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Samsung Galaxy S3 – review

Samsung Galaxy S3 – review

Enough tittle-tattle, it’s time for some cold hard, silicon and Gorilla Glass to put all those Samsung Galaxy S3 rumours to bed. The first thing that will strike consumers about the Samsung Galaxy S3 is its fantastically vibrant 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display. And delving a bit deeper, we’ll notice how wonderfully smoothy everything runs [...]

Android Phone Switches To Desktop PC OS

Android Phone Switches To Desktop PC OS

Now that modern smartphones are sufficiently powerful to do duty as full-featured desktop computers. Canonical is helping with the transition of mobile tech to the desktop sphere by porting the Ubuntu Linux OS to Android handsets. And that’s as a dual-boot system, giving a choice of two operating systems on a single smartphone. The system [...]

TF300T – new Asus Prime?

TF300T – new Asus Prime?

Walks like Prime talk like Prime, this new TF300T notebook by Asus may be the new follow up to the Transformer Prime. TF300T as seen above has plastic chassis, which could mean a cheaper offering by Asus. Model TF700 of Asus Transformer Prime was just upgraded with a higher resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. [...]

Huawei Ascend P1-S

Smartphones on CES 2012

Smartphones are a rapidly-evolving category at the CES 2012 and in the wider world in general as the boundaries between small tablets (we’re thinking 5-inchers FROM) and outsized Android handset displays (Galaxy Note, HTC Titan) begin to overlap, all the more so since Ice Cream Sandwich arrived, since the format-independent platform means there is effectively [...]

Intel new processors and upcoming tablets tobe revealed at Computex in Taipei

Intel new processors and upcoming tablets tobe revealed at Computex in Taipei

Intel plans to hit it big this year. At Computex in Taipei, (May 31 to June 4) Intel plans to introduce 10 new tablets. Industry is dominated by ARM chip tablets, but Intel wants to change that. Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel (Asia-Pacific) wants to see more than 35 Intel based tablets this year [...]

Gartner’s predictions on mobile computing

Gartner’s predictions on mobile computing

iPad Site reported on Gartner’s Roberta Cozza and Carolina Milanesi prediction that Apple will keep majority of the market by the end of 2014 until a shift happens in 2015 where decline will ensue. Gartner is making predictions on mobile computing four next for years: Here are OS sales worldwide (unit = 1000) Symbian is [...]

New Qualcomm Dual Core 1.5GHz is REALLY Fast

New Qualcomm Dual Core 1.5GHz is REALLY Fast

The new Qualcomm Snapdragon MSMS8660 is not yet ready for a full release but some got their hands on a sample phone containing the processor and this APU was stunningly fast. The test was on a smart phone but it will definitely be carried over to tablets as well as other mobile tools. It is [...]

Motorola Webtop laptop dock

Motorola Webtop laptop dock

In the smart phone realm, the Motorola Atrix 4G has got to be the most intriguing of all. For one thing, this smart phone uses a very fast NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and it also connects via 4G. Of course, the most intriguing reason is that Motorola has revealed some laptop docking stations that can [...]

Nvidia banking on Android

Nvidia banking on Android

Android is the fastest growing (Mobile) OS in the world today and CEO of ARM has high hopes on the mobile OS. In an interview with Cnet, the Jen Hsun Huang, Nvidia’s CEO confirmed that the company has a long processor strategy, but wants to stay with ARM. He commented that Nvidia Tegra 2 chips come in two flavors  – one geared towards smartphones and another towards tablets.

O2 catches the HD2, sells it FREE

O2 UK gets ready to offer the dazzling smartphone, the HTC HD2. Available only in stores and through phone right now, the O2 is speculated to offer the multi-touch device for free on monthly payment of £45 (18 month agreement). Locate the retail store here to get the O2 version.

Steve Alder, General Manager Devices for O2 in the UK says -“We are proud to be the home of smartphones and the HTC HD2 adds a new dimension to the range of devices we offer to our customers.”

Read full press release here and view the video below to get more details.