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Esoterism continues to support Apple smartphones with its fancy aluminum bumpers. Their latest case, Embrace-5, is made to sing along the hot new iPhone 5 and just like previous cases, it too sports tool-less knob design that “merits a mechanic watch’s classic aesthetic.” Here’s how Esoterism describes its baby: The Embrace-5 is in every way…
Good news for owners of the Asus Transformer Pad Prime (TF201) or Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700) tablets. Asus Technical Marketing Manager, Gary Key, for whatever reason decided to use the XDA forums to announce that these two tablets will receive the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean treatment. Both of them will receive an over-the-air update within…
Google has announced this morning that the Google Play Store has achieved a massive 25 billion apps downloaded since the service launched in 2008. Google Play is now home to some 675,000 apps and games, and has added tons of music, movie, and TV show content to its fold in the past year or two.…
RIM showed off Blackberry 10 yesterday to a press hungry for the day the company becomes relevant again. The platform won’t release to the public until 2013, though the software is nearly completion as RIM prepares for carrier testing. There was a lot to like about Blackberry 10 from CEO Thorsten Heins’ keynote, from the…
Just when I ranted why we don’t see more Padfone-like products, TransPhone appeared. Like Asus’ baby, it too is a combo device, with tablet “part” acting as a shell for the phone. However, it’s rather a mediocre smartphone with specs that won’t impress anyone. The phone itself comes with a 3.5-inch screen, single-core processor, 512MB…
Barnes & Noble is out with two new tablets – 7-Inch Nook HD and 9-Inch Nook HD+, both of which are made for the mainstream users and are thus pretty affordable. The 7-inch model is available in 8 and 16 GB variants, costing $200 and $230, respectively. As for the bigger 9-inch Nook HD+, it…
Motorola has started rolling out the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Atrix 2. Firmware version 67.21.125 packs a ton of goodies, including UI changes, new and improved features. More precisely, here’s what you get: UI changes: Updated colors, font, icons, and animations. Added adjustable text size. Enhanced lockscreen with quick access to dialer,…
We’ve already told you that LG will soon launch the Optimus Vu II. Now we have another proof that will happen later this fall with specs being leaked again. The successor to the original Vu rocks the same 5-inch screen with 1024×768 pixels resolution, and there’s also Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor under the hood,…
Acer will soon launch a new dual SIM Android smartphone. Marked as Z110, it will come with 1GHz MediaTek MT6516 single-core processor, 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 3G data (for one SIM), rear camera of unknown resolution, 256MB of RAM, microSD memory card slot, while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is running the show. I doubt you’ll…
Gadget insurance company ProtectYourBubble.com released the results of a poll fielded in New York City of over 150 Apple fans in line for the new iPhone 5. The research reveals 51.7% of Apple fans value their iPhone over their wallet. That’s crazy, but that’s not all: Of the Apple fans waiting in NYC lines, 74%…