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The budget minded Samsung Galaxy Avant is now available from T-Mobile for a price of $216 outright, or $9 a month for 24 months. The Avant isn’t the hottest device on the block, but it’s got enough guts to get the job done without emptying your savings account. The Avant looks like a mini GS4…
It is said that LG will be returning to the Windows Phone market later this year. We’ve heard about the LG Uni8 phone, but we’re still clueless whether that was a real deal or yet another bogus rumor. Now we hear about another unannounced LG-made Windows Phone device. Marked as LG D635, this unit has…
As part of the strategy that seems tailored to appeal to business customers, Samsung announced the Smart Wireless Security Access Point that helps businesses identify unauthorized intrusion in the wireless network. The device supports 802.11ac and is equipped with wireless intrusion prevention solution (WIPS) sensor that can detect unauthorized connections to the network. According to…
Up until this point, the very few Android-powered laptops offered by major companies were low-to-mid end devices. That’s not the case with the recently announced LG TabBook 11, which has been announced in Korea. It gets its power (a lot of it) from Intel’s 2.6GHz Core i5 chip, while also boasting 4GB of RAM, 128GB…
The earlier rumored Windows Phone-powered variant of the HTC One M8 has again caught attention of the media. This time we have Engadget to thank for this; according to their sources, this phone will be known as “HTC One (M8) for Windows.” Yes, that’s an everything but straightforward name and we can’t help but wonder…
NVIDIA’s beefy SHIELD tablet is shipping to customers in the U.S. and Canada today. That’s a pretty speedy turnaround considering NVIDIA only announced the device last week. The SHIELD tablet’s innards are packed with all sorts of awesome specs, including the NVIDIA K1 mobile processor. The Tegra K1 has 192 cores at its disposal, and…
The days of messaging Facebook friends through the Facebook mobile app are quickly coming to an end. According to TechCrunch, Facebook will force its users with and iPhone or Android device to use the standalone Facebook Messenger app to chat with friends, removing the feature completely from the Facebook app itself. Facebook users on the…
We’ve all heard it – Apple is going to bed with IBM (or that’s the other way round?) in a move that could give Cook & Co. new clients in the enterprise space, while helping the Big Blue mobilize (and modernize) its offering. Under the deal between the two giants, more than 100 new apps…
If you’re one of the few folks owning the LG G Watch or Samsung Gear Live, you may be looking to change its face and make it look more like “your own device.” Guess what? There’s an app for that. The newly launched Wear Face Collection will install both on your (Android) phone and your…
Huawei is gearing towards launching another high-end device later this year. Marked as C199, this unit will come in a metallic body while rocking Huawei’s own Kirin 920 chip. Said SoC packs four fast Cortex-A15 cores along with four power-efficient Cortex-A7 cores. Rest of the specs include a 5.5-inch full HD screen, 2GB of RAM,…