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$140 Nabi Jr is a 5 inch tablet with a Tegra 3 processor

Fuhu’s Nabi tablets are aimed at kids. But despite the bright colors and semi-rugged design, some of the company’s latest models have specs you’d expect to find on a full-fledged tablet. The $250 Nabi XD, for instance, is a 10 inch tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, up to 32GB of storage, and an […]

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Samsung Galaxy S4 with Snapdragon 800, LTE-Advanced hits Korea

The Samsung Galaxy S4 that’s available in the US and Europe is one of the fastest smartphones around, packing 4G LTE wireless capabilities and either a Samsung Exynos 5 Octa processor or a speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chip. But if you happen to be in South Korea, you can get an even faster model. SK […]

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NVIDIA Shield ship date pushed back to July (handheld gaming)

NVIDIA has announced that its handheld gaming console will ship next month. The NVIDIA Shield had originally been slated to ship starting June 27th, but the company says it discovered a “mechanical issue” during quality assurance testing. The company wants to resolve that problem before delivering units to customers — and that’s probably for the […]

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Google edition HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 now available, shipping July 9th

As promised, Google is now selling two of the hottest Android smartphones straight through the Google Play Store. The Google edition versions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 come with Google’s version of Android, receive software updates directly from Google, and come as carrier and bootloader unlocked devices. Update: It looks like software […]

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Windows launches 8.1 Preview as a free download

Microsoft has released a preview version of Windows 8.1. It’s available as a free update from the Windows Store, and Microsoft will also offer a free downloadable ISO if you want to install the software on a computer that’s not already running Windows 8. Download information is available at the Windows site, and while you […]

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Google Reader fallout: Digg Reader, Aol Reader go live – what are you using?

Google Reader shuts down on Monday, July 1st. For years Google’s online RSS reader has been the most popular tool for folks looking for a web-based feed reader that could synchronize their read, unread, and saved items across multiple devices. Since Google announced plans to end the service, a number of folks have been making […]

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CyanogenMod to end support for Tegra 2 devices with next major release

A few years ago NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor was a big deal, since it was one of the first dual-core ARM-based chips to hit the smartphone and tablet space. Google even partnered with Motorola to make the Tegra 2-powered XOOM tablet a reference device for Android development. Flash forward two years, and the XOOM and […]

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HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition phones launch June 26th

Two of the top Android smartphones released so far this year are about to hit the Google Play Store. Google will start offering versions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 on June 26th. Both devices will be available with Google’s stock version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean instead of the custom versions that […]