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Nine days before the new Galaxy Note’s official announcement in Berlin, Samsung released a short teaser clip on YouTube. As you’re about to see, the Korean giant wants us to think of their phablet device as a tool for unleashing creativity in everyone of us. To that end, they’ve hired Wim Wenders, director of the…
HTC has disappointed its Desire HD users, having left them without their serving of Ice Cream Sandwich. The Taiwanese company did listen to the community and even responded to the petition signed by more than 15,000 users, but the answer was no – it’s too hard to learn the old dog a new trick. According…
Samsung Galaxy R, which is an Android-based smartphone that sits somewhere between the original Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, is getting its serving of Ice Cream Sandwich as we speak. Actually only users in select countries like Sweden are included in the first batch, but after that “test phase” (or whatever) is over, it’s…
Samsung will apparently launch a new media player in the next few weeks. Marked as YP-GP1, it looks like the Galaxy S III though it obviously lacks cellular radio. Moreover, instead of packing a 4.8-inch HD 720p screen, it comes with a 5.8-inch one with 560×940 pixels (qHD) resolution, while a dual-core CPU clocked at…
Lenovo is entering the high-end smartphone market, big time. Their latest device, K860 LePhone, is powerful enough to tackle even the big boys like the HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S III. It comes with a 5-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) touchscreen, quad-core 1.4GHz Exynos 4412 chip, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera on the back…
Evernote Food got nice update with both iOS and Android apps getting the new features. First there’s the improved sharing to Facebook, with your entries now appearing in the timeline. In the previous versions of the application, the post would have a small thumbnail accompanied by some descriptive text and now your meals can really…
There’s a new product trying to raise some cash (and awareness) at Kickstarter. Called Ubi, it’s a screen-less, Android-powered, voice-activated computer that plugs into a wall outlet. Yes this means that you talk to Ubi and it talks back to you. The applications that are planned to ship with Ubi include voice-enabled Internet search, speakerphone…
SwiftKey has once again updated its Android app, introducing two new themes, continuous voice typing, along with a number of bug fixes as reported by the ever-active SwiftKey community. The two new summer-inspired themes are Sky (blue) and Fuchsia (pink), both of which you can see from the image above. As for the mentioned voice…
According to Bloomberg, Google’s Motorola Mobility unit filed another complaint with the ITC accusing Apple of patent infringement. The complaint is not available publicly, but information from Bloomberg suggests it targets the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and select Mac computers. Motorola filed an earlier patent infringement complaint with the ITC that will be decided soon…
In April of 2011, Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit claiming patent infringement against the Korean electronics company Samsung. Since then the Apple vs. Samsung patent war has spawned months and encompassed around 50 hours of testimony, which cost both high tech companies millions in court fees, expert opinions, and corporate lawyers. Each side has been…