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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 20, 2013
Word around the web is that Samsung is getting ready to refresh its Galaxy line of mobile devices. It looks like the South Korean electronics maker will add three "Galaxy Pro" tablets to its portfolio sometime in the first quarter of Q1, along with a "Galaxy Lite" slate, the only one of the...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 19, 2013
There are a couple of interesting things happening in the land of display technology these days. One is the push for Ultra High Definition (UHD) 4K TVs and content, which might be happening quicker than you think. The other is the uprising...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Dec 18, 2013
In this latest episode of HotHardware’s Two and a Half Geeks, Dave, Iyaz, and Marco discuss the Apple iPad Mini with Retina Display, NVIDIA’s G-SYNC display technology, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition, and the innovative WD Black...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 16, 2013
Samsung kicked off the work week by announcing another Galaxy smartphone slated for a 2014 release, though it's not a device for mobile phone enthusiasts. Instead, the Galaxy Core Advance is designed to extend the "Galaxy experience" to a...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Dec 09, 2013
We’re already hungry for more information about the successor to the Samsung Galaxy S4, which is presumably going to be dubbed the Samsung Galaxy S5, and Rightware has offered up a benchmark result that could be from the new phone...
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Dave Altavilla - Mon, Dec 02, 2013
Just over a year ago, Samsung broadened its Note portfolio to not only include phones, but tablets as well. The company saw a need to introduce a slate that catered to working professionals, power users, and those who need more content creation capabilities -- hence, the Galaxy Note 10.1...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Dec 02, 2013
Just over a year ago, Samsung broadened its Note portfolio to not only include phones, but tablets as well. The company saw a need to introduce a slate that catered to working professionals, power users, and those who need more content creation capabilities -- hence, the Galaxy Note 10.1...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Nov 29, 2013
Although owners of the new-ish Samsung Galaxy S4 may still be swooning over the popular smartphone, the successor to Samsung’s flagship phone is already in the works. A new report has emerged that pegs the Samsung Galaxy S5’s...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 25, 2013
Benchmarking is serious business, and we're not saying that tongue-in-cheek. Buying decisions are often made based on how well a product benchmarks, which is why we spend so much time putting hot (and sometimes not-so-hot) hardware through...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Nov 25, 2013
When you've got a good thing going, why change it? That's the mantra that Samsung is abiding by, as it continues to milk its longstanding Galaxy line with yet another new addition. The company's latest is the Galaxy Grand 2, a "compact"...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 19, 2013
Call me a curmudgeon if you want, but I don't think there's a lot of traction to be found in the smartwatch market. To me, it's a category that doesn't make a ton of sense now that smartphones are so ubiquitous. I don't doubt there's a...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 15, 2013
The smartphone market isn't getting any less competitive. Just the opposite, there exists plenty of market research data to suggest that this already busy segment is only going to get much bigger over the coming years. That being the case...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Nov 11, 2013
A long and winding road for the Moblin-now-Meego-now-Tizen mobile OS may be reaching a major destination: A release into the market on Samsung smartphones. Backed by both Intel and Samsung, the Tizen OS looks like it will arriving to...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Nov 08, 2013
Samsung recognizes that the way in which individuals use tablets varies considerably from one user to the next. As a result, Samsung’s tablet portfolio is quite varied, offering something for everyone. Samsung’s tablet portfolio includes models that range in size from 7-inch to 10.1-inch screens. The power and performance associated...
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Jennifer Johnson - Fri, Nov 08, 2013
Samsung recognizes that the way in which individuals use tablets varies considerably from one user to the next. As a result, Samsung’s tablet portfolio is quite varied, offering something for everyone. Samsung’s tablet portfolio includes models that range in size from 7-inch to 10.1-inch screens. The power and performance...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, Nov 06, 2013
This isn’t exactly what we have in mind when we were thinking of a flexible curved display, but LG’s G Flex curved smartphone does indeed bend, a little. In a video shot by The Verge at an event in Korea, you can see that when...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 04, 2013
The line continues to blur between what constitutes a smartphone with a built-in camera versus a camera with smartphone functionality. I'd argue we're still entrenched in the former category, though Samsung's Galaxy S4 Zoom isn't playing...
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Dave Altavilla - Mon, Nov 04, 2013
In our latest episode of HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks, Marco, Dave and Iyaz discuss the Microsoft Surface 2, AMD's new Radeon R9 290X, Lenovo's Erazer X700 gaming PC, Samsung's Galaxy Note 3, Motorola's Project Ara modular smartphone...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Nov 01, 2013
What’s that, you say? You’re sick to death of the high-stakes patent wars being waged by huge tech companies against one another? Well too bad, because if anything, things are just escalating. A consortium called Rockstar...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 01, 2013
Are you pleased with your tablet purchase? If you bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or any of the company's other slates, there's a good chance you're content. In fact, the majority of tablet owners, regardless of make and model, are enjoying their purchases, it just so happens that Samsung has...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 31, 2013
Go ahead and credit Apple for popularizing the tablet market by building a device that became an instant hit, that's fair. And give kudos to the Cupertino company for dominating the landscape with its iPad tablets, that's also fair...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 30, 2013
When so-called "phablets" first emerged -- those devices that are bigger than your typical smartphone but smaller than a tablet -- there was a question mark surrounding whether or not consumers would snatch these things up. Well, Samsung...
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