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Samsung used IFA as a springboard to announce the Galaxy Note II. The next generation phone-tablet will feature a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED display with 1280×720 resolution, a 1.6GHZ Exynos quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, an 8-megapixel rear shooter and a 1.9-megapixel web cam. It’ll be slightly thinner and slightly heavier than the original Note, due in…
Samsung might be one of the first vendors to announce a smartphone that will run the new Windows Phone 8 OS when it ships this fall. The device will go by the name of ATIV S — I’m not sure if you’re supposed to pronounce that as a whole word or with each individual letter,…
Today Sony is having its IFA event in Berlin where the company has already announced three new devices, the Xperia T, Xperia V, and Xperia J. Now the Japanese tech conglomerate has revealed news that its flagship Xperia T device will be featured in the next James Bond movie, Skyfall. To recap, the T phone…
What do you get when you take an ordinary-looking Samsung Android smartphone and build it in to the back of a compact camera? The Samsung Galaxy Camera. It’s real and minus the phone functionality, that’s pretty much what it is. The Galaxy Camera is a bulky device, but it has its reasons. The camera lens…
Sony kicked off the IFA trade show in Berlin today by introducing three new Android smartphones and one new Android tablet. Sony expanded its Xperia line with the high-end Xperia T, an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone with a 4.6-inch display (1280×720), a 1.5-GHZ dual-core Qualcomm Krait processor a 13-megapixel camera, NFC and PlayStation…
New images have surfaced of a mysterious HTC tablet from the notorious Twitter handle known as @evleaks. This is obviously a strange sighting considering how much the Taiwanese based manufacturer has struggled in the tablet game. In these leaked photos of the nameless slate, you’ll notice some interesting characteristics like a massive screen, giant chin…
Apple has 375 stores around the world, which tend to be focused in large, metropolitan areas. This makes it difficult for customers in rural areas to receive the same level of training and attention unless they’re willing to travel (sometimes several hundred miles) to get to their nearest Apple Store. Recognizing these issues, Apple is…
Popular last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight announced that it reached a major milestone today, hitting three million app downloads. While that’s impressive figure (and announcement) by itself, the company is going one step forward unveiling 10 new cities in the US and UK where its service is available, including Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, St. Louis,…
Cricket Wireless has made a change to its Android smartphone plans. Starting today, the MVNO will package its streaming music service called Muve as a standard part of its Android smartphone plans. Now customers will be able to reap the benefits of having unlimited text, picture and video messaging, mobile web and a big catalog…
Sears is offering the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 along with a free keyboard dock for $400. As you probably already know, the TF300 isn’t cool as the Infinity Pad, but it’s pretty awesome nevertheless, sporting NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixels screen, Wi-Fi, dual cameras, while Ice Cream Sandwich Jelly Bean is running…