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Mysterious tablet turns up at Nokia event in Pakistan

Feb

2013

Nokia is expected to announce a 10.1-inch Windows RT tablet at the Mobile World Congress later this month but a new sighting of a smaller 7-8-inch tablet at a company event in Pakistan suggests the handset maker has other ideas. The Finnish company hosted a conference in Pakistan yesterday and on one point during proceedings ...

Mobile App Builder TapCanvas Exits Beta, Partners With Eventbrite To Make Event App Creation Easier

Feb

2013

TapCanvas, a startup that helps people build mobile applications without programming knowledge, is exiting beta today and announcing a partnership with Eventbrite for the creation of event apps. Although there are a ton of DIY mobile app builders out there (for example, here’s a spreadsheet from a while back listing over 50), TapCanvas is different ...

New Zealand to deploy 3,900 tablets and 6,000 smartphones to police officers

Feb

2013

As part of its on-going partnership with MDM vendor AirWatch, New Zealand’s police force has announced its intention to deploy 3,900 tablets to officers in a bid to save money and time on the job. New Zealand IT administrators have been working with AirWatch and Vodafone to secure the mobile deployment over the past year, ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says OLED Displays are Awful

Feb

2013

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays are awful. Instead, he emphasized that Apple’s Retina display offers a superior experience. “If you ever buy anything online and really want to know what the color is, as many people do, you should really think twice before you depend on the color ...

CyberPower Intros Gaming Laptop With Core i7-3940XM EE

Feb

2013

On Monday CyberPower launched the FangBook X7, a “blazingly fast, terrifyingly powerful” gaming notebook packing hardware like Intel’s i7-3940XM Extreme Edition Processor and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 680M GPU. Of course, it you don’t have the budget for that kind of PC gaming meat, there are also leaner configurations starting at $1,299 USD…

Nexus 7′s Battery Estimate Upped To 10 Hours; How’s Your Battery Life Doing?

Feb

2013

It’s not surprising that when an update for Android is pushed out to Android devices that there’s a flurry of activity throughout coverage of Android news. We all want to know what’s been changed, what’s gotten better and if anything, what’s gotten worse. With the update to Android 4.2.2 for Nexus devices, we were all ...

Three UK to carry Samsung Galaxy Fame – Jelly Bean on budget hardware

Feb

2013

Three UK has announced that it’ll offer the Samsung Galaxy Fame for sale in the near future. The Galaxy Fame was one of two devices recently announced by the Korean manufacturer, which expects to start shipping it starting next month…

Samsung Galaxy S IV will keep S III design, touchless gesture feature more plausible

Feb

2013

The latest rumors about Samsung Galaxy S IV are here. According to the Korean news site ddaily.co.kr, the upcoming Samsung flagship will continue to have a physical home button and will keep the S III’s chassis design, which Samsung considers a very streamline design, or as the manufacturer puts it “a human-centered minimalistic design” or ...

Red Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE arrives in time for Valentine’s Day

Feb

2013

Samsung likes to release funky colored versions of its devices, particularly when it ties in with a holiday like Valentine’s Day. This year it’s the Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE that’s getting a fresh coat of paint, appearing for the first time in “garnet red” this Feb. 14….

Three UK pushing out Jelly Bean update for HTC One S

Feb

2013

HTC started pushing out the Android 4.1.1 update to eager owners of the unlocked, international One S back on Christmas Eve. Fast forward just over a month and Three UK has today announced that they have begun to push out the Jelly Bean update to their own, carrier branded HTC One S owners…