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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.…
We’ve heard it all before, except that this time it’s actually happening. Samsung will integrate its Bada OS into Tizen, the platform that emerged from Nokia and Intel’s MeeGo efforts. Korean Yonhap reports comments from Samsung’s president of Media Solutions Center, Hong Won-pyo, who said that (elements of) Bada OS will be integrated in the…
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…
General Dynamics is demoing its GD Protected dual-persona secure smartphone at Mobile World Congress. This especially protected device is made to deliver both secure communication and access to commercial smartphone services using the same handset. Relying on virtualization technologies, General Dynamics can allow users to run two completely different mobile platforms on a single handset,…
Samsung KNOX is a new end-to-end secure solution made to provide security “hardening from the hardware through to the application layer.” Incorporating Security Enhanced (SE) Android developed by NSA (National Security Agency), file system level encryption, and integrity management services implemented in both hardware and the Android framework, KNOX offers protection of business data and…
HP used MWC to jump into the tablet market with its first Android-powered tablet. Unlike other manufacturers like Asus that are targeting the high-end market with their tablets, HP is going after the discount buyer. The Slate 7 has mid-range specs with 1.6GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor, 7-inch display with resolution of 1024 x 600,…
According to multiple reports, LG is poised to buy webOS from HP. Developed by Palm, webOS was well-regarded when it launched, but never gained traction against Android and iOS. The mobile operating system, along with the rest of Palm, was purchased by HP and promptly discarded when Leo Apotheker took over as CEO of HP.…