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According to the Verge, Google will be making its Google Glass wearable tech available for sale to the public at the end of 2013. The price tag is a bit hefty, coming in at a little under $1500. Google has stated that it intends to have a “fully-polished” version of Glass available, and that the…
We’ve seen some interesting applications of augmented reality over the past few years, ranging from everything from games such as Google’s Ingress to apps that help you calculate how far to drive your golf ball while on the green. The only catch with AR is the battery power that these apps drain from smartphones, limiting…
Qualcomm has announced today the Snapdragon 400 and 200 chipsets, which are to provide quality battery life, connectivity and performance to the mid to entry-level devices that will be utilizing these chipsets. With the expansion of the premium handset market coming to a standstill, many manufacturers are looking to emerging markets to expand their market share. The…
A possibly leaked photo of the motherboard of the next-generation iPhone reveals that the upcoming smartphone will continue along the release pattern Apple currently has in place, which is a major update then minor year after year. However, minor or not, it should still receive a spec bump, especially considering that pictured above might be…
Former Microsoft employee Joachim Kempin spoke out to ReadWrite in an interview about the company. He wrote a book entitled Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft’s `Secret Power Broker’ Breaks His Silence in which he doesn’t shy away from criticizing the company’s current executives, products, and business plans. He joined Microsoft in 1983 and stayed there for almost two…
Last night while watching the Grammys, one of the ads to actually catch my attention (aside from the Herbal Essences commercial in which the woman seemed to be a little too sexually aroused by her shampoo) was from none other than Microsoft. It was the new Surface Pro commercial the company put out to advertise…
Nokia, the mobile phone vendor that has been focusing on Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS more than any other hardware manufacturer, hinted in an interview that Windows 8 tablets might be in its future. Specifically, CEO Stephen Elop told Australian Financial Review the company is examining how other form factors beyond just smartphones would play out for…
A spokesperson for Microsoft confirmed today that the 64GB flavor of the Microsoft Surface Pro, which goes on sale February 9th, will have a dramatically low amount of storage that buyers can actually utilize. Only 23GB of the 64GB is available to users to store their own content. That’s less than half of the total…
LG announced today that since the Optimus G smartphone hit the market, it has reached the coveted milestone of selling one million handsets. I use the word “coveted” because unless your company is selling a Galaxy line of Android smartphones or the iPhone, you wait quite a while to get there, if ever. The Optimus…
HTC was waiting a bit longer to let the public feast their eyes on its latest flagship handset, but the device fell into the hands of @evleaks at UnwiredView a little earlier than expected. Pictured above, it seems to be a prototype rather than a smartphone that’s ready for market due to the lack of any…