Tag: smartphones

Nearly half of Americans can’t last a day without a smartphone according to survey

A recent survey revealed some troubling, but perhaps unsurprising news. According to Bank of America, 47% of American consumers admitted that they wouldn’t last a single day without their smartphone. Furthermore, it turns out that most of the surveyed people consider their devices to be just as important as their car (91 percent) or deodorant ...

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Tags: Americans, Bank of America, findings, mobile banking, smartphone, smartphones, survey, U.S. citizens

India will introduce $25 Firefox OS smartphones

Two companies in India are planing to introduce unlocked smartphones as cheap as $25. These phones are going to run the Firefox OS. This is a browser-based operating system so it runs a version of Firefox that’s light enough to run on mobile phones hardware. It’s basically a stripped-down OS that doesn’t run native apps like ...

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Tags: $25, Android, Android KitKat, Android OD, Apple, browser-based, cheap, Firefox, Firefox OS, Google, hardware, India, iOS, low price, low-end, Mozilla, smartphones, Tizen, Windows Phone

Acer announced the Android-based Liquid phones and three more devices

Acer produces both high-end and low-end hardware, but nobody foresaw what  the company was planning to do before Friday’s announcement. It seems Acer is planning an invasion of the smartphone market for later this year, launching no less than five devices. Four devices, and probably the most expected, are the new Liquid phones Acer promised ...

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Tags: Acer, Android, fitness band, June, Liquid E600, Liquid E700, Liquid X1, Liquid Z200, smartphones, Tablet

Moorefield – Intel’s new processor for small tablets

Intel plans to make a great appearance at the upcoming Computex conference with its new processor. Codenamed Moorefield,  the 64-bit processor was specially designed for small Android and Windows tablets. The processor is also known as quad-core Atom Z3560/Z3580, and it’s designed for 8-inch or smaller devices, including smartphones. An Intel spokeswoman said that Moorefield ...

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Tags: Android, Intel, Moorefield, phablets, processor, smartphones, Specs, tablets, Windows

Google is releasing a tablet with advanced vision capabilities, but only for developers

Google has been experimenting with advanced vision capabilities for mobile devices and now moves on to developing a high-end tablet. It’s said the company is planning to produce up to 4000 7-inch tablets starting next month. The device will come with two back cameras featuring infrared depth sensors and an advanced software that can capture ...

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Tags: 7-inch, advanced vision technology, developers, Facebook, Google, Google Glass, Oculus VR, Project Tango, smartphones, Tablet

Graphene made in a kitchen blender leads to transparent devices

No doubt graphene was indeed a miracle material ever since a pair of chemists from Manchester University first manufactured it. They isolated thick layers of carbon by peeling off the sheets from the powdered graphite using sellotape. Earlyer this year Samsung achieved a breakthrough, developing a technique for synthesizing graphene on a large scale. The material ...

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Tags: blender, breakthrough, graphene, industrialization, mass production, miracle material, Mobile, powdered graphite, Samsung, smartphones, tablets, thin layers of carbon, transparent devices, transparent memory module

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8.1 is now available

Microsoft has finally released Windows Phone 8.1 to developers. The update designed to help developers get to grips with Microsoft’s updated mobile OS, can be downloaded by registered Windows Phone developers on their devices starting today. The 8.1 is a significant update to Windows Phone 8, with new features like the Cortana digital assistant, available ...

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Tags: Cortana, developers, Lumia 630, Lumia 635, Lumia 930, Microsoft, smartphones, Update, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1