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Orange to launch Intel-powered smartphone this summer

Brad Linder — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:20:35 +0000

Chip maker Intel has been working on mobile chips with reduced power consumption for some time... and this year we'll see the first smartphones powered by Intel's new Medfield processors with x86 architecture rather than ARM designs. European mobile carrier Orange has announced that it will launch its first Intel-powered phone in the UK and France this summer. The phone...

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Ubuntu for Android brings a desktop OS to Android smartphones

Brad Linder — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:19:10 +0000

You know how people like to say that today's smartphones are more powerful than the computers that NASA used to send astronauts to the moon in the '60s? Well, that's not saying much, because those early computers were small potatoes. But how about this: modern smartphones are powerful enough to act as full-fledged desktop computers. Now Canonical is out to...

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Intel: Atom powered smartphones, netbooks to cost $199 to $299

Brad Linder — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:45:41 +0000

Intel makes processors, not laptops, tablets, or phones. So the company doesn't actually get to decide what price PC or phone makers will charge for its products -- but it can certainly set guidelines. And according to information obtained by Fudzilla, that's exactly what the company is doing. Intel plans to release its first low-power processors for phones and tablets...

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Report: More smartphones than PCs shipped in 2011

Brad Linder — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:00:51 +0000

Once upon a time, smartphones were just the expensive cousins of cheap cellphones that could make calls, maybe play a few ringtones, and if you were lucky surf a few web pages. Today smartphones are tiny computers that you can fit in your pocket... which might help explain why more more smartphones were shipped last year than traditional PCs --...

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Samsung sold more smartphones than Apple last quarter

Brad Linder — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:30:13 +0000

It's been a little while since Google Android smartphones overtook iPhones in the market. But while more people buy phones with Google's software than Apple's, up until now there was no single company that sold more Android phones than Apple sold iPhones. Now Samsung has reported that it shipped 27.8 million smartphones last quarter. According to the BBC, that's 10...

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RIM unveils BlackBerry OS 7, enterprise solution for Android, iOS and more

Brad Linder — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:25:38 +0000

Research in Motion unveiled a new video chat app for the BlackBerry PlayBook this morning. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. The company also introduced the next version of its smartphone operating system, software that lets BlackBerry users keep personal and professional data on their phones without jeopardizing corporate security, a solution allowing IT departments to manage Android and...

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Apple launches iPhone 4, updates iPhone OS to iOS 4

Brad Linder — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:23:46 +0000

Apple quietly made an announcement today. And by quietly, I mean pretty much every tech news site on the planet dedicated about 2 hours to Apple only coverage this afternoon. Steve Jobs didn't pull a netbook or an updated tablet out of his magical bag of tricks, but he did make a few interesting announcements. Here are some of the...

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HTC could be working on a dual-screen netbook… or smartphone

Brad Linder — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:49:20 +0000

HTC is best known for making smartphones, but the company has dipped its toe into the mobile internet device arena. Now it looks like the company could be working on a dual touchscreen device. It could be a netbook/tablet combination device. But it's more likely some sort of mobile phone. What's interesting about this concept is the idea that you...

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Introducing mobiputing: Smartphone apps, tips, and news

Brad Linder — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:49:17 +0000

I wanted to take a moment to let you know about a new web site I've just launched, called mobiputing. As you can probably guess from the name, mobiputing is and will continue to be a sister site to Liliputing. But while Liliputing is focused on netbooks and mobile computing hardware and software generally, my aim with mobiputing is to...

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It’s official, Adobe Flash 10.1 to support NVIDIA GPUs, a whole slew of smartphones

Brad Linder — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:46:43 +0000

Adobe has finally gotten around to announcing one of the worst-kept secrets in the mobile computing space: The next version of Adobe Flash will take advantage of GPU acceleration features to enable HD video playback on low power computers with NVIDIA ION graphics. This means if you've got a machine like the Acer AspireRevo desktop or HP Mini 311 laptop...

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If smartphones did what you wanted, would you still want a netbook?

Brad Linder — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:54:25 +0000

<br /> <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1777758/" mce_href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1777758/">If Smartphnes were better would you still carry a netbook?</a><span style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;">(<a href="http://www.polldaddy.com" mce_href="http://www.polldaddy.com">polls</a>)</span><br /> The other day Engadget editor Joshua Topolsky wrote an interesting commentary about trying to get real work done on his iPhone 3GS. The verdict? He couldn't. The on-screen keyboard certainly didn't help matters, but the biggest problem was the lack of...

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Blackberry founder: The Storm is a netbook

Brad Linder — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:16:32 +0000

Mobile technology has taken two interesting turns in the last few years. Cellphones, PDAs, and computers have started to merge so that today's smartphones allow you to surf the web, send email, and oh yeah, make phone calls and send text messages. Over the last year cheap computers called netbooks (or mini-laptops, or something) with full sized keyboards and reasonably...

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