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02/23/12--04:22: Samsung files trademark on Galaxy Axiom, Awaken, Heir, Rite names (chan 1330786)

Mobile World Congress 2012 kicks off next week and at the show, we will undoubtedly see hordes of the smartphones and other devices launch. If you’re a big fan of smartphones of any brand or type, this is the show where you’ll see many of the new high-end devices set to land this year. SlashGear [...]


02/23/12--04:29: Qualcomm talks Atheros 802.11ac for super-fast WiFi (chan 1330786)

Qualcomm has launched its Atheros 802.11ac product range, an ecosystem of high-speed WiFi chipsets promising up to 6.9Gbps data rates in smartphones, tablets, smart TV hardware, computers and home routers. Getting its official unveil at MWC next week, the new Atheros line-up deliveres “practical gigabit wireless” performance Todd Antes, Qualcomm Atheros VP of product management [...]


02/23/12--05:01: Spotify adds gapless playback and crossfade features (chan 1330786)

Spotify has been around for a while in the US now and in other countries for longer. The streaming music service has proven to be very popular and gives access to a wide variety of music. Spotify claims it’s always on the lookout for ways to improve the music listening experience and land more users. [...]


02/23/12--05:18: Panasonic unveils SC-AP01 Apple AirPlay speaker (chan 1330786)

Panasonic has unveiled a new speaker in Japan today called the SC-AP01. This is an Apple AirPlay speaker designed to play high-quality music wirelessly from your smartphone or tablet. The official launches date for the device April 20. I particularly like the interesting design, the case of the speaker appears to be very thin. The [...]


02/23/12--05:33: Asus starts Transformer TF101 Android 4.0 update in Taiwan (chan 1330786)

If you are a user of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 Android tablet that has been anxiously waiting for the Android 4.0 update, the time is near. Asus has announced via Facebook that as of today it’s officially rolling out the first wave of over the air updates for the Transformer tablet. The update [...]


02/23/12--05:49: T-Mobile USA’s Challenger Strategy begins with 4G struggle (chan 1330786)

T-Mobile USA isn’t just planning an LTE network, it’s “making amazing 4G services affordable” the carrier claims, as part of its “Challenger Strategy” to claw back subscribers from its rivals. Having blamed the lure of the iPhone 4S for stealing contract customers away in Q4 2011, T-Mobile USA now faces the perhaps tricky task of developing [...]


02/23/12--05:49: Scosche backStage pro II iPad 2 car mount now available (chan 1330786)

If you spend a lot of time in the backseat of a car for any reason or if you have kids that ride in the backseat and like to use your iPad, you may be like me and worry they’ll drop it if you have to stop suddenly. Scosche showed off an interesting iPad 2 [...]


02/23/12--06:04: Apple Mastered for iTunes pushes quality (chan 1330786)

Apple has quietly launched Mastered for iTunes, a push to deliver music “exactly as the artists and sound engineers intend it to be heard”, though the company maintains that iTunes Plus 256kbps AAC files are still sufficient rather than lossless. In an updated guide to sound engineers and others involved in producing music for digital [...]


02/23/12--06:21: HTC One X prematurely pictured? (chan 1330786)

HTC’s One X smartphone has been pictured in press-shot form, days ahead of the Android quad-core’s official debut expected to take place at MWC 2012, and complete with dedicated Ice Cream Sandwich control buttons. The handset, previously known as the HTC Edge and Endeavor, is expected to run Android 4.0 and Sense 4.0 on NVIDIA’s Tegra [...]


02/23/12--06:30: Philips HMP2000 Review (chan 1330786)

Smart TV is gaining traction, but not everybody wants to upgrade every set in their house just to add native streaming support for Netflix and similar services. Philips believes it has the answer with the HMP2000, a compact Netflix adapter that also promises YouTube, Facebook and local media access for under £50 ($79). Is this [...]


02/23/12--07:00: Google Glasses wow geeks (chan 1330786)

Google‘s Android-based digital glasses will offer a near-iPhone 4S resolution floating interface for users, sources claim, though opinion remains divided over whether the wearable computer is realistic, useful or even safe. According to a Geek source, the Google Glasses will use a pair of micro LCD displays bouncing a combined 960 x 540 resolution image off two small [...]


02/23/12--07:13: AT&T Rugby Smart delivers ruggedization for $100 (chan 1330786)

AT&T and Samsung have taken the wraps off of their latest Android smartphone, the Rugby Smart, a $99.99 ruggedized handset that can handle 30 minutes of submersion in up to a meter of water. Hitting shelves on March 4, the Samsung Rugby Smart is also dustproof, shockproof and temperature-resilient, meeting US Mil-STD 810F specifications, with a [...]


02/23/12--07:40: LG’s MWC big guns: Seven Android Torrent (chan 1330786)

Most manufacturers wait until a major show like Mobile World Congress to show off their latest and greatest. HTC is jumping the gun a little with a press conference the day before, likely showing off their new flagship. But LG just couldn’t wait to show us a gaggle of its latest and greatest, all officially [...]


