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Leave it to the Japanese to blast us away with another sweet smartphone feature we’ve never seen before. This Kyocera handset, running what appears to be a heavily skinned Android OS, has had its earpiece summarily disposed with, preferring to transfer your phone-call audio through vibrational technology
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KDDI and Kyocera create speaker-free smartphone, we go hands-on (video)
Having raided the smartphone coffers of its parent just a few days ago , today Sprint subsidiary, Boost Mobile, is at it again. Today’s plunder comes in the form of the LG Marquee — the Now Network’s version of the Optimus Black — which we first espied in carrier grab back in September
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LG Marquee comes to Boost Mobile on January 23rd for $279
No Apple product launch is complete without long lines, frustration and utter exhaustion. Unfortunately, the arrival of the iPhone 4S has escalated this reality to a new level in China.
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iPhone 4S launch in China draws large crowds, unnecessary violence and SWAT teams (video)
For everybody whose waited with bated breath for the widespread arrival of MirrorLink , take heed because the smartphone / car stereo integration technology is about to make a significant splash in the first half of this year.
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Two Sony MirrorLink car stereos coming in Q2, along with compatible Samsung smartphones (hands-on video)
If you’re looking to control more than you’re washer and dryer with your mobile device, Samsung can oblige with a update to its NaviBot line. The latest smart vacuum model, NaviBot-S, can be summoned via the same app that is used with some of the company’s other WiFi-enabled appliances, or the more traditional stock remote control. Featuring Visionary Mapping Plus, it uses a ceiling cam to seek out and remember the best route to and from its charging station
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Samsung NaviBot-S hands-on (video)
Motorola and Verizon has officially unveiled both the DROID 4 and DROID RAZR MAXX. As we have suspected the DROID 4 packed with a slide-out five row QWERTY keyboard, while the DROID RAZR MAXX is taking the original styling of the DROID RAZR
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DROID 4 and DROID RAZR MAXX Get Official
Remember when Nokia poo-poohed the idea of solar charging as a viable way to keep a smartphone juiced? It seems that no-one told XPal Power, since its PowerSkin brand has just launched a new photovoltaic kit as part of its 2012 lineup here at CES: SolarCharge is a silicone-wrapped brick with a solar panel on one end that’ll charge most devices via a microUSB port. The 1000mAh battery tucked inside is rated to pony up around 350 minutes of talk time for your average smartphone.
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Powerskin’s SolarCharge still believes in the sun
Well, look who just showed up at Intel’s CES 2012 keynote? Motorola Mobility’s own Sanjay Jha just grabbed a bit of the limelight — long enough to announce a multi-year, multi-device agreement that should see Intel’s Medfield chips powering Moto’s hardware (the second announced behind Lenovo ) in the not-too-distant future.
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Motorola and Intel hold hands for multi-year, multi-device partnership, shipments start 2H 2012
Intel’s been promising a smartphone of its own for about as long as men have been walking the ground of Earth, but it looks as if its May 2011 claims of “early next year” are finally getting close to being “accurate.” Here at the company’s CES 2012 keynote, the Medfield-based Lenovo K800 was revealed as the first Intel-powered smartphone, with Lenovo’s home turf being pegged as getting first dibs. There’s a 4.5-inch 720p display and rear camera with dual-LED flash but outside of a tip that it’ll be shipping to China Unicom in Q2 of this year, everything else surrounding it remains a mystery. Follow along at our Intel liveblog here …
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Intel’s first Medfield smartphone is Lenovo’s K800, coming first to China Unicom in Q2
We’ve all needed to keep the laundry going while we’re out and about.
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Samsung SmartHome WiFi Washer and Dryer hands-on (video)
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
