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IC and GPU chip designer Nvidia has just announced, on its official website, that the company’s new Icera software modem was certified to work on AT&T LTE networks. The Icera chip has a multimode radio transceiver that can offer 4G LTE at category 2 transfer data rates of up to 50 Mb/s. This is a very fast da... |
24 May 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Cameras, whether they are part of other consumer electronics or not, are only as powerful as their image sensors.
OmniVision reportedly decided to really go out of its way this time, having released the OV16820 and OV16825.
They not only manage 16 megapixel images, but they can shoot 1080p video and even 4K content... |
23 May 2012
09:28 GMT |
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The next iPhone about to be unveiled has been personally designed by Steve Jobs, at least in part, according to people with knowledge of the situation speaking to Bloomberg. Apple has reportedly tapped suppliers for larger screens this time around. The phone has Steve Jobs’ fingerprints on it, as the CEO worke... |
18 May 2012
07:17 GMT |
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Samsung is now the world’s leading mobile phone maker, the latest report coming from Gartner unveils. The analysis covers the first quarter of the year, when the South Korean vendor managed to take the top spot in phone sales from Nokia. The overall mobile phone market went down two percent in the time frame,... |
16 May 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Strategy Analytics has rolled out the latest research regarding global smartphone shipments, acknowledging a 41 percent growth annually to reach 145 million units in the first quarter of 2012. The figures are a direct result of Samsung and Apple together capturing more than half of the global smartphone shipments. T... |
30 April 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Looks like the interest in convenient electronics devices is mounting, with a quarter of US consumers having the intention to buy such a thing before the second quarter of the year is out.ABI Research decided to conduct a survey to see how high smartphones, tablets, HDTVs and other items rank on the priority list of ... |
21 April 2012
06:33 GMT |
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NVIDIA may have been all but locked out of the motherboard chipset and entry-level graphics market, but it is essentially compensating for that by coming up with more and more advanced mobile platforms.
And by compensate we mean to say it is developing a tablet and phone platform to trounce all platforms.
We'... |
9 April 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Google’s Android operating system is currently the leading mobile platform on the smartphone market in the United States, with a share of over 50 percent, according to the latest report from comScore. Android became the top OS in the United States several quarters ago, helped by great new devices coming from ... |
4 April 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley is telling clients that the iPhone is currently outselling “all other smartphones” at AT&T and Sprint, adding that Verizon is selling about as many iPhones as all Android phones combined.
AllThingsD publishes an excerpt from Walkley’s note to investors this we... |
3 April 2012
03:35 GMT |
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For anyone wondering why web providers and consortiums were all over themselves to expand the library of IP addresses and the worldwide web bandwidth, we have an answer.There used to be a time when only computers were connected to the Internet, and little else, so there wasn't much pressure.The past decade drast... |
29 March 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Handsets packing NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities have started to become increasingly popular among users around the world, and sales reached 30 million last year alone.
According to a recent report from Berg Insight, sales of NFC-enabled smartphones are expected to enjoy a compound annual growth rate (... |
27 March 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes reports that Samsung Electronics, Apple Inc. and HTC are the top-three dogs in handset sales in Taiwan’s market for the month of February.
Accounting for a combined market share of about 60%, the trio have been competing “neck and neck” since the launch of Appl... |
26 March 2012
08:17 GMT |
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One of the most important aspects of smartphone usage is battery life, and a recent study conducted by J.D. Power and Associates shows that users are not satisfied with the current lifetime of their handsets’ batteries.
The latest report from the company shows that satisfaction with the battery life of smart... |
19 March 2012
18:11 GMT |
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If you were wondering what weird gadget was going to spring up next, only to be lost in obscurity shortly thereafter, GeChic may have the answer, though it no doubt wishes its invention will catch on somehow.
To go right to the point, GeChic has reportedly created a very special kind of monitor, one that most peopl... |
19 March 2012
10:11 GMT |
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The mobile industry is moving towards larger screens in smartphones, something that users are very fond of, it seems.
A recent survey conducted by Strategy Analytics Wireless Device Lab shows that smartphone users want even bigger screens on their devices.
According to the said report, called “Smartphone O... |
15 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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HP's treatment of webOS is a matter of much debate, controversy even, and it looks like some new light has been shed upon the matter by one Phil McKinney.
Some people may recognize the name as belonging to the former HP CTO (chief technology officer), who retired back in October, 2011.
When HP decided to scra... |
14 March 2012
08:47 GMT |
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Taiwan-based smartphone makers are estimating a boom in sales, as well as increased competition from Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc., whose LTE iPhone 5 is expected to drop in the second half of this year, DigiTimes reports.
