The Samsung Galaxy S3 has arrived, and with it a slew of accessories. If you want to fancy-up your phone, there’s a range of covers, docks and chargers, as well as a C-Pen stylus. The S3 sports a giant 4.8-inch screen, so Samsung is giving you the option of a stylus for writing, browsing, and …
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10 May
Samsung Galaxy S3 in blue or white, inventory snap suggests
A sneaky shot supposedly showing Carphone Warehouse’s inventory system suggests that the Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available in blue or white colour options. The image, sent to GSMArena by an anonymous tipster, lists two products, ‘Samsung Galaxy S3 Blue’ and ‘Samsung Galaxy S3 White’, bearing product codes ‘SAMSGHGLYXBLUE’ and ‘SAMSGHGLYXWHI’. Intriguing stuff. Those of you concerned that Samsung could be …
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10 May
Snapkeys calls for the death of the QWERTY keyboard
NEW ORLEANS–You know all that typing on your phone’s virtual keyboard? Snapkeys says that so long as you’re using a QWERTY layout, you’re doing it wrong. The company believes that there’s little logic to the traditional way a keyboard’s arranged, and instead offers up an onscreen virtual keyboard that uses only four buttons. The buttons are organized by letter types: …
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10 May
Cricket shifts full throttle with high
NEW ORLEANS–Cricket subscribers have spoken — they want more premium phones — and now the prepaid carrier is ready to deliver. Cricket customers are beginning to care much more about technical specifications like larger screens, faster processors, and better cameras. Significant sales of the Huawei Mercury, which leaped to an more than10 percent adoption rate in the course of two …
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10 May
HD branding doesn’t guarantee HD quality
Just because you have an HDTV and what you’re watching is advertised as being HD, doesn’t mean you’re watching or seeing HD video. Not all HD is the same. For that matter, just because you have an HDTV doesn’t mean you’re actually watching high-definition video. A variety of factors could be conspiring to create an image that’s not nearly as …
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10 May
Samsung ES9500 55
Get a load of this: hot off the assembly line, the 55-inch Samsung ES9500 OLED TV looks set to be the first OLED television to grace living rooms — for a princely sum, of course. OLED screens offer substantially better picture quality than on current TVs — and can be put together in some crazy ways — but are so …
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10 May
Samsung OLED will retail for $9,000
Samsung has announced that its ES9500 OLED TV will launch in South Korea in the second half of 2012 at a price equivalent to $9,000 U.S. The TV, formally known as the Samsung Super OLED, will retail for 10 million won ($8,760 U.S.) and is expected to compete with LG’s own OLED panel, the EM9600. The LG is also due …
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10 May
TiVo update brings new Netflix, YouTube apps, parental controls
TiVo’s been on a roll with keeping its promises lately (though I probably just jinxed it by saying that). First, it updated large sections of the HD interface in January, and then it actually started rolling out Comcast Xfinity On Demand support, and now comes a software update with shiny new apps for Netflix and YouTube. Well, new to TiVo …
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10 May
Dyson engineer talks Hot+Cool AM04
Now playing: Watch this: Blowing hot air with a Dyson engineer 4:24 It first hit the market late last year, but summer is not a good time to sell heaters in Australia. Now that it’s getting cooler, Dyson has kicked off a fresh look at the AM04 Hot+Cool Air Multiplier, featuring Dyson’s smart new take on the idea of the …
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10 May
Dish touts new ‘Auto Hop’ commercial
What feature have viewers been waiting for since the “beginning of television?” According to Dish, it’s commercial-free TV, and it’s added a new “Auto Hop” feature to its Hopper HD DVR system that allows you to jump over all commercials in recorded prime-time programs from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC when viewed a day after airing. We’re not sure exactly …
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