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Coby Kyros MID7012 tablet gets an FCC teardown, flaunts a roomy case
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Coby's latest in budget slates hit the federal testing tables on Friday, getting the customary teardown and tell-all photo shoot. The Coby Kyros MID7012 comfortably fits a 800Mhz processor, 256MB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, WiFi and a microSD card slot into its case. The seven-inch Gingerbread tablet hasn't landed on Coby's US website yet, but nimble fingered Googlers can find the slab for about $100.
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Another photo of the Nokia Sabre leaks, confirms tiny screen, but is it real?
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WPCentral have been sent this supposed leaked shot of the Nokia Sabre, showing the device to feature a very small 3.5 inch screen.
The device also lacks any way to switch cameras, indicating no front facing camera.
On the other hand, the strategic location of that thumb over the Windows key does make me rather suspicious of a hoax, especially given the resemblance of the handset to the recently released Nokia 603 (right).
Do our readers think the device is real, or just Nokia throwing us off the trail? Let us know below.
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Orange exec says the future of Windows Phone depends on Nokia
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Orange is one of the biggest carrier with presence all around the world - from Europe to the Middle East and even Africa. It’s a key factor for the success of Windows Phone, but up until now, the support for Microsoft’s platform on the side of the carrier hasn’t resulted in user adoption. Quite the contrary.
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Netflix UK launch set for 2012
Like UnlikeStreaming media service Netflix is to launch in the UK and Ireland in early 2012.
It's pretty exciting news for fans of streaming content. The subscription service streams TV shows and films to multiple devices including games consoles, PCs, Macs, tablets and phones - there's even support for Netflix on Apple TV.
"Further details about the service, including pricing, content and supported devices, will be announced closer to launch," said Netflix in a short statement.
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Android's face unlock feature could be fooled by photo
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Face Unlock, one of the flagship features of the newly released Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" mobile operating system, enables users to unlock their phones via facial recognition rather than a PIN code or by using other security credentials. But there might be a security risk involved, if recent reports are to be believed, as the feature can apparently be fooled by holding a picture of the phone's user to the camera.
The new feature works by recognising pre-registered faces, though questions were raised during the Ice Cream Sandwich keynote address when the phone of Matias Duarte, Google's head of user experience, struggled to identify him and unlock the phone possibly due to poor backgr...
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Klout Giving Away 500 Free Windows Phones
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Ready for a free Windows Phone? You'll first have to take a trip back to your high school days, as only the most popular influencers are going to get a shot at the giveaway devices – 500 in total, being giving out via an exclusive promotion between Microsoft and the popularity-tracking Web service Klout.
Oh, and it'll also help your chances if you're an online superstar – as measured by Klout – and happen to live in one of five metropolitan areas that the free phone giveaways are targeting: New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
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Android Ice Cream Sandwich includes native stylus support
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Styli and Android haven't exactly been strangers as of late -- with devices like the HTC Flyer and Samsung Galaxy Note offering pen-based input -- but it looks like that option will soon be even easier to implement with Ice Cream Sandwich. As noted on Reddit, Google's recent overview of some Android 4.0 platform highlights includes a small tidbit towards the end that details the "full support for stylus input events" in the OS -- including features like pressure sensitivity and the ability to distinguish motion events from different sources (i.e. a pen and your finger). Of course, it still requires some hardware-level assistance from tablet and smartphone makers, but native support in the OS...
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The iPod turns 10, celebrates a decade of destroying physical media
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It's hard to believe, but it's been exactly ten years since the iPod was first unveiled, ultimately changing the music industry forever. The iPod wasn't the first, it wasn't the smallest, it didn't have the largest hard drive, but it did have an iconic style and simple to use interface that led march away from CDs. When the history of Apple is written the iPod (perhaps more than the iMac, OS X or the iPhone) will be credited with helping spearhead the company's second coming. Over the years the music player has seen countless iterations and redesigns, and an expansion of the product line to include smaller devices and touch screens -- but for most it's the scroll wheel and white earbuds that...
