ZTE bringing phones running Mozilla OS to Europe

Mozilla’s mobile operating system appears as though it’s almost ready to meet the public. ZTE, a Chinese phone manufacturer, would like to escort the new OS along the way. The first stop is Europe, where ZTE and Mozilla hope to have phones available this year. 2012 saw the continued success of Apple and the significant rise of Android. 2013, it appears,...

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Hands on: Alcatel One Touch Idol review

Hands on: Alcatel One Touch Idol review The Alcatel One Touch Idol is one of a trio of new smartphones from the French firm which are pushing towards the top end of the mobile market. A less powerful understudy to the One Touch Idol Ultra, the Idol slides in with a 4.7-inch IPS LCD display, 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, 8MP camera...

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Mauz transforms your smartphone into a lean, mean – and versatile – gesture control machine

Mauz brings gesture control technology to the mobile arena with its app and dongle accessory. The duo combine to turn your smartphone into a versatile way to interact with your PC, mouse, keyboard, and even hands-free. Gesture control technology continues to gain traction thanks to our increasing comfort going without the mouse and keyboard. Touchscreens...

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T-Mobile’s CEO is doing something crazy: He’s trying to not rip us off

Last night, I had my first introduction to T-Mobile’s new CEO John Legere. He’s crazy, hilarious, and may just have the vision to help T-Mobile take on Verizon and AT&T. I wrote T-Mobile off a long time ago. In my mind, it was a last-place carrier going nowhere fast. Last night, I changed my mind. I hobbled to T-Mobile’s CES press conference with a groan...

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Huawei announces smallest USB data card ever, and it’s not coming to America either

Huawei is releasing tons of products at CES, and while a lot of attention is on its huge phones, the company has also released the smallest data card yet. Huawei is really taking us to town this week at CES, and while it’s gotten a lot of attention for its massive phablet, The Ascend Mate, it’s also taken the time to announce the smallest data card yet,...

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Hands on: ZTE Grand S review

Hands on: ZTE Grand S review ZTE is another Chinese manufacturer looking to tackle the high-end smartphone market with its latest flagship device, the ZTE Grand S. Due to launch in China at the end of the first quarter the Grand S is set for a global release but an exact date and regions are yet to be revealed. The Grand S joins the Grand Era and Grand X in ZTE's...

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Samsung announces Exynos 5 Octa, an A15 and A7 hybrid SoC

Samsung isn't done with CES 2013. We just got the company's latest and without a doubt most exiting announcement yet - the Exynos 5 Octa chipset. It brings 8 processor cores, which distribute the work load among each other. Four Cortex-A15 cores ensure incredible performance while the other four are low-power Cortex-A7s that kick in for the less demanding tasks and...

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Samsung introduces high octane Exynos 5 Octa processor

Extra fun with new Exynos No, we didn't get the Galaxy SIV, but the company had plenty of mobile news to share during its Wednesday keynote at CES. Samsung President Stephen Woo introduced its next offering in mobile processors, the Exynos 5 Octa. This is Samsung's (and apparently the world's) first mobile application processor to implement the ARM big.LITTLE...

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Hands on with Panasonic’s 20-inch 4K Windows 8 tablet

Panasonic’s new 20-inch, 4K tablet may seem like total overkill… until you actually see it. This is the ultimate in Windows 8 tablet awesomeness. Sadly, we may have to wait a long time before it’s priced for the consumer market. The trend toward 4K resolution is in full swing in the HDTV world, so it’s not surprising that...

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Samsung gives glimpse of flexible OLED phone future

Bendable and 'virtually unbreakable' (credit: Engadget) Former U.S. President Bill Clinton may have stolen the spotlight during Samsung's keynote address at CES 2013, but the South Korean company didn't skimp on offering up some innovation in the form of a flexible OLED smartphone display prototype. Stephen Woo, president of Samsung, was joined by Brian...

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Polaroid joins the budget Android tablet gang with its new M Series slates

Polaroid has announced a pair of Android tablets at CES 2013. The M7 and M10 have a 7-inch and a 10-inch screen respectively and considering their specifications, are very reasonably priced. Polaroid is going all-out to reinvent itself at CES this year, with the introduction of a tablet aimed primarily at kids and an Android-based mirrorless camera, but...

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TechRadar Best of CES Awards 2013 presented by DTS winners announced

One of the Best of CES 2013 winners CES has been an absolute whirlwind, giving us a thorough and at times mind boggling look at all the hottest tech on the market and coming soon. We got to tinker with a new Sony phone, a 20-inch 4K tablet that was only overshadowed (size wise) by a 27-inch "table PC," and a host of other products we can't wait to see on...

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BlackBerry 10 devices to cover all price points, RIM exec claims

RIM will have BlackBerry 10 devices to fit every budget - eventually The long awaited debut of handsets running BlackBerry 10 OS is just three weeks away, and Research in Motion claims they'll be leaving no stone unturned when it comes to pricing. PhoneArena reported Tuesday that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion plans to cover the entire spectrum of consumers'...

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Rumors of cheap iPhone continue to spread, this time touting $99 or $149 price tag

Rumors that Apple is hard at work on a cheap iPhone model continue to spread, this time with news the device will be priced at $99 or $149. But is such a price point feasible? We can blame DigiTimes and the Wall Street Journal, plus its anonymous sources, for the sudden surge in rumors concerning a cheap Apple iPhone, potentially named the iPhone Mini, which...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 release date, news and rumours

The S3 still could do with a few tweaks It certainly feels like Samsung is taking over the world right now – at least, the Android world. There's no doubt that last year's Galaxy S2 was arguably the phone of the year. And not in recent times, discounting Apple of course, can we remember the anticipation and expectation of a phone as much as the Galaxy S3....

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Verizon sold 9.8 million smartphones in Q4

As AT&T, Verizon has yet to release a full financial report for the final quarter of 2012 but an SEC filing gives a few interesting details. The carrier sold 9.8 million smartphones in the holiday quarter, a big jump from Q3's 6.8 million. The filing hints at a "higher mix" of iPhones but gives no exact numbers. For Q3 the numbers were 3.4 million Androids and...

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Verizon Lumia 822 and Droid RAZR M to come in red and pink

There is just over a month until Valentine's Day and Verizon has already started preparing for it. Two phones will get new paintjobs and maybe some ladies will receive them as Valentine's gifts. Nokia Lumia 822 will be released in red, while the Motorola Droid RAZR M will get a new pink version. Both smartphones should be released in the upcoming weeks. Once...

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Panasonic expands Toughpad line, includes Win8 and Android tablets.

Panasonic has released two more tablets into their Toughpad line, and completes a trio comprising of Windows 8 and Android alike. CES may get its reputation for being all about the common man, hence the consumer part of the Consumer Electronic Show name, but that doesn’t stop companies like Panasonic from using the opportunity to showcase their latest...

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MWC 2013: What to expect

An eye on the future... GET IT? February is always the most exciting month of the year for mobile phone fans, as it's when the entire phone industry has a big, boozy party somewhere in Europe and shows off the new phones and tablets it'll be launching over the spring and summer. The show has been dominated in recent years by the vast number of new Android...

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Lenovo brings four dual-SIM IdeaPhone droids to CES

The K900 phablet might be hogging the spotlight, but Lenovo has four more Android handsets to show at CES. Details are a bit scarce, but they are all dual-SIM devices and range from an entry-level Gingerbread droid to a 5" Jelly Bean upper mid-ranger. That upper mid-ranger would be the Lenovo IdeaPhone S890 - it has a 5" qHD (540 x 960) screen with 220ppi pixel density...

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