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HTC One X announced for April release with quad-core Tegra 3, 4.7-inch HD display, and Android 4.0 — Shockingly, the rumors were all true. HTC has today confirmed the existence of a 4.7-inch, quad-core superphone, which it is dubbing the One X and using as the hero device of its new One smartphone family.
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Sadly, AT&T's HTC One X won't be quad-core (and here's why) — While the rest of the world will get HTC's One X superphone with a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, the cost of LTE for AT&T's version is a dual-core processor. BARCELONA, Spain—HTC's newest flagship device, the HTC One X …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
HTC's Answer To iCloud: A New Deal With Dropbox — Slotted in the middle of HTC's Android phone announcements tonight in Barcelona, the CEO of HTC, Peter Chou, revealed a new development that is the handset maker's answer to Apple's iCloud: a deal with Dropbox, currently the name to watch in cloud storage.
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Sony Aims to Remake Name for Itself in Phones — Sony on Sunday tried to make the case that it yet has a place in the crowded market for Android phones. — The event is the first major product introduction for Sony since it took full control of the cell phone business that it had run jointly with Sweden's Ericsson.
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Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a product — I've always been a big fan and committed user of Dropbox. Over the last couple years the handy file-sync app has gotten me out of many scrapes—when I need to access six-month-old interview notes when I'm out of town, it's always a thrill to find them in my Dropbox.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Apple Prepares To Pull Evi From App Store. Did It Slap-Down Siri? — Last month we reported on the launch of Evi, a new iPhone (iTunes link) and Android app (link) which was very Siri-like in its capabilities. Maybe it was too good at acting like Siri? — Yes, Evi can't do Siri's trick … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
LG in talks with Google for Nexus device — LG wants to be on the ground floor for one of the next iterations of Android. An LG executive noted that there were still no firm commitments yet. — LG and Android are as close as ever. — BARCELONA, Spain—LG is jockeying … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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| Jon Gertner / New York Times: |
Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle — “INNOVATION is what America has always been about,” President Obama remarked in his recent State of the Union address. It's hard to disagree, isn't it? We live in a world dominated by innovative American companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD has quad-core K3 processor, 1080p display (hands-on pictures) — It was barely an afterthought in Huawei's MWC press conference, but the company is also getting ready to launch a seriously high-end tablet. The MediaPad 10 FHD has a 1080p display (actually 1920 x 1200) … | Chris Sauve / pxldot: |
Android Measuring Stick — Android fragmentation is a topic that swells up how and again, but most discussions lack evidence and are typically laced with vitriol and “fanboy” accusations. I would like to work through a quantitative approach (beyond just version distribution numbers) …
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Facebook responds to SMS-reading claims: ‘the suggestion is ridiculous’ — Today British paper The Sunday Times has written what appears at first glance to be a shocking discovery of abuses of privacy at Facebook. According to the article, Facebook “admitted to reading text messages” … | Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Orange announces first Intel-powered Android phone for Europe, codenamed Santa Clara — Orange will be the first to offer a Medfield-powered Android phone in Europe. Codenamed Santa Clara, and arriving some time this summer, it looks pretty similar to Intel's reference model — in both design and specs.
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WikiLeaks to publish security think tank emails — The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would begin publishing more than five million emails on Monday from a US-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers. — In its latest high-profile disclosure …
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Galaxy Tab 2 coming in 10.1-inch version as well — Samsung has just announced a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablet after revealing the 7.0-inch version earlier this month. The Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) will have a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 LCD and a 1GHz dual-core processor running a Touch Wiz-skinned version of Android 4.0.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
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