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Native Dropbox app arrives for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices

Native Dropbox app arrives for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices 07 Jan 2013, 13:00

Sharing can be done by full integration with the respective menu in the charms bar of Windows 8/RT, but...

Five free Oppo Find 5 smartphones await 5 beta testers via Facebook contest

Five free Oppo Find 5 smartphones await 5 beta testers via Facebook contest 07 Jan 2013, 12:44 1

How would you like to win a Oppo Find 5 smartphone with a 5 inch display, 1080p resolution, 441ppi pixel...

Samsung GT-I9500X, possibly the Galaxy S IV, listed on company's website

Samsung GT-I9500X, possibly the Galaxy S IV, listed on company's website 07 Jan 2013, 12:32 7

Perhaps entered into the database early by mistake, a device known as the Samsung GT-I9500X is now listed...

Alcatel One Touch X’Pop

Alcatel One Touch X’Pop 07 Jan 2013

The Alcatel One Touch X’Pop is an Android smartphone coming to Asia, Africa and the Miiddle East. The...

Watch this hilarious Lumia 920 commercial

Watch this hilarious Lumia 920 commercial 22 May 2013

Don't you think that some people are taking the iOS vs Android dispute a bit too far? Well, Microsoft...

North American consumer purchase intentions put iPhone just ahead of Android

North American consumer purchase intentions put iPhone just ahead of Android 07 Jan 2013, 11:40 24

Right off the bat, we'd like to put out that we're not fully sold on surveys like this. Asking someone...

Nokia's CEO content with Windows Phone for now, but

Nokia's CEO content with Windows Phone for now, but "anything is possible" 07 Jan 2013, 11:24 38

Nokia's CEO argued that the Lumia 920 sales are pretty encouraging, and he sees the company getting double-digit...

Dead Trigger 2 to launch in Q2 of 2013, optimized for Tegra 4

Dead Trigger 2 to launch in Q2 of 2013, optimized for Tegra 4 07 Jan 2013, 11:24 4

Chances are that if you are serious about mobile gaming, you've probably come across Dead Trigger. It...

Samsung Q4 earnings leak claims $5.5 billion in mobile profits

Samsung Q4 earnings leak claims $5.5 billion in mobile profits 07 Jan 2013, 11:12 28

Samsung hasn't officially announced its Q4 earnings numbers just yet, but there are already some leaks...

ASUS shows off Qube Google TV set-top box, army of Windows 8 devices at CES

ASUS shows off Qube Google TV set-top box, army of Windows 8 devices at CES 07 Jan 2013, 11:00 6

There will be quite a lot going on over at the ASUS booth during this year's CES. That's because the...

Liveblog: AT&T Developer Summit at CES 2013

Liveblog: AT&T Developer Summit at CES 2013 07 Jan 2013, 10:57 1

AT&T's Developer Summit is not just some boring event for developers, guys, it's an event where key executives...

Vizio shows off new HD smartphones for China

Vizio shows off new HD smartphones for China 07 Jan 2013, 10:54 2

Vizio hasn't been successful in bringing a smartphone to the American market, but it has some devices...

Pantech Discover

Pantech Discover 07 Jan 2013

The specs of the Pantech Discover are nothing to sneeze at, mirroring your world on a 4.8" HD screen,...

More HTC Sense 5.0 screens leak, maybe the M7 as well

More HTC Sense 5.0 screens leak, maybe the M7 as well 07 Jan 2013, 10:31 27

Yesterday, we saw a couple screen leaks that were reported to be the dialer and keyboard from HTC's new...

Pantech Discover comes to AT&T Friday to confirm that last year's top-shelf specs are this year's $50 Android

Pantech Discover comes to AT&T Friday to confirm that last year's top-shelf specs are this year's $50 Android 07 Jan 2013, 10:29 12

Intriguing design? Check. Nice specs? Check. Low price? Check. What else can an Android phone want from...

Liveblog: LG CES 2013 press conference

Liveblog: LG CES 2013 press conference 07 Jan 2013, 10:08 4

Here we are at CES 2013! We're opening today's pre-show day with a press conference by LG, the folks...

Apple iPhone 5 slides below Android phones on all carriers in latest Consumer Reports ratings

Apple iPhone 5 slides below Android phones on all carriers in latest Consumer Reports ratings 07 Jan 2013, 09:52 56

The Apple iPhone 5 is enjoying good sales in the United States, and we’ll see just how good in a couple...

