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HP Thinks About Putting WebOS on Samsung Phones

Looking to expand the reach of the WebOS platform, HP CEO Leo Apotheker says the company is in talks with multiple companies to put the smartphone OS smartphone platform on third-party handsets. From the Bloomberg report: “We are talking to a number of companies,” Apotheker said in Beijing, declining to elaborate on details. “I can…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Will Samsung’s “Nexus Prime” Be the Next Best Android Phone?

Following their previous report on a beastly Ice Cream Sandwich phone, BGR’s extending extra details—and confirming that Samsung will make the thing, possibly named Nexus Prime. The monster will be purebred—-no 3rd party skins. Just Android 4.0. https://gizmodo.com/leak-google-nexus-4g-will-be-an-absolute-monster-5812146 BGR also claims the Nexus Prime will indeed hold a dual-core OMAP4460 processor. The pairing of beefy…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Surprise, Surprise, Apple Doesn’t Have to Show Samsung the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

I’m sure the whole tech-world held their breath when Samsung asked Apple to show their unannounced iPad 3 and iPhone 5 devices in the ongoing court-case over each other’s patent infringement. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-demands-to-see-the-iphone-5-and-ipad-3-in-court-5806557 FOSS Patents has looked into the case in detail, and reported that yesterday the court ruled Apple wasn’t obligated to show Samsung its…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Android 3.2 Will Bring Real Honeycomb Goodness to 7-inch Tablets

Huawei has just launched their brand new 7-inch MediaPad, and it’s running the new Android 3.2. It won’t be the only one; the new Honeycomb will bring on real Android amenities to a whole range of tablets jonesing for some love. Huawei’s tablet, which you can expect in the coming weeks, comes with a 1.2Ghz…

Tech News Kwame Opam

The Best Notebooks of the Year So Far

To find out the best laptops of 2011 so far, we checked in with Mark Spoonauer who, as editor-in-chief of Laptop Magazine and Laptopmag.com, oversees 140+ notebook and netbook reviews every year. If you’re buying soon, buy one of these. Best Value Notebook HP Pavilion G6x Sweet sound, an attractive design, and a comfortable keyboard…

Reviews Laptop Mag

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Now Hosts USB Devices

This little Samsung attachment will let your Galaxy Tab 10.1 take advantage of Honeycomb’s USB host mode, which lets you connect game controllers and cameras and extend the functionality of the touchscreen device. One end plugs into the 30-pin dock connector on the bottom of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the other end has a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A Samsung Galaxy Tab For American Airlines’ First-Class Bourgeoisie

Not only is American Airlines offering in-flight streaming on passengers’ devices, they’re also stocking the first class cabin with 6,000 10-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets in total. https://gizmodo.com/american-airlines-to-offer-in-flight-streaming-to-your-5798288 Only 757 routes between LA and NY, SF and NY, LA and Miami, and Boston and LA will receive them, plus a few Euro and South American…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

More Evidence For an iPad 3 Retina Display

Twitter made its way into iOS 5 and its code may have inadvertently coughed up information about the next generation iPad. This rumor was started when someone was poking around the SDK and found images in the Twitter.framework that have a retina-like resolution of 1,536 x 2,048. This is far from a confirmation, but we…

Tech News Kelly

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook: Built for the Future, Not the Present

Samsung’s Chromebook isn’t much different than the CR-48 prototype from December. This one’s a little lighter, thinner and easier on the eyes, but save for a newer, dual-core Intel Atom processor, this Series 5 Chromebook’s more or less the same. https://gizmodo.com/the-laptop-of-the-future-version-1-0-5801106 If you’re still unfamiliar with Chromebooks and Google’s Chrome OS, here’s the deal: it’s…

Reviews Adrian Covert

Why Does Samsung Want to Build a Cylindrical AMOLED Screen?

Next year we could be seeing cellphones with round displays, if Samsung has anything to say about it. The first thing that springs to mind is that it might be for some kind of wearable cellphone, wrapping around a wrist. Samsung’s already shown off a prototype 4.5-inch flexible AMOLED display, which could be used in…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Nexus S Mysteriously Self-Deleting Photos

Samsung, Google, and Sprint are all trying to figure out why some users’ Nexus S phones are nuking pictures without any explanation, Computerworld reports. It’s a toughie, because there doesn’t seem to be any common cause behind the deletions. The lack of a shared error is making things tough for Google: “Thanks for the responses.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Samsung’s 9mm 1TB Drive Is the First That Will Fit Most Laptops

