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- Best Buy Discontinues Connect 4G Service
- PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale in the Works
- California Law Stopped Steve Jobs From Playing Willy Wonka
- Sony LT29i Hayabusa Coming In June With 13MP “Stacked” Camera Sensor
- Entry Level Sony Xperia ST21i Android 4.0 Smartphone Leaked
- Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Headed To GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus First?
- Nokia Earned More From iPhone Than Its Nokia Lumia Windows Phones?
- Another Samsung Galaxy S III Photo Leaked?
- Wii U Coming With Android App Support?
- Samsung Stages Fake Protest Outside Apple Store (Video)
- Google Launches New Google Maps Photo Tour Feature (video)
- Galaxy S III, Droid RAZR HD And New 5 Inch HTC Smartphone Headed To Verizon
- Dropbox Enables Automatic Photo Uploading For PC And Mac Systems
- Apple’s New iPad Launched In Nine More Countries
- BlackBerry Curve 9320 Press Shots Revealed
- Portal 2 Puzzle Editor DLC Arriving May 8th On PC and Mac
- Panasonic And NHK Working On New 145 Inch Plasma TV With 8K Resolution
- Google Translate Processes The Equivalent Of 1 Million Books Per Day
- Sony Launches First Waterproof Handycam (video)
- Opera 12 Beta Now Available With 64-bit Support for Windows and Mac
- Half Of US Android Tablets In US May Be The Amazon Kindle Fire
- Google Sells SketchUp 3D Modelling Software To Trimble Navigation
- US Samsung Galaxy S III May Come With Dual Core Snapdragon Processor (Rumor)
- Skype For Android Gets Updated
- Adafruit Unveils Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate Kit
- HTC Droid Incredible 4G Lands On Verizon May 10th?
- LG Optimus True HD LTE Headed To Germany, Portugal, Sweden And More
- LG Announces New IPS4 LED Monitors
- Samsung Reports Massive Quarter One Profits
- Sony NEX-F3 Camera Leaked, Features 16 Megapixel Sensor
- Samsung Overtakes Nokia As Worlds Largest Phone Maker
- iOS Developers Launch IndieDevLab, Alternative To WWDC 2012
- Twitter Release New Versions Of Their Android And iPhone Apps
- Wolfram Alpha PC App Launches For $2.99
| Best Buy Discontinues Connect 4G Service Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:56 AM PDT Best Buy has announced that it is discontinuing its branded 4G wireless Internet service. The service operated under the Best Buy Connect name. The service has stopped taking new registrations. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale in the Works Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:50 AM PDT Sony has announced it is working on a new title for the PlayStation 3 called All-stars Battle Royale. The game will feature characters from multiple PlayStation 3 games including some third-party games in addition to Sony developed first party titles. This game will be a fighting game apparently only for the PS3. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| California Law Stopped Steve Jobs From Playing Willy Wonka Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:05 AM PDT Steve Jobs accomplished quite a bit in his life and now that he is no longer with us, some new tales are coming to light. The latest story sheds some light on the fact that Jobs wanted to package an iMac with a golden ticket inside. © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Sony LT29i Hayabusa Coming In June With 13MP “Stacked” Camera Sensor Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:45 AM PDT The Sony LT29i, aka "Hayabusa" is said to come with the new 13-megapixel "stacked" camera sensor from Sony. This will deliver an improved low-light performance as well as opening up the doors to the "HDR Video" function. But wait, there’s more. © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Entry Level Sony Xperia ST21i Android 4.0 Smartphone Leaked Posted: 27 Apr 2012 05:44 AM PDT It looks like Sony has a new budget Android smartphone in the works, the Sony ST21i which is expected to come with the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The guys over at Techblog.gr managed to get their hands on some photos of the new Sony ST21i, which you can see below and the device is rumored to be powered by a single core Snapdragon processor clocked at 800MHz.