Texas Instruments announces new brighter, smaller, power-savvier pico projector technology for smartphones and tablets

Texas Instruments announces new brighter, smaller, power-savvier pico projector technology for smartphones and tablets 07 Jan 2013, 09:39 2

Having a pico projector built-in a tablet or a smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy Beam opens a world...

Paper or Plastic Logic? Flexible 10.7

Paper or Plastic Logic? Flexible 10.7" PaperTab slate gets previewed 07 Jan 2013, 09:34 18

That dreamy bending tablet from Samsung's futuristic ad a while ago just got a whole lot closer, but...

Alcatel One Touch Pop is a fresh colorful palette of entry-level Androids

Alcatel One Touch Pop is a fresh colorful palette of entry-level Androids 07 Jan 2013, 09:28 5

Alcatel already started the phone madness at CES with the world’s thinnest smartphone and another 5-inch...

Consumers moving away from buying single-purpose devices

Consumers moving away from buying single-purpose devices 07 Jan 2013, 09:20 11

A survey done by Accenture shows that single-use items like point and shoot cameras or music players...

Alcatel One Touch Scribe X

Alcatel One Touch Scribe X 07 Jan 2013

Alcatel One Touch Scribe X is the top of the line Alcatel model, with a 5'' 1080p display, a snappy 1.4GHz...

Fitbit Flex is a Bluetooth fitness tracking wristband, fresh off CES 2013

Fitbit Flex is a Bluetooth fitness tracking wristband, fresh off CES 2013 07 Jan 2013, 09:02

Fitbit has one of the most popular fitness trackers on the market out there, but with no wristband to...

Apple's App Store hits 775,000 apps, 300,000 tablet apps and 40 billion downloads

Apple's App Store hits 775,000 apps, 300,000 tablet apps and 40 billion downloads 07 Jan 2013, 08:36 23

Apple’s App Store has just hit 40 billion downloads, picking up the pace in the last year when 20 billion,...

Acer Iconia B1 is now official – 7 inches of Jelly Bean for under $150

Acer Iconia B1 is now official – 7 inches of Jelly Bean for under $150 07 Jan 2013, 08:26 8

Well, what do you know – the Acer Iconia B1 has been officially announced just minutes ago, exactly as...

CES 2013: Schedule of events

CES 2013: Schedule of events 07 Jan 2013, 08:22 35

With just a few days until the start of CES 2013, it's time to take a look at the schedule of events...

Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra

Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra 07 Jan 2013

The Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra grabs the world’s thinnest smartphone title from the BBK Vivo X1 and...

Alcatel lifts cover off One Touch Idol Ultra, the new 'world's slimmest phone'

Alcatel lifts cover off One Touch Idol Ultra, the new 'world's slimmest phone' 07 Jan 2013, 07:49 12

After introducing the Alcatel One Touch Scribe series for stylus and big screen lovers, Alcatel wanted...

Alcatel unveils One Touch Scribe series: 5-inch phones with a stylus for the masses

Alcatel unveils One Touch Scribe series: 5-inch phones with a stylus for the masses 07 Jan 2013, 07:25 17

Alcatel has just dropped its well-timed CES bomb with a handful of new devices, but the most exciting...

Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD

Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD 07 Jan 2013

The Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD is the first device in the One Touch Scribe series. It has a 720 x 1280-pixel...

Vizio brings 7-inch optimized for reading tablet to CES 2013

Vizio brings 7-inch optimized for reading tablet to CES 2013 07 Jan 2013, 06:59 12

Vizio is aiming to widen its portfolio beyond just TV sets and computers, and it’s making a big step...

Report: 43% of  U.S. Windows Phone users are using Windows Phone 8

Report: 43% of U.S. Windows Phone users are using Windows Phone 8 07 Jan 2013, 06:55 48

A tweet from mobile ad network Adduplex shows that a whopping 43% of Windows Phone users are using Windows...

Alcatel One Touch Idol

Alcatel One Touch Idol 07 Jan 2013

The Alcatel One Touch Idol is a pretty capable device with a 4.7" qHD IPS-LCD display, a 1.2GHz dual-core...

Vizio unveils 10-inch featherweight Tegra 4 tablet running stock Android

Vizio unveils 10-inch featherweight Tegra 4 tablet running stock Android 07 Jan 2013, 06:27 49

Vizio might be best known for its TV sets, but it has recently pushed the boundaries of its portfolio...

