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 [....]
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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 [....]
February 27, 2012 at 10:50 pm Mobile
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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 [....]
February 26, 2012 at 6:38 pm Mobile
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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 [....]
December 19, 2011 at 8:44 pm News
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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 [....]
December 19, 2011 at 8:14 pm Mobile
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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 [....]
November 20, 2011 at 5:38 pm Reviews
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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 [....]
October 15, 2011 at 12:54 pm News
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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 [....]
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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 [....]
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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 [....]
August 17, 2011 at 3:30 am Mobile
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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 [....]
August 15, 2011 at 2:33 pm Mobile
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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 [....]
August 11, 2011 at 7:04 pm Mobile
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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 [....]
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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 [....]