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In case you hadn’t heard, HTC’s warming up for another phone launch, readying events in both New York and London. The UK arm has now offered up a countdown clock (six days to go!), but with an extra soupçon of tease — some ever-so brief glimpses of its M7 device, rumored to land as the HTC One. Fortunately, someone’s managed to track down all the teaser clips and stitch them together — we’ve added it after the break. Alongside plenty of blinding light, we get a better peek at what seems to be a machined metallic edge around the device, as well as a single shot of the camera lens — HTC does love its imaging tech. You can also glean that the device will arrive dressed white, just like its predecessor, the One X.

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Apple and Samsung now collectively dominate more than half of the worldwide smartphone market by sales, according to new research, though the phone market as a whole shrank slightly in 2012, year-on-year. Samsung held pole position, Gartner said, in both smartphones and phones generally, with almost 385m global sales in the year; Apple’s sales reached 130m units for the same period. Meanwhile, Huawei managed to snag the number three spot in Q4 2012, though Gartner points out that it’s far from a stable position.

While Huawei sold 27.2m smartphones in 2012, an impressive rise of 73.8-percent year-on-year, and is indeed predicted for more growth in 2013, Gartner highlights brand strength as a key shortcoming. “The success of Apple and Samsung is based on the strength of their brands as much as their actual products” analyst Anshul Gupta argues. “Their direct competitors, including those with comparable products, struggle to achieve the same brand appreciation among consumers.” That, it’s suggested, leaves plenty of room for others to poach the position.

One company unlikely to be taking that third place any time soon is Nokia, at least going on Gartner’s numbers. The research firm highlighted the low-cost Asha devices as a point of phone success, but market share overall fell 18-percent, selling just over 39m smartphones in 2012 as a whole. The premature demise of Symbian sales and the race to the bottom to better compete with budget Android devices is partially blamed for Nokia’s shortcomings.

Within Android, Samsung has 42.5-percent of all Android device sales globally, with Google’s platform holding more than half the OS market in the smartphone segment. Windows Phone, meanwhile, grew 1.2-percent in Q4 2012, and the research firm predicts 2013 will be the year when it and BlackBerry 10 fight for the position of third ecosystem.

Nonetheless, despite Samsung and Apple’s successes, the phone market overall declined a little in 2012. Overall sales to end-users hit 1.75bn units, down 1.7-percent from 2011, though that’s primarily down to feature phone decline; in Q4, for instance, smartphone sales broke records, up more than 38-percent year-on-year.

Apple and Samsung grab over half smartphone share as phone sales slim in 2012 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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So, a smartwatch that is being developed by Apple is no longer a secret, and some have even gone ahead by coining it to be the iWatch. Well, Bloomberg reports that Apple has actually assigned a team of approximately 100 product designers to work on a wristwatch-like device which could possibly perform its fair share of tasks which are currently handled by the iPhone and iPad. The team is said to have expanded in the past year alone, where it will include managers, marketing group executives, and software and hardware engineers who did have experience working on the iPhone and iPad before.

With at least 100 folks manning the iWatch ship, such a size would definitely suggest that Apple has moved beyond the experimentation phase in this smart timepiece’s development, don’t you think so? An analyst claimed that there would be far more folks who would not mind wearing an Apple watch compared to a pair of Google glasses – do you agree with that particularly bold statement or not?

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Researchers have managed to piece together a new tool that was specially developed in order to help it reconstruct long-dead languages, where it is also known as protolanguages. Protolanguages are considered to be the ancient tongues from which our modern languages have evolved from. In order to test out this particular system, the research team took 637 languages that are currently spoken in Asia and the Pacific, followed up by recreating the early language from which they descended from.

At this point in time, language reconstructions are carried out by linguists, and it is definitely a slow and labor intensive process. Dan Klein, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said,”It’s very time consuming for humans to look at all the data. There are thousands of languages in the world, with thousands of words each, not to mention all of those languages’ ancestors. It would take hundreds of lifetimes to pore over all those languages, cross-referencing all the different changes that happened across such an expanse of space – and of time. But this is where computers shine.”

The question does arise, is it possible to go beyond the many protolanguages, to the very first protolanguage that ever existed?

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For folks who think that Kre-O is a cheap imitation of Lego, well, I guess you are entitled to your point of view, but seriously, imagine if Apple were the only company in the world to come up with a smartphone, won’t other handsets in the market be considered as a knockoff? Well, with Lego maintaining the right to come up with Star Wars bricked sets, it would make perfect commercial sense for rival Kre-O to obtain the Star Trek license, and their first official Star Trek brick set would be the famous Starship Enterprise.

Of course, it will not come anywhere close to Lego’s impressive 5,000-piece Millennium Falcon set, as the Kre-O’s Starship Enterprise is based on the ship from the upcoming Star Trek: Into Darkness movie that will be directed by most folks’ favorite director, JJ Abrams, who incidentally, will also be doing the next Star Wars movie. 432 pieces from Kre-O make up this 18-inch long set, and it will retail for $69.99 a pop this coming May. We do expect to see brisk sales considering how the movie will be released then, too.

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