LTE network rollout …
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10 October
Groupon targets restaurateurs with new iPad app Breadcrumb
Apple’s iPad is now home to a Groupon application designed for restaurants. Dubbed Breadcrumb, the application is meant to include everything a restaurant would need to handle transactions. The application includes menus, allowing servers to input a person’s order and send it off to the kitchen. In addition, restaurant owners will be able to manage their tables to see what’s …
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10 October
How to get Jelly Bean on your Samsung Galaxy S3
If you’ve munched your way through Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and you’re still craving the next sugary Android fix — and can’t wait for the software update to be dished out to your Samsung Galaxy S3 — then read on. Jelly Bean (or Android 4.1, if you want to be all serious about it), was launched with the …
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10 October
FyreTV creates the first native Google TV porn app
Adult-video purveyor FyreTV has created a native third-party Android app for Google TV. The FyreTV logo(Credit: FyreTV) One of Google TV’s lesser-known features is its ability to install third-party apps from sources other than the Google Play Store, and it’s this feature that FyreTV is exploiting. GigaOM reported that FyreTV — a company that hopes to be the “Netflix of …
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