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Acer is gearing towards unveiling a new phone at Mobile World Congress, taking place next week in Barcelona. The image above has been shared by the company across multiple social channels, showing a back of an unspecified smartphone with what seems as a great camera and fingerprint scanner. We’re not sure what this unit packs…
Apple iPad owners have one advantage over all other tablet owners – they get to choose between a larger number of available accessories. There are any number of different cases and bags they can buy, as well as keyboards. Today, we’ll talk about one keyboard made for the iPad Mini – Belkin’s FastFit Keyboard Case.…
Xiaomi has finally announced a successor to its popular Hongmi smartphone. Called Hongmi 1S, this model dumps MediaTek’s chip for the one made by Qualcomm – Snapdragon 400, which has four cores clocked at 1.6GHz. This chip also comes with improved GPU in the form of Adreno 305 that should deliver faster graphics. Rest of…
Geeks among us can’t wait to try out the upcoming Ubuntu smartphone. Canonical promised to bring us the true convergence, allowing users to run same apps across different devices. This means smartphones, tablets and computers. The main idea is simple… and sound. All you need is a powerful smartphone that, once docked, can work like…
In the same AMA session at Reddit where HTC announced its commitment to update North American smartphones for a period of two years, the company also said it will bring Windows Phone Blue to its 8X smartphone. Moreover, they may stay in the Windows Phone game despite their devices not selling that well. The exact…
We’ve already seen edible iPhone cases in the past… Building on top of that, Portland, Ore.-based Grove has partnered with Woodblock Chocolate to make the most delicious case ever. The model you can see above is “precision-milled from the solid blocks of dark chocolate. The fully functioning case is designed for a thin and sleek…
Microsoft may finally bring Office to the iPad by July, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley is reporting. This would make the software available on Apple’s tablet even before the touch-enabled version is ready for Windows and Windows RT devices. While that may sound crazy, one can’t forget that’s Office rather than Windows which makes most of…
BlackBerry is apparently gearing towards launching a new mid-level phone for the emerging markets. Codenamed “Jakarta,” this device may be known simply as BlackBerry Z3 and we may get to see it officially outed at Mobile World Congress next week. Here’s what this model will be all about (specs wise): 5-inch screen with qHD (540…
Google has acquired SlickLogin, the company behind sound-based authentication technology. The system is made to work with computers, relying on a smartphone as the authenticator. SlickLogin’s tech uses inaudible tones to verify who you are. First, your computer plays a series of sounds that humans can’t hear, but your phone can. The app on the…
HTC is apparently working on a music-centric phone and will release it during the first half of the year, EVleaks has tweeted. We’re left wondering about the details and can only guess what this unit will be all about. Chances are it will be a mid- rather than high-end model, with the latter position being…