Along with budget phones goes budget tablets and with this classification we found a name to keep track on: Huawei. Huawei has been quite a known company when we speak of good budget phones. To bring in some more good news to boost your day, it has been reported that Talk Talk is to boost [...]
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LG is holding an event in August where the company's expected to unveil its next-generation Optimus G smartphone. But we've already got a good idea what to expect from the Optimus G2. Now we also have a pretty good idea what the phone will look like, thanks to a few leaked photos and a video. According to Engadget, the LG...
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Microsoft's 256GB Surface Pro tablet is coming to America, where it looks like it'll be available soon for $1200.
Right now you can only pick up Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet in 64GB or 128GB flavors for $899 and up in the US, but WP Central spotted a listing at CDW that suggests the new 256GB model will be available soon for $1199.99.
This isn't the first time we've seen Microsoft's tablet sporting a 256GB solid state drive. It showed up in Japan in May.
Since Microsoft positions the Surface Pro as a full-fledged PC, it's nice to get a model with a fairly roomy SSD. If you treat a tablet as a secondary device that you use along with a laptop or desktop, a 64GB drive might make sense. But if you plan to store a large number of documents, apps, games, music, it's nice to have a little more space.
Like other Surface Pro models, the new 256GB model features a 10.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, an Intel Core i5-3317U Ivy Bridge processor with Intel HD 4000 graphics, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 4GB of RAM.
It has a capacitive touchscreen and an active digitizer, which means you can interact with the device using your fingertips or a pressure-sensitive digital pen that lets you write, draw, tap, or hover, among other things. You can also pick up an optional Touch Cover or Type Cover if you're a fan of that old-fashioned typing action.
The Surface Pro isn't exactly the cheapest tablet on the market these days, but it's one of the most powerful — especially if you want access to full-fledged Windows apps rather than mobile apps designed for iOS or Android devices.
via The Verge
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Right now Google Glass is an expensive device for developers and enthusiasts looking to test (and build) the future of wearable computing. Many early reviews of the $1500 Google Glass Explorer Edition have pointed out that the device doesn't actually do very much aside from provide directions, snap photos, shoot video, and answer some questions.
But developers have been writing apps to make Glass more useful by showing Twitter updates and pictures of sexy people. And now Google has rolled out a software update that brings a big change: Google Glass now has web browsing built in.
Google's July update for Glass lets you ask your wearable device to show you a website and it'll pop up in that tiny display that floats over your eye.
You can navigate through pages using the touchpad on the side if the device. Sliding your finger lets you scroll, and sliding two fingers lets you zoom in or out. Tap to click whatever's at the center of the screen.
When Google Glass is paired with a smartphone (and it usually is, since that's what it relies on for an internet connection), you can also now use voice commands to have Glass read text messages aloud, answer a phone call by saying "ok glass, answer call," or send photos or other items with specific contacts in your list using voice commands.
via The Verge
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Evidence has been making the rounds Asus is working on a new tablet with a 7 inch screen and Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor. It apparently has the model number "K009," and featurs a 1920 x 1080 pixel display, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 5MP camera, and a 4,000mAh battery.
Folks who like to speculate on these things think that it's the second-generation Google Nexus 7 tablet. While Asus and Google haven't said a thing yet, a member of the xda-developers forum asked an Asus customer service rep about the K009 tablet and got a surprisingly straight-forward response with detailed specs.
Or maybe a member of the xda-developers forum got bored one day and posted some fake screenshots of a conversation that never took place. Or maybe a customer service rep decided to portray a rumor as the truth. It's hard to tell for certain.
Here's a roundup of tech news stories from around the web.
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Chinese tablet maker Ainol's latest tablet features Android 4.2 software, a 10 inch screen, and a battery which the company says should last for up to 15 hours of run time. Maybe that's why the company's calling it the Ainol Novo 10 Eternal.
Eternity isn't what it used to be if it tops out at 15 hours, but that's still better battery life than you'll get from most tablets.
The Novo 10 Eternal has an 11,000mAh battery, 2GB of RAM, a 1 GHz ATM 7029 quad-core processor, and a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display.
It has 16GB of storage plus a microSD card slot, supports WiFi and Bluetooth, and has a 2MP rear camera and 0.3MP front-facing camera.
The battery, and possibly the 2GB of RAM, are really the Novo 10 Eternal's only stand-out features — until you consider the price.
