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Something we’ve always admired about Sony is that it’s embraced AOSP for its devices more than many manufacturers around, and it’s adding another device to that list. Today on the Sony Blog, the company announced that the Xperia Tablet Z would be getting the AOSP treatment. The Sony Xperia Tablet Z, alongside the Xperia Z,…
The Galaxy S4 launched in late April and has become the fastest selling smartphone in Samsung’s history. Samsung co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun told the Korea Times that the manufacturer is close to selling over 10M Galaxy S4 units in less than a month. This outpaces the Galaxy S3, which hit the 10 million mark in 50…
The NVIDIA Shield certainly has a fanbase that can’t wait to get their hands on the handheld console. In fact, the response for the Shield has produced enough buzz that the pre-order date has been pushed up to today, instead of the original pre-order date of the 20th. This certainly bodes well for the company.…
LG is apparently planning to beef-up its Optimus G line with a water-proof model. The Korean company has started sending out press invites for a May 22nd event in Taiwan, where it may unveil a slightly beefed-up version of the Optimus G. The new thing is IPX7 certification that makes sure the forthcoming Optimus GJ…
ASUS announced a slightly beefed-up version of the Fonepad in Taiwan. Instead of rocking a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z2420 processor and 16GB of internal storage, the new model comes with faster 1.6GHz Z2460 CPU and 32GB of memory (plus a microSD card slot if that’s not enough for you). We’ve no information when (or if)…
Sony’s upcoming Xperia UL smartphone has been caught in the wild on its way to Japan’s KDDI. Not all details are available at the moment, but we do know that this Sony handset will come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, which is also used in the LG Optimus G Pro and some versions of…
Kaspersky Lab has teamed-up with Qualcomm to pre-install its anti-virus software on Snapdragon-powered Android devices. Under the deal, vendors using Qualcomm’s chips will get special terms to offer Kaspersky’s software preloaded on their devices. In that sense, we expect to see both Kaspersky Mobile Security and Kaspersky Tablet Security solutions installed on many of the…
Thanks to a rumor from SamMobile, we now have some new insight to the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note III. Many rumors have been pointing to the device touting a flexible display and a metal casing; but SamMobile’s tipster has put those rumors to rest, claiming that Samsung’s next Note device will be touting a plastic…
The Archos 80 Xenon was unveiled today, adding to Archos’ Elements tablet line. The 8-inch device will come with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon S4 1.2 GHz processor and a 1024×768 IPS display, 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of storage which is expandable via a microSD card. It…
In case you missed it, Google has released an archive of it’s 2013 Google I/O Keynote presentation on its Youtube channel. It’s all there in its full and magnificent 3 hours and 51 minutes of glory. If you haven’t seen it you can watch it right here. If you watched it yesterday, here’s your chance to relive…