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At MWC in Barcelona, NVIDIA released some new benchmarks for their Tegra 4 family of processors,which are promising to bring some extreme improvements to the way smartphone and tablet processors function. So far, according to the benchmarks, the Tegra 4 is blowing away the competition. The processors are not on the market yet, but exist…
Lenovo has announced the release of three new tablets at MWC, the S6000, the A3000 and the A1000. We’ve gotten our hands on the two lower-end devices, the A3000 and the A1000. Here’s what it’s like to spend some time with Lenovo’s new the mid-range and entry-level tablets. As far as specs go, the Lenovo…
Alcatel One Touch Star was shown off at Mobile World Congress 2013. The Touch Star is a budget-friendly handset powered by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box. On the design side of things, the Star has a sleek finish to it, and it comes in white, black, or pink. The plastic doesn’t do…
As we reported yesterday, Lenovo announced three brand new Android tablets at Mobile World Congress 2013: the S6000, A3000, and A1000. The tablets are high-end, mid-range, and low-end, respectably. We have a hands-on right here with the beast of the bunch, the Lenovo S6000. For some review on specs, the S6000 features a 1.2GHz quad-core…
Alcatel unveiled its new 5-inch handset known as the One Touch Idol X. This device sports an ultra thin border around its edges and a quad-core processor under the hood. The One Touch Idol X carries some respectable features and specs, including a 1080p resolution display, 16GB of internal storage with an microSD card slot…
You may’ve noticed how today’s touchscreens can be imprecise. The technology is still not perfect but it’s getting there steadily with companies like Synaptics constantly pushing the barrier forward. Their newly launched ClearPad 3400 is a high-performance capacitive touchscreen solution specially tailored for premium smartphones (and phablets) with displays of up to six inches. Here’s…
Yandex is launching a new version of its Yandex.Shell app (formerly SPB Shell), which is one of the world’s most popular UI solutions for customizing Android-based smartphones. In fact, since the announcement in February 2012, the application has been downloaded more than one million times. As you probably already know, Yandex.Shell gives any Android phone…
The GSMA is out with a new report titled “The Mobile Economy 2013”, providing us with a comprehensive overview of the mobile industry today. At the same time, the report also outlines key opportunities and challenges for the industry over the next five years. Developed by the GSMA and A.T. Kearney, the wide-ranging study shares…
Opera Software announced the launch of its fully-owned subsidiary Opera Mediaworks, which will provide advertising, content distribution and monetization services to the global mobile marketplace. The new company was launched from Opera Software’s existing businesses and it already services more than 80,000 mobile sites and mobile applications. Put into numbers, that’s over 50 Billion ad…
Acer Iconia B1, the company’s low-end 7-inch tablet which was announced at this year’s CES, got a slightly beefed-up version in Barcelona, one that doubles the built-in storage to 16GB. Other than that, we’re talking about the same device that wants to find its audience among first-time tablet buyers on a budget. Again, the Iconia…