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Last year, Huawei’s Device Business Group set an ambitious goal of shipping 60 million smartphones, but managed only 32 million, keeping it out of IDC’s top five smartphone vendors in 2012. That said, for Q4 that same year Huawei did finally break into top three, but it didn’t change the fact that it had been a tough period for Huawei’s smartphone division, especially for its CMO Shao Yang (pictured above with his 6.1-inch Ascend Mate). At the 2013 Huawei Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen yesterday, the exec was kind enough to share his side of the story about the hurdles his team faced last year — the period when Huawei was transforming from an original design manufacturer (ODM) to serve others, to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in order to build devices according to its own specifications.

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Nobody enjoys losing their precious documents, photos or other files, yet it’s easy for all of that crucial data to just magically disappear at the most inopportune moments. ioSafe has been hard at work offering rugged NAS solutions to keep your information safe and sound, and it’s now offering a diskless N2 system (valued at $600) to a lucky reader! This is a huge grab — no pun intended — so do your due diligence in entering this week’s giveaway. Good luck!

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Because of their small form factor, mSATA SSD are mainly found in ultra portable devices, ultrabooks, tablets or ultra compact PCs. Lower sizes units, 30GB or 60GB,  are the prime candidate for the Intel Rapid Storage Technology feature as long as your motherboard supports it . Although, there are no benefits of using an SSD as a cache for another SSD, a SSD/HDD combo is your optimal setup for that purpose. With the Intel 525 mSATA series, there are plenty of capacity options to choose from. Available sizes are: 30GB, 60GB, 120GB, 180GB and 240GB. They are ridiculously tiny and I am curious to know what is the trade off, size vs performance vs price? (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Lenovo ThinkPad Twist Review (S230U) , Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 Review,

Rumors of an upcoming iPad sporting a similar design as the iPad mini go as far back as late January this year, when our reliable friends at 9to5Mac shared some clear photos of a leaked chassis (check them out at the “More Coverage” link below). This was followed by an alleged photo of the front panel sent around earlier this month. But as before, cases for this unreleased “iPad 5” have also been making the rounds in China, and we’ve managed to get our hands on one at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair earlier today. It’s the same old story according to a staff at the booth: the case is based on a leaked mold. Oops!

Compared to a similar case made for the two latest generations of the bigger iPad, this case again suggests a slimmer and narrower iPad is in the works, which would mean that this mysterious tablet is likely to have the same screen size but thinner left and right-side bezels — just like the iPad mini. Similarly, the straighter edges support 9to5Mac’s earlier leak of the iPad mini-like body. Let’s just hope that Apple will still have a few surprises up its sleeves then, eh?

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While the Chinese variants of the HTC One won’t be formally introduced until April 24th, we’ve managed to get our hands on its cousin device: the 603e that sports a similar earpiece design as the One, but without the front-facing BoomSound stereo loudspeakers. The retail name of this dual-SIM (WCDMA 900/2100 and GSM 900/1800/1900) device is actually E1, and HTC pitches it as an affordable Android 4.1 (with Sense 4+) phone with a 2.1-megapixel f/2.0 wide front-facing camera — likely identical to HTC One’s, judging by our own comparison — along with beautification features and the company’s much publicized ImageChip technology. But the real selling point of the E1 is its role in HTC’s new e-commerce strategy in China: while you can get hold of one at an authorized HTC store, HTC’s Chinese “eShop” throws in custom options for the built-in storage (8 or 16GB), main camera (five or eight megapixels, both with only 720p video capture) and one of the six body colors plus patterns. Choosing the top spec combo will also get you a special red body interior.

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Source: HTC eShop (China), HTC China