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We’re a bit surprised it took this long for a company to make a 7 inch tablet that it wants you to make calls with. Asus announced such a device, the FonePad, and after seeing the spec list of this hybrid device, you just might be fine putting it up to your face for a…
LG is providing us with a glimpse of a new technology that will bring wireless transmission of content from smartphones to Ultra HD TV’s in real time. The technology can take 1080p video and transmit it to a TV. LG’s Wireless Ultra High Definition Transmission technology will be debuted at MWC in Barcelona earlier today, and is…
At MWC in Barcelona, NVIDIA released some new benchmarks for their Tegra 4 family of processors,which are promising to bring some extreme improvements to the way smartphone and tablet processors function. So far, according to the benchmarks, the Tegra 4 is blowing away the competition. The processors are not on the market yet, but exist…
Lenovo has announced the release of three new tablets at MWC, the S6000, the A3000 and the A1000. We’ve gotten our hands on the two lower-end devices, the A3000 and the A1000. Here’s what it’s like to spend some time with Lenovo’s new the mid-range and entry-level tablets. As far as specs go, the Lenovo…
Alcatel One Touch Star was shown off at Mobile World Congress 2013. The Touch Star is a budget-friendly handset powered by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box. On the design side of things, the Star has a sleek finish to it, and it comes in white, black, or pink. The plastic doesn’t do…
As we reported yesterday, Lenovo announced three brand new Android tablets at Mobile World Congress 2013: the S6000, A3000, and A1000. The tablets are high-end, mid-range, and low-end, respectably. We have a hands-on right here with the beast of the bunch, the Lenovo S6000. For some review on specs, the S6000 features a 1.2GHz quad-core…
Alcatel unveiled its new 5-inch handset known as the One Touch Idol X. This device sports an ultra thin border around its edges and a quad-core processor under the hood. The One Touch Idol X carries some respectable features and specs, including a 1080p resolution display, 16GB of internal storage with an microSD card slot…
Samsung and Apple both prepared high-profile commercials that aired last night during the Oscars. As noted by Apple 2.0, each company took a different approach in how they spent their advertising dollars. Samsung used storytelling and a celebrities to chronicle the development of the Unicorn Apocalypse game in six ads that aired throughout the Oscars.…
Yandex is launching a new version of its Yandex.Shell app (formerly SPB Shell), which is one of the world’s most popular UI solutions for customizing Android-based smartphones. In fact, since the announcement in February 2012, the application has been downloaded more than one million times. As you probably already know, Yandex.Shell gives any Android phone…
Acer Iconia B1, the company’s low-end 7-inch tablet which was announced at this year’s CES, got a slightly beefed-up version in Barcelona, one that doubles the built-in storage to 16GB. Other than that, we’re talking about the same device that wants to find its audience among first-time tablet buyers on a budget. Again, the Iconia…