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| Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Headed To GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus First? Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:42 AM PDT The next version of Google’s Android OS, which will be Android 5.0 is rumored to be codenamed Android Jelly Bean, and it is rumored to launch some time in quarter three of 2012. It looks like the GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus may be the first handset to get the Android 5.0 Jelly Bean update, the information regarding the update comes from a crash log that refers to a mysterious software profile called ‘takju’ which was discovered by the guys from Android Police.
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| Nokia Earned More From iPhone Than Its Nokia Lumia Windows Phones? Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:13 AM PDT According to a recent report Nokia is making more from Apple’s iPhone than it is currently making from its own Nokia Lumia Windows Phone devices, the company recently announced that its mobile phone division made a loss. According to the guys over at Apple Insider, Nokia made around 600 million from patents that it licensed to Apple relating to Apple’s iPhone range which include the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.
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| Another Samsung Galaxy S III Photo Leaked? Posted: 27 Apr 2012 03:38 AM PDT We have already seen a couple of photos of the new Samsung Galaxy S III, although the photos we saw were of the device in dummy boxes, and now another photo has appeared online, which is reported to be the next Galaxy smartphone. Unfortunately the photo isn’t the best quality, have a look at it below, we don’t know if this is the final design or just another dummy case, what do you guys think?
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| Wii U Coming With Android App Support? Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:33 AM PDT Its been rumoured that the new Nintendo Wii U expected to make an appearance later this year, will come with ability to run Android applications directly out of the box. But rather than just trying to make the system accommodate the Android apps, Nintendo is apparently building Android into their system, for real, working alongside the Wii U’s own user interface and software. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Samsung Stages Fake Protest Outside Apple Store (Video) Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT Samsung latest adverts and marketing campaigns have been having a dig at Apple, their latest one is somewhat strange as Samsung decided to stage a fake protest outside an Apple Store in Australia. Samsung sent a bus load of protesters to an Apple Store in Australia, and then had the protesters chant ‘Wake Up’ outside the store while brandishing some ‘Wake Up signs’.
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| Google Launches New Google Maps Photo Tour Feature (video) Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:19 AM PDT Google has this week launched a new features on its Google Maps service that allows users to now view photo tours of specific places worldwide.Google photo tours are now available for more than 15,000 popular sites around the world, from famous landmarks such as St. Mark's Basilica in Italy to scenic treasures like Half Dome in Yosemite. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Galaxy S III, Droid RAZR HD And New 5 Inch HTC Smartphone Headed To Verizon Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:06 AM PDT According to a recent report from the BGR, there are a number of new devices headed to Verizon Wireless this summer, which will include the new Samsung Galaxy S III. Other devices reported to be landing on version include a Droid RAZR HD, which we presume will feature a HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, plus a yet to be announced device from HTC that will feature a 5 inch touchscreen display.
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| Dropbox Enables Automatic Photo Uploading For PC And Mac Systems Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:52 AM PDT Dropbox has this week enabled a new feature on its service which follows on from the roll out of their Android app back in February, that automatically uploaded images directly to your Dropbox account. Now Dropbox has enabled the automatic service to work with just about any camera, tablet, SD card or smartphone. Making storing your images and memories to your Cloud storage even easier. Dropbox explains the implementation of the new service: (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Apple’s New iPad Launched In Nine More Countries Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:42 AM PDT Apple’s new iPad has already become very popular for the company, and now Apple has launched their new iPad in nine more countries around the world, making the device available in a total of 57 different countries. From today the new iPad is available Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand, which are bound to add to Apple’s massive sales of the new device.
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| BlackBerry Curve 9320 Press Shots Revealed Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:31 AM PDT The guys over at the Verge have got their hands on some press shots of RIM’s latest BlackBerry smartphone, the BlackBerry Curve 9320, the device is designed for the budget and emerging markets. RIM has yet to officially announce the new BlackBerry Curve 9320, so we don’t have the full specifications, what we do know is that it will comer with a physical QWERTY keyboard and will run BlackBerry OS 7.1.
