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Samsung goes big with 5 inch Galaxy Grand mid-level smartphone

Samsung has a tendency to take a shotgun approach to mobile devices. The company offers tablets, smartphones, and portable media players in a range of sizes — and today Samsung is expanding its smartphone lineup with a new 5 inch handset. At 5 inches, the Samsung Galaxy Grand is a little bigger than a Galaxy […]

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This is what the Rhombus Tech PCMCIA-sized Allwinner A10 computer module looks like

Rhombus Tech has been working on a computer module featuring a low power ARM-based processor which can be slotted into a laptop, tablet, or other computer case. The idea is to produce a low-cost computer platform that supports open source software and hardware designs. Now the first photo of a prototype is available. What you’re […]

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NVIDIA’s next quad-core chip could be 6x faster than Tegra 3

NVIDIA’s next-generation Tegra chip for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices is due out in 2013. While the chip maker hasn’t said much about the new processor, code-named “Wayne,” the folks at Chip Hell came across a leaked product slide which may spill a few details. The Wayne processor is said to feature 4-plus-1 processor […]

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Bodhi Linux Alpha for ARM runs on the $249 Samsung Chromebook

Bodhi Linux is a light-weight Linux-based operating system designed to run on a range of different types of hardware. The latest addition to the Bodhi family? Samsung’s $249 Chromebook — the one with a low-power Samsung Exynos 5 ARM Cortex-A15 processor. Bodhi developer Jeff Hoogland released an early build of Bodhi for the Samsung Chromebook […]

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Solid Explorer exits beta (full-featured file explorer for Android)

Google doesn’t include a file browser with Android, because for the most parts apps manage files automatically. Snap a picture with your camera, for instance, and you should be able to access it in the gallery app, Facebook app, or other software. But if you want a bit more control over your files — and […]

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Asus introduces VariDrive dock, DVD drive for ultrabooks, laptops

Like many ultrabooks, the Asus Zenbook line of ultraportable notebooks sacrifice a few features in order to stay thin and light. There are no built-in DVD drives, and only a handful of input and output ports. But Asus has a solution for folks that want the portability of an ultrabook and all the features of […]