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Microsoft announces a refreshed Windows 8 desktop UI, removes Aero
After using Aero for two major versions of Windows, Microsoft has decided to move away from Aero UI. The new appearance introduces a new cleaner, flatter and minimal design that resembles their Metro user interface. Even though we get this flatter design, there will still be some hints of Aero like the taskbar [....]
News, Software / Hardware
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Nokia announces the 808 PureView with a 41-megapixel camera
Nokia has kicked off Day One of MWC with a new Symbian Belle device called the Nokia 808 PureView. It features the ancient Symbian OS, which Nokia admits that they won’t be supporting it as much because of their commitment to Windows Phone 7. Looking deeper into the hardware of the phone, it [....]
Mobile
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HTC One-Series and Sense 4.0 – Mobile World Congress 2012
HTC starts off Mobile World Congress 2012 by revamping their Android line with a new line up of phones called the “One-Series” and Sense 4.0, which cleans up Sense and adds some new smart features. There’s lots to talk about, so we’ve broken each announcement in peaces. HTC One X Starting off with [....]
Mobile
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Fusion Garage mysteriously disappears, potentially gone for good
After the massive failures from the JooJoo tablet and now the Grid 10, Fusion Garage might have disappeared in thin air. The first sign of the disappearance was that their website went down, reporting the 503 database error. As of right now, the website is barely up: certain images won’t load on the [....]
News
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AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Fails
Back in March, AT&T announced that they were going to acquire T-Mobile USA, so they can expand their spectrum and enhance their network. While this sounded like a good idea, it would ultimately lower competition in the US mobile market and this didn’t cut it for many people, especially the FCC. The FCC [....]
Mobile
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iPhone 4S Review
October 4, 2011 was a day that everyone was anticipating. On that day, Apple held their “Let’s Talk iPhone” event and people were expecting the much hyped, iPhone 5. Based on numerous case leaks and mock ups of the next iPhone, it showed that it could’ve had a significantly thinner design and the [....]
Reviews
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Siri on the iPhone 4 – Updated
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S, one of it’s highlighted features was Siri. As we all know, Siri is essentially an assistant that understands real conversations. The most puzzling thing about Siri is that it’s exclusive to the iPhone 4S. Many people wondered why and thought that it would run perfectly on the [....]
News
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray now available in the US off-contract
Sony Ericsson first announced the Xperia Ray back in June, which no confirmed release date. Finally after months of waiting, it’s finally here. This phone features a high-res 3.3-inch FWVGA display with Sony’s Mobile BRAVIA Engine, a single-coreĀ 1GHz processor, and an eight megapixel camera with 720p HD recording. All of that is packed [....]
Mobile, News
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HP discontinues TouchPad and webOS phones, might also pull the plug on PCs
Just 16 months after the acquisition of Palm, HP announced that they will be discontinuing the TouchPad and webOS related operations. With this, the unreleased Pre 3 and the unsold TouchPads will remain unclear, but HP will still explore and optimize webOS. “In addition, HP reported that it plans to announce that it [....]
Mobile, News
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HP’s worst nightmare: Best Buy has only sold 25,000 TouchPads
This is not good. According to Arik from AllThingsD, Best Buy was only able to sell 25,000 TouchPads out of 270,000 (doesn’t count returns!) that they’ve initially ordered. With that, Best Buy has 200,000 more units in hand and they are threatening HP to buy back those unsold units. Because of that, an [....]
Mobile
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Fusion Garage raises from the dead, reveals Grid 10 tablet and Grid 4 phone
If you’re familiar with Fusion Garage, you’ll know that they released the JooJoo tablet that tried to compete with the first generation iPad. Unfortunately, it (not surprisingly) failed, and it brought down the company to the grave. The JooJoo had buggy, clunky software, and the performance was terrible. But, the JooJoo had some [....]
Mobile
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Could this Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich?
According to Android Police and RootzWiki, they claim that they have snapshots of Google’s next major release of Android: Ice Cream Sandwich. From first glance, the theme is similar to Honeycomb and blue accents. The snapshot from Android Police shows that there’s a revamped notification pull down, which might contain mini apps, similar [....]
Mobile
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New Poll: What do you want to see in the next iPhone?
It’s been a while since we’ve updated the polls. Our last poll was about features from Apple’s latest operating system, OS X Lion. Here are the results: - Launchpad: 6 votes - Full Screen Apps: 11 votes - Mission Control: 6 votes - AirDrop: 1 vote - Versions: 3 - Updated Apps: 20 [....]
Mobile, Polls
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Apple silently announces education friendly iMac, starts at $999
With out any press releases, Apple has silently announced an education friendly iMac. Starting at $999, the iMac comes with a 3.1GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. Interestingly, this particular model doesn’t feature Apple’s latest I/O technology, called Thunderbolt. Clearly, this is geared towards to [....]
Mobile, News