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Some companies have been selling tablet/laptop hybrids in the last year, but Apple said they have no plans to release such a computer. Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke out during the second quarter earnings call this week and dismissed the concept as a ‘compromise' for the end user. He said …

In just seven days Samsung will be holding their Mobile Unpacked event in London and while we still have no idea what the next Galaxy smartphone will look like, we now know what chipset will be inside. The Exynos 4 Quad. It has four ARM Cortex A9 cores running at …

Back in early March rumours arose that Valve were working on a ‘Steam Box' gaming console to outclass the proprietary formats used currently by the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. These rumours were sadly shutdown a week later by Valve's Doug Lombardi, but the embers kept glowing regardless. Recently …

HTC, one of the worlds most recognisable smartphone makers has reported a staggering 70 percent drop in first quarter profit margins. HTC are facing stiff competition in the market by companies such as Samsung and Apple and revenue is also reported to be down 35 percent from a year previous. …

When Nokia execs eyed Apple's new toy back in 2007, they would have thought it was exactly that. A toy. Certainly this iPhone thingamajig could not be taken seriously and under no circumstances would it bring about the death of an era. Shirley not. For a Nordic Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to …

When 3D graphics was first delivered to an unsuspecting population by nVidia, the market rapidly mirrored the early Wild West land grab and scramble. Products that were thought to be ‘the standard' one week, were rendered [No pun intended – Ed] utterly useless the week after. nVidia is now presenting …

The first smartphone featuring the Intel Medfield platform has been released – in India. The Xolo X900 may have a rather amusing name, but the rumours are that it is built by Gigabyte. The phone is using an Atom Z2460 processor which is clocked at 1.6ghz and features a 400mhz …

Earlier this morning we reported that Samsung was going to tease their next Galaxy smartphone at midday today. As midday hit the website crashed (surprise, surprise) but The Verge is reporting that the big surprise is a minute long teaser video that reveals very little. The video (below) basically confirms …

It is now under two weeks to go until the May 3rd event in London and we will “meet the next Galaxy” and the first evidence of a marketing campaign has appeared. Samsung's Twitter feed directed us in the direction of tgeltaayehxnx, an angram for “The Next Galaxy”, where there is …

It seems like forever ago that Asus announced the Transformer Pad TF300 tablet back at Mobile World Congress alongside the Transformer Pad Infinity. The competitively priced tablet will be available for $379 and $399 for the 16 and 32 GB models respectively. It's good to see we don't have to pay an …

HTC's design team has recently shed some details on the company's plans going forward at an event in Seattle. We have already discovered that plans for phones with larger capactity batteries have been dropped, and now hardware QWERTY phones are destined for the same fate. Even though HTC are best …

One of the most appealing things about the whole Job-o-sphere, is that software (in the form of apps) is profitable for developers and affordable for customers [while making Apple into the biggest software provider in the history of the universe – Ed]. KitGuru ponders how much apps should cost and …

We received an interesting email this evening from a start up company who are developing a new gadget for iPad 2 and iPad 3 users. ‘FOCO' is a simple, effective sound enhancing device which is designed to work with naked, or cased iPad tablet computers. Adewale from the company Unique …

The most reliable information to date on the Samsung Galaxy S II successor has just been leaked thanks to a Vietnamese website. The website has posted up pictures and a video of the GT-i9300, the name supposedly given to the new Galaxy device due to be unveiled on the 3rd of May. …

It has been some time now since the iPad 3 launched and it looks as if Apple are still have problems getting enough quantity into the channel. The difference varies a little between the UK and USA, but the minimum wait time is still a week. When orders were taken …

If there's one sector of the market that Intel would like more of, it's the mobile computing business. Sure, phones would be nice – but that seems a way off. In the more immediate term, Microsoft's decision to release Windows 8 RT for the ARM instruction face looks like a …

HTC has been doing its fair part of market research, one of the topics being whether customers prefer thin smartphones or smartphones that compromise a couple of millimetres here and there for better battery life. At the end of the research it was discovered that thinner, more aesthetically pleasing phones were preferred. …

Earlier in the year at CES, Huawei unveiled some of the most impressive Android smartphones we had seen to date. At the time no specific launch date information was made public but global availability information for the Ascend P1 has finally been revealed. The 7.69mm thin Ascend P1 is already available in …

The Lava Xolo X900 will soon be the first smartphone to be powered by an Intel Atom processor and is due to go on sale next Monday in India. The handset itself will have 4 inch, 1024 by 600 resolution display that results in an near-retina class display at 295 …

The struggling Research In Motion have released a new Blackberry in India, targeting the budget oriented audience. They hope that the new phone will help raise revenue for them in this growing market. The Curve 9220 is nothing special when compared against a raft of smartphones in the Western market. …

This one came as a bit of a surprise when it was first noticed in our news feeds overnight; Apple and Samsung will reportedly participate in settlement talks. The two mobile giants have agreed to meet in San Francisco within the next 90 days after the judge presiding over two …

As much as we would love to think Google's Drive cloud storage service will be a Dropbox killer, we still have to wait until it launches to know for sure. Our questions should be answered very soon though, there are reports that Google Drive will launch next week, possibly as …

The iPad may be one of the greater success stories in the last decade, but for Microsoft it is proving a royal pain in the side. Microsoft are working closely with Intel to support their first tier vendors with the goal of decreasing the global market share of the iPad. …

Acer have listed the Iconia Tab A510 tablet on their website, for $449.99. UK buyers will have to wait a little longer however as the UK store has yet to list the product for sale. This ‘Olympic Game Edition' has been released to celebrate the upcoming event in London, and …

When all nVidia did was graphic chips for graphic cards, there was always a decent amount of production capacity available in the world. Now that it's busy pioneering in the phone sector – the numbers have caught Jen Hsun's gang out. They need more and they're gasping for it. KitGuru …

There are a number of ways around an organisation's attempts to block the flow of information to customers about future product releases. But there's always a way around such blocks. Channel sources have confirmed that UK retailers are planning out store space for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S …

Even though Nokia's Lumia series of smartphones are undoubtedly the best Windows Phone 7 smartphones, European carriers are still not overwhelmed by them. Reuters has been asking four major mobile telecom carriers about the Lumia series and have reported that they walk away unimpressed, even going as far as saying that Windows …

Ever since Asus launched its Transformer Prime tablet back in December, users (including yours truly,) have experienced very noticeable GPS problems. Well, it turns out that beautiful aluminum shell does a pretty good job of blocking high frequency radio waves such as GPS signals. Last week it was revealed that a …

We have reported before on the rumours that Apple will be releasing an iPad Mini later this year. Our guy in Taipei – Yong Lei has been hearing murmurings now via some of his industry contacts now for many months. It looks as if Chinese portal NetEase has been hearing …

The Chinese phone manufacturer known as Meizu may not be that well known but they do offer up some mighty tempting smartphones. Last year Meizu revealed the MX and said that it was to be available in both dual core and quad core versions. While the dual core version has been available …