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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: First Impressions
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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is getting press for all the wrong reasons right about now. It's the tablet everybody wants but no one can get their hands on. Aren't we the lucky ones. Don't get too jealous though, this is a US sample we have for all but an afternoon which we'll be sending straight back. That said, in the brief time we've got it we can take you through a quick side by side with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and its keyboard dock, pool together some images and...
Transformer Galaxy Tab 10.1
BlackBerry Playbook price slashed to £169 at Carphone Warhouse
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If you’ve been thinking about getting a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, but put off by the pricing; now might be a good time. For a limited time Carphone Warehouse is selling RIM’s 7-inch tablet for £169. Yes, until Feb 7th Carphone Warehouse is selling the 16GB version of the tablet for £169, that’s a reduction of £230, since it’s launch price of £399 and even cheaper than the £179 from the last fire sale. If you’re looking for a larger...
Cheap book?
HTC Sense 4.0 features leaked: 50GB of DropBox storage, physical buttons to stay
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PocketNow is saying it’s got the skinny on a “non-final build” of HTC Sense 4.0, which looks destined to debut on the rumoured HTC Edge quad-core smartphone. Though there’s no images (sadly) of HTC Sense 4.0 in action, we’re able to get some idea of what it’s like and what changes it will bring. In a nutshell, it’s shaping up to be the most significant revamp of Sense to date. The key features are: Improved lock screen and layout The custom lockscreen...
Sensy Time
Update: Samsung “still reviewing options” for Galaxy S3 launch at MWC
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The more we hear about the Samsung Galaxy S3 the more our anticipation for what promises to be a monster of a phone is whetted. Naturally we’re expecting to see it unveiled at Mobile World Congress, but the rumours doing the round at the moment have poured water on this idea. To shorten the launch gap between the European and US launches of the S3, Samsung may pull the date back to later in the year. In a call to Sammy Hub’s Kunal Gangar, Samsung’s Younghee Lee, said that...
No S3 for MWC?
HTC to reduce smartphone range: create 'hero' approach
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HTC UK is to produce less high-end (or hero) devices this year to try and gain back market share from Samsung, which today announced record profits, partially due to the success of the Samsung Galaxy S2. Speaking to Mobile Magazine, HTC UK chief Phil Roberson said:We have to get back to focusing on what made us great – amazing hardware and a great customer experience’ He continues: ‘In Q4 we delivered a lot more products than in the past. Now we want to create more of a...
Holding out for a hero
Samsung hits record profits thanks to the Galaxy S2 and others
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Apple and Google might have reasons to be cheerful (and to a lesser extent, Nokia), but 2011 looks to have been a great year for Samsung as well. The South Korean firm has broken records for profits, racking up at total $4.7 billion (£2.9 billion) for the last quarter (October-December) of 2011. According to figures from Strategy Analytics, it’s sales of phones from the Galaxy range of Android phones that have been the big earner for Samsung. Though no official breakdown of figures...
Profit-ic
Q4 2011 Android tablet sales boom. iPad still on top.
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Not many people will argue with the fact that Apple introduced the first mainstream tablet into the market and changed the shape of mobile computing with their iPad. Sales of iPads have supported this thus far and the Android tablet market hasn’t been regarded as all that much of a threat despite vast volumes of Android tablets being churned out from huge corporations right through to small startups. Cue Q4 2011 and things are a-changing. A report published by the Strategy Analytics Tablet...
Tab clear.
BlackBerry Curve 9320 and 9220 outed in RIM roadmap leak? Plus, white Bold 9790 incoming
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The BlackBerry Curve 9320 and the Curve 9220 - these apparently are the names of RIM’s ‘two new BlackBerry Curves’ that we heard would be coming this year. BGR seems to have got some insider info on these new devices, both of which sport full Qwerty keypads, and a list of basic spec. Sadly both of these phones aren’t looking a patch on the current Curve line-up. Boasting 3.2 and 2-megapixel cameras respectively, the screens for these Curve have some basic-sounding...
White Knights
Nokia shifts 1 million Lumia's in 2011, but huge operating loss
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Nokia has announced it’s results for Q4 2011 and it’s mixed news for the phone giant, with strong sales of the Lumia range countered by huge losses. Nokia is the latest phone manufacturer to release it’s financial results for Q4 2011 and the full financial year stating: - Accelerating investment in Lumia range of smartphones, having sold well over 1 million Lumia devices to date. - Solid Q4 performance in mobile phones. - Strong balance sheet, with net cash and other liquid...
Luming news
New iPhone 5 set for summer launch?
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The new Apple iPhone 5 is currently ready for production, sporting a new phone factor and ready for a summer launch, according to an employee from the company that makes the phones. 9to5 Mac has been tipped off by an employee of Foxconn that iPhone 5 is ‘gearing up for production.’ Interestingly there are several versions of the hardware in circulation, so it sounds like Apple hasn’t decided - or is keeping quiet about the finished product. All the samples purportedly have a...
Summer loving
LG Prada 3.0 coming to Phones 4U tomorrow
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The LG Prada 3.0 fashion phone will be doing a little turn on the Phones 4U catwalk tomorrow. Available to buy in Phones 4U stores and online from tomorrow the 27th of January, you can pick up a Prada 3.0 for free on contracts from £31 a month. The pre-order page tells us that the Vodafone and O2 £31 contracts will net you 900 and 600 minutes respectively, with both contracts giving 3000 texts and 500MB of data. The LG Prada 3.0 is a super slim phone that packs an 8-megapixel...
Catwalk Time
Acer Iconia Tab 700 pricing revealed, Full HD for £460? Yes please.
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The Acer Iconia Tab A700 has left a lot of tablet buyers salivating. In the wake of a very average run from Acer last year with their Iconia Tab line failing to capture the hearts and moneys of the tablet buying elite, the A700 emerged the Phoenix out of the flame with its 1920x1200 display, quad-core 1.3GHz Tegra 3 processor and micro HDMI port. What wasn’t clear however was pricing, until now. If the German Website Tablet Test are correct, the 16GB Acer Iconia Tab A700 looks like it will...
Prime who?
Open webOS 1.0 to arrive September 2012
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After last month’s bare-bones announcement that HP would open-source webOS, it appears we’ve finally had some meat to flesh out the story, and so long as you don’t mind a bit of a wait, it’s pretty exciting. Renamed Open webOS 1.0, the platform will be fully open-sourced by September. For anyone who doesn’t want to wait that long to get stuck in, Enyo Framework, the free tool for writing webOS apps lands today in its latest guise capable of writing apps for tablets,...
Wake me up in September.
ZTE Light Tab 2: £235 tablet out Feb 2012
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Having made a name for themselves in the budget-phone category, ZTE are set to do much the same in the tablet world. Having seen the Android 4.0 quad-core ZTE T98 spotted at various trade shows in the past months, we weren’t sure the Chinese mobile corp were going to stay true to their budget roots given a pretty blinding spec sheet. That said, it looks like the first released tablet of 2012 is indeed something altogether more affordable, the ZTE V9A, Light Tab 2. First seen at Mobila Asia...
Light on the wallet
HTC Explorer Video Review
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN News
The HTC Explorer is a very affordable touchscreen phone that does the basics and does them well with an added dash of the usual HTC style and flair. At £120-130 pay as you go, the HTC Explorer represents great value for money. It’s very easy to get to grips with and the layout is easily customisable. Overall performance is very smooth for a phone of this price and will more than satisfy those after an inexpensive pay-as-you-go experience or a first smartphone. With Android on...
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