Fancy firing up Android apps on your telly? You could do just that with the LG’s Google TV, the first telly to use the system announced for the UK. Google TV puts Google in your gogglebox by using Android — Google’s mobile phone and tablet software — to run your telly. Sadly, although it’s the …
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5 January
Apple patent application details password
In a recent patent application uncovered by The Apple Blog, Apple has detailed a system for allowing your power adapter to become a security key for your password recovery process. Screenshot by The Apple Blog In basic terms, should you forget your password, an onscreen recovery application would prompt you to plug in your specific power adapter to confirm your …
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5 January
RIM puts resources behind single BlackBerry 10 device, report says
Research in Motion is reportedly putting its eggs into one BlackBerry 10 basket. The beleaguered BlackBerry maker scrapping a few projects and focusing on a single BlackBerry 10 smartphone, codenamed London, according to a report from Boy Genius Report. The phone looks similar to the one that The Verge reported on in November. A RIM representative wasn’t immediately available to …
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5 January
Ad mix
Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET The Galaxy Nexus could be making its way to Sprint Nextel’s upcoming 4G LTE network. An advertisement that was accidentally published on one of CNET’s Consumer Electronics Show pages showed off the Galaxy Nexus, currently only on Verizon Wireless, as a phone that will run on Sprint’s 4G LTE network. To ensure no confusion with its …
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5 January
Tablets of 2011 that never were
An embarrassing number of tablets from 2011 should never have been made. No one was safe, not even big manufacturers like HP and RIM. In hindsight, it might have been smarter for some companies to just put their half-baked designs back in the oven. Sure, it might cause some short-term embarrassment. Stockholders would be left puzzled. Products would miss their …
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5 January
Moto’s two new Android phones are anywhere but here
Motorola Mobility today announced a pair of Gingerbread Android smartphones that will arrive in Greater China, Europe, and Latin America in the coming weeks. First up is the MotoLuxe, a touch-only smartphone with a 4.0-inch (480×854-pixel) display, an 800MHz processor, a 512MB RAM, and 1GB ROM. Though certainly not the top-of-the-line stuff that we’ve seen out of Motorola over the …
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5 January
Sprint to launch 4G LTE in 10 cities by the end of June
Sprint Nextel is looking to get its 4G LTE rolled out sooner, rather than later. Dan Hesse at Sprint headquarters in July Kent German/CNET Sprint plans to launch its 4G LTE service, part of its Network Vision upgrade plan, in 10 markets by the first half of the year. That includes major cities including Dallas (AT&T’s headquarters), San Antonio, Houston, …
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5 January
U.S. Cellular: We’ll have LTE phones by April, we swear
CES, shmee-ee-es. Why wait for the country’s largest consumer electronics show to announce new products and services when you can break the news yourself over Twitter? That must have been the logic behind U.S. Cellular’s tweet this afternoon promising a 4G LTE smartphone and tablet by March and April, respectively. Although the nation’s sixth-largest carrier hasn’t shared much more about …
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5 January
AT&T amps up its 4G LTE network
Verizon may have been the first to roll out a blazing 4G cellular network using LTE technology but AT&T is hot on Big Red’s heels. Today the carrier announced it now has expanded its own LTE service to 11 new markets now covering New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. This brings the total number of regions under the carrier’s …
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5 January
That’s a phone in my pocket, but I’m still happy to see you
Hello readers! Josh Miller I’m Lynn, and I am the new associate editor for phone reviews at CNET. I’m so thankful to be able to write and report for you guys about all things mobile. The people at CNET run a great operation, and I’m excited to be working for a site whose readers are a passionate bunch. I’ve been …
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