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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…
Despite numerous reports that Apple is falling behind on supplying carriers and customers with iPhone 5s to meet demand, AT&T came out strong with its Q3 2012 numbers especially when compared to the year-ago quarter. The carrier rose to 4.7 million iPhone activations in the third quarter of 2012. That’s up from 3.7 million in…
Twitter account @evleaks tweeted early this morning some specs about the LG Nexus 4, the manufacturer’s purported contribution to Google’s Nexus line of Android devices. Most of the information @evleaks released has already been floating around the Internet, but with just another source telling the same story, the Nexus 4 is all but confirmed at this…
Let me just start off by saying that I really like the Microsoft Surface. Judging by the initial product announcement in June and even most of the information that has floated around since then. It looks like a quality piece of hardware with a pretty good operating system. Windows 8 should shine on tablets —…
HTC has a very nice treat in store for fans of its One line of smartphones who haven’t gotten the chance to pick one up yet. The manufacturer is introducing a special edition version of the One S, dubbed the One S SE, that gives the device an elegant new white color as well as…
Sony has yet to be invited by Google to create a smartphone that would join the Nexus family, at least up until now. The Wall Street Journal reported in May that Google would start allowing multiple manufacturers to create Nexus devices and expand the line and here we have pictured what appears to be Sony’s entry.…
Well, well, well; look what we have here. It’s the two phones that everybody loves to hate, the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III. Android lovers usually despise the iPhone 5 and iOS lovers usually despise the Galaxy S III. We’ve pitted them head to head to determine which of these devices…
At 1 p.m. Beijing time today, about 3,000 to 4,000 Foxconn production workers (ironically) went on strike due to strict demands to keep up with high quality standards for products, namely the Apple iPhone 5. There have been multiple conflicts, sometimes physical, between inspectors and workers that Foxconn decided to overlook plus high pressure to meet…
Invitations are going out to the press for a Surface tablet event (or reception, as the invitation chooses to word it) by none other than the Redmond-based Microsoft. The top of the invite reads “You’re invited to celebrate Windows 8” on October 25th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s pretty easy to decipher the…
Fortune is reporting this morning that it has received word from an Apple investor with “multiple sources” that Apple is planning to send out invitations on October 10th for an iPad mini keynote event. The source who wishes to remain anonymous said that the rumors floating around the Internet for the past few months are largely…