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Motorola has just announced their hotly anticipated and new flagship Android smartphone here in NYC for the folks over on Verizon Wireless. After countless leaks this new DROID is finally official and comes packing a massive 2,530mAh battery for all day battery life. We’ve seen plenty of the DROID RAZR HD in the past month or so but head down below for the breakdown.

Motorola took the stage at their shared event with Verizon and quickly started off with how amazing the sales have been with their current RAZR line, then jumped into the evolution of the smartphone. This is the first event of this caliber since Google took over and named Dennis Woodside CEO so we are excited to see it all play out. Just as expected here’s all the details on the brand new Motorola DROID RAZR HD with 4G LTE and ICS.

Motorola’s hugely successful DROID RAZR didn’t come with an HD display which was quite disappointing but today however they’ve changed things up. This isn’t a massive improvement over the original but all the right places have been improved to offer a better experience. We knew they were coming but here’s the spec sheet. You get a beautiful and crisp 4.7-inch AMOLED HD display rocking a 1280 x 720p HD resolution — although will be sharing that space with dedicated on-screen Ice Cream Sandwich navigation buttons in favor of the outdated capacitive touch controls. This offers 73% more pixels than the previous RAZR. We love that Motorola has adopted this and hope the trend continues.

Then for the full round out we have Android 4.0.4 on board (Jelly Bean coming soon) powered by the extremely popular Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.5 GHz dual-core S4 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage. The 13 MP rumors were false and Motorola has confirmed the camera on the rear is 8 megapixels — but have improved it in all areas. It offers zero shutter lag and burst mode which is a growing trend as of late. Just like previous generations Motorola has kept the durable and splash-guard Kevlar design standard. This keeps the phone thin, lightweight, and extremely durable.

While staying RAZR thin the DROID RAZR HD combines the sleek design of the original with a happy-medium 2,530 mAh battery under the hood. And whoa, Motorola also announced a DROID RAZR MAXX HD too. More details coming soon. Motorola has just started off the event today and have a few more announcements and a budget smartphone hiding around here somewhere. Stay tuned for more details, coverage, and hands-on pictures and video as soon as humanly possible.

Motorola DROID RAZR HD and RAZR MAXX HD officially announced is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nokia and Microsoft plan to offer us the first taste of Windows Phone 8 today, refreshing the phone-maker’s Lumia line in the process. We’ve had glimpses of what we’re about to see, but we’re expecting more details on that new software at this decidedly blueish event. Join the liveblog after the break.

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Live from Nokia and Microsoft’s Windows Phone event! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As the Penny Arcade Expo continues to grow exponentially each time it takes place in a collection of hot arenas throughout the USA, PAX Australia 2013 was announced on the first day of the iteration known as PAX Prime 2012. It was announced during a question and answer session held by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the original authors of the Penny Arcade web-based media beast. This convention takes everything that is the webcomic and column of Penny Arcade and places it in the real world with not just real-world video games, but nerd rappers, developers, and games of all times as well.

Penny Arcade Expo has been appearing every single year since its first event back in 2004. Back then, the creators of the Penny Arcade hopes to turn it into an annual event – and boy did they ever! PAX became such a popular event that by the time 2010 rolled around, they were able to split it into two events. In 2011, three events appeared: PAX East, Prime, and Dev – for developers specifically. In 2012 we’ve seen PAX East and Prime appear once more, and PAX Australia will be the first time the convention exists outside the United States.

Holkins and Krahulik have also reportedly expressed interest in continuing beyond the adventure island that is Australia and heading back up to Europe where a UK-based PAX might take place. Dates and actual solid plans have not yet been revealed – and perhaps haven’t been actually planned as of yet. Venture Beat reports that the creators of Penny Arcade have noted that they “want to go there” – of course this means they definitely, certainly, very well might do so.

PAX East 2012 appeared this year across April 6-8 and went big at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. According to the Boston Herald, Boston has agreed and committed with the administrators of the convention that it’ll be the home of PAX East for a further 10 years. PAX Prime has also just occurred, taking place between August 31st and September 2nd, and as it has been with essentially all of the iterations of the conventions, the limited edition tickets for entry were sold out within hours. Stick around for some sweet gaming action down under quite soon!

[via Penny Arcade forums]

PAX gaming convention goes international in 2013 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This week in Berlin at IFA 2012 we’re seeing a large amount of manufacturers bringing on touchscreens and convertible, transformable, or otherwise completely strange Windows 8 computers. There’s everything from a flipping screen to a flat horizontal interface, and so many tablets that we don’t know where to begin. One thing they’ve all got in common: they’re attempting to make use of Windows 8′s ability to work with interactive touchscreens and gestures galore.

Have a peek first at the Sony VAIO Duo 11 in our hands-on experience. There you’ll find what’s called a “hybrid sliding PC” that’s not entirely unlike the ASUS solution for a similar situation in the Eee Pad Slider – but here it’s working with Windows 8 instead of Android. And it’s a bit more chunky (as seen above). Next have a look at Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet 2 as seen below. It’s a tablet if you’d like as well, this time you pull it out and set it up in a keyboard dock rather than sliding.

The Dell XPS Duo 12 is a strange beast indeed – working with a flip screen on hinges – like a framed painting whose center can be turned around. There’s a keyboard in there somewhere as well. Have a peek at that below this paragraph as well – and note that we’ve only gotten “eyes-on” with this device so far, so there’s no telling how fabulous it’ll be in the near future.

The folks at HP have brought along several units to the show including a hybrid PC that runs Windows 8 and has the power of a full PC – rather than a tablet with “mobile power”. Here you’re working with what’s otherwise known as a tablet with a keyboard dock, but it’s described the other way around. Then there’s Samsung – they’ve brought out the guns with the ATIV Smart PC Pro sporting a very similar setup to the HP solution also in this paragraph. Here Samsung has brought on a lovely looking combo that’s not without it’s Ivy Bridge – another bit of hardware we’ve seen a lot of this year. There’s also an ATIV Smart PC that we got hands-on with as well.

Check out the rest of this awesome pageant of touch-friendly (and sometimes not so touch friendly) devices as they appear in Berlin in our IFA 2012 portal. And keep up with the Windows 8 tag as well through the future – some strange devices are afoot!

Windows 8 makes manufacturers touchy at IFA 2012 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We know that Nokia’s got something big planned for September 5th, and we’re reasonably sure that it’s going to be the company’s new Windows Phone 8 flagship. To whet our appetites, it’s released a 21-second teaser featuring a helmet-free cyclist smiling at the camera and not spending enough time watching where she’s going. We can’t find any clues in the footage (after the break), except that it’s using the same font that we saw in the run up to the Pureview launch. Who knows, maybe we can get our hopes up for a Lumia device rocking that 41-megapixel sensor.

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Nokia’s unsafe cyclist promises ‘things are about to change’ in confusing new teaser (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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