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One of the largest personal-computer makers, Dell, is reportedly looking to become a private company as it’s currently in buyout talks with private-equity firms. At this time, Dell is in preliminary talks with at least two firms, although the talks could fall apart depending on the ability of these firms being able to produce the finance the company requires or the knowhow to exit the investment down the line.

At this point, Dell is staying tight-lipped regarding the situation, but having the company turn private would mean the private firm would buy up all of the publicly traded shares as well as looser regulations.

Since the news hit the wire earlier today, Dell’s shares are trading about 13 percent higher in Monday-afternoon trading. Shares went from $1.41 to $12.30 with over 35.7 million shares being traded.

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We’re sure that many of you guys are curious as to what the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be like. What sort of design language will Samsung be approaching it with, what sort of hardware, will it feature a bigger screen and etc. Now we know that Samsung is working on Full HD AMOLED displays and during CES, the company had put up several of their displays for, well, display and spotted as part of their lineup is a certain 4.99” Full HD 440 PPI display which Samsung has stated will begin shipping in Q1 of 2013. SamMobile has speculated that it is possible that this 4.99” Full HD AMOLED display could be used in the Samsung Galaxy S4 and while it might be wild speculation on SamMobile’s part, we can’t help but agree!

After all the benchmark has pretty much been set by HTC with the Droid DNA (also known as the HTC Butterfly in international markets) with its 5” Full HD display and a PPI of 440, that and the fact that the Sony Xperia Z also features a 5” Full HD display with 443 PPI, we can only imagine that Samsung would at the very least match the competition, if not beat it, with their next-gen flagship device. However like we said this is merely speculation and there has not been any evidence that Samsung could go the 5” route with the Galaxy S4, so take it with a grain of salt for now but what do you guys think? Could the Samsung Galaxy S4 feature a 4.99” Full HD AMOLED display?

[Image credit – Anandtech]

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We know that T-Mobile has expressed their support of RIM’s Blackberry 10 platform and products. While that is good news for Blackberry fans on T-Mobile’s network, the question we have to ask is when will T-Mobile actually launch a Blackberry 10 device? Thanks to the folks at TmoNews who managed to get their hands on a leaked screenshot of T-Mobile’s roadmap (alleged), it would seem that the Blackberry 10 Z1 will be released on T-Mobile’s network come 27^th of March. RIM has provided a rough timeframe of the Blackberry 10 devices launch which is set for Q1 of 2013, although back in 2012, RIM’s COO said that Blackberry 10 devices will be made available 30 days after launch, so the 27^th of March date seems to be kind of late. However given that US carriers tend to be a bit slow when it comes to pushing out updates amongst other things, we guess this isn’t surprising. Presumably this would mean that the Z10 will be available for purchase unlocked although we guess you’d still need to get a Blackberry plan with your carrier if you wish to use it. Anyway hopefully more information about the Z10’s launch and its dates will be provided shortly, so be sure to check back with us then for the details.

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Is the iPhone 5 facing low demand? While we don’t have access to the numbers, the Wall Street Journal seems to think so and according to a recent report, they are saying that Apple has reportedly cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to “weak-than-expected demand” for the device. The publication claims that Apple has cut orders from January-March (basically Q1 of 2013) by half, suggesting that perhaps the iPhone 5 isn’t doing as well as Apple had thought it would have. However on the flipside, some are speculating that perhaps Apple is in fact winding down stock in order to make room for a potential refresh. There have been a couple of rumors so far, one of them being that Apple could be launching a cheaper iPhone although this has since been denied by Apple’s Phil Schiller, so what could it be then? Of course these alleged cutting of orders has not been confirmed by Apple so you might want to take this news with a grain of salt, but what do you guys think? Are you starting to see less iPhone 5 devices in the street than you would have a couple of years ago with the iPhone 4/4S?

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CES 2013 may be winding down, but the news keeps on rolling. Today, a handful of screenshots have leaked that apparently show off HTC’s Sense 5 user interface for Android, which will run on the also rumored M7 that we’ve talked about in the past. The group of screenshots also comes with a picture of the UI running on an HTC phone which could possibly be the M7 itself.

This is technically the first actual photo of what may possibly be the HTC M7. However, it doesn’t show off much, other than the display and a little bit of the bezel. Then again, it looks like HTC will be bringing their polycarbonate design over from Windows Phone 8, so we’ll know what to expect slightly, given those circumstances.

The screenshots show a little bit of what to expect out of Sense 5, and it’s definitely been given a slight redesign. However, for those wishing that the new HTC Sense UI will someday be closer to stock Android, we can’t see that happening anytime soon, since the company loves its Sense interface and many users love it right back.

However, the screenshots hint at a little bit of details on the hardware of the M7. We still see the legacy menu button in the screenshots, which suggest that the M7 will come with the same three capacitive touch buttons just like the HTC One series, with a dedicated on-screen menu button when needed. Overall, though, the Sense 5 UI looks bit a cleaner and simpler than Sense 4.x.

As far as other rumors go for the M7, we’re looking at a 4.7-inch 1080p display with a 1.7GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM. There’s also supposedly going to be 32GB of internal storage, a 13MP f/2.0 rear camera, 2MP front-facing camera, and a 2300mAh battery to power it all.

[via Android Community]

HTC M7 and Sense 5 UI leak reveals more details is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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