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This week the BlackBerry 10 is extending its hand in both unofficial and official manners, with the BlackBerry R10 leaking as a QWERTY budget smartphone running BlackBerry 10 and the Q10 hitting pre-orders. With the BlackBerry Q10, we’ve already had a couple of looks at the device and have been no less impressed with it than we were with the Z10 – take that how you will. With the BlackBerry R10 it would appear that the company is indeed going back on its assurance that they’d never create another budget phone again – here’s BlackBerry 10 for everyone!

Below you’ll see an image presented by BlackBerryOS who say they’re all about the idea of it being a new R-Series BlackBerry device called the BB10 Curve. This smartphone is said to come with less RAM, less processor power, and not quite as much excellence on the whole. But you’ll still be working with BlackBerry 10, so perhaps it’s not all bad – and the price will certainly be affordable!

Then there’s the top-notch BlackBerry Q10, the QWERTY keyboard version of the Z10, BlackBerry 10′s heroes the both of them. Have a peek at our BlackBerry Q10 hands-on right this minute to understand the power. Today’s news includes the first official pre-orders from Carphone Warehouse in the UK – that includes T-Mobile, Three, EE, O2, and TalkMobile.

Have a peek at the timeline below of recent BlackBerry goings-on to see how this BlackBerry 10 universe is expanding at an interesting rate. We’ll be having our own look at the Q10 in the near future in a full review – then the R-Series as well if it does end up existing on the market, yes indeed. BlackBerry 10 makes its big push!

BlackBerry R10 budget QWERTY and Q10 top-tier smartphones close at hand is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you thought Samsung was ever going to stop attempting to create smart devices with every single different screen size, Galaxy S to Note to Tab, you were wrong! Today some anonymous sources have let it be known that two new Samsung smartphone/phablet devices by the name Samsung Galaxy Mega will be coming forth some time this year. We’d had some previous insight into at least one of the display sizes due to an accessory release made public during the Samsung GALAXY S 4 reveal event, while the other comes as a bit of a surprise!

What the folks at SamMobile have been told by some sources they trust to the end of the world is that not one, but two Galaxy Mega smart devices will be revealed before Summer’s end. The first of these devices comes in at a lovely 5.8-inches while the second – once again bridging the gap between smartphones and tablets – will be bringing on a monstrous 6.3-inches of display real estate.

• Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 GT-I9152
• 5.8-inch display (resolution unknown)
• Release: week of May 27, 2013
• Color: White

• Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 GT-I9200
• 6.3-inch display (resolution unknown)
• Release: week of June 17, 2013
• Colors: Black, White

Think about how the Samsung release schedule has begun working with naming conventions, cutting off at certain size points. With the Samsung Galaxy S III and 4, we’ve begun to see Samsung ending the growth of the size of the display, with the next level then being the Galaxy Note – but there it ends. Though it would seem to make sense that Samsung would create a scale something like the following, it’s simply not in the cards:

1. Samsung Galaxy S
2. Samsung Galaxy Note
3. Samsung Galaxy Mega
4. Samsung Galaxy Tab

We’ve already got a 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Note – that’s tablet sized – and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0. So there’s cross-overs. So what place does the Samsung Galaxy Mega have in this scale from large to small? We’ll have to consider it to be something more of a presentation oddity. Perhaps the Samsung Galaxy Mega will be made for gamers!

Massive Samsung smartphone leaked: 6.3-inch “Galaxy Mega” is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Today’s the big day where we finally see what Samsung has up their sleeves (spoiler: it’s most likely the Galaxy S IV). However, the event isn’t until later tonight, but in the meantime, a few videos have been leaked that show off what is reportedly the Galaxy S IV in action, and we get to take a look at some of the new features like Smart Pause.

In total, there are four new videos, each highlighting a different feature on the new device. One of the videos shows off floating touch, similar to Air View but works with your fingers. The other videos demonstrate Smart Pause, new features of internet browsing, and a new unlock screen, all of which look really great.

Smart Pause is a new feature that allows the device to intelligently pause a video and resume it whenever your eyes wander away from the screen and back to it. As for floating touch control, it looks to work similarly to hovering the S Pen over the screen to get a preview of a file, but only this time it works with your fingers.

As for the internet browsing, the browser seems amazingly quick, and the video shows off a cool feature that’s not necessarily Smart Scroll, but the user can navigate between pages and scroll up and down by waving their hands in front of the screen. However, we’re guessing Smart Scroll might be in there as well, a feature that allows to scroll with your eyes.

The new unlock screen looks pretty basic, but it seems like you can create unlock patterns that involve both swiping and tapping on the lock screen. Of course, we kind of new Samsung might have something nifty in that respect, since every manufacturer seems to be putting their own creative twist on the lock screen, but we’re pretty excited to see the device in its entirety tonight, and as always, we’ll be there to provide you coverage of the event, so stay tuned!

[via SammyHub]

Samsung Galaxy S IV videos leak showing off Smart Pause and more is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’ve talked about some of the rumored features coming to the Galaxy S IV in the past, including “Eye Scroll” and “Eye Pause,” two features that track your eyes in order to automatically scroll web pages or pause video, respectively. However, in a couple of leaked photos from an Android 4.2.1 update for the Galaxy S III, it looks like the feature will be coming to Samsung’s current flagship device under different names.

SamMobile ended up getting a few leaked screenshots from the update, and the “Eye Scroll” and “Eye Pause” features seem to be renamed to “Smart Scroll” and Smart Pause,” respectively. The screenshots were initially believed to have been from the Galaxy S IV, but SamMobile now says that they were taken from a Galaxy S III running the Android 4.2.1 update, which means that Smart Scroll and Pause features could come to GSIII at some point.

If you’re not familiar with these two new features, Smart Scroll essentially tracks your eye movement, and will automatically scroll up or down on a web page depending on if the camera notices your eyes reaching the top or bottom of the screen. Smart Pause also tracks your eyes, but when watching a video, the phone will automatically pause it when it notices your eyes gazing off of the screen.

Obviously, we hope to learn more about these features on March 14, when Samsung will be holding an event to hopefully announce the Galaxy S IV, or so that’s what we’re believing to be the main focal point at the show. Hopefully we hear more about Galaxy S III compatibility with some of these new features, which should definitely give long-time GSIII a boost.

[via Android Community]

Samsung to add “Smart Scroll” and “Smart Pause” in upcoming Jelly Bean update is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s been quite the week for Ubisoft, who finally confirmed Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag last week and announced some more details earlier this morning, but the announcements ultimately got away from the developer, as information was being leaked left and right. However, even after most of the details have finally become official, more info about the game is still being leaked, including these screenshots.

These leaked screenshots give you more of a glimpse inside the new game, so if you’re were slightly disappointed by the teaser trailer, which consisted of all cutscenes and no actual gameplay, these screenshots may quench your Assassin’s Creed thirst. While the screenshots don’t feature actual gameplay footage, they offer some details that we haven’t heard before.

Specifically, we see that whales may be a focal point in the game, according to several previews which mention the ability to harpoon the creatures. We also get a look at some of the scenery in the game, including the forest and the villages. Plus, it looks like waters won’t be calm at all in the game, according to the screenshot of the two ships.

Overall, though, the style and the feel of the game doesn’t appear to get away from the traditional Assassin’s Creed style that we’ve known and loved throughout the past three installments of the series, but since there’s a new protagonist with a new time period and setting, it’ll be interesting to see how the game plays out.

[via Forbes]

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag screenshots leak is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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