Sony is working on a successor to its Tablet S it seems, after plans were submitted to the FCC, the US phone governance body, for a tablet with the designation ‘SGPT1211’. The filing, spotted by Xperia Blog, doesn’t cover just one device, but six. Three for the US, and three for Canada, named SGPT121, 122 …
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10 July
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 goes 5.5
If you thought the Samsung Galaxy Note was big, wait until you get a load of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 — it’s set to be even bigger than the ginormous current model. The Note 2 is reported to be a 5.5-inch slab of a phone, a slight but potentially noticeable size increase over the current version’s 5.3-inch screen. Korean …
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10 July
Nokia Lumia Dogphone is weirdest codename yet
A bunch of potential new Nokia Lumia phones powered by Windows Phone have whispered their names online. Various clues suggest a new Nokia Lumia 910, a Lumia 1001, a Lumia 920 and a Lumia 950. Oh, and something called a Dogphone. Other codenames appear in developer’s logs spotted by Chinese blog WPDang, including the Nokia Fluid, Nokia Phi, P4301, and …
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Just when you thought that T-Mobile couldn’t possibly confuse us more with its myTouch family of smartphones, here come reboots of the myTouch and myTouch Q, this time made by Huawei rather than by LG. The two new Android 2.3 Gingerbread handsets feature 4G, a 4.0 WVGA touch screen, a 1.4GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, and a …
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10 July
Asian phone buyers looking to buy more local, instead of Nokia
Local handset makers are giving Nokia a run for its money in Asian markets such as Indonesia and India, where the Finnish company has traditionally been strong in. In a research note released yesterday, ABI Research stated that the Asian handset market will see 624 million devices sold by the end of the year, thus representing a 6.9 percent year-on-year …
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10 July
How RIM’s new marketing chief sees its developer prospects
Frank Boulben, the new chief marketing officer at Research In Motion, did his homework before joining the company. Boulben, who jumped off the sinking ship that was wireless startup LightSquared, tapped his Rolodex of contacts and friends within the carrier and developer communities to see if the RIM position was a job worth taking. To his surprise, he found there …
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10 July
Kobo Touch update adds wish list, recommendations
A new update for the Kobo Touch adds recommendations, a wish-list function and an improved user interface. (Credit: Michelle Starr/CNET Australia) Version 2.0 of the Kobo OS was released today, making the e-reader much more streamlined. Among the improvements are a streamlined home screen, personalised book recommendations based on what’s in your Library, Font Tuning to make text sharper and …
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10 July
Motorola announces Android 4.0 smartphones for Canada
Motorola Mobility today announced a pair of new Android-powered smartphones set to arrive in Canada in the coming weeks. Both the Atrix HD LTE and Razr V are expected to run Android 4.0, feature Kevlar fiber protection, and offer similar form factors. While they might look similar on the surface, there are a number of differences tucked under their hoods. …
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10 July
Universal search reportedly vanishes from Galaxy S3
As Apple and Samsung spar over universal search in the new Galaxy Nexus, it appears Samsung has quietly removed the feature from the Galaxy S3 in an effort to keep the new smartphones on retailers’ shelves. Soon after a U.S. judge denied Samsung’s request earlier this month to suspend a ban on U.S. sales of its Galaxy Nexus phone over …
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10 July
Amazon smartphone reportedly already in testing
Amazon is already testing a smartphone with Asian component suppliers that could be in production as early as this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. The smartphone that Amazon is currently testing has a screen size of between four and five inches, one of the Journal’s sources says. The report seems to support a Bloomberg report last week that the …
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