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Android's Gmail app is updated to save you battery & bandwidth
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There’s no kidding that Android users are presented with the utmost best Gmail experience, and to further strengthen the popular service, it’s being updated with some new features.
Version 2.3.5 of the Gmail app for Android is now available for download and literally will help cut down on power and bandwidth consumption – something that’s indeed nice for those on a budget. From the looks of it, you’ll have the ability to sync only priority emails, which in turn, will allow your handset to eat less power and data.
Additionally, we find other new features like a new option that allows you to set custom alert tones for the various labels, ability to set “Show Pictures” for specific senders, tur...
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Nokia slips in phone shipments, still holds on to first place
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Nokia may have lost the smartphone title belt to Apple and Samsung, but it has managed to hang on to the top slot for general phone shipments worldwide. Despite still being in first place, Nokia's market share did take a 29 percent nosedive in Q2 2011.
Globally, mobile phone shipments grew 13 percent from Q2 last year, with 361 million units shipped by manufacturers. Amazingly, Apple was the breakout performer in Q2, as it shipped 20.3 million phones in Q2. Remember, Apple only sells smartphones, and only two models at that, so its fourth place in the global cellphone market is all that much more remarkable.
Nokia's shipments dipped below 100 million in Q2, settling at 88.5 million, 22.6 mil...
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HTC Reports Record Profits In Q2, 12.1 Million Handsets Shipped
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Looks like things are going well over in Taiwan, as HTC has reported record-breaking Q2 results this morning. In fact, the company sold 12.1 million units in the second quarter totaling a 123.7 percent year-over-year growth rate. After Q2 taxes, that brings YOY growth to 102.9 percent. If you aren’t good with percentages, that’s huge. In terms of quarterly growth, HTC is up 24.8 percent from the first quarter.
A solid chunk of this can be attributed to China, which was HTC’s “standout” market. Entry-level models such as the Wildfire S, Salsa, and ChaCha (a.k.a. AT&T’s Status Facebook phone) also made an impact by broadening HTC’s portfolio. Of course, the Sensation and the Evo 3D certainly d...
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Dell Streak 10 Pro officially launches in China so you can "Work Smart. Play Hard."
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Literally coming down to the wire, the Dell Streak 10 Pro manages to chime in on time as previously rumored seeing that it’s officially launching over in China starting today – and the timing couldn’t have been any better. In fact, it was only yesterday when we received our very first glimpse of the 10-inch Honeycomb flavored tablet in the wild, and then all of a sudden today, we’re getting word about its official release.
Fortunately, we’re also finally getting concrete word in regards to specs for this latest Honeycomb tablet that aims to strengthen the needs of business and consumer home users simultaneously – albeit, its specs line up to what we’ve been seeing of late. Specifically, it ...
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Google hates smartphone patent wars, but buys 1,000 new patents to go to war
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Google’s general counsel Kent Walker apparently doesn’t see eye to eye with the rest of his company. “The tech industry has a significant problem,” Walker said earlier this week. “Software patents are kind of gumming up the works of innovation.” According to SEO by the Sea however, Google purchased 1,030 patents from IBM just two weeks before Walker made those comments. According to the report, the patents purchased cover a wide rage of IP, “from the fabrication and architecture of memory and microprocessing chips, to other areas of computer architecture including servers and routers as well.” Still more patents cover specific database functions, various aspects of object-oriented programmin...
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Samsung Galaxy S II in white looks legit; Coming in late August?
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We’re not sure whether we should believe the image above is legit or not. We want to believe and think it makes perfect sense for Samsung to offer the white version of its super-popular Android smartphone to reach even more users. However, aside from that image, we also have another one that looks a bit different. Both of them come from phone retailers, Digitec and Mobilefun, and we’re not sure which one’s official and which one is a Photoshop mockup.
Anyway, we’re hearing the white Samsung Galaxy S II will be released at some point in late August. I’m sure it will sell like crazy with those who haven’t grabbed the original unit because it’s “too black,” going for this one. That’s presuming ...
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Qriocity mobile video service launches on August 1; Xperia mini and mini pro owners rejoice
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If Music Unlimited was not enough to satisfy your cravings for entertainment on the go, Sony's Qriocity video streaming service might just do the trick. Starting August 1, owners of the Sony Ericsson Xperia mini and Xperia mini pro will be the first to give the service a try with a number of other Xperia smartphones, namely the Xperia arc, neo, PLAY, pro and acro, to receive the Qriocity app later this year.
Qriocity will land on your Xperia smartphone via a software update so you might want to keep an eye out for notifications. The service will let you buy or rent movies and TV shows from a list of movie studios, including NBC, Universal, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and ...
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HP Pre 3 now available for pre-ordering in the UK; Free with contracts starting at 20.42 GBP per month
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HP’s Pre 3 is finally available for pre-ordering in the UK thanks to Mobiles.co.uk, which is bundling the first webOS 3.0 smartphone with a number of plans from Orange and T-Mobile. The cheapest plan that gives you the Pre 3 for free is from T-Mobile – it will ask you to pour out 20.42 GBP every month for the next two years, while providing you with 300 minutes, 300 messages and unlimited web browsing. What’s more, Mobiles.co.uk also offers a gift to anyone committing on such a contract – 50% off the price of the contract for 12 months, or a 30 GBP Auto Cashback.
