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There is another report that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will be heading to Europe by the end of March. The device will be heading to Bulgaria with a price tag that will compete directly with the likes of the iPad Mini. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will come in 3 variants: Wi-Fi only, 3G + Wi-FI, and 3G + LTE + Wi-Fi. You will also have the option to choose from a 16 GB or 32 GB version of each.

The price will be around 699 leva in Bulgaria, which comes to around 358 euros, or $478.93. That’s the price for the 16GB Wi-Fi version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, the cheapest model. The 3G + Wi-Fi version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will be around 869 leva, so about 445 euros, or $595.32. It can also be assumed that the pricing for the tablet should be the same throughout the other European countries as well.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is rumored to have an 8-inch 1280 x 800 TFT (Super Clear LCD) display, 1.6GHz Exynos 4412 quad-core processor, 16 or 32GB built-in storage with a microSD card slot, 2GB of RAM, 5MP rear-facing camera, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 4,600 mAh battery, and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.

Samsung will officially announce the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. So with the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 heading to Europe around the end of March, we should be looking at U.S. release date sometime in April. It’ll be nice to see how well the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will compare against the iPad Mini.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 may head to Europe in March is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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With Mobile World Congress 2013 kicking off shortly, we are all ready and raring to go, but until then, we do expect a fair number of leaks and surprises head our way. One of the later rumors would involve a quartet of new Nokia Lumia handsets that are in the pipeline, where these were spotted in one of the logs of one ad network that serves up Windows Phone apps. A couple of the models are more or less confirmed, and they are the Lumia 720 and Lumia 520, carrying model numbers RM-885 and RM-814, respectively. After all, these two have been spotted in regulatory paperwork in the past as well.

As for the remaining two handsets, they remain pretty much mysterious, being known as the RM-887 and RM-860. The latter does seem to be a fan of Verizon, and the former could very well be leaning on the back of Verizon’s network as well. Well, whatever the case is, we admit that we are stoked to see just what Nokia has in store for the masses at MWC 2013 next week, how about you?

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China is said to pass the US to become the world’s largest smartphone market, with 246 million Android and iOS devices predicted to be activated by the end of February. Back in January, the US and China were nearly neck and neck, with 222 million devices for the US and 221 million for China. This will mark the first time China has taken the crown.

Compared to China’s 246 million, the US will see 230 million devices by the end of the month, but it won’t be enough to keep its title over China. The US has seen ups and downs over the past two years, while China has continued to see exponential growth since January 2011. And at this point, it doesn’t look like the US will be able to retake the top spot either, according to Flurry.

The vast difference in population between the two countries is one of the biggest reasons for China’s overtaking. The country has over 1.3 billion residents, compared to the US’s 310 million. Granted, the US has a higher percentage of smartphones compared to the total population, but we’re merely just talking about total smartphone devices.

Flurry notes that the only other country that could possibly overtake China in the future is India. The country has a population of just over 1.2 billion, and that could put some serious competition in the way of China. However, India only has 19 million active devices, so it may be a few years before India catches up with China, if ever.

China to surpass US to become largest smartphone market is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The Army certainly wants to get ahead of the competition where cool devices are concerned, and this time around, they will continue to use nature as their source of inspiration, creating self-sealing suction cups for robots that are similar in nature to those you find on an octopus. This unique design hails from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and University of Maryland scientists, where it boasts of a self-sealing component as well as the ability to activate suction cups in reaction to the size and shape of the object that the robot intends to pick up.

I sure hope as heck that it works reliably at all times and circumstances, otherwise carrying some weighty items over the heads of soldiers who are bunked in their respective foxholes would have a bloody and sad ending should the suction cups fail halfway through the task. Good to know that these suction cups are said to carry the potential of working even more efficiently when underwater, similar to an actual octopus, as additional pressure from the water depth will add force, while enhancing the efficacy of the technology.

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