Dealing with Apple rumors on a regular basis, but rarely scoring an accurate report, Digi... |
12 March 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Sony hasn’t released a new device running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone for a couple of years, but it appears that this might indeed change sooner or later. The mobile phone maker is still open to Windows Phone, even if it appears to have long moved away from it. In fact, Sony's Product Marketing ... |
12 March 2012
03:30 GMT |
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If you were wondering what Roccat has been doing, you'll find that it is a two-pronged campaign. One thing is that it has released a phone app, and a companion PC app, that enable peoples' smartphones to control certain aspects of a PC. There are four grids, one of which, the Incoming Centre, displays S... |
6 March 2012
09:01 GMT |
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2012's Mobile World Congress, the most important mobile event of the year, is now over. We had the chance to see some highly appealing devices at the event, both new and old phones, as well as high-end and mid-level. Among them, we can count the Samsung Galaxy S II, a smartphone that was named the best in the wo... |
2 March 2012
15:01 GMT |
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New Medfield chips and acceleration in 14nm processor development are just one facet of Intel's effort to secure a portion of the mobile device market.
The Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker has also announced a partnership with Visa inc., one that will benefit developed and developing countries.
Accord... |
28 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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After months, even years of failed attempts to secure a share of the mobile market, Ivy Bridge-delaying Intel is finally making the first real steps towards giving ARM a difficult time. There are several companies announcing Intel smartphones, one of which is Orange, a major player in the UK and France. Its over t... |
28 February 2012
03:19 GMT |
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The ASUS Padfone is essentially what its name implies, a phone-tablet hybrid, but ASUS went for a fairly unusual choice of design elements in its making. The company has, in a way, mimicked Motorola's treatment of the “phone in tablet clothing” idea, the one that spawned the Lapdock. While the Pa... |
27 February 2012
09:37 GMT |
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We're down in Barcelona for the 2012 Mobile World Congress and are wasting no time: the Huawei conference has started. Stay tuned to see what they are about to announce!They're showing the Ascend D quad, which they claim is the fastest quad-core smartphone to date.The CPU inside the Ascend D ... |
26 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Samsung likes to use as many of its own resources as possible when making consumer or business/enterprise products, and the new DRAM it invented proves it.
The company has an extensive collection of phones, but this is merely one of its many business outlets, one that it has only indirectly served just now.
Long ... |
23 February 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Intel makes processors that many companies use in their products, but what it also does is propose, sometimes even impose, design conditions and price guidelines.
A recent report from Fudzilla states that, when it set up its roadmap for the next Atom series of central processing units, Intel also provided pricing g... |
16 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Gavio, the company behind a wide range of PMP and smartphones accessories out there, has returned with a set of speakers, dubbed the WRENZ.
Designed to mimic the shape of a bird, Gavio’s new speakers feature 32mm neodymium drives and will be able to output a total of 2W of power, according to UberGizmo.
The s... |
15 February 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is gearing up for the release of new handsets running under Google’s Android operating system, and some more info on what these devices would be capable to offer in terms of camera capabilities has just emerged.
Test photos of a number of such phones have made it on... |
10 February 2012
18:31 GMT |
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This is not the first time a research firm calculates Apple’s Q4 smartphone share for 2011 to put the iPhone on top, but it can’t hurt to have The NPD Group confirm the numbers.
According to the firm, Apple beat Samsung and LG to become the best-selling U.S. handset maker in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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6 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been losing market share lately, mainly due to the transition from the Symbian OS to Windows Phone, but it appears that it still managed to retain the top position on the mobile market.
The latest data coming from IDC shows that Nokia remained the top handset vendor in the worl... |
2 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Strategy Analytics has issued the results of its latest research on global smartphone shipments, naming Apple the top dog of smartphone vendors in Q4 2011.
Handset shipments grew 54 percent annually to reach a record 155 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, said the firm. “Apple reclaimed top position ... |
27 January 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of last year, and posted a €954 million ($1.25 billion) profit loss for the timeframe.
Moreover, the company announced that its total loss for the last year was of €1.073 billion ($1.4 billion). Compared to the... |
26 January 2012
07:47 GMT |
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This is one of those inventions that achieve a desired effect in a roundabout enough manner that you don't need some overly sophisticated device to make it work.
Smartphones need Pico projectors if they are to, well, project an image anywhere.
Now, though, a phone doesn't have to be so complex for that, a... |
23 January 2012
10:34 GMT |
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We suppose it is just a matter of time until even room lights get Wi-Fi support and, sure enough, the NetLED lighting system from Net LED Technology Corp. has that very capability.
