LG’s future with Windows Phone 7 is up in the air at the moment, but a prototype of a device the company had reportedly planned to launch has surfaced. The folks over at Windows Phone 7 tracker WP Central claim to have gotten their hands on the LG E740 “Fantasy.” The device, the blog claims, …
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May, 2012
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1 May
Should I see Avengers Assemble in 3D?
I donned my superhero cape and 3D specs to check out Avengers Assemble, the new film featuring Earth’s mightiest heroes, The Avengers. Is it worth seeing in 3D? Based on the Marvel Comics characters, Avengers Assemble sees leather-coated Samuel L Jackson recruit a roll call of superheroes when a powerful energy source is stolen, or somesuch. The Avengers are supersoldier …
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April, 2012
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30 April
Can Microsoft get LG excited about Windows Phone again?
Microsoft is going to have to work quickly if it wants to avoid losing a Windows Phone supporter in LG. Following another disappointing quarter of sales decline in its key mobile devices business, LG said the company hasn’t seen much success with Microsoft’s mobile platform and doesn’t expect to make any Windows Phone products in the near future. According to …
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30 April
Wozniak: WP7.5 more intuitive and beautiful than Android
Never far from the limelight, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has popped up in an interview with a New Domain (via The Verge). And the man loves Microsoft’s Windows Phone. During the seven minute pow-wow, Woz waxes lyrical over the mobile operating system, repeatedly complimenting it on its looks, calling it “more intuitive and beautiful” than Android. He even said iOS feels …
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30 April
4G to speed up the Web for 10m people, pump £75bn into UK
4G will give superfast broadband to at least 10 million people who can’t get decent Internet speeds any other way, according to the people behind Orange and T-Mobile. The two phone companies are owned by Everything Everywhere, which plans to establish a superfast LTE mobile broadband network before the end of the year. Everything Everywhere reckons this new speeded-up mobile …
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30 April
Terrible picture of Samsung Galaxy S3 shows 4.7in screen
This blurry pic was sent to Know Your Mobile, and the tipster claims it’s the Samsung Galaxy S3. They also claim the phone will feature a 4.8-inch screen. It’s pretty hard to tell, with a picture of this quality, but let’s look at the evidence. The source says there are no hardware buttons on the device, though the same source …
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30 April
Windows Phone version of Samsung Galaxy S3 coming?
Just days before the Galaxy S3 is officially unveiled comes word that the Android device will be making the jump to Windows Phone soon. According to Windows Phone Life, Samsung will use the Galaxy S3 as the basis for its first Windows Phone 8 device. So while the phone will have the same design and specs as the S3, it’ll …
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30 April
iPhone keyboard was a ‘heated topic’ reveals ex
The decision to ditch the common physical keyboard in favour of a full touchscreen was a ‘heated topic’ within Apple, an ex-employee has revealed. In an interview with The Verge, former Apple exec Tony Fadell says that initially there were three iPhone prototypes, one of which was an ‘iPod plus phone’ that had a click wheel like Apple’s music boxes …
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30 April
Java creator James Gosling: ‘Google totally slimed Sun’
James Gosling has a great deal of his life invested in Java. He is considered the father of the programming language, which was launched by Sun in 1995 and runs on billions of digital devices, and is currently at the center of a contentious legal battle between Oracle and Google. Up until Saturday night — when he wrote that “Google totally …
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30 April
How Nvidia can accelerate the graphics in your apps
Riptide looks better on a Tegra 3 chip than without, according to Nvidia. Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET If you want to create some pretty apps, look to Nvidia. The company, best known for its graphics processors in PCs and laptops, has during the past year branched out into the mobile world with its ARM-based Tegra processor, specifically designed for mobile …
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