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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 09, 2013
We look at a lot of teardown videos and hear stories about screen replacements, but Youtube user LE55ONS has thirty minutes and ten seconds worth of reasons that you never want it to happen. Watch t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 09, 2013
Not to be outdone by NVIDIA's Tegra 4 announcement, or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 news, Samsung has announced the Exynos 5 Octa. It's an octa-core CPU that was designed with low...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 09, 2013
Panasonic has expanded their Toughpad line with the introduction of the 7-inch JT-B1, bringing military grade construction and toughness in a new smaller form factor. Like the 10-inch predecessor (w...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 08, 2013
Tonight at their CES 2013 keynote, T-Mobile had a lot to say about their future, tossing out all sorts of announcements covering things from LTE to baseball. Nothing absolutely shocking, but it'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 08, 2013
HTC continues to roll out Jelly Bean to the One X across the globe, and right now folks on Rogers in Canada get their turn. You can check for the update in the settings menu (Settings > About pho...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 08, 2013
About a month ago Deutsche Telekom AG announced that T-Mobile USA would completely stop subsidising phones in 2013, and instead continue to offer what equates to interest free financing. Th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 08, 2013
Mozilla has updated Firefox for Android, and mixed in with the rest of the changes is a new JIT JavaScript compiler known as IonMonkey, which claims that it will allow web apps and games will run up...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 08, 2013
IK Multimedia has announced that they are bringing the iRig Recorder app to Android. iRig Recorder is a great and ultra-portable way to record audio on the go, and editing and export options ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
As expected, mobile hardware and component companies are pouring out the new gear announcements at CES. And not to be missed is the new chips in the pipe from Qualcomm. Dubbed the Snapdragon 600 a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
It's the big thing from CES 2013 so far, and what everyone is talking about. Imagine a 7-inch LCD (that's "retina spec" for what that is worth) and a nicely built game pad lin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
At the Huawei press event in Vegas today, the Ascend Mate and Ascend D2 have been made official. We've seen and heard enough rumors to know they were coming, but our first real look at the pho...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
4.8-inch HD display (1280 x 720)
12.6-megapixel camera with 4X zoom
Record and playback video in HD 1080p (1920 x 1080) at 30 frames per second
Dual 3D surround sound speake...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
HTC has posted their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, and the results aren't very pretty. Normally, Q4 is a pretty good time to be an electronics manufacturer, but last year HTC...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
Nuance, the folks behind Dragon voice recognition, and of course the Swype keyboard, has announced a new version of Swype beta, complete with a new feature you'll want to check out. They are cal...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
NVIDIA has always been at the forefront of gaming, and their mobile Tegra chips are no different. You may have a Tegra device in your Android arsenal and know just how good it can be, or maybe you...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
Looks to ship in the second quarter of 2013
Here's why we love CES! NVIDIA has just shown off what they are calling Project Shield -- a dedicated Tegra 4 powered game center and more. It&#...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 07, 2013
NVIDIA's CES event has just started, but we've already come around to something awesome -- NVIDIA Grid. It's a cloud-based gaming service, where a huge bank of NVIDIA powered servers c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2013
Yesterday it seems that every single Windows Phone user was over at WPCentral lamenting the loss of the Google Maps web app for Windows Phone. It seems that Google made a change that redirected...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2013
Anytime you see folks discussing the virtues of Android, you hear the word custom being thrown around in one form or another. We're not talking about ROMs or kernels or anything like that, we me...