The idea behind Net LED's invention is that lights should be possible to control via a smartphone or a tablet.
All it takes for we... |
20 January 2012
10:34 GMT |
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Adobe recently studied about 16.2 billion anonymous visits to over 150 top US retailers, seeking to find what devices people used most to make online acquisitions.
The conclusion was that tablet visitors spent 54% more money than smartphone visitors and 21% more than laptop/desktop visitors (per purchase).
Also, ta... |
19 January 2012
10:35 GMT |
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The latest research from Nielsen reveals that Apple’s iPhone 4S is closing the gap between iOS and Android in terms of market share. According to the research firm, the phone’s launch “had an enormous impact in the proportion of smartphone owners who chose an Apple iPhone.” Nielsen says that ... |
18 January 2012
09:45 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is getting ready for the release of new, highly appealing mobile phones this year and promises better battery life for them as well.
Today’s always-connected smartphones offer multitasking and fast data transfer speeds, while also packing large touchscreen displays.
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18 January 2012
08:09 GMT |
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The LightPad G1 dock demonstrated at CES 2012 is a fairly inventive way to transform a phone or tablet into a laptop, so to speak.
Yet another less than ordinary gadget has made its appearance at this year's CES trade show, only this one qualifies more as an accessory.
LightPad is the one that made the so-c... |
13 January 2012
05:37 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has just posted on Facebook a message unveiling plans to make some announcements as soon as next week.
The company did not offer specific info on what the “interesting news” would be all about. However, the announcement is expected to be made during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Veg... |
3 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Looks like it took a 12 year-old to come out and invent something that should have been created a long time ago.Dino Zaharakis, who already has a Global Student Entrepreneur Award for High School and a “Most Innovative Product” award, designed the Dzdock.Dino looked at phones, tablets, e-readers and other... |
28 December 2011
05:14 GMT |
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One of the handsets that Sony Ericsson might soon bring to the market in the United States would be Xperia ION, since the company has just filed trademark for the name.
The filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office shows that this device will be a mobile phone, though it does not offer specific inf... |
27 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Intel’s collaboration with Google seems to have led to more than just an x86 port of the Android operating system, as the chip maker has recently confirmed that its upcoming Medfield SoC will include a series of hardware optimizations specifically designed for this mobile OS.In a meeting with the Technology Rev... |
25 December 2011
11:51 GMT |
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The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has sided with Apple in a patent suit against smartphone maker HTC by ruling that the latter has, indeed, violated Apple-patented inventions, thus banning the import of several HTC handsets in the US. Gadgets cited in the suit included key names like the Sprint ... |
20 December 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Looks like IBM really wants to take the fiction out of Science Fiction and turn it into Science Fact instead.
Many people are probably familiar with the concept of technopathy, basically the ability to control technology with a thought, or a few thoughts depending on context.
It so happens that this, among other t... |
20 December 2011
04:49 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS has been released in early 2011 and the PlayStation Vita from Sony is now out but despite the high profile launches analysts are expecting to see the handheld market continue to decline in the coming years.Peter Warman, who is an analyst of the handheld market, stated, “As long as Apple and Sam... |
19 December 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Looks like Intel's past misses are coming back to haunt the Santa Clara, California-based company as it is preparing to try its hand (again) at the smartphone and tablet markets.By now, people should be well aware of how Intel is really serious about entering the mobile market.That means the market of handsets,... |
17 December 2011
07:13 GMT |
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Google has announced a very interesting and major change in the way it indexes websites. The search engine has started using a mobile Googlebot with a smartphone user agent along with the regular one to start indexing websites that serve custom versions to smartphone users."Today we are happy to announce that Googleb... |
15 December 2011
12:40 GMT |
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We heard about overclocking PCs via Bluetooth before, so we aren't total strangers to apps that control aspects of a computer, but MSI's new invention is different from that. What Micro-Star International invented is a smartphone app called MSI+. This software has six function categories: Calculator, Manu... |
12 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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You'd think the so-called touchscreen age would last a bit longer, but Qualcomm is already playing with screens that respond to how you wave your hands.
As shown in a video, Qualcomm envisions handsets, like smartphones or whatever else, using ultrasound sensors and microphones to keep up with hand movements.
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12 December 2011
09:23 GMT |
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There doesn't seem to be much chance of Apple and Samsung settling their differences now that their patent war has escalated all around the world, and Samsung's latest move proves it.
There aren't many things that could make a company change how its finances get distributed and invested, but Samsung ... |
5 December 2011
18:31 GMT |
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