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At the start of each year, as the technology community looks back to what’s happened during the past 12 months, publications like to say things like “2011 was the year that Android caught up” or “2011 was another failed year for Microsoft’s Windows Phone”. We didn’t really do that this year since so much happened…
Polaroid, the company you used to love back when you were a child, is about to enter the smartphone game with a new device called the SC1630. It’s going to pack a 16 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, have a 3.2 inch screen that does 800 x 480 pixels, and it’s going to cost…
This year, like every year for the past half decade, Intel announced that they’re going to make a processor that’s not only small enough to fit inside a mobile phone, but one that can compete with ARM in terms of power efficiency. What makes this year different though is that Intel announced a reference design…
HTC has been pumping out new smartphones left and right (check out our hands-on time with the just-announced Titan II) but we haven’t really heard a peep about any of its tablet plans. During a meeting with IntoMobile at CES 2012, HTC told us that the company its strategy in the tablet market in order…
If you thought just seeing the upcoming Asus-made, Tegra 3-packing, 7 tablet from afar was a nice thing to see, you may be happy with what you see right here. While it likely won’t be coming to the US anytime soon, if at all, after cruising around the NVIDIA booth we saw a tablet from ZTE. Not…
Motorola today announced it will slow down the release of new phones, starting in 2012. This comes after the company reported a weak quarterly performance, causing Google shares to slide 3 percent. The Schaumburg, Illinois-based manufacturer, like many others, have spit out devices in the past couple of years at a rapid pace. At some point, when…
Underneath all the CES craze, Google manged to push out an update to its Google Maps application. The new update ushers in much needed improvements to battery life while at the same time improving location tracking within Google Latitude, which is notorious when it comes to sucking the life out of your battery (trust me, I…
ViewSonic is preparing to stun the world with a super cheap tablet that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Set to be released in late Q1, the new ViewPad E70 ships with a 1GHz processor (not sure it’s dual-core) and 4GB memory storage. Moreover, it sports a front-facing camera (for video calls), Wi-Fi connectivity support,…
Toshiba seems to be planning to introduce an array of new tablets with the Japanese company showing off some cool models at the CES in Las Vegas. More precisely, they have devices with 5.1, 7.7 and 13.3-inch screens on display at their booth (as you can see from the gallery below). Unfortunately we’ve no clue…
As far as we know Asus is the first major company to release an Ice Cream Sandwich update for one of its products. That product is the Asus Transformer Price, which when used with a keyboard dock practically morphs into a netbook. Unfortunately we don’t have the change log, but we did hear that once…