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Nowadays it seems like everyone is making a bid to enter the tablet market, including major retailers. Today a rumor surfaced that Best Buy is planning to launch its own Android tablet “Insignia Flex” at $239 to $259. According to Reuters, the big retailer is looking to compete against Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire…
Sony has yet to be invited by Google to create a smartphone that would join the Nexus family, at least up until now. The Wall Street Journal reported in May that Google would start allowing multiple manufacturers to create Nexus devices and expand the line and here we have pictured what appears to be Sony’s entry.…
There’s word going around on the interwebs, that claim Amazon is in “advanced negotiations” with Texas Instruments, in trying to buy its popular smartphone and tablet OMAP chip division. The man who wrote the news story, Assaf Gilad of Calcalist.co.il, has a good track record when it comes to reporting company buyouts. He believes Amazon…
Looks like Sony is preparing to beef-up its mobile game next year when apparently the rumored Odin smartphone will be unveiled. From what we’re hearing, it will announced in early 2013 boasting Qualcomm’s quad-core S4 Pro processor, 5-inch 1080p screen and 2GB of RAM. In other words, it could easily get the Japanese company back…
Last time we talked about the Nexus 10, we’ve told you that it will most likely be made by Samsung, featuring an amazing display with some ridiculous resolution. Now we have the vague date to share – first half of next year. That’s an everything but specific information and I assume Google and Samsung won’t…
We’ve already heard that Nokia is considering to sell its luxury arm Vertu. The word has comes that it’s a done deal with investment firm EQT VI buying the company from the Finnish company. The price is unknown at the moment, though some sources suggest it is valued at an estimated 200 million EUR (~$249…
Looks like Alcatel is preparing to jump into the Windows Phone game with a low-to-mid end device of its own. The phone pictured above, which will most likely get the “One Touch something” name, is said to come with Windows Phone 7.5 and will be upgradable to version 7.8. Specs wise, we’re hearing it will…
According to French newspaper Le Figaro, the LG Nexus 4 will finally make its on October 29th. After a slew of rumors, followed by a few leaks, the next Nexus phone is finally upon us! Ironically, the October 29 date is the same day Microsoft will officially launch Windows Phone 8 — talk about a great…
This isn’t the first time we’re hearing that Google is working on the Nexus 10, an Android tablet with a 10-inch screen. Now thanks to CNet we have more to report on it, relying on words of Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, who quotes supply chain indications. According to him, the Google Nexus…
A new Nokia phone is heading to Verizon Wireless. Dubbed Atlas, it runs Windows Phone 8 and as far as we know, it could be the different name for the Lumia 822 we caught at Verizon systems a month ago. Our source, EVleaks, failed to share any specs but we can see that the Atlas…