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| Portal 2 Puzzle Editor DLC Arriving May 8th On PC and Mac Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:26 AM PDT Valve has today announced their new Portal 2 Puzzle Editor DLC will be arriving on May 8th for both PC and Mac gamers. The free Portal 2 DLC titled “Perpetual Testing Initiative” will enable players to easily create, share and play Portal 2 puzzles, they have created. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Panasonic And NHK Working On New 145 Inch Plasma TV With 8K Resolution Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:24 AM PDT Panasonic has announced that it will be working with NHK to produce a new plasma TV which will measure a massive 145 inches, and will come with a whopping 8K resolution. The hew Panasonic 145 inch plasma TV will feature a resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels, which is known as Super Hi-Vision in Japan, and it will be the worlds first 8K display that doesn’t need a backlight.
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| Google Translate Processes The Equivalent Of 1 Million Books Per Day Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:14 AM PDT Most of us will probably have used Google’s Translate service at some point, and now Google has shared some details on how popular their language translate service has become. According to Google, the service is used by more that 200 million people per month, and the service translates the equivalent text that can be found in more than 1 million books every day. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Sony Launches First Waterproof Handycam (video) Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:13 AM PDT Sony has this week added a new waterproof Handycam to their range of video recorders in the form of the Sony HDR-GW77V. Which has been designed to go under water in depths of up to 16 ft for up to 60 minutes. The Sony HDR-GW77V Handycam is equipped with a 20.4-megapixel resolution, full 1080p video capture @ 60fps, and 10x optical zoom. With 16GB of internal storage that can be expanded using SDHC or Memory Stick Micro cards to suit your needs. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Opera 12 Beta Now Available With 64-bit Support for Windows and Mac Posted: 27 Apr 2012 01:02 AM PDT Yesterday Opera rolled out their latest Opera browser release, allowing the public to take a look at and use their new Opera 12 beta version. Opera 12 brings with it a wealth of new features for users include more performance and stability. One of the major new features is the 64-bit support for Windows and Mac which now comes with Opera 12 beta. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Half Of US Android Tablets In US May Be The Amazon Kindle Fire Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:59 AM PDT The Amazon Kindle Fire, with its $199 price tag has been an incredibly popular Android tablet, and whilst Amazon has yet to release any recent details on how many of the tablet they have sold, according to one research firm the Kindle fire could make up almost half of the Android tablets in the US. The news comes from comScore, which collects data on which devices access websites, and the company has done some analysis on Android tablets, and Amazon’s Kindle Fire came out as the most used.
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| Google Sells SketchUp 3D Modelling Software To Trimble Navigation Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:52 AM PDT Google SketchUp the popular 3D modelling program created by Google as an easy way to create 3D objects and allows placement of users created 3D architectural models within Google Earth. has now left the ranks of Google services been sold to Trimble Navigation. SketchUp was originally developed by startup company @Last Software and was released to the public on August 2000 as a general purpose 3D content creation tool, marketed using the tagline “3D for Everyone”. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| US Samsung Galaxy S III May Come With Dual Core Snapdragon Processor (Rumor) Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:49 AM PDT Yesterday Samsung announced that the new Samsung Galaxy S III would feature their new Exynos 4 Quad processor, which is a quad core processor with a clock speed of 1.4GHz. Now according to a recent report, the US version of the Samsung Galaxy S III may not feature the Exynos 4 Quad processor, instead it may come with a dual core Snapdragon S4 processor.
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| Skype For Android Gets Updated Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:42 AM PDT Skype has released a new version of their mobile app for Google’s Android platform, and the latest version comes with a range of new features and improvements, plus some bug fixes. The latest version of Skype for Android comes with some battery life improvements, plus improved video quality for video chat, and you can now send photos and videos to your contacts.
