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Acer reveals the Iconia Tab A700: 1080p screen, quad-core Tegra 3 processor and Ice Cream Sandwich
That leak we saw last week was indeed the upcoming Acer Iconia Tab A700 tablet. Outfitted with a gorgeous 1080p screen (1920×1080 resolution), a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor and Ice Cream Sandwich, it is certainly excellent competition to the just-launched Asus Transformer Prime. Acer held a press conference this afternoon in Las Vegas, among [...]
Telus MOTOKEY SOCIAL Review
The prepaid market is one that we don’t really broach too often, but it’s an essential component of everyday life for millions of Canadians. While the penetration rate for smartphones is nearly 40%, it’s still much more common to see someone with a cheap flip phone or aging candybar walking down the street. Smartphones are [...]
Microsoft claims nothing has changed in regards to Windows Phone update process
Oops. Yesterday we told you that Microsoft was altering the way it administers updates to Windows Phone, no longer forcing carriers to acquiesce to an update if they didn’t feel it was in their customers’ best interests (as if that would ever be the case). Turns out it was just a false alarm. According to [...]
Samsung Galaxy S ‘Value Pack’ does exist, gets leaked in a new Gingerbread ROM
It was coming, and then it wasn’t coming, but the Samsung Galaxy S ‘Value Pack’ has made for quite compelling tech journalism over the past few weeks. See, Samsung didn’t think the original Galaxy S could handle an upgrade to Android 4.0, so it was promised that some of the features would trickle their way [...]
Your Windows Phone may not receive Microsoft’s next update if your carrier doesn’t request it
This is a bit disturbing. According to a new blog post by Eric Hautala, Manager of Customer Experience for Windows Phone, the new update — 8107 — which we brought you news about earlier this week, will be “available to all carriers that request it, is part of our ongoing maintenance of Windows Phone.” This means [...]
HTC announces another round of phones eligible for unlocked bootloader, including Desire and Wildfire S
HTC seems to be doing right by the developer community, announcing another round of eligible phones over at HTCDev.com. This time, there are an array of older or lower-end models, including (for Canadian purposes) the Wildfire S, Desire and Status. It’s nice to see some older devices getting bootloader love, and while the Desire has had [...]
Nokia purchases feature phone operating system designer Smarterphone
It’s just been revealed that Nokia, the giant in the hands of Microsoft, has purchased a Norwegian software company that designs super-efficient feature phone operating systems. The byline is such: Smarterphone creates an operating system that “makes it possible to deliver a user experience similar to smart phones on affordable hardware, and allows unique flexibility [...]
Quad-core processor clues hidden in iOS 5.1 beta, could power next iPad
We don’t like to speculate (OK, we love to speculate) but there is good reason to believe the next iPad will have a quad-core processor. As demonstrated by the power-sipping NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset, more cores doesn’t necessarily mean higher power usage, as long as the IQ is there to manage it. The dual-core A5 [...]
The Galaxy Nexus gets a touch-based ClockworkMod recovery
The Galaxy Nexus is nothing if not a versatile beast, and the new superphone which is soon launching on Rogers, Telus, Mobilicity, WIND, SaskTel and Videotron, received a shiny new version of Koush’s ClockworkMod. This is the recovery that allows you to flash custom ROMs, kernels and back up your files for those with “crackflashing” [...]
Qualcomm to emulate NVIDIA’s Tegra Zone with GameCommand portal
NVIDIA’s Tegra Zone was launched as a way to help its Tegra 2 userbase discover which games were available, and optimized, for the chipset. But at its core was a way for consumers to buy games “exclusively” for that single of NVIDIA hardware. Sure, it seems innocent enough — a Marketplace-downloadable app in which you [...]
