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ASUS will unveil the new PadFone Infinity next Tuesday (September 17th), Engadget is reporting. The slightly updated version of the smartphone/tablet combo will sport a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip (rather than Snapdragon 600), microSD card slot and there will also be an all-white version available. And that’s about all we know at this stage.…
Yesterday we’ve told you that Samsung will soon add support for Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) in the Exynos 5 Octa chip and ARM was quick to react, explaining in more details what this technology can do for you. The company released not one but three videos showing big.LITTLE’s capability by running QuickOffice, Angry Birds Rio game…
UK’s EE is the latest operator to join the current craze and offer a new handset mid-contract, an approach that has already proved popular with other carriers. The company, which is formed as a joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, is hoping to get users looking to get the new iPhone 5S (or iPhone 5C)…
Some tablet owners are complaining they don’t have enough storage space on their devices. Sure enough, there’s an array of cloud-based services that can house your media files, but nothing beats the local storage. For that crowd, Seagate unveiled the super-thin Ultra Mobile HDD which is “designed exclusively for mobile devices.” Integrated with the Seagate…
Sony turned to Twitter to announce that its super-fancy phablet, Xperia Z Ultra, is coming to Canada during the month of October. Here’s that tweet: Great news! Sony #XperiaZUltra is coming to #Canada in Oct 2013! Details coming soon, stay tuned! The Japanese company failed to name names, leaving us pondering which carrier will be…
Looks like Samsung won’t give up on Tizen that easily. In fact, a Galaxy S4 unit running Tizen 3.0 has been caught in Indonesia. That’s the version of the platform that will only be released in early 2014 — the current version is 2.0. Now we’re not sure that the Korean company will actually launch…
In the midst of all the hubbub about the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, Apple made at least one other significant change that was not announced. Much to the chagrin of card-sending iOS owners, Apple has decided to pull its Cards app from the iOS App Store and end its associated service. Cards was launched…
Apple unveiled its new iPhones at a press event in Cupertino, California today, revealing the iPhone 5S and the colorful iPhone 5C. With the numerous leaks that we’ve seen over the past months about the iPhone 5C, today’s announcement wasn’t much of a surprise. Basically an iPhone 5 in a plastic casing with five color…
Ubisoft announced yet another entry into its wildly popular Assassin’s Creed franchise and this time it’s coming to “high-end smartphones and tablets”. That’s right, Assassin’s Creed: Pirates is coming to mobile devices this fall! But before you start practicing your stealth moves, take a breath. Assassin’s Creed: Pirates will focus on epic naval battles instead of…
The “S” models of the Apple iPhone have a tendency to underwhelm, given that they usually share the core design and features of the previous model. Luckily, the iPhone 5S wasn’t underwhelming and offers a compelling feature set that many current iPhone 5 owners will want to upgrade to. We’re going to break down the…