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The NVIDIA Shield is the latest and greatest mobile gaming device around, and the guys over at iFixit just tore the handheld to shreds. Tastefully, of course. If you wanted to see all of the innards of the ultra powerful device, you now can! Given how unique the Shield is, this gadget porn is just…
This afternoon at a press event in New York City, Motorola will unveil its flagship phone, the Moto X. It’ll be a closed event, which means there will be no live stream. Motorola will be tweeting the details on its Twitter account, and we will have coverage here. The handset is supposedly the first phone…
Yeah, we knew this is coming and voila… Xiaomi has officially announced the Red Rice smartphone, making it the lowest-end device in its portfolio. As we’ve told you before, this phone will pack quite a bang for the buck. It rocks a 4.7-inch 720p HD screen, 1.5GHz quad-core processor (MediaTek MT6589T) and the price of…
We’ve already seen the Galaxy S4 in Purple Mirage but we didn’t know it will also be available in Pink Twilight. Well, both of those variants have been officially announced in Taiwan and should start selling soon for NT$21,900 (about $729) for the 16GB variant. That, of course, is the price of the unlocked device,…
It was back in January 2012 when we saw Archos’ 35 Smart Home Phone, a DECT-based Android device that wanted to replace your plain-vanilla cordless phone. Now Panasonic unveiled a similar product that also runs Google’s mobile platform, while boasting slightly better specs (than Archos’ product). However, it’s still not a high-end phone by any…
BGR got its hands on a snapshot of BlackBerry Messenger running on a Galaxy S3. There's not much revealing in the image, just a login screen, but commentary from the source of the leak says the software "isn't bad." That's not exactly a glowing recommendation, but can we really expect people to get excited about…
While smartphones today provide language translation options, they can sometimes be awkward and hard to use when stuck in a situation where time is of the essence. A new peripheral called Sigmo is looking to change all that, by providing a universal translator housed in a small plastic box. The device contains both a microphone…
You might be able to use Google Glass in the shower but, in Britain at least, you won’t be able to use it behind the wheel. British magazine Stuff recently revealed that regulators in the U.K. are moving to ban the use of Google Glass when operating an automobile. A U.K. Department for Transport outlined the…
NEC has announced that it is pulling out of the smartphone business today, citing a downward slide in smartphone sales in an increasingly competitive smartphone market. NEC will still continue to produce tablets, and is focusing on its “Social Solutions Business,” which focuses on information and communications technologies. The company will still support recently released…
Zynga filed suit against the maker of Bang with Friends today in a San Francisco federal court. Zynga has many titles that end in “with friends” such as Words with Friends, Chess with Friends, and Hanging with Friends. The suit alleges the defendant “selected the name ‘Bang With Friends’ for its casual sex matchmaking app…