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NVIDIA CEO discusses the future, says we are "moments away" from dynamic, interactive app logos
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NVIDIA's opinionated CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who sometimes tattoos the Tegra logo on his shoulder, had interesting things to say as the closing guest at the AsiaD conference.
He basically reiterated the company's roadmap with Tegra 3 and the rest of the gang, and said that the main competitor is Qualcomm with its Snapdragon family. Currently Tegra 2 is in 70% of non-Apple tablets, as well as 13 high-end smartphones, and that number is bound to increase.
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Future Touchscreens Could Know Exactly What Touched Them
Like UnlikeWhile certainly impressive technology, modern touchscreens are still kind of limited in that they only really know where on the display they've been touched. So researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are hoping to advance their capabilities with a new system that can tell exactly what they've been touched with.
Developed by Pd.D. students Chris Harrison and Julia Schwartz, along with their professor Scott Hudson from the school's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the TapSense system uses a microphone attached to the screen which can be used to discern exactly what has interacted with the display. Instead of just taps, the system is capable of distinguishing between taps with the tip ...
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Galaxy Nexus has curved PenTile OLED display
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For those of you who like to be rather specific about your smart devices and their displays, it’s time to get down to brass tacks about the Galaxy Nexus and it’s OLED display. Specifically what we want to focus on here is the fact that when you’ve got PenTile in play (that is, on a Super AMOLED display like we’re seeing here) instead of NOT in play (like on a Super AMOLED PLUS display), you get loss of detail. It becomes important when you have a close look at how pixels are shared (or not shared, as it were with S.A.PLUS displays) and what that in itself means for sharpness of picture and text sharpness.
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New Apple TV: Jobs says he’d “cracked” Apple flatscreen TV
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Steve Jobs’s biography is out today. And the stories about just what Apple’s late CEO had planned and who he wanted to take down just keep on coming. Today’s most telling tidbit, though, concerns Apple TV.
Not the set top box but a flatscreen Apple TV that Jobs claimed to have “cracked” before his death earlier this month. Read on to find out just what he had to say about this unreleased Apple gadget.
Speaking to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs said, “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud.’No longer would users have to fiddle with complex remotes for DVD players and cable c...
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Nvidia's Tegra: $2 billion so far
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Nvidia's Tegra mobile processors have cost the company $2 billion (£1.25 billion) over the past five years, according to Jen-Hsun Huang, the company's CEO.
Speaking at the Asia D conference in Hong Kong, Huang confirmed that Tegra had cost the epic amount due to research and development, and that the figure is likely to increase.
Huang also mentioned Kal-El, the company's upcoming quad-core processor.
"Getting performance is the easy part," said Huang. "The challenging part is delivering that performance with low power, and better and better efficiency. The low-power core with Kal-El is 20 times "less hungry" for energy."
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Google linked to Yahoo bid
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Google could be ready to make a bid for Yahoo, with the Wall Street Journal suggesting that the current giant of the internet may purchase one of the behemoths of the past and is in talks with private equity companies
Yahoo recently reported better than expected financial results, but the waning impact of a company that defined search before the rise and rise of Google is clear.
However, the company remains a massive potential purchase, holding key IP and patents and still holding on to a significant proportion of the global search market – most tellingly in the US.
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The death of dedicated satnav cometh as TomTom posts poor Q3 sales?
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TomTom has recently posted some rather unhealthy Q3 sales as the company sees further drop in demand for dedicated GPS units.
The Dutch company, who has been at the forefront of the satnav industry for many years aims to cut 50 million euros in costs, which will hopefully help it turn a decent profit in the coming months. The savings will also mean job cuts ofr many of its staff.
Despite a 50 per cent rise in its Q3 profit, due in large degree to depreciation of the euro against the dollar, it seems TomTom struggled - with sales falling 10 per cent in the same period to 336 million euros.
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