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Goldgenie, the company responsible most recently for the gold Blackberry Q10, has done it again. Now a gold or platinum HTC One can be yours, though it’ll cost you a pretty penny. The gold-plated One is retailing for about $2,900 American! Famed for introducing the Gold Superstar iPhone series to the market along with the Gold Samsung…
AT&T is offering 50% its devices when purchased online with a two-year contract, from now until June 30th. The deal comes attached to another offer, which is an in-store trade-in program which applies a $100 discount when a customer trades in a device no more than 3 years old. Android Central pointed to the fine…
Samsung Petrochemical, the materials wing of Samsung, has formed a partnership with SGL Group to invest in developing composite materials. Samsung’s plasticky phones may be a thing of the past! Carbon based products firm, SGL Group, has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Samsung to develop electronics that use carbon composite. Carbon fiber is commonly…
Anyone with both a smartphone and a car knows the perils the car charger. Whether it ends up wrapped around the shifter, the parking break, or your passenger’s leg, the long, thin cable snaking from beneath your radio is always getting in the way, and tangling itself in knots. Now TYLT has come up with…
Some new pictures of Sony’s rumored Togari phablet are here today, as well as a name change. The Togari will in fact be named the Xperia ZU, and will feature a Galaxy Note like build without physical navigation keys. The leaked pictures depict the white Xperia ZU, which keeps to the design aesthetics of the…
Huawei has announced the MediaPad 7 Vogue today, a seven-inch tablet that sets itself apart from other similarly sized Android tablets by offering voice calling and SMS. The MediaPad 7’s receiver functions on quad-band GSM and UMTS networks, and can support 3G connections of up to 42MBPS. The MediaPad 7 will also come in a…
HP is thinking big when it comes Android, rolling out the mobile OS on a 21.5-inch hybrid all-in-one tablet. According to CNET, the HP Slate 21 functions as a standalone tablet as well as a desktop with keyboard and mouse. The Slate 21 is powered by a Tegra 4 mobile processor with a 21.5-inch HD…
Samsung announced that its new suite of Galaxy Tab’s will finally hit the United States in a couple of weeks. This comes after the company said the tabs were coming to Canada of few days ago. The Tab 3 series include 10.1, 8 and 7-inch tablets. All three of these tabs are up for grabs on…
Last week at the NBA Finals, Samsung and Jay-Z announced that Jay-Z’s upcoming album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, would be available for free for owners of a Samsung Galaxy S 3, Galaxy S 4 and Galaxy Note 2 who download the app and are one of the first million people to install it. The album…
The recently announced HTC Desire 600 is now available in China. The local version of the device — marked as Desire 606w — is selling for 2,499 CNY, the amount that translates into around $408. Interested users can choose between the black, white and brown models. Aside from China, HTC will also bring this mid-end…