Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Mobile World Congress 2012: First Wave of Smartphones

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Mobile World Congress 2012: First Wave of Smartphones The coolest phones we've seen from the world's largest mobile show so far include quad-core chips, larger screens, and even one with a projector built in.
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Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview: What We Know So Far The preview essentially is an open beta for users who want a sneak peek at the new operating system. It is expected to be announced at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona on Wednesday.
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Hands-On With HTC's Hot New Android Smartphones: Quad-Core One X and Siblings These three high-quality phones--the One X, the One S, and the One V--impress with eye-catching designs, good cameras, and the latest version of the Android operating system.
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HTC Announces the One X, Its First Quad-Core Smartphone HTC showed off the One X and the rest of its new One line of Android smartphones Sunday, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress 2012 show.
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IBM's Molecular Images May Help Nanoscale Circuits IBM researchers for the first time have succeeded in imaging how charge is distributed inside a single molecule, which is a fundamental research breakthrough.
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AT&T to Appeal Ruling in Throttling Case The companys move is no surprise: Half of its smartphone users -- about 17 million customers -- are on so-called unlimited plans and it could find itself in a legal nightmare if other customers win similar cases.
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Adobe Photoshop Touch App Arrives For iPad 2 The latest software joins the company's suite of iOS apps Color Lava, Eazel and Nav, among others.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: First Look Samsung's Android 4.0 pen-toting tablet is back--bigger and better than before.
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Asus Unveils PadFone and Transformer Pad Family We find out more about the Asus PadFone and the two new additions to the Transformer family.
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Huawei Ascend D Phone: Hands On Huawei adds to its line of premium phones with its first quad-core mobile offering, the slim and speedy Ascend D quad and quad XL.
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For Flash on Linux, There Are Open Player Alternatives Adobe may be discontinuing its standalone Flash Player for Linux, but Gnash and Lightspark both offer an open source solution.
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Mozilla Phones in 2012 Primer Mozilla is developing a version of Gecko that will act as the core of a standalone operating system using modern web technologies, including the HTML5 markup language.
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Skype for Windows Phone Arrives in Beta Version Windows Phone users now have access to the Skype Internet calling service.
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AT&T's HTC One X Flashy Smartphone: Quad-Core Everywhere But the U.S. The HTC One X Android phone will be choked back to dual-core in the United States to accommodate AT&T's 4G LTE network.
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Android Market Hits 450K Apps, Challengers Abound Apple's iOS is still considered a bigger revenue generator, and Google's Market may in fact end up being nothing more than a bargain basement app retailer if Amazon has its way.
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Canon Announces April Ship Date for EOS-1D X Pro Digital SLR Camera Canon will ship its high-end Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR in April, a month later than planned
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Opera Sings New Song for Android, Apple Since its arrival on the browser scene in 1994, Opera has introduced innovations that browser users take for granted today, such as tabs, the integrated search bar and pop-up blocking.
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Dolby Moves From Smartphone Audio Into Smartphone Camera Technology Dolby's new HDR technology will allow you to take High Dynamic Range photos with a phone camera and save them to JPEG-HDR.
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Apple iPad 3 Shipments Heading to the United States? Reports say supplier Foxconn is preparing to ship the first Apple iPad 3 units to the United States.
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First Look: Nokia 808 PureView and Lumia 610 Smartphones We especially enjoyed the 808 Pureview's 41-megapixel camera sensor and Dolby Digital Plus sound.
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