Well, it’s that time of the year again. The time lesser-known companies like Archos join Samsung, LG or HTC in unveiling new, mainly budget-oriented gadgets at high-profile tech expos. Unfortunately, after they do, we rarely hear back from Diamonds, Heliums, Cesiums, Powers or Cobalts.But if there was ever an Archos product ...
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MWC 2016 is almost upon us and the rumor mill will not give a rest until the much anticipated phones are finally unveiled. Two companies who have the spotlight are LG with the G5 and Samsung with the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge.Each year Samsung comes out on top of the Android flagship realm and last year Samsung seemed to find a mix that really worked, at least in terms of aesthetic appeal. The
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With CES already a distant memory, MWC in Barcelona is this season’s hot place to be if you want to show off some new mobile hardware. That’s drawing most of the big players our of the woodwork, and we’re looking forward to major launches from Samsung, LG, and more. Of course, even with all these mobile-device powerhouses gathering en masse, not everyone’s coming along to the party, and Apple’s being its old doesn’t-play-nice-with-others self as
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As tech companies continue to race towards gimmicky and ultimately impractical 4K smartphones with 16-core processors and 8GB RAM or $100K smartwatches made from solid Kryptonite, it’s easy to lose sight of the little annoying things that should have probably been improved decades ago.Case in point, physical SIM cards you need to replace when switching wireless carriers. How is that still a thing? Well, GSMA’s industry-backed Consumer Remote SIM provisioning initiative will finally make it obsolete before long, allowing the user to retain an embedded card or eSIM for the duration of a ...
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In recent months, even years, it started to feel like all rugged gadgets were the same, kind of how most mainstream flagship Android phones share their super-high-end specifications. But the Cat S60 is so much more than just another overly bulky, muscular and mediocre in terms of performance handheld.This 4.7-inch bad boy brings “true innovation” to the table, in the form of an embedded thermal camera from FLIR, the global leader in thermal imaging technology. The ...
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Prolific Twitter tipster Evan Blass, best known by his @evleaks social media handle, strikes again in advance of MWC 2016’s start, although the dirt spilled on Huawei’s upcoming mid-range Android tablet is arguably less glamorous than all those exclusive Samsung Galaxy S7 renders.The MediaPad T2 10.0 Pro looks an awful lot like the MediaPad M2 10 introduced last month at CES in Las Vegas, minus a Harman Kardon logo and resulting premium sound, as well as ...
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Benchmarks aren’t everything. But there aren’t any benchmarks in skipping rope.Xiaomi CEO Hugo Barra has posted the first of several teaser videos to promote the upcoming launch of its long-awaited next flagship, the Mi 5. The company recruited ...
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Is it starting to get a little uncanny the way LG’s G5 launch overlaps with Samsung’s Galaxy S7 launch? We’re not talking about anything so basic as both events falling on this coming Sunday, nor the phones running some of the same silicon – but as we learn more and more about what these companies have planned for their respective announcements, the similarities are really becoming pronounced. Take the latest LG rumor, suggesting that the company could introduce the spherical LG 360 Cam – which ...
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Earlier today, we got our first look at a potential LG G5 Magic Slot accessory. We’ve heard time and time again that the G5 would use this expansion port to allow for the attachment of new hardware modules, with early reports mentioning possible options like a physical QWERTY keyboard, an extra camera, or some manner of VR hardware. What we saw today, though, didn’t immediately look like any of those – it had a bunch of buttons, and one obvious dial, but no lenses or ports of its own that we ...
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When we can call a detail about a new smartphone “confirmed?” Sometimes, design features seem obvious, and we want to take their inclusion for granted. And when some new detail pops up in enough rumors, from sufficiently different sources, it can be easy to start accepting it as gospel. Even manufacturers themselves can contribute to all this, as they tease pre-launch hardware not with a clear list of specs, but vague hints at functionality. Today we’ve got something that falls on that ...
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You know what, Samsung? We get it. You saw that we were a little unhappy with some of the changes for last year’s Galaxy S6, dropping cool GS5 features like storage expansion and water resistance, and now with the Galaxy S7 nearly ready to land, you’re making sure that you don’t repeat past mistakes. For the past few days now, Samsung’s really been teasing its upcoming Unpacked event, and make allusions as to what we can expect from “the next ...
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What’s going on with LG’s rumored plans to give its upcoming G5 an unusual hardware expansion option in the form of the so-called Magic Slot? The theory’s been kicking around for months, and while multiple sources have spoken to its legitimacy, we’ve been hard pressed to come up with any actual evidence for the slot’s existence. Certainly, looking at
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Xiaomi’s executives, including VP of International Hugo Barra, haven’t shied away from teasing the Mi 5 in anticipation of its double debut showing in Barcelona and Beijing on February 24, yet somehow, there are still many unanswered questions regarding the Mi 4’s long overdue sequel.We know full well
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The first high-resolution press renders surfaced online almost three weeks back, a prototype pic in real life was unveiled even earlier, then just the other day we saw “The Next Galaxy” starring in an official video teaser for the first time, and pictured in the flesh over in Dubai, where a fishy alleged ...
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Everyone from Google to Microsoft to Samsung, Sony, HTC, LG and even Facebook is involved to a certain extent in the development and ...
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