Itching to get your hands on HTC’s new breed of smartphones? Best get yourself over to Germany then, as a batch of the flagship One X and its (slightly) smaller brother, the One S, are up for sale — early. Mediamarkt is where you’ll need to go, with…
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Apple has Apple Stores, Samsung has… this!
You know those heady dreams of a new Samsung product launch today? Well consider them punctured. There’s no new gadget to announce, but instead a teaming-up with UK retailer Phones 4u, offering a dedicated space for Samsung to dip its toes into retail…
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HTC reveals Central Europe release date, pricing for One X, One S and One V
HTC’s One series inches closer to expectant customers, with Central Europe apparently set to get the device next Monday. According to The Unwired, shoppers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland will all be able to pick up any device from HTC’s 2012 cat…
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Apple, Samsung, HTC and Sony sued over graphics rendering patents
Sometimes, you have to go all-in. Why not sue all the leading smartphone makers at once? That’s what Graphics Properties Holdings is doing, channeling the ghost (and intellectual back-catalogue) of Silicon Graphics. Filing six cases against Apple, Sa…
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AT&T’s Galaxy S II wants to play too, gets leaked Android 4.0 upgrade
AT&T’s Galaxy S II was probably feeling a little left out in the cold when its younger, LTE-gifted sibling got its ICS coat early. Fortunately, yet another software upgrade has broken cover, courtesy of Rootzwiki. Like anyone who’s wrestling with …
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Nivio brings the Windows desktop to your iPad and Galaxy Nexus, we go hands-on
Remember the hoo-hah OnLive cooked over some supposedly fast-and-loose Windows licensing? Well Nivio’s been quietly rolling out its own, proudly licensed, version of a cloud-based Windows desktop. Its minimum requirement is the ability to handle HTML…
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Nokia goes bullet time on snowboarders, the ’90s wants its culture back (video)
Nokia’s been an annual fixture at the Open Snowboarding Championships for a few years. While one gets sponsorship dollars, the other gleans a slice of snow sport cool. At this year’s event, Nokia rigged up 18 Lumia 800s to capture the snowboarders’ mi…
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Visualized: Space Needle slingshot readies 35-foot Angry Bird for launch
If it doesn’t make it, we can just hit restart, yeah?[Photo credit: Rod Mar]Visualized: Space Needle slingshot readies 35-foot Angry Bird for launch originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of fee…
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LG Optimus M+ adds some minor hardware improvements, coming to metroPCS
LG’s Optimus M has lingered around metroPCS’ phone catalogue for over a year now and it looks like it’s finally getting a similar-looking, but improved, replacement. Unfortunately, the Optimus M+ isn’t quite enough to confer the title of carrier flag…
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TripIt gets updated on Android tablets and phones: adds Honeycomb functionality, less data-hungry
TripIt’s attempts to pull all of those travel itineraries, air miles and other loyalty cards has been given a refresh on both Android tablets and phones. On bigger devices running Android 3.0 or higher, the app gains a slight redesign, adjustable (scr…
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