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by Alex Dobie
Aug 01, 2012
Chinese manufacturer ZTE has hailed its arrival into the ranks of the top five smartphone manufacturers, following the news that it shipped 8 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012. This,...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
Entry-level ICS handset to cost £89.95 on PAYG, or free on £10.50 p.m. contracts
Earlier this week we heard that Sony's new budget-oriented Xperia Tipo would be arriving on O2 an...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
Hot on the heels of this morning's Sprint HTC EVO 3D Ice Cream Sandwich update, it looks like the Android 4.0 update is also rolling out for the EVO Design 4G. Promised around the sam...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
As part of its continuing promotional deal with British rapper Professor Green, Chinese phone-maker ZTE is launching a new Facebook video contest, where fans have the chance to win £1000 in ca...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
Info suggesting no 2011 Xperias would get Jelly Bean was given "in error."
In a statement on its official product blog, Sony has reassured Xperia smartphone owners that it's sti...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
Since the launch of the Tablet S and Tablet P last year, little has been heard from Sony on the subject of future tablet plans. However, that changes today with the leak of a massive cache of slides...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 31, 2012
With the Samsung/Apple trial well underway, court documents have been unearthed indicating that Samsung may be hard at work on a new, high-resolution tablet. The Verge found references ...
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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...
