Welcome to Friday evening everyone. First up, it seems HTC will be releasing a variation of the HTC First without Facebook Home, and we’ve a piece on whether you should wait for this handset. Speaking of HTC, it is also rolling out the HTC One Live Experience tour in the US. T-Mobile’s iPhone 5 is
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SlashGear Weekend Wrap-Up: April 6th, 2013
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on April 7, 2013
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This week is finally almost over, and there were tons of news stories published everyday. At the beginning of the week, we learned that there was an iMessage DDoS attack going around that would lag your device and inhibit its capabilities. More bad news for Apple followed when the USPTO denied its iPad Mini trademark.
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: April 3, 2013
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on April 4, 2013
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Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone. Perhaps the biggest story to hit the Internet today was Disney’s statement that it has shut down LucasArts, instead shifting to a license-based model, opening the series up to a wider range of game developers. Speaking of games, Rovio announced its 2012 revenue, pulling in a profit of approximately $ 71
SlashGear 101: The Samsung Exynos 5 Octa Processor
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on March 17, 2013
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Mobile World Congress 2013: SlashGear is here!
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on February 24, 2013
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It’s that time of the year, SlashGear readers, where the team arrives in Barcelona to capture the full Mobile World Congress experience and delivers it to you for a better understanding of what you’ll be working with soon! This event takes place at a different location in the city for the first time in several
SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: February 18th, 2013
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on February 18, 2013
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: February 15, 2013
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on February 15, 2013
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This morning it’s time to get legal with the Livescribe and Sky battle leading to a newly rebranded wifi pen. There’s a group by the name of AutoCyb out there that’s capitalizing on the black box data privacy you didn’t know you could have. Have a peek at the Scosche lineup of Lightning connectors just
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 5, 2013
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on February 6, 2013
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 1, 2013
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on February 2, 2013
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Welcome to Friday evening everyone. The weekend is nearly here, but before we kick it off we’re going to recap the news. Today Apple was named the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the US, while it seems Peter Chou has revealed the long-rumored HTC M7 in a rather silly video. The FTC has fined Path
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 31, 2013
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on February 1, 2013
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Welcome to Thursday evening everyone. After dropping a new teaser trailer today, it looks like Sony is gearing up to announce the next PlayStation on February 20, 2013, so mark your calendars. Google Glass made a stop by the FCC today, and Temple Run 2 achieved the title of “fastest growing mobile game” 22 days
SlashGear 101: What is Vine, and what does it do?
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on January 27, 2013
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Right this very moment you’re probably seeing a few Vine videos popping up on your Twitter feed wondering what on earth these tiny videos are taking hold when previous (rather similar) apps and services have done it so many different ways before. There are several reasons why this service is catching the public’s taps at
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 25, 2013
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on January 26, 2013
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Welcome to Friday evening everyone. Today more BlackBerry Z10 images leaked out, while IDC is saying that Samsung is in the lead with strong demand for its smartphones. OUYA is making a few tweaks to its controller before the Android-based games console launches, and we’re sorry to say that tomorrow it becomes illegal to unlock
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 24, 2013
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on January 25, 2013
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Welcome to Thursday evening everyone. Today we heard Samsung might sell as many as 10 million Galaxy S IV handsets after the device launches, which is supposedly happening later this year. We also heard J.J. Abrams might direct the next Star Wars movie, despite the fact that he said he wouldn’t in an interview last
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 18, 2013
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on January 19, 2013
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Welcome back to Friday folks. Earlier today, we saw what’s rumored to be the Samsung Galaxy S IV pop up in AnTuTu’s database, with the listing suggesting that it will come equipped with an Exynos 5 Octa CPU. The iPad Mini has been projected to both drive and cannibalize Apple’s sales in Q1 2013, and
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 15, 2013
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on January 16, 2013
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Welcome to Tuesday evening, everyone. The afternoon started off with something of a bang with Facebook’s big event, during which the company revealed the service’s new Graph Search and explained the difference between the new feature and traditional web search. It also announced that it was partnering with Bing for search results in Graph Search,
SlashGear 101: NVIDIA Tegra 4 in detail
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on January 15, 2013
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: January 11, 2013
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on January 12, 2013
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CES 2013 is here: SlashGear heads to the tech torrent
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on January 5, 2013
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The Consumer Electronics Show 2013 is upon us, and the bacchanalian excesses of the holidays give way to big TVs, tablets galore, and marketing hyperbole aplenty as SlashGear heads to Las Vegas to see what’s umissable in consumer electronics. CES not only opens the year with a bang, it sets the tone for the next
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 28, 2012
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on December 29, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 27, 2012
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on December 28, 2012
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Welcome to Thursday evening everyone! Today a collection of BlackBerry 10 slides outed video chat and screen sharing through BBM, and we learned that smartphone and tablet activations rose to huge numbers of Christmas day earlier this week. There’s a new survey from Pew and NPD that suggests tablets are beginning to replace eReaders and
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 14, 2012
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on December 16, 2012
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Welcome to Friday evening everyone. The weekend will be underway soon, but before we jump in, let’s recap the news from the afternoon. We found out today that Google Maps on iOS might not be around for very long, so enjoy it while it lasts, while Motorola Atrix HD users are now getting a long-awaited
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 13, 2012
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on December 14, 2012
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Welcome to Thursday evening everyone. Today Verizon confirmed that Jelly Bean will begin rolling out to the Galaxy S III starting tomorrow, so get ready for that to drop. Apple released its iTunes Best of 2012 list today, while Facebook rolled out a native app for Android, which can boast speeds that are twice as
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 7, 2012
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on December 8, 2012
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SlashGear 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Laptops
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on December 2, 2012
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Buying a laptop at Christmas is a big-ticket gift, but there are some great options out there if you’ve promised portable computing to someone special. Plenty of people – whether teenagers, students, or parents – are hoping for a notebook in giftwrap this month, and we’ve picked out some of the best to help make
