LG Preparing Optimus L7 II Dual, Likely To Surface at MWC

At last year’s MWC LG has unveiled it’s L-Style lineup of smartphones, the L3, L5, and L7. With the most important mobile trade show of the year just around the corner, rumors and reports are piling up, and it appears that the South Korean company is preparing a follow-up, at least for the L7. The report comes from Russia and it claims that the LG Optimus L7 II Dual will pack a 1GHZ dual-core processor, 4.3-inch IPS-display, eight-megapixel camera, dual-SIM ...

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BlackBerry CEO Talks PlayBook BlackBerry 10 Updates, Future Tablet Plans

If you have a BlackBerry PlayBook by Research in Motion, the company which since yesterday will be know as simply, BlackBerry, you will be able to update to the latest BlackBerry 10 operating system. The company’s CEO, Thorsten Heins, dropped the information yesterday at a Q&A session following the BlackBerry 10 event. All existing seven-inch flavors of the PlayBook tablet will be updated to BlackBerry 10. However, plans on future tablets are not yet crystallized, as the CEO acknowledged that it takes more than selling hardware: “We are looking for specific value added ...

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IDC: Tablet Market Grows 75.3%, Apple Still Leads, Competition Steals Market Share

The latest International Data Corporation preliminary date figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 are in for tablets and worldwide shipments reached a record at 52.5 million. To put this into context, the tablet market grew 75.3% year over year in 4Q12 compared to 29.9 million units in 4Q11. As far as units are concerned, the last quarter of 2012 saw figures growing 74.3% from 30.1 million units in the third quarter of 2012. Apple is still the market leader with 22.9 million units sold in Q4 2012, representing a 48.1% growth over the same quarter of the previous. The

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Google Extends Windows Phone Support For Sync, Microsoft Works On New Protocols

On December 14 Google officially announced some changes regarding Google Sync, mainly that starting January 30, 2013, “consumers won’t be able to set up new devices using Google Sync”. We told you that this might be a good opportunity for you to switch to Outlook.com and its services but moving your info can sometimes (if not all times) be a real hassle. If you’re a Windows Phone user and you have a Google-provided e-mail account then there are two bits of good news ...

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No Samsung Unpacked Or Any Official Unveiling Event At MWC 2013?

Ever since the May 2012 launch of the Galaxy S III in London we’ve voiced our beliefs that the next iteration of the phone will follow a similar trend. Samsung’s special event for unveiling key hardware is dubbed “Unpacked” and a recent report seems to confirm what a company executive hinted recently: there will be no Galaxy S IV at MWC in Barcelona. Apparently there will be no Unpacked event at MWC next month and, according to “people familiar with the matter” there will be ...

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HTC M7 Landing On March 8 With Secondary Color Option?

A February 19 event scheduled to take place in New York and London is where the company is expected to unveil its Android flagship, the M7 (not at MWC in Barcelona, happening one week later). This is what the rumors claim and same rumors try to pinpoint a second-half-of-March availability for the phone which was subject to many leaks. According to this latest report from ...

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