Apple‘s big iPad launch event will take place on Tuesday, October 22, insiders claim, with the Cupertino firm tipped to not only reveal the new iPad mini 2 and iPad 5, but bring the new Mac Pro 2013 on-stage as well. The leaked date, according to AllThingsD‘s sources, will also see OS X Mavericks on […]
Samsung‘s hopes that the US government would overturn an ITC ban on certain smartphones and tablets, just as President Obama’s White House did for a similar ban on Apple devices, have been dashed, with the fast-approaching sales block upheld. The South Korean company had approached the US trade representative in August, arguing that a ban […]
Smart thermostat company Nest has revealed its second intelligent home device, the Nest Protect, a WiFi-enabled smoke and carbon monoxide detector. Aiming to do the same for home safety as the original Nest does for HVAC control, the Nest Protect tracks potential perils, warns you with both an spoken audio alert and pings to your […]
Just as they have apparently tapped HTC for the dual-boot option for Android phones with Windows Phone 8, it’s become apparent today that Microsoft may have asked Samsung and Huawei to do the same. Microsoft was tipped this past week to have suggested HTC make a selection of devices that boot to Windows Phone 8 […]
When the redesigned iPhone 5s home button flex cable first appeared with a slightly different configuration from the cable for the iPhone 5, it was suggested to have been to make way for Touch ID. Apple’s Touch ID does indeed exist on the iPhone 5s – that’s fingerprint sensing technology for iDevices, if you did […]
Samsung Gear Glass tipped for 2014
Posted in: Today's ChiliSamsung will launch a Google Glass rival, currently dubbed the Galaxy Gear Glass, sometime in Q2 2014 an insider claims, supposedly expanding its wearable family with a head-worn computer. The work-in-progress gadget is expected to arrive in April or May next year, according to Eldar Murtazin, following up the Galaxy Gear smartwatch which Samsung launched […]
“After all these years, it’s finally real.” Samsung has kicked off its advertising campaign for the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, and it’s calling on the heritage of all the more memorable fictional forebears to remind us just how high-tech the wearable is. Samsung’s new “Evolution” campaign – and a second spot, called “A Long Time Coming” […]
This weekend a document was spilled in part through the sharing platform Scribd, showing off the LG-made Nexus 5 in part. This document was lost for a day or two, thanking in part a couple of 404-ed webpage sources, but today we’ve been passed a collection of images and snaps from another internal document from […]
The Nexus 5 rumor mill has just received a 16-wheeler’s worth of fresh-cut lumber. According to Android Police, a service manual for the LG-D821 (quite possibly one of the makes and models for the next Google Nexus smartphone) today was leaked and posted to Scribd, spilling a substantial amount of insider information about the upcoming […]
In what must be the strangest cross-branding we’ve seen in a smartphone in the past several years, the folks at ZTE have released the ZTE nubia 5 with the Houston Rockets – the NBA team. What we’re doing this weekend is having a peek at the official limited-edition ZTE nubia 5 from all angles – […]