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HP has released it’s own 7-inch Android tablet to rival Google’s Nexus 7 and other budget 7” tablets. The new tablet by HP is dubbed as the HP Slate 7 and comes with a price tag of just $169. The new HP Slate 7 is for users who want a cheap Android tablet that’s even…
Smartphones just seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer. Thickness levels have dipped below the 7mm mark, and now with the launch of the Huawei Ascend P6 U06, we’re almost going to reach 6mm slimness. Huawei’s latest device has just received approval from China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center MIIT. At just 6.18mm thick, it is…
Emerging Technology at TechCrunch Disrupt This year, New York’s TechCrunch Disrupt moved from Pier 60 on the water to midtown’s Manhattan Center to allow more space for startup displays. The event begins with this weekend’s Hackathons, a 24-hour speedy development cycle. Completed products are presented to a panel of industry judges, and displayed to audience…
A lot of stuff has been sent into space. There of course have been humans in space. There have even been dogs in space. But what about smartphones? Those too! NASA just launched 3 HTC Nexus One smartphones into space! The three HTC devices were sent to space by NASA as part of a low…
Samsung has been on top of the smartphone market for the last couple of years with its Galaxy S series. With the recent launch of Samsung’s next flagship device, Galaxy S4, the popularity of Samsung’s devices has reached a whole new level. The Galaxy S4 comes with some awesome features that are surely jaw-dropping for…
Google has recently launched an ‘Inactive Account Manager‘ tool to handle the afterlife of your Google account. The tool lets the user decide what happens with their email, Google Plus and other accounts after they die (Just writing about this makes me feel weird). The user can choose a length of time starting at 3…
Viber user? Your phone is at serious risk. A security flaw has been exposed in the popular voice-calling app that allows full access to your smartphone, bypassing any lock or security feature that you may have enabled on the device. Viber is a VoIP app available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry, known for…
Microsoft has a new strategy in its campaign to get users to switch to its Windows Phone platform. In its latest attempt, Microsoft will be releasing an Android app – “Switch to Windows Phone”, to make it easier for potential users to switch from Android to Windows Phone. The Microsoft app will scan the apps…
Co-CEO of Samsung Electronics, and Head of Samsung Mobile – J K Shin is telling customers it doesn’t matter which variant of the Galaxy S4 – the quad-core or the octa-core model, they buy. According to him, we’ll never, or at least, most of us will never notice the difference in performance. Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy…
Xiaomi, a Chinese manufacturer of Android devices has recently managed to sell 200,000 units of its latest Xiaomi Mi2S smartphone in less than a minute, 45 seconds to be exact. Xiaomi may not be as popular as Apple or Samsung in the mobile industry, but its name has been in the news lately for their high-end…
Things are not turning out how Microsoft expected them to be this year, but the Redmond based company might feel a bit better to learn that its Surface line of tablets did outsell Google’s Nexus 10 tablet. This means that the future for Windows 8 in the tablet arena is not bleak, but it’s still…
Facebook phones? That’s not how Nokia rolls. The Finnish phone manufacturer believes Whatsapp can work better, and has released the world’s first Whatsapp-dedicated device – the Nokia Asha 210. Broadly, the Asha 210 is primarily for ‘social networking’ – it comes with Facebook and Twitter preloaded. But Whatsapp gets preferential treatment, with a dedicated button…
The father of gesture-based typing – the Swype keyboard, has finally rolled out of its Beta Stage and arrived on Android’s Play Store. It is available for download for $0.99 ‘for a limited time’. Swype was among the first keyboards to allow users to type text by simply sliding their fingers across the screen. It…
Enough of this obsolete touchscreen technology. Samsung has decided to take user input methods to the next level – mind control. The Korean company is experimenting with a tablet that would perform actions courtesy mind-control from it users, according to a report in the MIT Technology Review. The aim is to expand the number…
First Phone with Gorilla Glass 3 Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4 is the first smartphone sporting the 3rd-Gen of Gorilla Glass. The Gorilla Glass 3 is a very powerful glass that according to the company, will prevent scratches from any type of material. Look at the video below to see how the Galaxy…