Comparable Orange contracts — those that give you the Pre 3 for free — start at 30 GBP per month, while offering more minutes and ...
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No link between cell phones and brain cancer, European study says
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The results of a recent European study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute concluded that there is no connection between cell phone use and an increased risk of brain cancer, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. There were 1,000 participants in the study, including 352 people aged seven to nineteen who were diagnosed with a brain tumor between 2004 and 2008. The report “shows that a large and immediate risk of cellphones causing brain tumors in children can be excluded,” Dr. Martin Roosli, an epidemiologist at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute said. The results are in contradiction of a recent World Health Organization study, which said that cell p...
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ASUS Eee PC X101 with MeeGo gets official listing
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ASUS’ MeeGo-running Eee PC X101 has found itself an official product page, ahead of the 1.5GHz Intel Atom Oak Trail 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 ultraportable’s release later this month. The 10.1-inch netbook has a 1024 x 600 display, 1GB of RAM as standard (2GB max) and an 8GB SSD, humble specs but probably sufficient for the MeeGo OS it’s loaded with.
While initial indications suggested that ASUS would offer the X101 as a dual-booting machine able to load into either MeeGo or Windows 7, the company later decided to split the two platforms between two separate models. That’s left the X101 to be the low-cost option, with a sub-$200 RRP, while the X101H running Windows 7 is a hundred dollars or s...
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Fujitsu Unveils LIFEBOOK SH531 for Back-to-School Season
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Fujitsu introduces a new notebook that tackles the trade-off between functionality and price, combining both in a package starting at under EUR 500. An ideal "back to school" notebook, the 33.8 cm (13.3-inch) Fujitsu LIFEBOOK SH531 notebook weighs only 1.9 kg, yet does not compromise on features, performance or energy efficiency.
Available across the CEMEA&I region via Fujitsu resellers, the slimline LIFEBOOK SH531 checks all the "must have" boxes for students choosing a studying companion, with features such as anti-glare display for outside working, a Computrace-enabled BIOS allowing the notebook to be tracked remotely if lost or stolen, software and hard drive locks, and even a spill-pro...
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Acer S5201M Projector Released
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Acer is proud to announce today the release of their latest projector, the S5201M. This device is a short throw projector that is capable of displaying up to a 300 inch display with only 12.2 feet from the screen. The projector is capable of displaying 3000 ANSI lumens, a 3000:1 contrast ratio, and XGA (1024 x 768) resolution. The S5201M is also an interactive projector and comes with Acer’s smartpen. This device allows the user to control the content on the screen while being at the board. It also allows them to write over the displayed images and even save screenshots for later use. “The Acer S5201M projector is an incredibly flexible and powerful projector that provides maximum viewing co...
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Sony PRS-T1 Reader wanders into the FCC with WiFi on board
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What exactly is a PRS-T1? Well, it's a new Sony Reader and it just so happens to have swung through the FCC with a WiFi n radio in tow. As you can see above, the regulatory label proudly proclaims this to be a "Digital Book Reader," though we could have guessed that from the PRS model number. What else do we know? Not much sadly. We're guess the T1 in the model name indicates that, whatever the panel's size, it'll be of the touchscreen variety. (Either that, or this is the tapenade colored model.) Despite Sony's official denials, looks like that rumored August launch for the company's latest e-ink devices may actually pan out.
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Sony, Sharp and Fujitsu earnings all bring bad news, only Toshiba says something nice
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Plenty of Japanese earnings news today and, as with Nintendo, most of it's pretty dire. Sony's hit from the earthquake and PSN outtage has inevitably contaminated this quarter, but it's suffered from slow Bravia TV, PC and camcorder sales too. Together, these factors contributed a hefty ¥15.5 billion ($200 million) loss in the three months to the end of June, compared to a ¥25.7 billion profit for the same quarter last year.
Meanwhile, Fujitsu also lost ¥20.4 billion, which it largely attributed to a 6.7 percent decline in Japanese sales following the disaster. However, sales in other countries also fell 5.3 percent, reflecting a stronger yen and general lack of consumer demand.
Despite ever...
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Google+ growth slows, stat firm says, as +1 SEO gamers surface
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The Google+ honeymoon period may be drawing to a close, as record early growth reportedly tapers off and users make fewer, shorter visits to the new social network. Having seen a 238-percent rise in US visits in the week ended July 16, according to Experian Hitwise, Google+ saw US traffic fall around 3-percent the following week, Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, sites offering “+1 for pay” rankings have already sprouted up, offering to help dastardly site owners game Google’s rating and promotion system.
Experian also claims that the average time users spend on Google+ has shrunk by around 10-percent, dropping to 5 minutes 15 seconds. In the week ended July 23, US visits totaled 1.79m the numbe...
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