UPDATE: NVIDIA Grid, Tegra 4 and Project Shield demo videos added. The show floor at CES 2013 doesn’t open until January 8 (we’ll be there to cover everything mobile), but the event festivities have already started! You can watch NVIDIA’s CES special event live stream in the embedded video above. The webcast will likely...
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UPDATE: Corning Gorilla Glass 3 strength test demo video from CES 2013! Today, Corning announced Gorilla Glass 3 and their plans to showcase the new glass technology for smartphones and tablets next week at the International CES 2013 in Las Vegas. The third generation of Gorilla Glass is said to be three times more...
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LG released a generic teaser video for its upcoming CES 2013 press conference, scheduled for January 7th at 8AM PT. The South Korean electronics company is expected to highly promote its new line of smart appliances and TVs, but one rumor suggests there may be a new Android smartphone announcement as well. According to...
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CTIA, the Wireless Association, typically holds two conferences focused on mobility each year. CTIA 2013, geared for technology and consumer electronics, is scheduled to take place on May 21st in Las Vegas while MobileCON, centered around IT solutions, is set for October 9th in San Diego. Well, next year, the association will consolidate its...
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The $200 Google Nexus 7 tablet by Asus has been a huge success in the second half of 2012, as evident by its ongoing “sold out” status on the Google Play Store this holiday season. Well, it seems Asus will be following up with a pair of Nexus 7-like tablets of its own, sans...
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Samsung is reportedly preparing to showcase its 5.5-inch 720p HD flexible display for smartphones in early January. The Korean company will debut the bendable display with 1280×720 resolution and pixel density of 267ppi as a prototype demo at CES 2013 in Las Vegas – we’ll be there to check it out! In its current...
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Details of Nvidia’s next generation mobile processor, Tegra 4 (codenamed Wayne), have leaked via a slide on a Chinese website. The upcoming chipset, which will debut early next year, possibly at MWC 2013 in February, is reportedly 6x more powerful than Tegra 3 and 20x more beastly than Tegra 2, as the fourth generation...
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We have the Google Nexus 10 tablet in the SmartKeitai labs for review and this is the unboxing video for the device. The Nexus 10, manufactured by Samsung, sports a 10-inch WQXGA Display (2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, 300 ppi), 1.7 GHz Samsung Exynos 5250 dual-core Cortex A15 processor with Mali T604 GPU, 16...
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Google has updated its official YouTube app for Android to better accommodate devices with large displays. Specifically, version 4.2.16 of the app delivers a revamped UI for 10-inch Android tablets, like the Samsung Nexus 10 and Galaxy Note 10.1, as you can see in the screenshot below. The presence of the Guide will help...
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Samsung has posted a brief teaser video for CES 2013, which will take place early next year from January 8 to 11 in Las Vegas. Samsung tells us to “get ready because something new is coming” and that we should “stay tuned” to find out more soon. While Samsung tends to have its hand...
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Amazon opened its Mobile App Distribution Portal to Android developers in Japan in October, but now, in late November, the Web giant is ready to transition to the next phase in the process. That’s right, the Amazon Appstore, or アンドロイド アプリストア in this case, is now open for business to the Japanese market as...
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Skype 3.0 for Android is now available for free in the Google Play Store. With the update, the popular video calling app’s user interface is now optimized to take advantage of larger screens found on tablets and it also offers a boost in audio quality with support for the company’s wideband audio codec, called...
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Tom Dickson, CEO of Blendtec, has put out another promotional video for the “Will it Blend?” series. This time, they’re blending three popular 7-inch tablets – the Android-powered Google Nexus 7, the Apple iPad Mini running iOS 6, and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD. Tom savagely snaps them in half before throwing them into...
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Sprint will release its slide-out QWERTY keyboard-equipped LG Mach Android smartphone and 4G LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Android tablet on November 11. The former will cost just $99.99 with a new two-year agreement and the latter will run $549.99 outright. Measuring just .48 inches, the LG Mach features a 4-inch WVGA display,...
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Today’s product announcements from Google included two new devices, the LG Nexus 4 smartphone and Samsung Nexus 10 tablet; however, two variants of the previously released Nexus 7 tablet were also launched. The Asus-branded Nexus 7 32GB WiFi model is now available to purchase for $249 on the Google Play Store. The 8GB model,...
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