Control your smartphone without touching it using Bluetooth gloves

Definitely helpful when bundled up in snow gear, the BearTek gloves can help you switch between songs without having to pull out your phone. Detailed within a new Kickstarter project launched recently, a company called Blue Infusions Technologies has developed a pair of gloves that use Bluetooth and finger gestures to control an iPhone or Android smartphone....

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Weekly mobile wrap: iPad Mini’s go missing, texting drops, RIM reminds us that it still exists

In this week's mobile news, we recover from news that Twinkies may soon cease to exist, RIM sets a date for BlackBerry 10, and many more stories. Fresh app and game picks for the week are also included. We’re living in strange times, people. The United States’ CIA Director is caught up in the middle of a story from the Real House Wives of the Pentagon; MySpace...

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Lenovo working on Android smartphone with 1080p display

After Oppo, HTC and Sharp, it's Lenovo's turn to release an Android-based smartphone with a 1080p display. We don't really know much about this phone, including it's name, but a few screenshots from the phone have surfaced online. These screenshots reveal that the device indeed has a 1080p resolution. They also show that the phone supports dual-SIM...

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LG F240 leaks via GLBenchmark, sports a full HD screen

LG's answer to the 1080p screen touting HTC DROID DNA has leaked thanks to GLBenchmark's website. Codenamed the LG F240, the device is reported to sport a similarly spec'd display with a 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. According to its benchmark results, the LG F240 utilizes the muscle of an 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor coupled with an Adreno 320 GPU....

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Samsung chasing details of HTC's patent agreement with Apple

Samsung spots a chance to avoid sales ban Samsung has asked to see a copy of the HTC-Apple patent licensing agreement, as it seeks to avoid a sales ban on its own products. A week ago HTC and Apple ended their global legal squabbles and came to a broad 10-year agreement, which may earn Apple hundreds of millions each year. Samsung, which faces the possibility...

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