02/23/12--07:44: Apple speaks in post-Nightline aftermath (chan 1330786)

Apple and Foxconn’s behind-the-scenes efforts to conclusively end criticisms over labor treatment look unlikely to stop speculation, with a supposed open letter from former workers renewing calls for closer scrutiny. Supply chain staff purportedly injured while using n-hexane to clean iPhone screens have published an open letter to consumers, Tom’s Hardware reports, hoping pressure from Apple’s target audience [...]


02/23/12--07:59: T-Mobile USA: 10 LTE devices in 2013 plus 4G iPhone support (chan 1330786)

T-Mobile USA will have ten LTE devices up for sale by the end of 2013, the carrier’s chief technical officer has revealed, with 4G service across 50 markets as well as for the iPhone. Speaking on T-Mobile’s so-called “Challenger Strategy” conference call today, CTO Neville Ray described how the carrier would juggle its spectrum holdings [...]


02/23/12--08:26: AT&T Digital Life home automation revealed and detailed (chan 1330786)

This week the folks at AT&T are coming on strong with a home automation solution for not only the US market, but the rest of the world as well. Targeting international service providers with their own unique platform for remote monitoring and automation, AT&T is letting the world know that they’ve got exactly the solution [...]


02/23/12--08:37: Apple slim keyboard tech could make Air-thick MacBook Pro (chan 1330786)

Apple has developed an ultra-slim keyboard design that would allow future MacBook Pro notebooks and others to be even thinner, delivering a layout both tactile enough to suit typists and compact enough for Apple’s own design ambitions. Described in a patent application for a “Single Support Lever Keyboard Mechanism” the keyboard is “a thin profile peripheral input [...]


02/23/12--09:26: ASUS Transformer 2 with double pixel resolution teased for MWC (chan 1330786)

A video has just been released this week by ASUS for the Mobile World Congress 2012 release of a brand new tablet with “twice the detail, twice the fun.” We must assume, of course, that this is not the same tablet we saw at CES 2012 in the Transformer Prime 700 series, instead we’re banking [...]


02/23/12--09:52: Samsung Galaxy S II shipments hit 20 million in 9 months (chan 1330786)

The Samsung sales team must be popping bottles of champagne tonight as the Samsung Galaxy S II has been announced to have sold 20 million units since the line’s launch in May. This number matches the sales of the original Galaxy S, this making the total number of “Galaxy” devices well past 40 million putting [...]


02/23/12--10:18: Obama Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights announced and detailed (chan 1330786)

One month and three days after Consumer Watchdog called President Obama to endorse “Do Not Track” and online privacy legislation during his State of the Union address, the President has proposed a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The White House has called upon Congress to pass legislation that will allow the FTC Federal Trade Commission [...]


02/23/12--10:42: The Mu folding plug re-revealed and detailed (chan 1330786)

This week a fabulous new device which takes the undeniably fat design of the modern wall plug anf folds it down to a much more flat and much more transportable card. This design at the moment works only with the UK version of the wall plug, but the application to multiple plugs across the earth [...]


02/23/12--10:55: Forget Embarrassment, I’d Wear Google’s AR Glasses (chan 1330786)

I’m a geek, an early-adopter and a lover of science-fiction; I also have relatively little shame: of course I’m the ideal target audience for Google Glasses. If the rumors are to be believed, Google’s wily engineers have used their “20-percent time” to cook up some Android-powered digital goggles, overlaying augmented reality data onto the real-world [...]


02/23/12--10:59: Borderlands 2 release date and platforms revealed (chan 1330786)

This week there’s one game that has everyone in the console gaming world flipping out: Borderlands 2, and today’s the day we find out exactly when and on what the game will be delivered. In addition to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 formats available in North America on the 18th of September, there’ll also [...]


02/23/12--11:14: Google mulls Motorola CEO switch (chan 1330786)

According to sources speaking with Bloomberg this week, Google is close to deciding on switching out Motorola’s current CEO Sanjay Jha for their own Dennis Woodside. This decision is reportedly not final, but would have Woodside as the favorite, he being part of Google’s Ad Sales team until he left that job to oversee the [...]


02/23/12--11:47: Wii Projector Mapping turntable setup has us dazed (chan 1330786)

There’s a brand new method for blowing the minds of your music-loving constituents, DJs of the world, and it’s been set up with projectors, a set of turntables, and some Wii remotes. What you’ve got here is a user interface which uses projected light unto your turntables to bring an interactive experience unlike any other, [...]


02/23/12--12:07: GeoSociety for iPhone Review : a perfect Pokemon alternative (chan 1330786)

Recently we’ve heard a whole lot about the epic release and defamation of Pokemon Yellow for iPhone, a game that turned out to be a scam and was thusly removed from the market. Because this game became so popular it reached the top 10 in the iTunes App Store before it was removed from the [...]


02/23/12--12:23: iPad 3 launch dates teased (chan 1330786)

The last couple of weeks have been littered with undeniably savory images of the iPad 3′s supposed components, and this week’s weibo images of a glass front with digitizer comes with an even juicier tip than the photo itself: launch dates. To access the origin of the image here you’ll have to sign up and [...]


