Jul 23
Jul 23
This has not been a great month for commercial airlines
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Jul 23
Jul 23
We knew it would be coming anytime soon, but Nokia has officially unveiled the Lumia 625 smartphone that’s meant for the frugal folks in the world. It’s certainly no Lumia 1020, but it’s one of the cheapest Windows Phone 8 options that still manages to pack a big screen, as well as 4G LTE capabilities.
The display measures in at an impressive 4.7 inches, but with a rather disappointing WVGA 800×480 resolution. It won’t exactly make the pixel-density snobs happy, but we’re guessing those looking for a cheap phone will find the screen satisfactory. Under the hood, there’s a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz with 512MB RAM and 8GB of internal storage.
The phone comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera that can shoot 1080p video, and there’s also a front-facing VGA snapper for those inevitable duck-face selfies. Rounding the phone out is a 2000 mAh battery, and the front display is covered in a layer of Corning’s Gorilla Glass 2 to prevent scratches and the like.
The big feature here, though, is the 4G LTE on board, which makes it one of the cheapest handsets out there that sports the faster data speeds, making it the perfect option for those folks not necessarily looking for the fastest phone in terms of processing power, but needing the fastest data speeds while out on the open road.
The Lumia 625 will be headed to European and UK mobile carriers in early September, including EE, Vodafone, O2, Phones4U, and Carphone Warehouse. As for price, be prepared to only hand over £200 (€220 in Europe). You’ll have your pick at black, white, orange, green, or yellow. No word on whether or not the device will make its way over to the States, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually did.
SOURCE: Nokia
Nokia Lumia 625 official: a big phone for small budgets is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 23
Samsung had confirmed last week that it would be announcing its new Exynos 5 Octa processor. The devices that Samsung sells in the U.S. usually have Qualcomm processors, but in various other regions, those same devices are powered by the […]
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Jul 23
As much as we enjoyed the decade we spent vegging out in front of the shopping channel, we had hoped that the internet had put such days behind us. Not so, thanks to Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which has developed its own Smart TV OS, separate to Aliyun, in the hope of pumping even more cash out of our wallets. Developed in collaboration with Wasu Media, the duo will launch a set-top box later in the year, and are in talks with companies like Cisco, Haier and Allwinner to produce compatible devices. While customers will be able to use smartphones to stream media and control their TVs, they’ll probably be strong-armed into buying apps, shopping at the Alibaba-owned Juhuasuan and even making utility payments via the company’s Alipay platform. Looks like we’ve got no choice but to finally buy that noiseless karaoke microphone we’ve been avoiding all these years.
Via: The Next Web
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Jul 23
If that ageing iPad 2 is proving too slow for you, or your iPad 3 is ounces too heavy, good news: Best Buy is re-launching its $200 iPad trade-in program.
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Jul 23
Jul 23
Boeing is gunning for the contract to transport NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, and yesterday it showed off its latest design for the insides of its intergalactic ferry, the CST-100 Space Capsule.
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Jul 23
Those lovely, custom Flipboard magazines
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