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Nvidia Icera 410 LTE Modem Passes AT&T Network Validation

Since acquiring Icera, Nvidia has been busy readying itself for the next level of integration - selling baseband in addition to APs (Application Processors), and further down the road, inclusion of the baseband onboard the SoC. Today's news is a sma...
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Nvidia Announces Icera 500 - The Baseband in Grey

During Nvidia's Tegra analyst day, more details were disclosed about both Nvidia's plans for Icera, and the upcoming codename Grey SoC with Icera inside. Earlier today we talked about how Icera 410 had been validated for use on AT&T's LT...
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10 Gadgets You’d Be a Fool to Buy Right Now [Gadgets]





The problem with buying gadgets is that they're bound to be obsolete at some point. But, as Laptop Mag's Avram Piltch explains, that point is way sooner for some things than others. Here are 10 gadgets you...
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OmniVision Announces 16 MP OV16820 and OV16825 CMOS sensors with 60FPS 4K2K and QFHD Support

Paying attention to smartphone CMOS sensors has been one of the things we've been doing for a while now in our smartphone reviews, and today OmniVision announced details about their upcoming 16 MP CMOS sensors. The announcement details two upco...
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So How Does Your Smartphone's Accelerometer Know Up From Down? [Video]





You probably take for granted the fact that turning your phone on its side automatically puts the display into landscape mode. But do you really know how the tiny accelerometer inside your device can dete...
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You Can Pre-Order an Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III for $800—But Should You? [Samsung]





By all accounts the Samsung Galaxy S III looks like a monster of a smartphone—the next king of Android mountain. And now there are unlocked versions of the 4.8-inch, quad-core beasts for sale on Amaz...
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Delayed HTC EVO 4G LTE Might Finally Get Here May 23 [Smartphones]





HTC's One X and EVO 4G LTE are both held up in customs right now. Patent trouble. But according to updates folks who preordered the Sprint phone, the EVO 4G LTE has a tentative date of May 23. More ...
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Video: Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III Unboxing
My hands reached one Samsung Galaxy S III, so I made unboxing video.
I will upload more stuff like comparison between S Voice/Siri well and comparison between the Galaxy S1, S2, S3 and iPhone 4S cameras. But this will happen when I have more free time :/
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Sonic 4: Episode II Now Available for Tegra 3

Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA and Sega announced Sonic 4: Episode II would be coming to TegraZone in an optimized version for NVIDIA's Tegra 3 hardware. Today the promise became reality as the $6.99 game is now available via NVI...
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Adobe: Website traffic from tablets will surpass smartphones to reach 10% of visits in 2013
A new report from Adobe’s Digital Index (a series of reports on digital marketing) says Web traffic from tablet computers is growing 10 times faster than smartphone traffic, with its share growing at over 300 percent in one year (see graph below).
A...
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People Aren't Ditching Cellphone Contracts for Prepaid Devices—Yet [Carriers]





Long-term smartphone contracts are expensive and make carriers buckets of money. A report indicates that people are slowly wising up: In the first quarter of this year, carriers lost contract subscribers f...
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How To Use Android [How To]





Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you're not a baby. More&n...
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Your Mom Might Be Having Sex and Using Her iPhone at the Same Time [Smartphones]





Oh no, here comes a statistic that's going to nauseate you a little—watch out: a new study says a larger than expected percentage of moms are using their smartphones. While having sex. Smartphones! M...
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The Best Display Under Bright Light: It's Not Your iPhone [Displays]





Brightness ratings and contrast ratio make for lovely tech spec reading when you're shopping for a new device. But neither tells you how usable a display will actually be in everyday ambient light situatio...
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Apple releases iOS 5.1.1 Update - Primarily Bugfixes

Apple just pushed out an update for iOS, bringing the version number up to 5.1.1. The update thus far appears to be primarily bugfixes including tweaks to HDR from the lockscreen camera shortcut, stability switching between 2G and 3G on the new iPad, an...
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AT&T: We Should Have Never Given You People Unlimited Data [Block Quote]





Ugh. Customers. The little brats. You give them the chance to pay extra for unlimited data so they can use their smartphones as designed, and then when you take it away, they complain! AT&T's #1 regrets th...
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Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast

Earlier today Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S III, at the heart of which is Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad SoC. Fortunately we got a ton of hands on time with the device at Samsung's unpacked event in London and are able to bring you a full performan...
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The Samsung Galaxy S III Preview

