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Huawei is kicking off 2013 with a bang, introducing two high-end handsets at CES this year. Besides the supersized Ascend Mate, the Chinese manufacturer also introduced the Ascend D2, its latest flagship smartphone. The D2 is the successor to the marginally successful Ascend D, which was introduced in early 2012. Internally, the D2 ups the ante…
Samsung’s press event was relatively empty on the mobile news, but one morsel we did hear was that the Galaxy Note 10.1 will soon launch on Verizon with LTE and Android Jelly Bean onboard. The Galaxy Note 10.1 was announced at Mobile World Congress last year, and while it’s been around for quite some time,…
Undoubtedly a cleverly timed press release during what is arguably the peak day of CES 2013, Apple nonetheless announced some impressive milestones for the iOS App Store. It has now passed 40 billion app downloads (excluding re-downloads and app updates) and the rate at which apps are being downloaded increases each day. In fact, half…
Verizon and Samsung today announced the long-awaited ATIV Odyssey. The ATIV is the Korean manufacturers first major Windows Phone 8 device to hit the market. It will hit Big Red’s stores “in the coming weeks.” We knew the announcement of this phone was on its way soon when we seen the device land over at the FCC.…
We knew they were coming and today, Huawei introduced two new high-end handsets that’ll boost the company’s smartphone lineup. The pair includes the durable yet stylish Ascend D2 and the whopping 6.1-inch Ascend Mate. First up is the Ascend D2, which takes the place of the original Ascend D. The D2 features a 1.5GHZ quad-core processor,…
MADFINGER Games released additional details of Dead Trigger 2 today, the sequel to the popular and award-winning mobile game, Dead Trigger. It was first previewed with a live demo at NVIDIA’s press conference yesterday at CES 2013 as a game optimized to take advantage of the new Tegra 4 processor. Without getting very deep with…
LG unveiled today at CES 2013 a new productivity feature for the Optimus Vu II called Panorama Note. It enables users to create wide 3:1 ratio notes and sketches right on the gigantic 5-inch display of the Optimus Vu II. A phablet (phone/tablet hybrid) at heart, the device is perfect for this type of feature…
Asus introduced the Transformer AiO last year and used CES to confirm the Q1 2013 availability of the Windows 8 desktop-Android tablet hybrid. Pricing is not yet available. The Transformer AiO is an all-in-one PC that doubles as an Android 4.1 tablet. The 18.4-inch device is a full Windows 8 desktop powered by an Intel processor and NVIDIA…
Vizio announced two new tablets for the international market and two new smartphones that’ll land in China in the coming months. All four mobile devices will be powered by a recent version of Android 4.x. They were detailed by The Verge, which got some hands-on time with each device. First up is a 10-inch offering…
US camera maker Canon added four new camcorders to it popular Vixia line of video cameras. Besides some sweet specs like 53X zoom and a 3.28-megapixel full HD CMOS image sensor, the camcorders also support Canon’s new CameraAccess app that lets users control the camercorder’s video stream using their Android or iOS smartphone. The CameraAccess…