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Another addition to la familia Nokia has been revealed. The Lumia 610 looks to be its entry level Windows Phone, going by the company’s current naming convention, and will pack 256MB of RAM alongside an auto-focus camera. Nokia also used its latest Windows Phone to demonstrate Nokia Transport; a new app that will draw on tram, train [...]
Remember Panasonic’s Eluga? The phone with a name that sounded like you’d eaten too much popcorn before going on a roller coaster now has a bigger brother to protect the family insignia: the Eluga Power. It’s a 5-inch (1280 x 720) display-toting premium version of the device running ICS on a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 [...]
If there was a theme for today’s Nokia keynote, and, by extension, Microsoft’s plans for Windows Phone, it’s that the OS is being targeted toward lower-spec phones worldwide. The SDK update that’ll soon roll out to developers will include an emulator for developers to ensure their apps work on devices like the Lumia 610 that only has 256MB [...]
Yes, another one. Less than four months after announcing the original T201 Transformer Prime and slightly modified TF700T, ASUS is adding uno más to the collection. And don’t be fooled by the name: though the company is rebranding its tablet line “Transformer Pads,” the newly announced Infinity Series looks a lot like a product we’ve already seen. Essentially, it’s [...]
Just like it said it would, ASUS has formally unveiled its versatile, form-changing Padfone at Mobile World Congress. There are two stories here, and they’re both quite compelling, frankly. On the one hand, you’ve got yet another high-end device, with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display, Snapdragon’s new dual-core S4 chip, an Adreno 225 GPU, Ice Cream [...]
Broadcom’s taken the chance to bust out some killer new internals for Android phones here at MWC. The new range of SoCs are optimized for Ice Cream Sandwich, based on single or dual-core 40-nanometer ARM Cortex A9s. The BCM21654G has a 1GHz CPU, integrated HSPA modem and VGA video support, it’s likely we’ll see this popping [...]
Remember when we said ASUS was adding another tablet to its stable? Let’s bump that number to an even two. ASUS just announced the Transformer Pad 300, a lower-end match to the new Infinity Series(and also made a quick appearance earlier this month). Hilariously (if rapidly aging gadgets can ever be funny), the 300 is, for all [...]
BARCELONA/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s HTC Corp, the world’s No. 5 smartphone maker, launched a range of models on Sunday, packing advanced cameras and music functions into new designs in a push to recover from a rapid fall from grace in a challenging and fickle market. The new phones, unveiled at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress, [...]
Do you feel safe walking the streets of your hometown? What about browsing the Internet? Cybersecurity experts at Norton commissioned research firm Sperling’s BestPlaces to examine the cities in the U.S. where ‘net users are most vulnerable to cybercrime. The resulting study, titled 2012 Riskiest Online City, asses the prevalence of Internet use in addition to [...]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — On his way up, he fooled them all: judges, journalists, investors and companies. Then the man who renamed himself Kim Dotcom finally did it. With an outsized ego and an eye for get-rich schemes, he parlayed his modest computing skills into an empire, becoming the fabulously wealthy computer maverick he had [...]