It's been a long day in London, and hot off the heels of our Galaxy S III performance preview is some discussion about the hardware itself. For any successful OEM, following up on a successful product with another equally successful produc...
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Faceoff: Samsung Galaxy S III v. iPhone 4S [Smartphones]





Today Samsung took the veil off the Galaxy S III, the newest smartphone in the line. The debut of the new device puts more fuel on the fire in the war between Samsung and Apple, but how do these phones sta...
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Samsung Galaxy S III: Meet the New Android Emperor [Galaxy S Iii]





Thanks to the previous Galaxy model's success, Samsung is now the world's biggest phone manufacturer, a title it will no doubt keep once the slim and pebble-like Galaxy S III hits stores shortly. At 4.8-in...
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What If Syncing a Smartphone Was as Simple as a Tap? [Video]





Tired of the near-impossiblehassle of figuring out how to sideload web content onto his ereader, designer Ishac Bertran conceived of a UI design—inspired by spatially-aware objects such as Sifteo cu...
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The HTC One X for AT&T Review

For just over a week, I’ve been using two phones interchangeably. The first is the Lava Xolo X900 with Medfield inside, the second is the flagship of HTC’s new One series, the HTC One X on AT&T. It’s a device with lofty goals, as i...
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Do You Care About Literally Anything RIM Showed Today? At All? [Qotd]





We half expected this morning's BlackBerry World conference to end in a Jonestown-style, Goodbye, jerks! manner, with Thorstein Heins handing out RIM t-shirts and cyanide. Instead, RIM demoed its new opera...
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Verizon's 4G Jetpack Hotspot Gets Prepaid Treatment [Verizon]





Beginning May 1st Verizon will offer a new prepaid version of its Jetpack 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MiFi 4510L with three different prepaid plans. For $15, you'll get 250 MB of data a week. For $60 you'll get...
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LG and Windows Phone Are on a Break [Smartphones]





LG is putting the breaks on new Windows Phone devices in order to focus most of its energy on Android. It's quite the shift from just three years ago, when LG made a huge verbal commitment to the platform,...
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Clearwire Announces Initial TDD-LTE Network Launch Early 2013

Clearwire has been talking about deploying TDD-LTE (Time Division Duplexing, as opposed to FDD) on its 2.5 GHz spectrum for some time now, and has announced some more launch details today, including initial markets and a rough timeline. Clearwire is foc...
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HTC One S Lightning Review: Sturdy and Speedy. Sharp Photos. Some Shortcomings. [Android]





The old HTC is dead. Long live the new HTC, with fewer products and more attention to detail. The HTC One line heralds this new day. The first product to reach the U.S. is the One S, launching today on T-M...
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Leaked Verizon Roadmap Tips Fall iPhone, Summer Galaxy SIII [Smartphones]





Verizon's roadmap for late summer/early fall 2012 has reportedly leaked, and it includes a few interesting rumors. More »



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Lava Xolo X900 Review - The First Intel Medfield Phone

For Intel, the road to their first real competitive smartphone SoC has been a long one. Shortly after joining AnandTech and beginning this journey writing about both smartphones and the SoC space, I remember hopping on a call with Anand and some Intel f...
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CRISIS AVERTED: Japan Standardizes Its Emoji [Japan]





There's been a storm brewing in Japan—emoji, the ubiquitous text-based faces that dominate Japanese mobile communications, have been getting mistranslated between carriers. You send a picture of a bu...
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Google Selling Galaxy Nexus on Google Play Store for $399

It's been what seems like an eternity since Google stopped selling the Nexus One directly through google.com. Google struggled with support and logistics involved with selling a consumer electronic, and shelved the concept, instead offering its next...
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HTC One Media Link HD Demo

We've just started work on our HTC One X/One S testing, however HTC was kind enough to give us a demo of one of the coolest accessories that was first announced at Mobile World Congress: HTC's Media Link HD.
The small dongle features a USB port...
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HTC One X Cases: Taking Protection into HTC's Hands

With the One lineup (particuarly the One X and One S), HTC really ratched up its focus on design. The One X is easily one of the best looking Android smartphones on the market today. The problem is that the majority of consumers prefer to use cases on t...
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NVIDIA Plots Mobile SoC GPU Performance, Surpassing Xbox 360 by 2014

Qualcomm was the first to tell us that it expects to offer console level GPU performance in the not too distant future, generally hinting that its Adreno 3xx GPUs would get us there. NVIDIA shared this slide (pictured above) with us today that gives its...
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This Is Objectively the Worst Default Email Signature [Smartphones]





