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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
Updated: ICS now pushing out to UK Wifi-only Tab 10.1, as well as Italian 3G version.
Good news for anyone living in a country where the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has yet to be banned from sa...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
Popular in developing countries, dual-SIM phones allow users to use multiple pre-paid networks on a single handsets, which can be useful where coverage on each individual network can be spotty or un...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
After a short delay, carrier NTT Docomo has cofirmed that Sony's new handsets for the Japanese market, the Xperia SX and GX, are due to launch next week. The 4.6-inch Xperia GX, the new Sony fla...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 30, 2012
Following months of legal wrangling, injunctions and appeals, Samsung and Apple will face off in a federal court in San Jose today. The two companies accuse each other of patent and design infringem...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 30, 2012
Sony's latest entry-level smartphone, the Xperia Tipo, is set to launch on O2 and Orange in the UK from next month. Announced in mid-June, the pint-size handset comes loaded with Android 4.0 Ice C...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 30, 2012
ASUS' new flagship tablet, the Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700), is receiving another over-the-air update, according to reports from the Android Central forums. It looks like latest update ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 30, 2012
In its latest Olympic promotion, Samsung has teamed up with postcard peddler Touchnote to enable users to send free postcards until Aug. 31. For the uninitiated, Touchnote allows you to turn an...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 30, 2012
Update: Carphone Warehouse is now offering the Galaxy Beam for free on a number of contracts starting at £31 per month.
Original: It's been more than five months since we first...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 30, 2012
HTC has announced it is to close its office in South Korea, according to reports from Korean news agency Yonhap. The move reportedly follows slow sales of HTC's smartphones in the c...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 28, 2012
As we reported yesterday, Samsung's Galaxy Note and Galaxy S3 phones appeared as part of the Olympic Games opening ceremony in London last night. Now the manufacturer (and global Olympic partner...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 28, 2012
The Olympic Games kicked off in London this week, starting with an opening ceremony featuring two leading smartphones from Samsung, the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note. And with Samsung being not only a l...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 28, 2012
ZTE's new vanilla Android mid-ranger has landed at one UK store a little earlier than expected. The Grand X, which we saw at its launch event last week, is now available online at Phones4U, with...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
After a little confusion earlier this month, it was eventually revealed that HTC wouldn't be updating the venerable Desire HD to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich after all. At the time, the manufa...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
While Google Earth recently impressed us with its 3D antics at Google I/O, its 2D counterpart, Google Maps is just as important. Today Maps sees its 2D imagery significantly upgraded in a numbe...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
We're already expecting to see a couple of new Sony phones at next month's IFA show in Berlin, and now it seems they may be joined by a third, budget-oriented offering. The Sony ST26i, rumor...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
In what seems to be a slightly premature blog post, Samsung has confirmed the appearance of the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S III (S3) at the Olympic opening ceremony in London -- an event some four hour...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
As the hours and minutes count down towards the opening ceremony in London, Samsung is once again getting in the Olympic spirit with a brand new social prediction app for the 2012 games. The Samsung...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
Today sees the official start of the Olympic Games, with the opening ceremony soon to kick off in London. Samsung, being a big Olympic sponsor, has decided to support the home team with a new ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
After local search was mistakenly stripped out in the most recent software update for the international Samsung Galaxy S III (Galaxy S3), the manufacturer has this morning issued another update to r...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 26, 2012
Google has just announced a new way to use its web search products on phones and tablets. Google Handwrite, available today from the Google Search settings menu, allows you to write out words with y...






















































