The native file manager is another example of Microsoft making its mobile OS more flexible and accessible for end-users. Microsoft has released a file manager app called Files on the Windows Phone store, after confirming earlier that the ability to browse through user files would be arriving on the OS. When Windows Phone 8.1 was [...]
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The latest round of rumors concerning future HTC releases suggests the highly anticipated One M8 Prime smartphone is no more, while smartwatch development is in fairly advanced stages, with a One Wear piece possibly due by September. Although HTC hinted numerous times in the recent past it’s got its sights set on the booming wearable [...]
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A play for LSI’s flash business means that Seagate will be making some serious inroads into the SSD business. Seagate announced on Thursday that it had entered a “definitive asset purchase agreement” to purchase LSI’s flash biz, the Accelerated Solutions Division (ASD), and its Flash Components Division (FCD) for $450 million from Avago. LSI is [...]
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Looking up at the bottom line and leaving ego aside, Microsoft is said to be working on a potentially disruptive smartwatch capable of synching to Windows Phones as well as iPhones and Android-running handhelds. Watch out, Samsung (no pun intended), and hurry up, Apple, because the race for the world’s first truly successful, truly crowd-pleasing [...]
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Teased for weeks, manhandled on video and thoroughly previewed, Samsung’s Galaxy S5 Active has gone official at last and can be bought already via AT&T. For a smartphone that was never believed to be very different from the “basic” Samsung Galaxy S5, the S5 Active sure got a lot of media attention. Until earlier today, [...]
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Dish Network would be the largest company to accept the cryptocurrency. These days you can use bitcoins to purchase anything your heart desires. From cars, to food shelter and drugs. Now, you can add satellite TV service to that list — if you’re in the United States. Dish Network recently announced that it will begin [...]
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The new Mac Pro survives a fall, being submersed in water, but can’t withstand the force of ten pounds of C4. One of the strengths of the design of the new Mac Pro is literally its strength. The black cylindrical shaped computer can withstand a beating (it should be noted that there are no moving [...]
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Samsung is rolling out the latest version of Android to quite a few of its devices today, including two of its flagships in the US and the largest phone in its lineup. Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.4.2 KitKat update to the international variant of the Galaxy Mega 6.3, and the Sprint and [...]
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Beats co-founder begins trashing Apple hours after he agrees to sell his company to Cupertino. It’s hard to name a company more secretive and militantly controlling of its public relations narrative than Apple. Nvidia might be an example — as team green rarely talks to the press not in its orbit — but it is [...]
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Sony is holding a special free livestream event that brings their E3 press conference to theaters across the U.S. and Canada.
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Entry level GeForce 700-series card aims to take on integrated alternatives like AMD’s A-series and Intel’s Iris Pro 5000. Shortly after Nvidia finally released its high-end GTX Titan Z, the video card maker also unveiled a new card on the exact opposite end of the spectrum: the GeForce GT 740. Unfortunately the GT 740 doesn’t [...]
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Just when we thought we had HTC’s product roadmap for the second half of 2014 all figured out, new gossip enters the equation, suggesting a metal-clad One M8 “Plus” and plastic-made M8 “Advance” are in the works. One M8, One mini 2, then M8 Ace and One M8 Prime. Sounded like a solid plan for [...]
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Valve has recently announced that 2015 is the most "realistic" window for the release of their console-like Steam Machines, citing that more time is needed to ready the hardware for public use.
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Nvidia’s once missing-in-action card gets released and comes in at a cool $3,000 — but does anyone want it? After rumors of its demise through indefinite delays, Nvidia has finally launched its massive GTX Titan Z card which it first introduced earlier this year at the GPU Technology Conference. The Titan Z has 5,760 CUDA [...]
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Beats takeover is the biggest deal for Apple since the purchase of Steve Jobs’ NeXT for $400 million in 1997 Apple’s deal with Beats Electronics is finally official. The two companies announced the takeover late Wednesday, after weeks of rumors and speculation. The official terms of the deal hold the takeover valued at $3 billion, [...]
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Although footage for the new Battlefield game has just been leaked, Visceral Games confirms that the trailer is quite dated and that the game has come a long way since then.
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Computex kicks off next week in Taipei. Here’s why it’s a better show for everyone than the International Consumer Electronics Show. Halfway through Lisa Su’s keynote at this year’s CES, she found herself competing with the noise from the neighbours. The tent next door to AMD’s, part of a tent city in the parking lot [...]
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Translator app should be available at the end of the year, but will likely not be free. In Star Trek: The Encyclopedia, the reason given why all the different alien races in the show were speaking in English was because Federation starships offered real-time translation via their comms systems as did the communicator badges worn [...]