Feeling blue? T-Mobile expected to replace 16GB Pebble Blue Samsung Galaxy S III on Wednesday

Feeling blue? T-Mobile expected to replace 16GB Pebble Blue Samsung Galaxy S III on Wednesday 07 Jan 2013, 05:39 6

A photo showing the Titanium Gray version of the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S III set off talk that the...

Munster: Full-sized Apple iPad sales to benefit from increasing use of tablets in the enterprise

Munster: Full-sized Apple iPad sales to benefit from increasing use of tablets in the enterprise 07 Jan 2013, 04:46 13

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients on Monday that the 9.7 inch Apple iPad will benefit more...

Nvidia's Project Shield gets an official unveiling, watch how it all came together here

Nvidia's Project Shield gets an official unveiling, watch how it all came together here 07 Jan 2013, 04:14 21

Nvidia kicked off CES 2013 with a splash by announcing not just the new Tegra 4 chip with 72 graphical...

HTC posts worst quarter in 8 years, still hopeful for future

HTC posts worst quarter in 8 years, still hopeful for future 07 Jan 2013, 03:59 34

HTC’s chief executive Peter Chou said just a couple of days that the dark days are likely over for the...

Project Shield Android gaming console kicks off CES 2013 with a bang

Project Shield Android gaming console kicks off CES 2013 with a bang 07 Jan 2013, 03:22 17

Nvidia kicked off CES big today by announcing the Nvidia Tegra 4 chip with better power efficiency and...

First Acer Iconia B1 previews surface

First Acer Iconia B1 previews surface 07 Jan 2013, 02:50 12

The Acer Iconia B1 is one of the most exciting devices we expect to see at CES not just for its specs...

NVIDIA shows off the new Tegra 4 processor

NVIDIA shows off the new Tegra 4 processor 07 Jan 2013, 00:13 81

The new Tegra 4 will feature an amazing 72 GeForce GPU cores with 4K video support, which is about 6...

Check out these leaked renders for the new Samsung Galaxy S III mini colors

Check out these leaked renders for the new Samsung Galaxy S III mini colors 06 Jan 2013, 23:03 7

Three new colors are available for the Samsung Galaxy S III mini to go along with the Marble White color...

Possible keyboard and dialer from HTC Sense 5.0 leaked

Possible keyboard and dialer from HTC Sense 5.0 leaked 06 Jan 2013, 22:15 26

We've only heard a little bit about what will be coming with HTC's UI layer, Sense, as part of the 5.0...

How Siri helps a blind man use Instagram

How Siri helps a blind man use Instagram 06 Jan 2013, 22:12 13

How could a blind man use Instagram, and why would one even try to use the photo-sharing social network;...

Hacker jailbreaks Windows RT, and finds it no different than Windows 8

Hacker jailbreaks Windows RT, and finds it no different than Windows 8 06 Jan 2013, 21:55 21

Windows RT is kind of an annoying platform. It is Windows, designed to run on ARM chips, and although...

Lenovo announces Yoga 11S with Intel CPU and full Windows 8

Lenovo announces Yoga 11S with Intel CPU and full Windows 8 06 Jan 2013, 21:24 6

The Lenovo Yoga 13 inch model has been one of the better options for a full touchscreen Windows 8 laptop/tablet...

Billboard confirms Huawei Ascend D2 coming to CES 2013

Billboard confirms Huawei Ascend D2 coming to CES 2013 06 Jan 2013, 20:57 2

The Huawei Ascend D2 is the Chinese handset manufacturer's attempt to join the latest bunch of CES bound...

Sony Xperia Z pictured on the floor of CES; will it be one Jelly Bean or two?

Sony Xperia Z pictured on the floor of CES; will it be one Jelly Bean or two? 06 Jan 2013, 19:45 32

A photograph shows the extraordinary something that Sony will unleash upon us at CES, namely the Sony...

Windows Phone 8 coming soon, says Sprint

Windows Phone 8 coming soon, says Sprint 06 Jan 2013, 17:30 20

Sprint has put up a support page for Windows Phone 8 titled "learn more about Windows Phone 8," and directly...

Sony sends out email to tell us the extraordinary is coming

Sony sends out email to tell us the extraordinary is coming 06 Jan 2013, 16:52 50

Sony has sent out an email saying that in three days it will show us the extraordinary and that it can't...

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