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According to perennial industry favorite Digitimes, unit sales of the Google Nexus 7 tablet will top 1 million in December, indicating continued growth for Google’s budget 7″ slate. Previous reports of Nexus 7 sales pegged between 500,000 and 900,000 units per month, with November being the best-selling month to date for Google’s tablet. Google introduced…
Back in February, Redbox and Verizon announced that they were teaming up on a streaming movie service to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, and Hulu. This morning, the company issued a press release stating that the service will be rolling out this month, and provided a few additional details about what…
Oppo Find 5 has been officially unveiled and it has all of the features we expected it have, including the 5-inch full HD 1080p touchscreen, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 13-megapixel rear-facing camera. In addition, there’s also a solid 2,500mAh battery, 16GB of built-in storage (though there’s no microSD card slot),…
Expansys UK prepared a dedicated page for the newly announced HTC Butterfly from where you can express your interest (register) for the highly anticipated device. As you know, this is the international version of Verizon’s Droid DNA, boasting such high-end specs as Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU, 2GB of RAM, 5-inch full HD screen,…
Looks like Verizon will soon add another tablet to its portfolio, Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE, with such a device (with “proper” LTE frequency support) being caught at the Wi-Fi Alliance website (PDF file is here). It’s unknown when something like this could happen but it’s fair to argue we’ll see the new tablet announced in…
Remember the Sharp Aquos Phone Zeta SH-02E? You know it’s one of those device most of us won’t be able to get since its availability is limited to Japan. But it’s also one of the best Android smartphones announced to date with its specs including that awesome 5-inch IGZO display which is more power efficient…
A report from advertising and analytics company Chitika that it published today bares sad news for Google and Microsoft. Chitika in the past has released statistics on web traffic for various devices. Now, after closely monitoring Google’s Nexus tablets and the new Microsoft Surface, it has some new data to share: the Nexus tablets and…
The previously announced Samsung Galaxy Camera, an Android-powered touchscreen digital camera with 4G LTE connectivity, is on its way to Verizon Wireless. Though the Galaxy Camera was announced for AT&T’s network in November, its speeds were limited to HSPA+. The Verizon version is the first to ship with 4G LTE. This announcement doesn’t come as…
In an interview with Fortune, Google CEO Larry Page had a few interesting remarks to say about its biggest competitors, Apple and Amazon. He says that the intense competition between the three companies is ultimately harmful to consumers, calling it “a shame.” “All the big technology companies are big because they did something great. I’d…
Well, what do you know. Samsung is continuing its trend of sending out speedy updates, as the company begins pushing Jelly Bean to the International and LTE versions of the Galaxy Note II. The Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update brings along some interesting features, including: New notification toggles Customizable notification toggles Brightness slider can now…