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Deal with China’s top SoC maker gives Intel a massive footprint in China — without an expensive contra revenue program. Intel and Rockchip announced today that the two have signed a strategic agreement that would see the two companies collaborate on building SoCs, particularly ones for low-end tablets running Android. Rumors of such a deal [...]
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MSI brings in the era of Z97 by delivering a solid overclocking-friendly board with stylish design. Intel’s Z97 chipset is out in full force, and motherboards supporting the new standard have been flooding the market over the last few weeks. Today we’ll be taking a look at one of MSI’s contributions to the lot, the [...]
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Toshiba is going after Asus, Google, HP and each and every player involved in the affordable tablet arena, moving the spotlight away from struggling high-end efforts and instead focusing on surprisingly solid, cheap new entries titled Excite Go and Encore 2. If you can’t beat them, join them. And then beat them at their own [...]
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Another international flavor of a high-end (-ish) Samsung device is boarding the KitKat bandwagon, as Android 4.4 updates for the GT-I9295, aka Galaxy S4 Active, have just started on the old continent. The timing is ideal. We’re likely a mere couple of weeks away from the official Galaxy S5 Active introduction, and what better moment [...]
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Not exactly a household name of the mobile industry yet, Lenovo is making great strides to improve its brand awareness, reportedly working on a 6-inch Android phablet that will put Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 to shame. Even without Motorola’s support (remember, the acquisition is still pending approval), Lenovo’s Android love story might be entering a [...]
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Asus’ move to Qualcomm for the next ZenFone exposes a critical flaw in Intel’s mobile strategy. While most semiconductor companies strive to earn wins for their mobile processors by offering the best chip at the best price, Intel’s stratagem to launch its mobile business has simply been to buy hardware wins for its silicon. Intel [...]
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The images paint a good picture of just how big we can expect LG’s upcoming phablet flagship to be. The LG G3 is refusing to stay under wraps even a day before it is set to be officially announced, with newly leaked images showing off the device next to the HTC One M8. The G3 [...]
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HTC’s first plastic-made flagship device in a long time is inching closer to reality, according to reports out of China, and its final market name might be One M8 Vogue Edition instead of M8 Ace. When rumors emerged that HTC was considering a cheaper-looking, polycarbonate flavor of the all-metal One M8, no one really took [...]
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According to Wall Street Journal’s well-connected inside sources, Samsung’s mythical first standalone smartwatch is indeed in the works, and company execs are eyeing a summer 2014 launch. As wearable devices continue to struggle, mostly due to their exorbitant price tags or high dependence to always connected smartphones, the dream is obviously to be able to [...]
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Will it be thin? Have a stylus? We won’t know until Computex. Computex kicks off in a week, and Asus is expected to have a series of exciting announcements at the show. The company’s CES keynote introduced us to the highly-popular low-price but high-end ZenFone series, so Asus will have to have something big to [...]
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The deal might hinge on whether Apple believes Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are a “good fit” for Apple. Apple’s $3.2 billion takeover of headphone company Beats Electronics was expected to be completed sometime last week, but no official announcement from either party in the deal has been made yet. According to reports, the reason [...]
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The latest installment in the LG G3 rumor saga is a rollercoaster ride between blurry, useless covert photos, precious, exclusive fresh intel and rehashed scoop. It’s honestly hard knowing where to start with all these crazy detailed LG G3 information spills, but thankfully, they’ll be over soon. Until then, the past 24 hours have brought [...]
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New dirt on the unannounced but no doubt imminent plastic-made HTC M8 Ace has just surfaced via two rock-solid sources, leak master evleaks and China’s FCC-like Tenaa device certification center. Although Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and HTC’s One M8 are already around and up for grabs, the battle of the Android giants is yet to begin. [...]
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HP breaches the $100 price point with its new HP 7 Plus. With the high-end tablet space crowded and competitive, many vendors are pushing out slates in the low-to-mid range. HP is no stranger to the space with its $150-priced HP 8 tablet, released earlier this year. Now, HP is taking things below the $100 [...]
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Lain Li is once again looking to new form factors with its new desk chassis offerings: the DK-01X, DK-02X and the DK-Q1X. After unveiling the DK01 prototype earlier this year, Lian Li has launched two models in the series: the DK-01X and the DK-02X. Both hybrid chassis are constructed out of aluminium and come with [...]
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Content hubs on Galaxy devices will soon be a thing of the past, starting with the music app. In an ideal world, phones would ship without bloatware. Samsung’s Galaxy line of devices are notorious for shipping with dozens of proprietary apps installed that nobody every uses or wants. An example of Samsung’s notorious bloatware is [...]
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The recently-unveiled Zbox Sphere OI520 comes in a unique shape. PCs and PC cases that are in shapes of anything but the standard rectangle are rare, for a reason: it’s hard to fit a motherboard and components into a non-standard shape. But that hasn’t stopped Zotac from building a mini-PC in such a unique shape. [...]
