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Today while in wait before the Microsoft “Major Announcement” media event began, the screens up front showed no less than what we may well have called early on: tablets. The sounds of Gotye brought on bright shapes and clear 16:9 ratios in rectangle…

If there’s a contest out there for which analyst has the most confidence in a single company, Brian White would win it for how much potential he believes Apple has. Of course his bullish attitude toward Apple isn’t unfounded, with Apple headed toward…

Three new HTC smartphones are expected to go on sale in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland on Monday, April 2. However, it appears at least one German retail store called Media Market is selling the smartphones early. The photo here is of the HTC One S…

That 99-cent Angry Birds download may not seem like much at first. But then you get hooked, you’re buying all the extra levels and themed seasonal editions, and then you start expanding your horizons. It’s no longer just a 99-cent game download; it’s …

Samsung has tweaked Android 4.0′s Face Unlock system to boost it’s security credentials, addressing criticisms that the facial-recognition system can be fooled by a photograph. In a custom version of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy S among other dev…

For those of you with Google Maps on your Android device (every single one of you with an Android device), you’re about to get an update to that app, and it’s a big one! The actual file size of the app is not what’s big, its the features you’re going …

This week LG and Verizon have announced a cute little addition to their 4G LTE lineup with the “Lucid by LG”, complete with a lovely 4-inch IPS LCD display and dual-core processor inside. This device fits rather nicely in the hand, is made to be a big…

`Microsoft’s controversial “Smoked by Windows Phone” promo may not be generating as much converts from Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry as it had hoped and now some Microsoft Stores, or at least one store, is reportedly letting customers swap just abou…

Not long to go now, Nokia fans. Rogers has thrown up its pre-order page for the latest flagship Windows Phone handset, the Nokia Lumia 900. Canadian customers hoping to score the phone will be expected to pay just $99.99, although you’ll be saddled wi…

Huawei has just introduced a new mobile hotspot device that breaks some of the barriers we have come to expect from mobile devices these days. First, it can be used as a hotspot for up to 10 Wi-Fi products, not just five. And second, it says it can of…

Nokia’s Lumia 900 Windows Phone was originally rumored to hit AT&T in mid-March, but now the launch of the handset has reportedly been pushed back to April 22. The device will still be heading to AT&T with 4G LTE connectivity for just $99.99 w…

Apple is having its iPad event next week where three versions of the iPad 3 are expected to launch. The big feature of the new iPad is expected to be a retina display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. It sounds great, but what many may not have…

Nokia’s Asha series aren’t going to distract buyers looking at the Lumia 900, but for bringing smartphone-style tech down to the feature phone level they’re impressively cheap, flexible devices. A combination of a new, more HTML5 capable browser, Micr…

Nokia’s Lumia 900 HSPA edition doesn’t break many new boundaries – we saw the LTE model at CES after all – aside from its DC-HSPA, but the new Nokia Transport app certainly promises to be useful. Another free preload in the fashion of Nokia Music and …

Rarely, in the retail world are Apple products discounted. Apple gadgets such as the iPhone and iPad sell very well at the normal retail prices leaving no real need to discount them to increase sales. This is the reason why each time we see Apple prod…

Nokia has announced the Nokia 808 PureView, the successor to the N8, and packing a ridiculous 41-megapixel sensor. Based on photography technology previously seen in satellite photos, the 808 Pure View runs Nokia Belle, and is one of the last gasps – …

Nokia has announced its cheapest Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 610, complete with the new Nokia Transport app. The smaller phone has public transport information for 500 cities in 46 countries, including step by step directions to the nearest station…

If the Galaxy Note 10.1 is too large and stylus-obsessed for you, Samsung has another new tablet-phone that might tickle your fancy, the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.2. As the name suggests, it’s a 4.2-inch Android device with a WVGA IPS LCD display, plus …

This week we’re getting word of not just an international edition of the HTC One X, but an AT&T version for the USA as well – and there’s one big change in the mix for this release: a dual-core processor instead of quad. The international edition …

This week the folks at HTC have revealed a line of devices under the HTC One pillars of quality, here in the HTC One V. This device has a 3.7-inch SLCD2 480 x 800 display with a 1.0 Ghz single-core processor, a total of 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of intern…