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Today, Lenovo is selling the 13.3 inch IdeaPad Yoga 13 Convertible Ultrabook Tablet Laptop . This tablet / Ultrabook hybrid retails for $1099.99, saving you $100. It comes pre-loaded with Windows 8, so you’ll be on the latest operating system. The Yoga is unique in that it has a hinge that allows you to rotate…
Apple, the company that is famous for attracting long lines to product launches like the iPhone or iPad at its retail stores worldwide, is in the news today for a similar reasons, but with a twist: the length of those lines, for once, were actually below many expectations. “The turnout for Apple’s release of the iPad Mini…
We can’t say we didn’t see this one coming. It looks like Google just got itself in some hot water with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC is getting ready to sue the search giant over allegedly abusing the patents that it acquired in the Motorola deal to block rival products over technologies that have become industry…
AT&T is ending the week on a strong note today, with the release of the Sony Xperia TL and LG Optimus G (check out our review here). These are two respectable flagship devices to choose from if you’re not getting the Nexus 4 or iPhone 5. The Optimus G hits the Death Star’s store shelves…
It’s the iPad mini launch day and people, particularly those who work for damage coverage and repair companies for gadgets, are wasting no time filming and uploading a drop test between the iPad mini and its competitors. That’s exactly what SquareTrade did. The drop test is already up on YouTube and it pits Apple’s iPad…
SellCell.com, a website service that allows you to find the best buy-back deal for your phone or tablet, released new statistics about tablet trade-ins. It particularly revolves around Apple’s recent unveiling of the fourth-generation iPad and new iPad mini. Since that announcement, it turns out iPad trade-ins have skyrocketed up 500 percent. The Apple iPad…
Microsoft is in talks with suppliers in Asia to make its own smartphone, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Like most handsets on the market today, the source in the report claims the phone is supposed to be between four and five inches. The folks behind the testing of this device, don’t…
Motorola announced a new Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone for US Cellular – ELECTRIFY M. Available on uscellular.com on November 8 and in the operator’s stores the next day, this Moto baby comes with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced qHD screen, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera on the back, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one, 8GB…
Google has released the latest platform distribution numbers on the company’s Android Developer Dashboard, and it paints a familiar picture of the Android landscape. Android 2.3 Gingerbread, now officially 2 years old, continues to dominate the charts, with 54.2% of all devices running on the platform. Android’s tablet-focused 3.X Honeycomb is in 1.8% of all…
Nokia announced a new member of its low-cost family of devices – Nokia 109. This cheap feature phone is designed to “connect the next billion and beyond to the Internet” packing the Opera Mini-like Nokia Xpress Browser, which reduces the data consumption of web pages by up to 90% to deliver inexpensive web experience. In…