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| Adafruit Unveils Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate Kit Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:38 AM PDT If you are one of the lucky ones who already has received your new $35 Raspberry Pi computer. You might be interested in this new Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate Kit which has been built by Adafruit. The new Raspberry Pi Prototyping Pi Plate allows you to use your Raspberry Pi computer to make embedded computer projects. It consist of plate that snaps onto the Pi PCB (can be removed at a later date if you wish) and opens up all sorts of prototyping possibilities. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| HTC Droid Incredible 4G Lands On Verizon May 10th? Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:34 AM PDT Earlier in the week Verizon listed the new HTC Droid Incredible on their Droid Does website for a short time,the device was then removed, but we got to find out some details about Verizon’s latest Droid smartphone. Now according to the guys over at Phone Dog, the HTC Incredible 4G will land on Verizon on the 10th of May, we already know that the device will cost $299.99 when you sign up to a two year contract with the carrier, but Verizon has yet to officially announce the device and confirm the launch date.
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| LG Optimus True HD LTE Headed To Germany, Portugal, Sweden And More Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:18 AM PDT Yesterday LG announced the new LG Optimus True HD LTE smartphone for Germany, and now they have announced that the device will also be made available in other European countries. LG have said that as well as Germany, the LG Optimus True HD LTE will be available in Portugal and Sweden, and on top of that it will also launch in some other countries in Asia, which include Singapore and Hong Kong.
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| LG Announces New IPS4 LED Monitors Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:10 AM PDT LG has announced a range of monitors, the LG IPS4 series, which feature In-Plane Switching instead of conventional Twisted Nematic panels, although they didn’t release any details on specific models and specifications.
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| Samsung Reports Massive Quarter One Profits Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT Earlier we heard that Samsung has overtaken Nokia to become the worlds largest handset vendor in quarter one of 2012, and Samsung has recently released its financial details for the same quarter. Samsung posted record profits for quarter one of 2012, almost double that for the same period last year, with an operating profit of 8.85 trillion won, about $5.16 billion, which is a 98 percent gain over the same period on 2011.
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| Sony NEX-F3 Camera Leaked, Features 16 Megapixel Sensor Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:45 PM PDT It looks like Sony has another camera in the works for its NEX mirrorless camera series, the NEX-F3, and as you can see from the photo below, the NEX-F3 will feature a 16.1 megapixel camera sensor. The new Sony NEX-F3 features the same 16 megapixel sensor that can be found in the NEX-C3, although it comes with improved image quality due to a new BIONZ processor.
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| Samsung Overtakes Nokia As Worlds Largest Phone Maker Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:29 PM PDT Nokia has been the worlds largest mobile phone maker for quite some time, and whilst the company hasn’t done well in recent years with smartphones, it has with normal mobile phones. For the last 14 years Nokia has shipped more mobile phones than any other company, but according to research firm Strategy Analytics, that changed in quarter one of 2012, with Samsung shipping more mobile phones than Nokia.
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| iOS Developers Launch IndieDevLab, Alternative To WWDC 2012 Posted: 26 Apr 2012 11:17 PM PDT Apple started selling tickets for its WWDC 2012 earlier this week, the tickets were sold out in under two hours, and many developers missed out on them because Apple started selling them at 5.30 AM Pacific time. This meant that many developers who lived in the West Coast, missed out on WWDC, and considering there is a large developer community there, they have decided to hold their own alternative to WWDC, called Indie Dev Lab.
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| Twitter Release New Versions Of Their Android And iPhone Apps Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:53 PM PDT It’s been a long time coming but today Twitter have finally rolled out a new updated version of their iOS and Android application, which brings enhancements to discover, search and notifications within the app. Twitter have now made the search facility within the application simpler to use, and it will now suggest spellings and related terms. Providing a faster way to find exactly the people or what you are looking for, auto-completing Twitter users you follow. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
| Wolfram Alpha PC App Launches For $2.99 Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:37 PM PDT Wolfram Alpha has this week launched a new application for PC following in the footsteps of its previous mobile applications for Android and iOS devices. The latest instant expert knowledge and computation app will now be heading to PCs soon, and thanks to a partnership with Intel the company will also make the new app available to Ultrabooks via Intel’s AppUp center. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2012. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2012 |
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