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NVIDIA’s awesome Tegra NOTE 7 tablet platform has just gotten a big upgrade. NVIDIA has added its i500 LTE modem to the device, which will allow the Tegra NOTE 7 to connect to LTE and HSPA+ data networks around the globe. The Tegra NOTE 7 with LTE will be available in the second quarter, and…
The recently launched G Pro 2 won’t be the only hot device LG will launch in 2014. Closer to the end of the year, the company will unveil the G3, a successor to its rock-solid G2 smartphone. Once it’s out, that model will be one of the best smartphones one could buy. At least that…
Japan-based Rakuten is acquiring Viber, a pioneering messaging and VoIP company, for a total consideration of $900 million. In the official press release, Rakuten says that Viber’s rapidly growing global user base of 300 million registered users perfectly complements Rakuten’s strategy in the digital space. As Rakuten aims to become the world’s No.1 Internet services…
MediaTek and Broadcom have both unveiled new chips that integrate 4G LTE connectivity. First let’s look at MediaTek’s latest offering… The new MediaTek MT6595 is touted as the world’s first 4G LTE octa-core smartphone SoC with ARM Cortex-A17 CPU. It combines four of these cores with four slower Cortex-A7 cores, while also including PowerVR Series6…
You know how it goes – this year’s top-end phones are next year’s mid-rangers. Sure sometimes if a phone is released at the end of the year, it stays “current” for another 12 months, but most often than not – geeks among us want to upgrade. ARM knows this, but it also knows that more…
Samsung is apparently working on an LTE-enabled version of the Galaxy Grand 2. According to GSMarena’s find, the upcoming device will keep most of the non-LTE version’s specs with the addition of a new chipset to support faster mobile data connections. So we’re talking about a mid-range phone that comes with a 5.25-inch 720p HD…
Sprint is yet again expanding its Spark LTE service. This time they’re going for the residents of the Kansas City, which BTW is Dan Hesse’s (Sprint CEO) home town market. The coverage is also extending to surrounding areas like Brookside, The Legends, downtown and Overland Park. For those of you who missed it, Sprint Spark…
We’ve already seen a number of different solar powered chargers and phones in the past. Relying on wind energy, however, isn’t as easy. To be fair, French Orange tried to experiment with this form of renewable energy back in 2007 but their windmill was everything but portable. Now have a new project created by UT…
Oledcomm was just one of the exhibitors at this year’s CES. What makes this company interesting is its technology that allows computers and mobile devices to receive light-based data. The so called LiFi facilitates high-speed data transmission via pulsating light sources that, at the same, time appear static to the naked eye. It’s designed to…
Remember Sony’s QX camera cases? Kodak unveiled a pair of similar products that promise to transform any smartphone into an awesome digital camera, adding powerful optical zoom to the mix. The first of the two smart lenses, PixPro SL10, comes with 10x optical zoom, 1080p video recording with a 28-280mm wide angle lens with optical…