The tablet's available from Geekbuying for $224, or you can find sellers at AliExpress offering it for around $200 or less. For about the price of a Google Nexus 7, you can get a tablet with a bigger screen and twice the battery life.
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If you're in the market for a 7 inch Android-based tablet/eReader, it's hard to beat the Barnes & Noble NOOK HD at the moment. B&N is selling the tablet for $129 and up and it has a higher-resolution display than the Amazon Kindle Fire HD, as well as full support for the Google Play Store.
What it might not have is a future — B&N plans to kill its tablet hardware division soon, so there's no guarantee the $129 NOOK HD will be supported for much longer.
So when Amazon marks down the price of the Kindle Fire HD a bit, that tablet starts to look pretty good. Right now you can buy one for $30 off… or you can pick up a 2011-era model for even less if you don't mind buying refurbished products.
Here are some of the day's best deals.
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Mozilla's smartphone operating system is about to hit the streets. The first two phones running Firefox OS will launch in Germany and Spain, but Mozilla says other partners will announce launches in additional regions soon.
Firefox OS is an operating system designed to put web apps front-and-center. It's a relatively light-weight operating system designed to play well with inexpensive phones. Mozilla is also positioning the OS as a platform that's more open than Android, iOS, or Windows Phone.
Not only is the operating system open source and open to customization by device makers and wireless carriers, but since Firefox OS basically runs web apps, anyone who can create a web page can code an app for the platform.
Deutsche Telecom will launch the first Firefox OS handsets in Germany, while Telefonica will be the first carrier in Spain to offer Firefox OS phones.
The first two handsets are the ZTE Open and Alcatel One Touch Fire. These are basically entry-level smartphones.
Both seem to be based on Mozilla's Keon reference design, and feature 1 GHz processors, 3.5 inch, 480 x 320 pixel displays, 256MB of RAM, 512MB of RAM, a 3.2MP rear camera and a microSD card slot.
Basically this is what you would have expected from an Android phone about 3 years ago. Now you can get them running a new OS which will ship without support for many of your favorite mobile apps (but with the promise of upcoming apps developed using web technologies).
On the bright side, they're cheap. Prices for an unlocked phone start at about $90.
First Firefox OS smartphones hit Germany, Spain is a post from: Liliputing
Ever wish you could snap a photo on your Android phone without having to wait for the camera app to load? Soon you'll be able to do that on devices running CyanogenMod.
The new feature lets you pull down the quick settings panel from the top of the screen and tap a camera tile. That turns the tile into a viewfinder, and tapping the tile will snap a photo. When you're done, just swipe up again to close the menu.
Sure, you'll probably get better shots if you open a camera app, tweak some settings, adjust your focus, and so on. But the mini camera utility will attempt to auto-focus on whatever you're pointing at.
Here's a roundup of tech news from around the web.
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The Cubietruck is an upcoming mini-computer with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, up to 2GB of RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, and WiFi and Bluetooth built in.
While it's not the most powerful device of it's type, the Cubietruck does have a few tricks up it sleeve, including out-of-the-box support for both Google Android and Ubuntu Linux.
Over the past year or two we've seen dozens, possibly hundreds of tiny desktop computers with ARM-based processors hit the street. Sure, most of them are sold as media boxes that let you connect your TV to the internet and stream online video or play games, but essentially they're tiny, cheap computers.
And some are designed to be just that. The Raspberry Pi, for instance, is a $35 PC board with an ARM11 processor and support for open source software including versions of Debian and Fedora Linux.
The makers of the Cubieboard figured they could do better, and released a tiny PC last year with a faster CPU , more memory, and more ports. This month they launched a new model with an even faster, dual-core chip.
Like the Cubieboard, the Cubietruck is essentially a PC-on-a-board, which means it won't come with a case. You can buy or build your own. At 4.3″ x 3.1″ the new model is a bit bigger than a Cubieboard, which provides more room for input and output ports and space to build a case that can hold a 2.5″ hard drive or solid state disk.
The system has a microSD card slot, 2 USB ports, HDMI and VGA ports, a headphone jack, a SATA 2.0 interface, and extended pins which you can use for programming, debugging, or connecting peripherals.
Cubiesteam hasn't announced a launch date or price yet, but you can find more pictures at the team's website.
thanks Daniel!
Cubietruck is a small, open source mini PC with an Allwinner A20 dual-core CPU is a post from: Liliputing
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