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by Simon Sage
May 25, 2012
Canadian design firm Teknision recently announced Chameleon, which promises to be an interesting twist on Android tablet home screens. Besides having streamlined, resizeable widgets that span a...
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by Simon Sage
May 17, 2012
Canadian service provider TELUS today announced the availability of the HTC One S for $99.99 on a three-year contract, or $569.99 with no contract. The HTC One S made its way to T-Mobile U.S. l...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 30, 2012
Following up on rumors that Google would be offering a cloud service to access files and multimedia no matter what screen you're looking at, some pictures with details of Google Drive have emerg...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 30, 2012
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said in a recent interview that their recent cost reductions on the Tegra 3 processor will enable manufacturers to launch Android tablets with $199 pricetags, and that we...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 26, 2012
Nvidia launched a next-gen desktop graphics card last week called the GTX 680, and its heart, the Kepler GPU, is bound for the mobile world according to a congratulatory e-mail from CEO Jen-Hsun Hua...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 26, 2012
The U.S. Army recently launched a "prototype" (i.e. beta) version of their own civilian-facing mobile app store for Android and iOS. The Army Software Marketplace offers over a dozen ...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 06, 2012
Another fringe smartphone manufacturer, ViewSonic, continued their attack on the dual-SIM market at this year's Mobile World Congress in addition to showing off some new...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 05, 2012
One pleasant little tidbit to roll out of Mobile World Congress 2012 was an upcoming app from WhitePages. They're expanding their standard caller ID features to a bunch of social network tie-ins...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 05, 2012
The last batch of devices we looked at from ZTE at Mobile World Congress included two quad-core devices, and a few lower-end ones. At the top of the heap was the PF112. It has a 4.5-inch 1080 x 720 ...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 05, 2012
Last week at Mobile World Congress 2012, ZTE announced a lot of devices, including two LTE devices that should be coming to North America, and this 10.1-inch quad-core tablet called the PF100. ...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 03, 2012
Phil got his mitts on the Samsung Galaxy Beam at Mobile World Congress 2012, but it's definitely worth seeing the built-in projector in action.
Just to recap, the Samsung Galaxy Beam is running...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 02, 2012
Prior to Mobile World Congress 2012, ZTE had announced two LTE phones running Ice Cream Sandwich, and we got a chance to play with at least one working unit in Barcelona. A rep at the ZTE boo...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 29, 2012
At Mobile World Congress 2012, Texas Instruments was demonstrating a stylus that communicates its distance from a tablet over ultrasonic frequencies. The tablet in this demo has a microphone in ea...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 28, 2012
Just in case you haven't had enough Android hardware from Mobile Conference 2012, even little ol' ViewSonic had some stuff to show off. Along with demonstrating some of their stuff anno...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 24, 2012
One of Canada's big three carriers, Bell, recently shot me a build of their upcoming on-demand streaming TV app for Android and a Samsung Galaxy Note to try it out on. I've already establish...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 19, 2012
I'm 6 feet, 8 inches tall. For our metric friends, that's 203 centimeters. I have, on more than one occasion, been called the tallest blogger in the world. (And may well be.) I can palm a ba...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 14, 2012
I've been playing with the Samsung Galaxy Note for the last week or so (be sure to check out our full review here), and though I'm still digging the novelty of a 5-inch smartphone, there'...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 09, 2012
The third of Canada's big three carriers is finally launching their LTE network. Starting tomorrow, TELUS will be offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and LG Optimus, both with LTE connectivity. ...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 07, 2012
TELUS has just launched a new app that ties in with their Optik TV service. Canadian customers can now watch a bunch of their subscribed channels streamed wirelessly to Android or iOS tablets and sm...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 07, 2012
Rumor has it Google Goggles may become more than just an image recognition app for your smartphone. An anonymous source claims to have seen a pair of glasses being prototyped at Google that will run...























































