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Texas Instruments, or TI, announced in Barcelona today its new Me-D experiences, which are interactions and gestures that TI boasts as capable of freeing users from the limitations of the physical mobile space. With TI’s new OMAP 4 platform, which we should be seeing in use later this year, the Me-D experience ought to be…
If you thought the dual-core Tegra 2 inside tablets like the Motorola Xoom was impressive, you should know that Qualcomm just announced a quad-core SnapDragon processor for tablets that can reach up to 2.5 GHz per core. The quad-core SnapDragon APQ8064 chip is aimed at supporting larger screens and resolutions, as well as dealing with…
Samsung is trying to keep up with the high-quality image game when it comes to its feature phones and smartphones, so it developed at 12MP CMOS sensor that looks to be a killer in terms of low-light performance. The new sensors feature 1.12 micron pixels, which is slightly smaller than that of the iPhone 4’s…
Well folks, it’s about that time – time to find out what HP and Palm have been up to with WebOS. We’re not exactly sure what we’ll see at tomorrow’s HP press conference, but we have a few good guesses.. One thing we can be almost positive about is that HP will announce their WebOS…
It’s no surprise that as we’ve become more mobile, and our phones become more like mini-computers, the sales and adoption of smartphones would outpace that of personal computers. One could even argue that our smartphones are indeed small computers that fit right into our pockets. We can send e-mail, check our Facebook and Twitter accounts,…
Sprint just announced the Kyocera Echo tonight in New York City and the response has been a bit mixed. Judging from the live blog alone, reader reception has been underwhelming. We took a closer look at the device, and while the dual-screen form factor is neat and novel, it’s certainly not groundbreaking by any means.…
In classic style, iFixit took apart a Verizon iPhone and studied what makes it tick. While most of the report was standard fare, the teardown analysis does reveal a few surprises, including the presence of a Qualcomm MDM6600 baseband chip. It is a Verizon smartphone and a Qualcomm CDMA chip was expected, but the presence…
On Monday, Alcatel-Lucent introduced lightRadio, a new architecture for cellular hardware that promises to lower energy costs, improve bandwidth capabilities and simplify the process of building out a cellular network. Currently, each cell phone tower includes a set of large antennas at the top of the tower and a trailer at the base of the…
If you’re looking to buy or sell a used Android phone, then Swappa may be just for you. Swappa is a simple and to the point site that allows you to purchase or sell your Android phone without having to go through eBay or Craigslist to do so. If you’re in the market for a…
We’re hoping and expecting to hear from Apple on the iPad 2 now, but until then, feast your eyes on the puppy above – an LCD display believed to be for the iPad 2. How exciting is that?! OK, perhaps it’s not really all that riveting, but a few details are revealed about the upcoming…