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Sony attempted to generate hype around its latest smartphone launch with a countdown timer through Facebook and this was the perhaps biggest giveaway we were given. The Xperia miro was unveiled when the timer hit zero and is a mid-range, social focused Android smartphone – although we don't many signs …

While LG is not normally known for their phones, the Optimus 4X HD has hopes to match the likes of HTC's One X and Samsung's Galaxy S III. Their flagship offering is now shipping in Germany. The Netherlands, Sweden, UK and Italy will see the Optimus flagship launch in their …

Google’s Senior Vice President, Andy Rubin, is more than often the source for the latest Android device activation figures and this time it is no different. He has tweeted that 900,000 Android smartphones, tablets and other devices are now being activated every day. To put this into context, this is …

Intel's first entry to the smartphone market has had limited success so far, but yes, phones with the Medfield chip have started shipping. Tests have shown that the single x86 core can match some recent ARM based chips in terms of performance and power drain. However, Intel believes that chucking significant amounts of processor …

HTC took the fast track to smartphone fame with phones like the HD2 and the Desire family, but the Taiwanese company lost its way a bit last year. Now they hope to get back on top with a trio of Android 4.0 powered smartphones, known as the One series. What …

The Samsung Galaxy S III launched in Europe and Asia just over a week ago amidst a fair amount of hype – and for the most part it has been largely justified. Right now, the only thing standing in the way of Samsung's latest Galaxy flagship is HTC's own One X smartphone …

While not formally announced at Computex, a wandering eye caught sight of two new Acer tablets, the Iconia Tab A210 and A110. These two Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablets are being pegged as updates of the Iconia Tab A200 and A100 tablets. Starting with the A210, it will have …

Yesterday Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S III model that is headed to five major American carriers later this month. Today all five carriers have announced their launch details for the dual-core powered Samsung flagship. If you want specifications of the US variant, be sure to read our article from yesterday. …

I was emailed this today and thought it was worth letting our readers know about. Kogan are giving away a 7 inch Android Tablet to everyone who buys their 55 inch LED TV, which has recently dropped in price to £749. The offer only runs today, ending at midnight. FREE …

Last year there was a lengthy wait between the international launch of the Samsung Galaxy S II and the American launch. Most of this was attributed to the carriers wanting to differentiate their devices so dramatically it delayed the actual launch of them by months. However, with the Galaxy S …

iFixit and Chipworks have combined to give us a overview on what is inside the latest and greatest smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S III. Launched in the UK earlier this week it has already been carefully taken apart by skilled hands to reveal what is inside. What is revealed is …

Our favourite tablet manufacturer Asus just released two new teasers for its event at Computex early next week. Both teasers could never be considered specific but it is clear Asus is doing something with Android and Windows. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GkdMsp7ZjE'] The first video involves a series of water drops and in …

Orange UK has recently unveiled the first Intel powered smartphone destined for the UK. The San Diego is powered by the Intel Atom Z2460 (more commonly known as Medfield) chipset clocked at 1.6 GHz. The 4 inch display has a 1024 x 600 resolution, while the rear camera has a …

Samsung has revealed two Galaxy S III variants for the Canadian market. What makes the two different from one another is purely radio baseband and internal memory related. The SGH-i747 comes with LTE support and comes with either 16GB or 32GB of internal memory. The other variant, the SGH-iT999 supports …

In a recent interview with TechRadar, Linus Upson admits that Google is not working on a Chrome OS tablet. Google's vice president of engineering, with a focus on browser products said plainly that “we are not working on a Chrome OS tablet.” This comes the day after Google revealed Chrome …

According to Sony's market research water resistant phones have been a big request, so much so Sony has just announced two of them. The Sony Xperia go is without doubt the successor to last year's Xperia Active while the Xperia arco S appears to be a international version of the Xperia arco …

The heavily anticipated Galaxy S III Android flagship has been officially launched today by the Korean mobile giant. This launch is Samsung' s largest for a single product ever with a simultaneous launch across 28 countries. They plan to continue this widespread availability of its latest smartphone, saying it will be in …

Continuous rumours of a $200 Nvidia powered tablet have been around for some months now, yet rumours have not transformed into products just yet. At CES in January a 7 inch tablet from Asus was showcased which was powered by a Tegra 3 chipset and was set to retail for …

HTC has just released a detailed list of all their Android smartphones that will be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the coming months. It isn't the first time we've seen the same sort of list but this one brings with it some added details. Here comes the …

When you think cheap computers you are probably reminded of the Raspberry Pi. However, the Raspberry Pi was originally designed as a tool to get kids into programming. Today VIA announced the first Android PC (APC) that will go on sale in June or July for just $49, targeted at …

It has been rumoured for a while that Verizon would enable a global setting on some of their handsets and this has just been confirmed by the American telco. Global GSM roaming will be enabled on the Motorola Droid 4, Droid RAZR, Droid RAZR Maxx and the HTC Rezound through …

Yesterday we briefly mentioned that Samsung's S Voice application had been leaked online and seemed to be working pretty well – even with a Kiwi (New Zealand) accent. However, this may have all been in vain as Samsung has since blocked anything other than the Galaxy S III from accessing …

We've known for a while the Samsung is an official sponsor of the Olympic Games commencing in London later this year but until today we have yet to see any results of this. A series of pictures have been dispersed onto the internet revealing a Olympic Games edition of the …

Majel has long been rumoured as the search giant's rival to Apple's Siri personal assistant service. It should become available on Android smartphones later this year – most likely in the last quarter. According to reports it will officially (and unoriginally) be known as “Assistant”. While Google has obviously not spent much …

An Samsung official who would love to remain anonymous in order to retain his job has revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S III unveiled a few weeks ago has had over 9 million units pre-ordered already. Samsung's latest Galaxy flagship is destined to launch later this month in the UK, but the remainder …

There has been much confusion in enthusiast circles recently when it appeared that multitasking was ‘broken' (or modified) on HTC's Sense 4.0 user interface, which is present on their latest Android smartphones. Instead of ‘true' Windows-like multitasking that is present on stock Android 4.0, HTC has tweaked Sense so it …

Do you remember when HTC and Google launched the Neuxs One back in 2010? In a fast moving mobile world we don't remember much of early 2010 either. Anyway, the Nexus series of phones have always been a highlight of Android – being one of the very few devices to …

HTC's successor to the highly grossing Wildfire S budget Android smartphone has been known about for a while now, with specifications leaking just the other day. Today it has been revealed (as rumoured) as the Desire C, keeping the Desire family of smartphones alive but barely breathing. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJFsC08IZoQ&feature=g-u-u'] Full specifications include… …

Reporting on a phone's official accessories is not some we would typically do, but Samsung has offered up some interesting accessories for the Galaxy S III flagship that was revealed a couple of weeks ago. While the highly anticipated wireless charging accessory has apparently been delayed to September, there are many …

When KitGuru reported the analysts' feelings about HTC at the start of April, it was very much a ‘doom and gloom' picture. Sales were down 35% while profits plummeted a massive 70%. In general, the feeling from places like Morgan Stanley was that HTC had ‘nothing useful coming to fight …