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Dell is refreshing its Venue Android tablets by dumping ARM-based for faster Intel-made chips. Both the new Venue 7 and Venue 8 come with Intel’s Merrifield family of low-power x86 processors: the Venue 7 has dual-core 1.6GHz Atom Z3460 chip, while its bigger brother sports dual-core Atom Z3480 clocked at 2.1GHz. The smaller device has…
The other day, we’ve told you that Asus is working on the PadFone X variant for folks living outside of the US, and voila – that device is now officially official. The new PadFone S will be available in early Q3 with specs that are identical to AT&T’s PadFone X. These [specs] include a 5-inch…
ZTE could unveil its next Nubia flagship on June 7th, GizChina is reporting. The company has scheduled an event for that day in Beijing, China; and Nubia’s General Manager, Ni Fei, posted a teaser image on Weibo. Yeah, something cool is coming, but it’s unclear what this device will be all about. As far as…
The tried and true Android logo could be receiving quite a facelift soon. The LG G Watch’s boot animation has leaked, giving us a glimpse at a new take on the Android logo. Being that this animation is from a device running Android’s Android Wear OS, my guess is that the logo seen in the…
It’s summertime, and Motorola is celebrating the sunshine with a hot deal on last year’s Moto X smartphone. Motorola is knocking $100 off of the 32GB off-contract Moto X, bringing the price down to $299. The deal is good tomorrow, June 4th and Thursday June 5th. The Moto X may not be the hottest handset…
Sony revealed a new Xperia smartphone today, the Xperia T3. The T3 is a mid-range offering that doesn’t skimp on screen real estate and runs on Android 4.4 KitKat. The Xperia T3 will come in three different colors; white, black and purple, and will be available worldwide at the end of July. It packs a 5.3…
The long-time rumored HTC One M8 Ace has been officially announced and it has a new name – One E8. As we’ve heard before, this phone has all the bells and whistles of the One M8 minus the Ultrapixel camera. Instead, it rocks a rather standard 13-megapixel sensor. Another downside (compared to the “regular” M8)…
Sony has turned to Twitter to tease the world about the “next big thing” it’s working on. While we can’t be 100% certain what the Japanese company is preparing, chances are they are working on successor to the Xperia Z Ultra. The still-current Z Ultra rocks a 6.4-inch full HD screen, 2GB of RAM and…
HP has announced the SlateBook, a 14-inch laptop that runs Android. You got that right, for some reason HP thinks someone would want to buy an Android device as big as this one. It’s not a bad laptop specs wise, it’s just too big for “something” running Android, or so we think. The SlateBook comes…
At this year’s BUILD conference, Microsoft announced Micromax as one of its latest Windows Phone partners. Now we got some details to add about the upcoming Windows Phone from one of India’s biggest handset makers. According to Technodify, this will be a high-end device with specs that include a 5-inch full HD screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon…