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Fujitsu readies its ‘final model’ quad-core smartphone for reveal next week
We laid our hands on Fujitsu’s quad-core prototype at the beginning of the year, it now feels like the phone’s now able to show itself outside the confines of a perspex box. Wielding a Tegra 3 chipset, there’s still no official name for …
How would you exchange Sony’s Vaio F?
Shall we embrace you got Sony’s VAIO F Series laptop on the end of last year. Wouldn’t it be a stretch to claim you loved how cheap it was and that games played well so long as you dialed down those display settings? Were you not …
Google Maps for Android gets updated, improves battery life for Latitude, location history users
Okay, this won’t bring the foremost sweeping changes inside the history of the Google Maps application, but who can say no to the promise of better battery life ? The fresh update to the Android app, version 6.3 to be …
HTC admits its bulky, quick-dying LTE phones kinda suck
After an extended streak of skyrocketing earnings, HTC’s climb towards the celebs seems to have stalled . Q4 was not kind to the corporate and CFO Winston Yung thinks he knows reasons why. Throughout the today’s earnings call Yung admitted that HTC “dropped the ball” …
Refresh Roundup: week of January 30, 2012
Your smartphone and / or tablet is simply begging for an update. Occasionally, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and such a lot of of them are floating around that it is easy for a large chunk to …
Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx review
Most of today’s smartphones, especially those of the LTE-enabled persuasion, have earned a foul rap for exceptionally bad battery life, with large displays and hungry radios that suck the juice out faster than a 3 year-old can down a CapriSun. The race to build …
Toshiba announces color e-reader in Japan, hopes people buy more e-books from its store
If you’re gonna be late to a celebration, you need to in any case be fashionably late. That is the mindset behind Toshiba’s entry into the dedicated e-reader space with its new 7-inch BookPlace DB50. Toshiba hopes adding an e-reader alongside its existing …
Nook Simple Touch gets USB host mode support via hack, plays nice with low-power devices (video)
Codemonkeys exhibiting the kindness of strangers? Why, yes, it really is this type of tale. When XDA Developers member verygreen stumbled on the pleas of 1 user captivated with attaching an external USB keyboard to an eReader , he did what any decent hacker would …
Adafruit’s Internet of factors Printer combines your love of data, receiptsLove staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit's got your back with its latest project. The net of items (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. You may print such things as Twitter feeds, news briefs or sports scores using its open source software. Putting the box together requires some soldering and an Arduino, but
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon offSanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership within the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather then 20-nanometer cells within the production process. Shrinking the dimensions is something, but SanDisk's new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.