Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 hits the UK

Live under the watchful glory of Her Majesty? Well if you do, you can now purchase the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro for £349. What does your hard-earned cash get you? A Quad-Core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.3GHz, 2GB RAM, Android 4.4 Kit Kat right out of the box. You can get the Tab Pro with either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. The star of the show...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 tipped to come with bezel-free display

According to a report by The Korea Herald citing industry sources, the Samsung Galaxy S5 will launch with a bezel-free display. The Korean giant has reportedly been working on the technology since 2012. The yet to be revealed smartphone is also said to feature a fingerprint scanner – right in line with previous reports. The fingerprint reader is reportedly embedded...

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Another alleged photo of HTC M8 makes the rounds on Twitter

Another alleged live photo of the yet to be announced HTC M8 made the rounds on Twitter. The image shows the device tucked into a protective flip case which looks a lot like the original flip cover for the HTC One. The purported photo of the HTC M8 is different from the previous leak of the device’s front (that particular image was subsequently shot down as fake by...

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Future Samsung phones could record and share your actions across apps

Samsung wants to really get inside your devices Having apparently learned little from all the privacy woes of the last year or so, Samsung is reportedly developing a service that records smartphone users' actions and shares them with other apps. The service is called "Context," according to a report on The Information. Beyond collecting keystrokes from...

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Dual-OS Geeksphone Revolution gets pricing and availability

Details on the pricing and the official availability of the recently announced, dual-OS booting Geeksphone Revolution got out. The Intel-based smartphone will be available on February 20 for €289 ($394). The device’s manufacturer has hinted that there will be an early-bird discount for the most eager. For a limited time, the device will be offered for €269 ($367)...

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Apple, Samsung smartphones could go bezel-free this year

Goodbye, bezels! A new year, another set of flagship handsets from the twin titans of smartphones, Apple and Samsung -- but will this finally be the year such devices can shake off the bezel in an effort to slim down even further? The Korea Herald reported Tuesday that Samsung and Apple may face another rivalry in 2014 as speculation runs rampant the Galaxy...

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Samsung Galaxy Mega Plus with quad-core CPU lands in China

Samsung Galaxy Mega Plus quietly appeared on the manufacture’s official website in China. Sporting the model name I9152P, the dual-SIM GSM/WCDMA+ phablet is an updated version of Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 with a 1.2 GHz quad-core CPU of unknown make. The rest of the Samsung Galaxy Mega Plus’ specs include a 5.8” qHD (960 x 540 pixels) display, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of built-in...

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Windows Phone 8.1 points to Windows RT merging with the phone OS

Note the on-screen buttons, VPN support, and new battery features (credit: Reddit) More than a year after its launch, Windows Phone 8 will finally get its first major update in the form of Windows Phone 8.1. Now that the update's release is imminent, developers have begun getting their hands on the new version's software development kit, and they're reporting...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 retail packaging and specs leaked, maybe

Is this really the back of the S5's box? (credit: SamsungGalaxyS5.nl) The Samsung Galaxy S5 has a level of hype around it usually reserved for Apple products and a side effect of that is that there are enough rumours and leaks surrounding it to bury a small country. The latest of these could be one of the most enlightening yet though, as there's now an...

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Sony Xperia SP Android 4.3 update now seeding

Today Sony started seeding the Android 4.3 update for the Xperia SP. The update carries a firmware number 12.1.A.0.266 and is currently live in Australia only. Fret not, as over the coming days a wider release will be occurring. The Sony Xperia T, Xperia TX and Xperia V are also on the queue to receiving the Android 4.3 update. The last we heard, Sony is still...

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Even Apple can't afford to equip iPhone 6 with a sapphire crystal display

Our screens might remain sapphire-less for a while yet. Just before the weekend it was uncovered that Apple was preparing to build large quantities of sapphire crystal displays. This followed a patent filing which described the use of an extra-resilient material on the iPhone screen, so the natural assumption was that we'd see a sapphire crystal clad iPhone...

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Oppo Find 7 launch date and place unveiled

In a series of teaser images posted in its Weibo account, Oppo officially confirmed that its Find 7 smartphone will debut on March 19 in Beijing. The images contain interesting clues as to the time and place of the event. Oppo Insider has cracked the code and revealed that the number combination means March 19, 2014 and the Art district in Beijing. The event will...

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An alleged photo of the Samsung Galaxy S5 box reveals the specs

The evidence that the Galaxy S5 will be unveiled at the MWC is mounting fast – now there's an alleged photo of the box the new flagship will come in. Samsung boxes feature key specs on the back and an anonymous tipster claims to have snapped a photo of the Galaxy S5 package. The specs listed align with previous rumors. The chipset has a quad-core CPU at 2.5GHz and LTE...

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It's your fault that Flappy Bird is dead

RIP You. It's your fault that Flappy Bird is gone. You took something that was meant as a quick five minute distraction, and you turned it into a rage-inducing competition to see who could waste the most time. "I just wanted to create a game that people could enjoy for a few minutes," creator Nguyen Ha Dong told the WSJ. "It was just too addictive, that...

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ARM announces Cortex-A17 mid-range processor

ARM has unveiled a new mobile processor - the Cortex-A17. It's the successor of the popular Cortex-A9 and offers 60% performance boost and supports big.LITTLE task switching. The latter will allow Cortex-A17 cores to be paired with other Cortex processors, such as the low-power Cortex-A7. The new architecture can be used for up to quad-core CPUs on its own and...

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The LG G2 Mini seems to be having an identity crisis

This but smaller? A phone that might well be the LG G2 Mini has popped up on not one, but two websites, and despite having 'Mini' in the name it could actually be pretty big. First up a device with the model name LG D6218 (thought to be one of the G2 Mini's model numbers) is listed on the FCC's database. The listing states that it's 65.8mm wide and 128.8mm...

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MediaTek outs a high-end octa-core CPU with LTE support

MediaTek has just announced its new MT6595 octa-core chip which it will rival directly Qualcomm's 800 and 805 chipsets, for a place in premium LTE handsets. The company is fresh off the release of its latest octa-core offering which it has marketed as "true octa-core" - capable of running all eight cores simultaneously, rather than only four at a time like Samsung's...

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Samsung teases new Galaxy S5 UI in Unpacked event invitation

Samsung will be holding the Unpacked 5 event in Barcelona on the 24th, the company reminds us with a teaser posted on Twitter. The teaser contains a number of generic features, presumably ones embodied in the company's new phone. They all line up fairly well with what the Galaxy S5 should be, but could also be describing another flagship. Still, "Unpacked 5" is pretty...

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Samsung Galaxy Star Trios with triple SIMs unveiled in Brazil

Just six days ago LG has unveiled the Optimus L1 II Tri (yes, we still giggle at the name). It's a low-end triple SIM smartphone for Brazil and will hit the shelves soon for $127. Today Samsung announced a competing triple SIM smartphone for Brazil as well. It's called Galaxy Star Trios and seems to feature the same specs as the Optimus L1 II Tri. The Star Trios packs...

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