Mobile World Congress 2012 wrapped up recently and one of the stars of the show was the new flagship offering from Sony, the Xperia S – a handset the venerable, but aging Japanese electronics behemoth hopes will revive its image in the mobile space. After splitting with Ericsson
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Google has just launched a new service called Google Play, which isn’t actually a new service but one website that consolidates all of their content. It offers the ability to download music, movies, books, android apps, etc all from one website
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The 41 Megapixel Nokia Pureview cameraphone we saw at MWC is sadly not coming to North America. It will have a global launch though, so it will be possible to import an unlocked version of the smartphone but for a much larger price tag. There are several online retailers that already have the Pureview on pre-order, so if you want the best cameraphone ever invented (and better than most dSLR’s)
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Even though it’s just been confirmed that Android 5.0 will be called Jellybean, a source at the verge has just heard that Android 6.0 will be known as KLP (key lime pie) following with the alphabetical dessert naming convention. No word yet on features (or if it will even be named this) but look for a thoroughly reworked Google
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Asus has officially announced their PadFone, which is about the most descriptive name yet. It is a smartphone which slides into a tablet, and also has an optional keyboard dock turning it into a netbook as well. The phone is your standard smartphone running Android 4.0 with a 1.5GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor and
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Trying to keep up with all of the new smartphones announced today at MWC? Here’s a table that shows a few with their specs:
As you can see the Nokia 808 really stands out with its 41MP camera,
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Canonical has recently announced big news for the Ubuntu OS, and that is it’s coming to your Android smartphone. The new install will allow both Android and Ubuntu to operate simultaneously on your phone with the output
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LG revealed their Optimus 4X HD just a few days ahead of the Mobile World Congress which starts next Monday. The phone is the first to feature the NVIDIA Tegra 3 1.5GHz quad-core processor. It actually has a fifth low-power processor
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Nvidia recently gave us a glimpse of their upcoming ZTE Momosa X smartphone, which will be the first to feature both the Tegra 2 processor and the Icera 450 HSPA+ modem. The Tegra 2 system on a chip will be the fastest ever put into a phone, and the Icera modem is good for up to 21Mbps downloads.
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