Sesame Street and Star Trek features in new Qualcomm-powered technology

Qualcomm shows off some of its new Qualcomm-powered technology at CES, with the help of a few well known friends. For those who missed the Qualcomm keynote this evening, you missed quite the celebrity mix. Between Maroon 5′s Adam Levine, actress Alice Eve, and Sesame Street’s Big Bird, Qualcomm certainly was strutting its stuff in an effort to...

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Snapdragon 800 and 600 series processors announced

Qualcomm has just announced their next generation of mobile processors, the Snapdragon 800 and 600 series. Starting with the Snapdragon 600, it includes two of Qualcomm's newest Krait 300 cores, clocked at 1.9GHz. The GPU is the Adreno 320 with an increased clock speed compared to the one in the S4. The Snapdragon 600 is aimed at mid-range mobile devices....

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Spec Showdown: Ascend Mate vs Galaxy Note 2

Watch out Samsung Galaxy Note 2, there’s a new phablet in town. Well, not yet, but when the Huawei Ascend Mate makes its way to market, it’ll be the biggest screen on a phone to date. All 6.1-inches of the Ascend Mate’s display will challenge the Galaxy Note 2 for phablet supremacy. And just like that, the phablet war began. Thanks to information leaks before...

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Velodyne vFree Bluetooth wireless headphones hands on: Pretty and wireless

CES has begun and we’re already in the muck of it all. Before we lose our minds though, we took some time to check out Velodyne’s new vFree Bluetooh headphones. Velodyne is a name known to audiophiles mostly for their subwoofers, but last year the company expanded their portfolio with a set on in-ear headphones. Now they’re going all in with two new...

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Sony admits it took its eye off the ball

Back on track Sony has admitted that it took its eye off the ball for a few years, but is keen to point out that's it's back and better than ever. The honest appraisal came during a video presentation at Sony's CES 2013 press conference, with the voice over revealing: "we used to make people say wow all the time. "Our unique combination of artists and...

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Ascend D2 vs. Galaxy S3 vs. Droid DNA: Spec showdown

If you’re going to compete, you might as well compete with the best. Huawei is ready to make its mark in the upper echelon of the smartphone market. It’s entrant is the Ascend D2, a 5-inch phone with a gorgeous display. We put it up against the Galaxy S3 and Droid DNA to see who comes out on top. Huawei isn’t exactly the biggest name in mobile at the...

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Intel swots Windows RT aside, previews Bay Trail

Intel was again bullish about its smartphone prospects Intel made a variety of announcements during its CES 2013 press conference, each with varying degrees of significance. Top of the list in terms of forward-looking events for the company was the debut of Bay Trail, the next-generation 22nm quad-core Atom tablet platform for tablets. It has more than...

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Sony Xperia ZL is a smaller version for 'select regions'

The Sony Xperia Z and Xperia ZL are extremely similar One of the biggest bits of news out of CES on Monday was the official unveiling of the Sony Xperia Z, a device that's been rumored for quite some time. But alongside it Sony revealed another device: the Xperia ZL. If you'd like to understand the differences, you're going to have to look through a magnifying...

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Sony unveils Xperia Z and Xperia ZL 5" 1080p flagships

Just as expected, Sony's press conference at CES 2013 was indeed mostly about Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. Both leaked numerous times before and we already knew pretty much everything there was to know about them. Sony Xperia Z The Sony Xperia Z runs on the latest Snapdragon S4 Pro with a quad-core 1.5GHz Krait processor, Adreno 320 graphics and 2GB of RAM. The smartphone...

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Hands on: Sony Xperia Z review

Hands on: Sony Xperia Z review The Sony Xperia Z is the phone that's set to propel the Japanese firm to the head of the phone charts - and if it went on specs alone, there's a good chance it would manage it. We're looking at yet another redesign from the Sony design studios - from the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc to the Xperia Z, we've had four iterations of the smartphone...

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Watch the Sony CES 2013 press conference live right here

The long-awaited Sony press event at this year's CES is about the begin and happily, you can watch the whole thing unfold live here. The company is expected to announce the latest additions to the Xperia lineup, called the Z and ZL (the latter will probably be heading to AT&T). Sony should is probably also going to announce its 2013 line-up of HDTVs as well as...

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Sony Xperia Z launches with full HD prowess

Is this the phone to take Sony to the top? The Sony Xperia Z has been unveiled at CES 2013 claiming to deliver the 'ultimate viewing experience'. Fitting into this mantra is the 5-inch full HD Reality Display (1080 x 1920) sporting Sony's own Mobile Bravia Engine 2, which uses technology borrowed from its TV range to produce a crisp, vivid display. There's...

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Netgear’s updated Genie app lets you share Wi-Fi by QR code, and much more

Netgear had its consumer-oriented keynote today, and while the focus was most only surveillance and other networking hardware, a major update to its Genie software was also announced. Netgear had its keynote earlier today and showed off a variety of new consumer-focused networking technology including wireless monitoring, dual-band range extenders, and...

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Samsung ATIV Odyssey headed to Verizon, LTE on a budget

Samsung has unveiled the Windows Phone 8-powered ATIV Odyssey, it will be running exclusively on Verizon's LTE network and is expected to arrive in stores in the "coming weeks". There's no word on price yet. The ATIV Odyssey was first mentioned back in October when Windows Phone 8 was released. It's built around a 4" Super AMOLED display of WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) resolution...

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Hands on: Huawei Ascend Mate review

Hands on: Huawei Ascend Mate review The Huawei Ascend Mate stomps onto the mobile scene to really test our willingness to call a 6-inch device a smartphone, but that is indeed what it is. Actually measuring 6.1-inches, the 1280x720p display on the Ascend Mate is the largest on any smartphone in world, making it the king of super-sized handsets – dwarfing the already...

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