But as one of our interns put it, “what kind of jerk would put a HDD in an ultraportable though?” That pair of 500GB platters will be a nice upgrade though, if you fork out $129 for it. [Engadget]

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung’s Chromebook Torn Up by iFixit, Who Discovered It’s Just a “Well-Polished Cr-48”

All of the complaints about the original Chromebook—the battery life, the hardware, the trackpad—have been fixed in Samsung’s model, which iFixit tore apart in true tear-down style. Inside, they discovered the chips don’t require cooling fins as they don’t produce much heat, and that the li-polymer battery lives up to its promise of 8 hours’…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Retina Tablet Displays Can’t Come Soon Enough

I just checked out Samsung’s upcoming PenTile tablet display, which packs a 2560×1600 resolution into a 10.1 inch screen. Know what that means? It has a pixel density of 300dpi, nearly on par with Apple’s retina display. And it looks great. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-2560×1600-screen-is-the-first-retina-display-f-5801451 The unit I looked at was an engineering prototype developed in conjunction with…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Well, They’re Cheaper Than the Real Thing, I Guess

Over in South Korea, an art exhibition with a twist has opened, allowing people to get up close to Van Goghs, Monets and Millets for the first time. If you call Samsung TVs displaying the artwork an “exhibition,” anyway. [AkiNews]

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung Says We Should Blow Our Rent Money on Cameras This Month

I get it. Samsung wants to hawk their wares. And obviously they’re joking. But when a corporate voice gets all tongue-in-cheek, I can’t help but feel like I’m being offered candy from a creepy, middle-aged dude in a white van. [Twitter]

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Samsung Chromebook Debuts on… Gilt Groupe?

Gilt Groupe, invite-only purveyors of ugly shirts, cheap froufrou shoes, and other baubles, somehow landed an exclusive early sale of Samsung’s Series 5 Chromebook. If you’re a pauper and aren’t a member, you’ll have to wait until the 15th. [Gilt]

Gadgets Sam Biddle

Samsung Demands To See the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 In Court

The legal slugfest between partners-turned-competitors Apple and Samsung continues: Samsung has demanded that Apple release the iPhone 4S/5 and iPad 3 to their lawyers as part of a discovery process to determine if there was any infringement on Apple’s part. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-follows-through-on-apple-lawsuit-threat-5794785 This comes days after Apple demanded that Samsung hand over the Droid Charge, Infuse…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Samsung Galaxy Tab: Human Outside, Android Inside

If you’re not a nerd, you shouldn’t buy an Android tablet. Not yet. This one is just like those, except it’s first the one to at least feel like a tablet for real people. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-android-tablet-built-for-humans-5800628 LIKE Thinner and lighter than an iPad 2, by a gram and a millimeter (or two). This is a Big…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Will the iPad 3 Have an AMOLED Display?

Some reporters from The Korea Herald claim Apple may ditch its IPS LCD display, snub its nose at a new high-resolution Retina display for tablets and adopt AMOLED for its next generation tablet. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-2560×1600-screen-is-the-first-retina-display-f-5801451 Tim Cook is rumored to be talking with Samsung about slapping an AMOLED in the iPad 3. Cook supposedly made a…

Tech News Kelly

HP Thinks About Putting WebOS on Samsung Phones

Will Samsung’s “Nexus Prime” Be the Next Best Android Phone?

Surprise, Surprise, Apple Doesn’t Have to Show Samsung the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

Android 3.2 Will Bring Real Honeycomb Goodness to 7-inch Tablets

The Best Notebooks of the Year So Far

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Now Hosts USB Devices

A Samsung Galaxy Tab For American Airlines’ First-Class Bourgeoisie

More Evidence For an iPad 3 Retina Display

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook: Built for the Future, Not the Present

Why Does Samsung Want to Build a Cylindrical AMOLED Screen?

Nexus S Mysteriously Self-Deleting Photos

Samsung’s 9mm 1TB Drive Is the First That Will Fit Most Laptops

Samsung’s Chromebook Torn Up by iFixit, Who Discovered It’s Just a “Well-Polished Cr-48”

Retina Tablet Displays Can’t Come Soon Enough

Well, They’re Cheaper Than the Real Thing, I Guess

Samsung Says We Should Blow Our Rent Money on Cameras This Month

Samsung Chromebook Debuts on… Gilt Groupe?

Samsung Demands To See the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 In Court

Samsung Galaxy Tab: Human Outside, Android Inside

Will the iPad 3 Have an AMOLED Display?

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