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Some folks in the UK already have Nexus 5X smartphone

UK retailer Carphone Warehouse is apparently selling some Google Nexus 5X smartphones a bit early. While Google hasn’t officially started shipping the phones in the US yet, some customer that have placed orders from Carephone Warehouse have already received the smartphone. Others have managed to just walk into a store and buy one off the […]

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Motorola XOOM 2 hitting the UK soon for €400

Motorola’s sequel to the XOOM tablet appears to be on track for a pre-holiday launch, and it looks like the tablet will sell for about €400 in the UK. Engadget has posted a photo of a print ad for Carphone Warehouse featuring the new tablet. The ad doesn’t offer detailed specifications, but it does confirm that […]

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Carphone Warehouse drops Linux netbooks

UK retailer Carphone Warehouse is reportedly pulling a Linux-powered mini-laptop from its line of computer offerings. The Elonex Webbook is a VIA C7-M powered lapttop that runs Ubuntu Linux. Carphone Warehouse reportedly ordered about 60,000  of the custom notebooks from Elonex, but was finding that customers returned the Webbooks in unusually high numbers. The top […]

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Elonex Webbook gets reviewed

Despite my earlier skepticism, it looks like the Elonex Webbook is real. And it’s shipping. The folks at Pocket Lint got their hands on one one of these 10.2 inch laptops that Carphone Warehouse is offering for free with a wireless subscription. And here’s what they had to say (nutshell version): The Webbook ain’t the […]