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The Lenovo K900, which we know as the world’s first Android smartphone with Intel’s dual-core processor, will hit the streets on April 17th. Unsurprisingly, the company will start with China and only later expand to other countries. Price wise, we’re hearing that the K900 will go for 2,999 Yuan, which translates into roughly $483 (or…
Tomorrow is the day we’ve all been waiting for. Tomorrow in New York City, at the beautiful Radio City Music Hall, Samsung will be unveiling its new flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S IV. Although rumors have been flying for months now, with some of the juicier ones coming over the past few weeks, Samsung has remained…
LG is beating Samsung to the punch with eye recognition technology by announcing today that its new technology will be appearing soon on the Optimus G Pro. The new feature, called Smart Video, automatically plays and stops video without any manual input from the user, by tracking the user’s eye movements. The front camera can detect a…
The recently confirmed HTC One launch delay will have an effect on U.K. customers who have pre-ordered the device, Vodafone confirmed today. The impressive piece of hardware won’t be shipping on March 15th as was expected, but rather no later than April 3rd if all goes well. Vodafone had this to say: “HTC has confirmed there’s a…
Virgin Mobile has released a new commercial featuring the king of weird, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. The new ad is, trippy, to say the least; while it’s not as crazy as most of Coyne’s fake blood spewing live performances, it is cool enough to garner Richard Branson some hipster cred. The ad doesn’t feature any new Virgin…
According to AllThingsD, HTC’s flagship One handset will land on Verizon in the upcoming months. When the handset was announced earlier this year, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile each confirmed it would sell the handset. Noticeably absent from this list was Verizon Wireless, which said nothing about the phone. Sources familiar with the matter told AllThingsD…
Amazon is bringing their Kindle Fire HD 8.9 to Europe and Japan, offering the tablet for sale in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain, as well as dropping the price of units in the U.S. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is now priced $269 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version, and $399 for the The 4G version…
Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post that Andy Rubin is stepping down from his position as the head of Android development. Rubin will stay at Google and take on another role within the Mountain View company. Replacing him will be Sundar Pichai, who will lead Android as well as continue his work…
The people over at Tinhte got their hands on a mysterious Motorola phone that hasn’t been rumored or leaked via imagery in any way, yet the device sat in someone’s hands for a quite some time for showcase. You’ll notice on the bottom in small print the device reads “Motorola Confidential Property.” That didn’t work out too…
Remember that photo of people dancing in the street to promote Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S IV event? It turns out it wasn’t just a few people performing, but a full-blown flash mob that advertised Thursday’s big Galaxy S IV event. You can watch the flash mob in the video below and let us know in…