HTC wanted no middle ground for its first Windows Phone “Mango” handsets, launching one phone with a 3.8-inch display, and another with a massive 4.7-inch display.
The HTC Radar is the smaller of the two, and packs a 1 GHz processor, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, a VGA front-facing camera, 8 GB of storage and 512 MB of RAM.
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A woman buys a plank of iPad-shaped wood, liquid cremation hits the big time, and Apple loses yet another secret iPhone in a bar. All that and more as we take a quick look back at what happened in tech this week.
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It’s no fire sale HP TouchPad, but for $199, Lenovo’s IdeaPad A1 tablet looks like a decent 7-inch slab of Android for cheap.
Just keep in mind that the IdeaPad A1 is far from the cutting edge of technology. Inside, there’s a 1 GHz processor (all the rage in 2010), 8 GB of storage, a 3-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing
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It’s a weird time for the camera industry.
On the one hand, DSLRs continue to get cheaper and more powerful, becoming more and more accessible to hobbyists and budding pros. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum sits the iPhone, which unexpectedly became the most popular camera on Flickr (and likely the world), thanks in no …
After months of speculation, it’s time for the sale of streaming video site Hulu to turn into a bidding war. Six companies have submitted informal bids for the site this week, according to those in the know, including three big names eager to own what could be turned into a Netflix streaming video killer.
Samsung’s taking a couple more swings at sub-iPad tablet sizes with the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab 7.7. Finding success with these smaller sizes hasn’t been easy for tablet makers, but there’s a chance Samsung could finally get it right this time.
Let’s start with the Galaxy Note, a phone-tablet hybrid with a 5.3-inch …
Remember when Apple was accused of illegally tracking the location of iPhone users via a location discovery system inherent to iOS4 earlier this year? Well, it turns out that it wasn’t just Apple—or Google, which was also found via a leaked memo to be doing the same thing with their Android devices. Now Microsoft is being sued for …
Imagine a relatively small sub-$100 microscope that can probe the food on your plate (or the blood pumping through your body) using a laser instead of lenses. Also: it’s capable of using that laser to produce holographic images. No, not Holodeck-caliber simulacrums, but sophisticated 3D images of dense surfaces, say your skin (see the …
Back in February of 2010, Google announced that it was giving up on Google Gears, its neat-but-ultimately-unsatisfying technology that helped make Web services work even when the Web wasn’t available. The company said that it made more sense to concentrate on using HTML5 technologies to build offline capabilities into its Web apps. And …
Amazon’s apparently not in a huge rush to send a 10-inch tablet to market. Anonymous sources tell DigiTimes that Amazon’s first tablet will be a 7-inch model, and that mass production on a true iPad rival with a 10.1-inch display will begin in the first quarter of 2012.
If the rumor’s accurate, it would mean that Amazon is first setting
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Apple, Apple, Apple… did we learn nothing from the lost iPhone 4 fiasco? Yet another Apple employee “appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar,” according to CNET, who cites an unnamed source.
Here’s more:
“A day or two after the phone was lost at San Francisco’s Cava 22, which describes itself as a ‘tequila lounge’ that
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Sony is officially the latest to join the legion of Android tablets as they attempt to chip away at Apple’s market share. The new “Sony Tablet S” is available for preorder today, with shipments expected in the middle of next month.
Starting at $500 for the 16-gigabyte version, Sony finds itself engaging in the dangerous game of trying …
