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Google decided it had it enough with entry-level Chrome laptops. Their newest product is completely different beast, one that comes with rock-solid specs, backlit keyboard, glass touchpad and a body made from an anodized aluminum alloy, making for an awesome look and feel. Perhaps the best part is that the new Chromebook Pixel comes with…
MetaWatch, which is one of the most promising smart watch projects to date, is teaming up with mobile phone industrial designer Frank Nuovo and his company Design Studio Nuovo (DSN) to make these watches not only functional, but also cool to wear for everyone. The result is expected to be announced later in the year…
China Fortune Holding is investing in Jolla, the company behind the Sailfish OS, built on the heels of Nokia’s and Intel’s MeeGo platform. Under the deal, the Chinese firm will take a 6.25% stake in Jolla and help it launch smartphones in the world’s largest smartphone market (China). China Fortune has a business unit focused…
ST-Ericsson will demo its new chip, the NovaThor L8580, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new solution integrates smartphone platform with a 3Ghz eQuad application processor and a multimode LTE Advanced modem supporting Carrier Aggregation. According to the chip maker, this is the world’s fastest smartphone processor that includes STMicroelectronics’ 28nm FD-SOI process technology…
Opera Mini users can now easily get and pay for Binbit’s mobile entertainment services thanks to the integration of Binbit’s products and services into the Opera Payment Exchange (OPX). OPX’s goal is to make mobile payments a secure and easy experience for the more than 208 million Opera Mini users around the world. As a…
Today ZTE announced a partnership with NVIDIA to produce the world’s first Tegra 4-powered super phones. The upcoming devices will be utilizing NVIDIA’s Icera i500 LTE modem, alongside the blazing fast CPU and 72 core GPU found on the SoC. Now the question is when and where, is it not? Well, your answer is the…
Qualcomm today unveiled some details about a few new features that will be built into their popular Snapdragon 800 mobile processors. Quick Charge 2.0 is claiming to bring a 75 percent increase in charging times, and a feature that would let users wake their devices up by voice, whether or not the device is online. Quick Charge…
Today in New York and London, HTC finally took the wraps off of its latest flagship device. Yes, that would be the HTC One, and it has finally arrived. The HTC One is one hell of a device, that oozes style and power, making it one of the nicest devices we’ve ever come across. The…
We still don’t have our first NVDIA Tegra 4 devices available yet, but the company has just announced a new part of the Tegra family, the Tegra 4i. The new SoC now has full Icera integration, along with all the other powerful goodness of the Tegra 4. NVIDIA announced that it would be acquiring Icera in May…
Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK are now available download. The new version is described as a “major milestone” that includes many new features and improvements (when compared to Tizen 1.0 and Tizen 2.0 alpha). Here’s what’s new: Enhanced Web framework that provides state-of-the-art HTML5/W3C API support Web UI framework that includes full-screen and multi-window…