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This small, lightweight egg-like device can watch, view and record the world in its entire 360-degree spectacle. What’s the first thing that pops in your mind when you see the gadget in the image above? Probably nothing like a camera perhaps, but a camera it indeed is, and Giroptic is proud to introduce this Kickstarter [...]
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$10,000 is up for grabs for the overclocking champion. G.Skill RAM is a favourite amongst overclockers, so naturally G.Skill has the biggest and best overclocking tournament at Computex. This year, G.Skill is bringing six overclockers to Taipei for a $10,000 faceoff. After a month-long of online qualifiers on HWBot, the six top overclockers are: “der8auer” [...]
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A desk lamp it may merely seem to be, but it can dock with your iPhone to uncover its secret identity as a scanner. Desk lamps aren’t particularly popular as a subject in consumer tech, and it’s obvious to see why. This time however, its sheer simplicity may exactly be a point of interest, as [...]
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Silent Circle, which develops cross-platform apps for private calls and messaging, has raised $30 million in venture funding, which will help the company meet demand for producing the privacy-oriented Blackphone. Whistleblower Edward Snowden opened a huge can of worms when he disclosed how the National Security Agency and other government intelligence bodies spy on conversations [...]
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In the wake of Microsoft’s surprising Surface Pro 3 introduction and even more shocking Surface mini setback, the question on everyone’s lips is whether the diminutive Windows RT-based tablet has been delayed or terminated altogether. When Microsoft invited the press to a “small gathering” in New York City on May 20, the only conceivable headliner [...]
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Galaxy S5’s extra-durable cousin, the S5 Active, is yet to be made official, but following a couple of unauthorized, comprehensive hands-on videos, the formal introduction looks like a mere formality. Since Samsung upped the sturdiness ante on the standard S5, certifying it for basic water and dust resistance, we were doubtful about the practicality of [...]
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This may sound hard to believe, but Microsoft is allegedly willing to make a pact with the devil and roll out a second-generation Android-based Nokia X smartphone before long. With Microsoft’s buyout still pending regulatory approvals at the time of Nokia X, X+ and XL’s intros back in February, it’s entirely possible the erstwhile Finnish [...]
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The head of Dell’s Alienware division admits keeping Steam Machines at console-like price levels will be a challenge. Steam Machines — the PC-based game consoles that run Valve’s Steam OS — are due out soon, and nearly every PC vendor will have a Steam Machine out on the market. Despite the hype about the devices [...]
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Benchmarks show the Tegra K1 packs some serious processor punch. One of the few hardware wins that Nvidia managed to score with its Tegra K1 SoC, Xiaomi’s Mi Pad, was recently revealed in China and is set to be launched in the Middle Kingdom sometime mid-year. The Tegra K1 — which Nvidia erroneously claims is [...]
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Microsoft’s refreshed tablet is available with a Core i3, Core i5, or Core i7 processor starting next month. To date there has been a stark divide between the laptop and tablet worlds: laptops are for producing; tablets are for consuming. But with the Surface 3 Pro introduced on Tuesday, Microsoft wants to bridge that gap. [...]
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Yet another app that can help turn your home into an energy-efficient one, Sensibo connects any compatible air conditioner with your smartphone. Google’s acquisition of the Nest thermostat was an indication that the search and cloud services giant was interested in connecting each and every home to the system. The ideal scenario here is efficiency: [...]
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The leaked renders indicate that HTC is making slight design modifications to the higher-end and cheaper variants of its current flagship. A new leak has brought us a full 360-degree look at the upcoming HTC One M8 Prime, along with a render of a cheaper variant of the HTC One M8. Notorious leakster @evleaks revealed [...]
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The clock is ticking and LG’s glitzy formal introduction of the G3 is drawing near, which the mobile device maker keeps on hyping via a dedicated product page on a local UK website, several FCC certification stops and vague price innuendos. Not to be overshadowed by Samsung and HTC’s (likely unintentional) buzz-building Galaxy S5 Prime [...]
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It sounds like Samsung isn’t ready to change its ways only as far as Galaxy S build materials are concerned, with the forthcoming Galaxy Note 4 tipped to keep screen size in check instead of adding the traditional 0.2 inches to Note 3’s panel. The Galaxy S5 is old news, the S5 Prime, as much [...]
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4K HD TVs in Japan are about to get a taste of standard ultra-HD viewing with an upcoming 4K HD broadcast channel. Very soon, owners of 4K HD TVs in Japan can now regularly enjoy ultra-HD viewing with the new upcoming Channel 4K, a trial 4K HD channel to be launched by Japan’s Next Generation [...]
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