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Ray Willington - Sun, Jan 16, 2011
When you get a good thing going, you keep it going if you know what's good for you. Samsung has seen a massive hit with their Galaxy line of products, and LG's Optimus line hasn't been too poorly either. The company has recently released a brand new phone in the Optimus line, the Optimus...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jan 14, 2011
Hola! That's about the extent of our Spanish knowledge, but now when we have an Android phone in-hand and a live data connection. The Google Translate app has been assisting users to translate text and websites for quite some time now, but there's always room for improvement. And Google...
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Michael Santo - Fri, Jan 14, 2011
Corporations want to maximize their profits, both for themselves and their shareholders. Thus, this shouldn't come as a surprise. A tipster has come forward and said that Samsung is holding back the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update from the T-Mobile Vibrant (Samsung Galaxy S variant) because they...
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David Altavilla - Mon, Jan 10, 2011
This year's Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas Nevada, offered some of the most exciting product announcements we've seen in any previous CES show thus far. The past three years' CES shows have been rather snoozy, to be honest, with the economy taking its toll on product design investment and innovation. However, this year's...
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Dave Altavilla, Marco Chiappetta, Jen Johnson, Mat Miranda - Mon, Jan 10, 2011
This year's Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas, Nevada offered some of the most exciting product announcements we've seen in any previous CES show thus far. The past three years' CES shows have been rather snoozy, to be honest, with the economy taking its toll on product design investment and innovation. However, this...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jan 10, 2011
It's pretty clear that Samsung and Verizon Wireless have a great relationship, and with the carrier's 4G LTE launch, that relationship seems to only be getting stronger. Both companies have announced at this year's CES that Samsung Mobile will feature their first LTE-enabled smartphone on VZW...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jan 10, 2011
There's no doubt that the Galaxy Tab has done quite well or Verizon, and for Samsung. While this 7" Android tablet has found a home on all four major U.S. carriers, Verizon Wireless now has one thing that no other competitor has: access to an LTE Galaxy Tab. That's right -- at CES 2011...
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David Altavilla - Fri, Jan 07, 2011
Asus definitely made a splash at this year's CES with their onslaught of sexy tablet PCs. We were expecting to see a healthy offering from Asus and weren't disappointed. However, what was more impressive were the designs Asus stepped out with that broke the plain old slate...
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Michael Santo - Fri, Jan 07, 2011
T-Mobile has announced a tablet, the LG G-Slate. The device will carry Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), HSPA+, but size, price, and timing weren't mentioned. Because of the vagueness around the tablet, more interesting to some are the videos of the G-Slate, which give us more views of Honeycomb, the...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jan 07, 2011
Just about every company out in Las Vegas this week has a cellphone with their name on it. Okay, that's probably stretching the truth a good amount, but there isn't a shortage of new phones at CES, that's for certain. Acer is also introducing a new piece this week, the Liquid Mini. This...
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Jennifer Johnson - Fri, Jan 07, 2011
Motorola and AT&T are claiming to have the "world's most powerful smartphone" with the ATRIX 4G. This smartphone definitely packs some power with its dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor that runs at 1GHz. You'll also find 1GB of RAM in the phone, enabling better multi-tasking. The ATRIX 4G...
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Jennifer Johnson - Thu, Jan 06, 2011
Last night at Digital Experience, Toshiba gave us a closer look at the company's upcoming Android-powered tablet. It looks pretty sweet, with it's 10.1-inch widescreen display. We especially liked that this tablet has a built-in SD card reader as well as a mini USB connection and full-size...
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Michael Santo - Thu, Jan 06, 2011
Honeycomb, or Android 3.0, is to be the first tablet-optimized Android version, and not that much is known about it, although rumors of higher hardware requirements are rumbling. However, Google has gone and posted a teaser video on Honeycomb, pre-CES, so come one, come all, and take a look...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Jan 06, 2011
We knew CES would be loaded with tablets, and that foreshadowing has proven correct so far. They're definitely a major part of this year's show, and Velocity Micro is bringing not just one, but three total tablets to the show. There's a...
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Jennifer Johnson - Tue, Jan 04, 2011
Samsung launched a new digital camera with Wi-Fi capabilities. The new SH100 is a 14.2 megapixel compact camera that can wirelessly connect to other devices such as your Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S smartphone. By pairing your devices, you'll be able to use your phone as a remote control...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Jan 04, 2011
Lenovo really is on a roll here at this year's CES. First came a bunch of new notebooks, and now this: the official introduction of the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid with LePad Slate. Now, we have heard about and seen these devices before. Even as far back as CES 2010, this units were making the rounds as...
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Michael Santo - Sun, Jan 02, 2011
Verizon is reportedly dropping the price on the Samsung Galaxy Tab by $100, to $499. Additionally, Verizon is going to throw in $60 worth of free movie rentals, either via the Blockbuster app or Media Hub. For those who might have purchased recently, according to the report, if you have your...
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Michael Santo - Fri, Dec 31, 2010
A woman may have her dog to thank for catching a burglar. It's not, however, because the dog himself caught the burglar, but instead because the iCam application she used on her iPhone to monitor her dog clued her into a burglary. The iCam app runs on both Android and iPhone. Claire, who did...
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Joel Hruska - Tue, Dec 28, 2010
Tablets and mobile devices are central to Microsoft's plans for CES 2011. In addition to its demo of an early Windows 8 build running on ARM CPUs, the software giant will be demonstrating a number of tablets running Windows 7. If this sounds familiar it's because Microsoft did much the same...
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Michael Santo - Tue, Dec 28, 2010
It's unclear if the Samsung Nexus S will be a huge seller, but this particular version of it is definitely a huge device. It's a 42-inch version of the stock Android-powered "Google phone," with a multitouch screen, no less. The device passes all the processing to a real Samsung Nexus S. The...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Dec 25, 2010
The world of smartphone optics has been getting a lot more attention in recent years. Just three or four years ago, a 3MP camera on a cellphone was a huge deal. Now, that doesn't really cut it on a modern, high-end smartphone. People expect more, and lots of people are using their phones in...
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Michael Santo - Thu, Dec 23, 2010
Another carrier billing option has come to Android. Until Wednesday, among U.S. carriers, only T-Mobile allowed carrier billing for the Android Market, but that is no longer the case. Google announced on their Android developer blog that AT&T carrier billing is rolling out the the Android...
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