Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 goes official with S Pen on board

After making an appearance earlier today, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 got officially announced. The compact Android Jelly Bean slate will be available worldwide in Q2 this year in Wi-Fi only, 3G and 4G LTE versions. Telephony support will also be available. Pricing is yet to be revealed. When available, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will sit between the Galaxy Note...

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EXCLUSIVE: We take a peek at the MWC LG Optimus line-up

Things are in constant motion and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is literally buzzing with the latest mobile tech, even though it hasn’t officially set off yet. It’s so chock-full of the latest mobile tech here that we literally ran into a slew of unannounced LG phones in the street. We saw the company’s L II-series, F-series and the latest addition to the Optimus...

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HTC One vs. iPhone 5 camera shootout surfaces, we compare

Introduction HTC made a big splash the other day with the announcement of their next flagship, HTC One. Besides the general upgrades in almost all departments, they also presented us with a new type of camera. First of all, it's part of an elite club by offering optical image stabilization much like the Nokia Lumia 920. And secondly, instead of increasing the megapixels...

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Firefox OS running ZTE Open specs revealed before launch

We have been hearing about the Firefox OS for a while now. Now, ZTE is about to release their first smartphone based on Mozilla's open source operating system, the ZTE Open. Unfortunately, we don't have any photographs of the device just yet but we do have some key specifications that were spotted at MWC, which hasn't even started yet. Looking at...

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We are in Barcelona as MWC 2013 gets ready to kick-off

Hola from Barcelona, Spain! It’s unusually cold here, but MWC is going to heat things up once it stars. The official start of the expo is on Monday, but the press events actually start tomorrow. We’ll be covering everything there is, as Huawei, LG, Nokia, ASUS, ZTE and more major player in the mobile industry have their press conferences in the upcoming days. The...

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Samsung Galaxy S IV said to pack SoLux screen and Qualcomm CPU

According to a fresh report, Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S IV flagship is about to do away with two of the previous generation's staples - the AMOLED display and the Exynos CPU. The upcoming Korean flagship will reportedly feature a 4.99" 1080p SoLux display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset whose CPU cores tick at 1.9GHz. While the technology behind the SoLux display...

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Galaxy Note 8.0 touted on Samsung stand prior to MWC 2013 launch

And there goes the last bit of curiosity... (credit: Engadget) Not that this will be a surprise to most readers, but it now seems absolutely certain that Samsung's long-rumoured Galaxy Note 8.0 will be officially unveiled in a couple of days at Mobile World Congress. An anonymous tipster, presumably part of the set-up crew in Barcelona, snapped a picture...

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Alleged Nokia Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 images hit the web

The days leading up to the MWC are usually filled with tons of rumors and one in particular has been heating up - that Nokia will unveil one or more affordable Lumias. Now, purported images of two models - the Lumia 520 and the Lumia 720 - have cropped up, pouring even more fuel into the fire. Nokia Lumia 720 The image of the Nokia Lumia 720 shows a handset that looks...

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iPhone Mini reportedly launching this summer

The key to big markets like China and Brazil is a smaller, cheaper iPhone The next device from Apple is rumored to be the iPhone Mini, a smaller - and more importantly cheaper - version of its smartphone, and the release date may be in the summer. There are plenty of reasons why Apple needs to start making the cheaper iPhone Mini, and the Morgan Stanley managing...

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