This ridiculous default email signature is the longest, stupidest one we've seen yet. Just in case you wanted to be sure friends know exactly what kind of device you're writing from, it tells them down to ...
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The Speedy HTC One S Hits T-Mobile April 25th for $200 [Android]





We knew it was coming, but it's nice to get the official details. HTC is bringing its Onesy-goodness to T-Mobile starting next week on April 25th. It'll run you $200 on contract, and it's a very nice piece...
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AT&T Stores Are Almost Completely Out of Lumia 900 Stock [Smartphones]





Both Nokia and Microsoft need the Lumia 900 to succeed. Windows Phone is struggling. So is the once-top handset maker. But while they and AT&T has been pushing the Lumia 900 hard it looks like the carrier ...
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You Can Pre-Order the Super Slick HTC One X on April 22nd for $200 [Android]





We first got our hands on the beautiful HTC One X a few months ago, but we were missing a few details, namely, when the hell we were going to actually be able to buy one and how much it would cost. Now we...
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Sprint makes its Galaxy Nexus Variant Official - $199 with $40 Google Wallet Credit

In a move that shouldn't be surprising to anyone, Sprint has made a Galaxy Nexus variant tailored for its own CDMA2000 and LTE network official in an announcement today. Back in January, news of its upcoming Galaxy Nexus variant was leaked through a...
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Lumia 900 Memory Management and Data Fix Now Available

A short time after the Lumia 900 went on sale, users started reporting data connectivity issues affecting both 3G HSPA+ and 4G LTE on AT&T. Although I didn't encounter these on my review unit, Nokia acknowledged the issue a short time after and ...
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Nokia Acknowledges Lumia 900 Data Issue, Offers Fix and $100 Credit

In the short time I spent with our Nokia Lumia 900 review unit, I never encountered any loss of data connectivity issues either on AT&T LTE, AT&T HSPA+. Nevertheless, shortly after the Lumia 900 went on sale this Sunday, some users began reporti...
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Apple TV A5 SoC is 32nm, Harvested dual-core A5

The 3rd generation Apple TV ships with what Apple tells us is a single-core A5 SoC. After delayering the chip to the transistor gate layer in the new Apple TV, Chipworks just confirmed that the SoC is actually a 32nm dual-core part - presumably with one...
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Apple's iPad 2,4 also uses 32nm A5 S5L8942 SoC

Through Chipworks, we recently learned that Apple's revised A5 SoC (S5L8942) is built on a 32nm Samsung HKMG process. While its presence in the Apple TV (3rd generation) which we've reviewed and inspected is an absolute certainty, up until recen...
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The Lumia 900 Becomes the Best Free Phone in the World (Updated) [Dealzmodo]





After a bit of pricing blueballs at the Lumia 900's launch, the terrific Windows Phone is free once again—as in $0. Any current owners or those who buy before the 21st get a $100 credit. Free fantast...
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HTC Titan II Lightning Review: The Monster Phone's Got a Monster Camera [Video]





When we last met the Titan, it dominated our hands and brains with sheer massiveness. Now the sequel is here: the old standby, plus LTE and most importantly, a ginormo-camera. Does the big boy still impre...
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New Screen-Protecting Film Heals Itself Like Magic [Screen Protection]





Toray Advanced Film Co Ltd (mouthful!) has developed a new self-healing film that protect the glass screens on our phones, tablets, and computers. The film can repair itself in just 10 seconds at room tem...
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Sprint HD Voice on HTC EVO 4G LTE uses EVRC-NW over 1x-Advanced

For a while now, a regular feature in our smartphone reviews has been comparison of smartphone voice quality on different devices, air interfaces, and codecs. Until recently, improving voice quality has been something of a secondary objective for wirele...
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Nokia Lumia 900 Review - Windows Phone with LTE

It goes without saying that for Nokia, the Lumia 900 launch is quite possibly one of the most important launches, ever. The Lumia 900 marks Nokia’s first serious foray back into the competitive American market, and with it the first high-end fruit...
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Nokia Lumia 900 Review: This Might Save Windows Phone [Video]





The Lumia 800 was one of the most beautiful phones ever built in the long history of phone-building. It is widely acknowledged as the best Windows phone around. The next version, the Lumia 900, is bigger,...
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Seriously, Please Don't Do This [Twitter Wisdom]





Ever. Ever ever. It makes us uncomfortable. More »



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