02/23/12--12:40: TI OMAP 5 blows past quadcore Tegra 3 (chan 1330786)

Texas Instruments recently released a new demo video showing off the performance of its upcoming OMAP 5 processor, pitting it against a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor that’s presumably a hit at the Tegra 3. Quipping that “sometimes less really is more,” TI proceeded to show how its dual ARM Cortex-A15 smoked the quadcore rival. TI’s [...]


02/23/12--13:00: NVIDIA makes pact with LTE partners for Tegra 3 speed supremacy (chan 1330786)

Today the folks at NVIDIA have announced their brand new partnership with two of the world’s top cellular silicon suppliers GCT Semiconductor and Renesas Mobile, both of them set to developer LTE alongside Tegra 3 a more integrated solution in smart devices than ever before. NVIDIA also recently announced their first Icera modem-toting smartphone which will [...]


02/23/12--13:13: Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook manuals leak ahead of launch (chan 1330786)

Manuals for Dell’s XPS 13 Ultrabook were leaked and quickly pulled yesterday, reminding us to watch out for its launch sometime later this month. We saw the pre-production XPS 13 last month and were promised that it would be the the “world’s best ultrabook,” being “the smallest, the most powerful, the most aesthetically pleasing, the [...]


02/23/12--13:37: Apple adopts majority-voting, stays mum on TV (chan 1330786)

Apple had its first annual shareholder meeting without the late Steve Jobs today. The company didn’t make any major announcements at the event, but did address some longtime shareholder issues regarding the implementation of a majority-voting standard. Apple CEO Tim Cook was on hand of course for a few statements and a shareholder Q&A session, [...]


02/23/12--13:54: Lumus OE-31 optical engine revealed as smart glasses become reality (chan 1330786)

This week the folks at Lumus have revealed their newest technology embodied in any number of projected 3D display eyewear. Whilst running around CES 2012 like mad chickens with our heads cut off just weeks ago, we made it our mission to find only the most radically awesome designs and projects on the floor, one [...]


02/23/12--14:11: iPhone manufacturing estimated to cost $30 per unit (chan 1330786)

Curious how much your iPhone actually costs Apple to manufacture? Asymco analyst Horace Dediu claims that each iPhone costs about $30, and that’s on the high side and greater than previous estimates of $8 per unit. His estimate was deduced from new details revealed by an ABC Nightline report that was given unprecedented access to [...]


02/23/12--14:37: LG’s entire MWC 2012 catalog seen in wild (chan 1330786)

This week it appears that one lucky fellow has found his way into the LG repository of unrevealed products with a touchy-feely look at each and every one of the Mobile World Congress 2012 devices. You’re about to get a glimpse of no less than the LG Optimus LTE, the LG Optimus L7, LG Optimus [...]


02/23/12--14:42: Google Voice adds Google+ Circles (chan 1330786)

Google continues to expand the reach of its social network and announced today that it is integrating Google+ Circles into Google Voice, its free VoIP PBX-type of voice calling and voice message management service. The integration allows you to assign different answering rules for each of your Circles. In Google’s words, this allows you to [...]


02/23/12--14:59: LG teaming with Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko mobile OS for device release (chan 1330786)

It appears that this year will be no exception to the rule that Mobile World Congress is one of the biggest venues for device releases all year long, and today’s announcements are certainly not lacking in the LG department. The manufacturer behind such future products as the LG Optimus Vu and Optimus 3D Cube are [...]


02/23/12--15:14: Samsung teases Exynos quad-core mobile chips ahead of MWC (chan 1330786)

Among several new mobile chips we’ll be seeing at Mobile World Congress next week, will be Samsung’s new Exynos chips. The company teased the first samples at the ISSCC event this week and is expected to showcase two of these next-gen processors at MWC. Although one of the models still uses quad ARM Cortex-A9s, it’s [...]


02/23/12--15:15: You Think You Want Privacy, But Really You Want Control (chan 1330786)

President Obama’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, announced this week, is the latest dip down the personal information rabbit hole, potentially taking us another step further closer to legislating users out of responsibility. Described as a consumer rights safeguard, it encompasses “Do Not Track” systems in browsers, safe storage of databases containing personal information, ensures [...]


02/23/12--15:58: SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: February 23, 2012 (chan 1330786)

Happy Thursday everyone. The week’s almost over, and we know what that means – Mobile World Congress is almost here. In our growing list of stories about what to expect about next week’s big mobile trade show, we add news of Samsung teasing Exynos quadcore mobile chips and even found an entire MWC catalog from [...]


02/23/12--15:58: Numark N4 four-channel DJ controller shipping now (chan 1330786)

You digital maniacs of music can dash out to the online store right this second and unload because Numark has officially started shipping their N4 four-channel DJ controller with built-in mixer and timecode. This beast has more capabilities and features “than any other controller in its class” along with high-resolution 14-bit MIDI for responses so [...]