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Office for iPad picture claimed fake, but Microsoft assures us it will all be clear “in the coming weeks”
We saw this Tuesday, February 21st bookended by one of the most bizarre cases of fakery/non-fakery since the iPhone 5 “leak” everyone thought was real. The Daily leaked a purported photo of Office for iPad, a collection of Word/Excel/Powerpoint that would be bundled together as a single app and sold through the App Store. Apparently [...]
BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.0 licenses SwiftKey for upgraded keyboard
Popular third-party Android keyboard SwiftKey has its fingers in more pots than we realize, if this rumour turns out to be true. The boys over at Crackberry have uncovered an interesting tidbit about the upgraded Playbook OS 2.0 keyboard: it’s powered by SwiftKey. How do we know this? Well, the company is very open about [...]
Ubuntu for Android attempts to be what Motorola’s Webtop couldn’t
Canonical, the smart and determined team behind Linux’s most popular distribution, Ubuntu, have released details of Ubuntu for Android. The idea is simple: when you’re running the OS on a smartphone, it appears as would any other device, an unsullied version of Android. But dock the phone with a compatible product, presumably one bundled with [...]
CyanogenMOD 9 pre-Alpha available for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi
It’s been a pretty long wait, but the popular Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 WiFi has its first official (though unsupported) builds of CyanogenMOD9. Though folks have been building the custom Android 4.0.3 ROM from source for months, this version is finally endorsed by Cyanogen himself, Steve Kondik, as posted on his Google+ wall. Apparently there [...]
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset benchmarked, is way faster than anything on the market
If the benchmarks done by AnandTech of Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon S4 chipset are any indication of real world performance, Nvidia and Texas Instruments are in for a rude awakening. Currently, the company’s S3 chip, the MSM8660, is in myriad devices from the HTC Amaze to the Samsung Galaxy Note. The MSM8960 incorporates a brand new [...]
Sony’s new UXP NXT Android interface shown off, Xperia S shines for the spotlight (Video)
Sony’s upcoming Xperia S is getting a lot of press, and for good reason. Not only is it solidly built but it will be showcasing the newly-integrated company’s new UXP NXT Android interface to the world. Though it retains much of the colour, fluidity and potentially-frustrating “chrome” that made the previous Xperia devices a “love [...]
Samsung launches Galaxy Ace 2 and mini 2 with Android 2.3
Samsung may get most of its press from high-end devices like the Galaxy Note and S2 but there are a lot of low- to mid-range Android phones riding just under the radar. The Galaxy Ace and mini were two such devices — pint-sized versions of their larger siblings — and they were both successful enough, [...]
LG bets on NFC, launches Optimus LTE Tag
LG is launching another entry into the crowded Android smartphone market with the Optimus LTE Tag. Though only announced right now for South Korean consumers, the Optimus LTE Tag fleshes out the increasingly common NFC feature in modern smartphones to new heights. Along with a built-in NFC chip, LG is launching Tag+, an app to [...]
Sony Xperia U “Kumquat” pictures surface, looks to be a Xperia S mini
Sony Ericsson may have been teased last year for releasing the pint-sized Xperia ray so soon after the Xperia arc, but they clearly must have had some success with the product to be readying a successor. The Xperia U, aka Kumquat, aka ST25i, has seen its fair share of leaks, but here we have some [...]
Asus EeePad Transformer TF300T specs leak, Tegra 3 on the cheap
The Asus Transformer Prime TF201 is considered one of the best Android tablets currently available, but it’s also quite expensive at a starting price of $499. While we’ve covered the 1080p follow-up, the TF700T, a few more details have emerged of the upcoming cheaper, and slightly thicker, entry into the EeePad Transformer family. The TF300T [...]
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