SlashGear 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Tablets
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on December 2, 2012
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Tablets will be the must-have gift of 2012, the trend-watchers tell us, but that means a whole lot of slates competing for your dollar. This year has seen Apple raise its game with a second size option, while Android has evolved into a legitimate alternative, and Microsoft has made its own play for the market
SlashGear 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Oddities
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on December 2, 2012
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For those little gadgets and gizmos we got an extra amount of play out of, we’ve got this little Oddities section. This section has truly strange stuff some years, and other years its full of products like the fabulous sports and health-oriented smart bracelet Jawbone UP – winners all! For the file sharer out there,
SlashGear 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Smartphones
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on December 2, 2012
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In the smartphone universe you’re going to have some sorting to do starting with the carrier your gift receiver is working with. More than likely you’re a parent or a significant other if you’re purchasing a smartphone on-contract for that special someone, this meaning you’ve got a fair understanding of which carrier they’ll be working
SlashGear 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Accessories
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on December 1, 2012
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We’ve got an odd assortment of accessories for you to peek at here, most of them being cases and protections of different sorts for some of the more popular devices on the market – but there are some weird bits as well. It’s really difficult to go entirely wrong with accessories for your gift-getting-buddies as
SlashGear 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Audio Equipment
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on December 1, 2012
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There are three different ways you’re going it give the gift of audio this holiday season, the first being the massive amount of smart devices out there with their own external speaker – so many do these days that it’s taken for granted – see: all of the smartphones, notebooks, and tablets we’ve worked with
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 30, 2012
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on December 1, 2012
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 27th, 2012
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on November 27, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 23, 2012
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on November 24, 2012
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Happy Thanksgiving 2012 from SlashGear!
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on November 22, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 20, 2012
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on November 21, 2012
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Welcome to Tuesday evening everyone! Today we found out that shipping times for the iPhone 5 have gone down to two weeks, which should be good news for those who have been waiting to get their hands on one. HP announced that Autonomy’s “serious accounting improprieties” have left it with a whopping $ 8.8 billion bill,
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 16, 2012
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on November 17, 2012
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 14th, 2012
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on November 14, 2012
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This week we’ve had our fair share of surprises in the mobile universe, but today it appears that we’re going to be running smooth in the computing world – desktops and storage devices galore! That said, you’ll still want to start your journey off with Western Digital’s 802.11AC My Net router and bridge. Move on
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 9, 2012
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on November 10, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 2, 2012
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on November 4, 2012
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Welcome to Friday evening everyone – the weekend is here at last, but before we dive in, it’s time to recap the news. Today we heard that Microsoft might be testing out a smartphone of its own, which doesn’t really surprise us considering that it just recently entered the tablet market. Apple’s freshly rephrased “apology”
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 31, 2012
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on November 1, 2012
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Welcome to the special Halloween edition of the Evening Wrap-Up! The Halloween edition is pretty much the same as regular Wrap-Ups, the only difference is that I’m dressed as Ginger Spice as I type this. Let’s spice up our lives with a recap, shall we? Microsoft is being sued over its Windows 8 live tiles,
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 26, 2012
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on October 29, 2012
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Welcome to Friday evening, everyone. Today was a pretty big day in the world of tech, with both Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface launching and the iPad mini going up for pre-order. Microsoft was actually handing out £50 coupons to the Microsoft Store for giving those in the UK who pre-ordered a Surface conflicting messages
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 24, 2012
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on October 25, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 19, 2012
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on October 21, 2012
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: October 12th, 2012
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on October 15, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 12, 2012
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on October 14, 2012
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: October 11, 2012
Posted by Gsurface
on October 11, 2012
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This morning it’s time for a redesign of Google’s mobile homepage – for Android devices, anyway, and on Chrome mostly, as well as a new version of Google+ for both Android and iOS devices. Google has also begun recruiting Android “ambassadors” for their call center – people dedicated to the operating system in an intense
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 9, 2012
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on October 10, 2012
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Welcome to Tuesday evening, everyone. Earlier today, we found out that Samsung may be planning a Nexus 10 tablet, complete with a resolution to give the third-gen iPad a run for its money. ZTE gave its response to yesterday’s allegations that it may be helping the Chinese government spy on the US, and Apple started
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 8, 2012
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on October 9, 2012
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Welcome to Monday evening everyone. Today featured a couple of a big stories, including the House Intelligence Committee warning of Huawei and ZTE potentially allowing the Chinese government to spy on the US. Huawei was quick to release a statement giving us its own side of the story and defending its business, and those US
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 5, 2012
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on October 6, 2012
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We’ve arrived at another Friday evening, which means that the weekend lies ahead. Today, as many of you probably already know, was the one-year anniversary of the passing of Steve Jobs. Apple paid tribute to Jobs in a new video released today, and it was announced that three modified MacBook Pros will be auctioned off
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 4, 2012
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on October 5, 2012
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 3, 2012
Posted by Gsurface
on October 4, 2012
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Welcome to Wednesday evening, everyone. Today, T-Mobile and MetroPCS announced that their rumored merger was indeed real, and not long after, T-Mobile CEO John Legere released a new video explaining the deal. We heard more about the iPad Mini today, with the Wall Street Journal claiming that it’s already in production and comes with a
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