French government website lists HTC One 2 single and dual-SIM

There have been a lot of purported names for the HTC One's successor flying around the internet; the One+, the M8, but it looks like these previous stories are false, that is, if a report by a French government website is to be believed. The HTC One successor may be called the One 2, and there is a dual-SIM variant in tow. The new nomenclatures were spotted on the...

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Huawei MediaPad X1 tablet certified in China

A 7” Android tablet from Huawei was certified by Tenaa (China‘s equivalent of the FCC). The tablet is called Huawei MediaPad X1 (7D-501u). It’s more compact and lighter than the Nexus 7 (2013) and has a similar 7” TFT screen with 1920 x 1200 resolution. It measures 183.5 x 103.9 x 7.5mm and weighs 239g. The MediaPad X1 is powered by the Hisilicon 910 Kirin chipset...

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2014 week 5 in review: the news that you might have missed

It’s been a busy week with events ranging from small (pre-orders and such) to large (the sale of a cornerstone company). Here's the week in review with all the must-know events of the past few days. The big news, of course, is that Google sold Motorola to Lenovo. Motorola virtually invented mobile phones but its recent history has been less than glamorous with poor...

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