The display of the tablet is a 10.1-inch LED backlit unit with a 1280 x 800 resolution. That screen supports 10-finger multitouch input, and the tablet is 8.95 mm thick with a weight of 590 g. The tablet comes in two storage capacities, including 16 GB or 32 GB, and it has 1 GB of RAM. Like all Tegra 3 processors, the little tablet rocks an additional fifth core specifically for everyday tasks to enable longer battery life. Toshiba says that battery life is up to 10 hours per charge.

The display is covered by Corning Gorilla Glass to make it scratch and break resistant. The tablet uses a simple holographic user interface and has up to five customizable home screens and full access to the Google Play store. The rear camera is a five-megapixel unit, and the front camera is two megapixels. The rear camera can record movies and the front supports video chatting and more. The tablet also has integrated stereo speakers and a micro HDMI output. Toshiba also includes a full-size SD card slot supporting up to 64 GB cards and the tablet is available with optional 3G. The tablet also has integrated Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi. Shipments are set to start in Q2 at an undisclosed price.

Carphone Warehouse in the UK is given an indication of how well it’s doing with pre-orders for the smartphone. According to the company “thousands” of units have been pre-ordered already. Carphone Warehouse is the largest distributor in the UK and the only retailer to offer devices for all major UK mobile networks.

Since the company offers devices on all major networks, it would be a good indicator of how well the phone is doing overall within the UK. The S III is set to launch officially on May 29 at 7 PM for pre-order customers with general sales starting on the 30th at all Carphone Warehouse stores. The device is free on monthly tariffs at £28 per month or higher.

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This has been a change rolled out of the last 60 days apparently and users who hit that limit get a message that they have deauthorized too many devices. The limit is 10 deautorizations on the account. According to XDA-Developers, some users have had success e-mailing Google support and having them deauthorize older devices. However, the e-mail deauthorization scheme is unconfirmed.

The only surefire way around this is to create a new account and re-upload music if you’re near the limit. You could also restore your device from a backup of a ROM that worked previously using available backup software for Android. This doesn’t seem like a good plan on Google’s part and will certainly anger users who enjoy trying different ROMs on their devices.

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Every screen in the app has been redesigned to make it easier to use and to be faster and more intuitive. The home screen is changed combining note creation options with buttons that take users directly to notebooks, tags, and places. Notebook lists have been improved to make it easier to browse and find what you’re looking for. The action bar on the bottom of the app screen has also been tweaked and has options specifically relating to the screen the user is viewing.

The app now supports swipe navigation with horizontal swiping allowing app navigation by moving between categories. On devices with location services enabled, Evernote will also assign a place to each note you make. Another key change is the user name of the person using the app is now the top left corner of the screen. Touching the username lets the user get their remaining monthly allowance and access to more settings. The company also promises other changes, check out the video to get a better idea of how the updated app works.

T-Mobile said in early December of 2011 that the Amaze 4G would be getting the Android 4.0 update. However, at the time the update was announced we had no firm date on when it would be available. T-Mobile didn’t indicate if the rollout of the update would be staggered or if everyone using the Amaze 4G will get the update at the same time.

On a related note, if you use the T-Mobile Sensation 4G, your ICS update is available today according to T-Mobile. You need to check for the update via the Android settings menu to initiate the download. Be sure you let us know how the update goes for you.

The Quick Memo feature allows the user to write messages using a finger. The photographs seem to indicate that you can write those notes on several different screens without having to open a dedicated app. The easier unlock allows the user to unlock the phone by moving in a specific direction from the unlock screen and go directly into a specific feature like the Internet or camera.

The smart camera modes include a Time Machine Camera function that helps you select the best pictures. The UI also has voice recording and gives the user the ability to customize icons. The new user interface looks interesting, what do you think?

The rectangular set-top box looks very much like the Wii. The remote is shaped like a Wii controller right down to the rectangular opening on the bottom of the remote. I’m not sure product designers have got the memo that the Wii is getting tired and isn’t as popular as it used to be. Details on the new Smart TV Box are scarce at this point.

The first customers to test the device will be getting the box this summer. The Smart TV Box will launch with services focused on sharing TV programs and content with other Android media devices. That’s all we know about the Smart TV Box at this point. Once the device launches officially it’s not likely to come outside of Japan.

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The smartphone is packed with enough features and settings that you can literally write a book about them. If you’re thinking about getting the S III and want to figure out how complicated it would be to operate when it launches, you can download the user manual right now in PDF form. The manual is for the international version model number GT-i9300.

Be prepared to read though, the user manual is 181 pages. It goes over every little nuance of the smartphone. Interestingly, as Android Police points out, the manual notes that the device supports up to 32 GB microSD cards while Samsung mentioned 64 GB support previously. This could be an error in the manual or Samsung could have changed the specifications.

[via Android Police]

The hardware mentioned yesterday was accurate with the smartphone offering up Beats Audio and running Android 4.0 ICS. It’s nice to get the latest and greatest operating system on an entry-level device. The phone has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen. The integrated camera is a five-megapixel unit and there will be an additional NFC equipped version of the smartphones from some carriers.

The phone includes 25 GB of free dropbox space that you can use for two years at no charge. The phone also runs HTC’s Sense 4.0 user interface. What HTC plans for its NFC functionality is a bit of a mystery, the company isn’t bragging about any specific use, but with the rise of mobile wallets it’s nice to see that feature available. The smartphone will come in red, white, and black. T-Mobile UK has confirmed that the smartphone will be offered at no charge on monthly plans of £15.50 or more and will be offered as a £169.99 prepaid device. The phone will also be offered by Vodafone, Orange, Virginia Media, Three, and 02.

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The tablet also offers English and other language support. A webcam is integrated, and the tablet has 4 GB of internal storage. A microSD card slot allows for storage expansion in the tablet has a normal USB port and a micro USB port for connecting to USB accessories at one time. That micro USB port includes an adapter to allow the connection of normal USB devices.

The tablet has an HDMI 1.4 output and can shoot full HD video out to a larger screen. The tablet sounds like many other Android tablets on the market when you look at the specifications. The big selling point for this tablet is the price of €159.

We spent a bit of time with smart phone in our hands back during MWC 2012, and the device was appealing for sure. It has a 4.7-inch screen with 720p resolution and uses a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. The phone also has 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage.

The rear camera is an 8-megapixel unit that can record full HD video, and the phone has a 2140 mAh battery. The operating system is Android 4.0 ICS, and all the hardware is packed into a thin 8.9 mm package. The phone also uses LG software, including Media Flex allowing the control of video with gestures on the screen. Pricing is still unknown at this point, but considering this is a high-end device we expect pricing to be on par with other high-end phones such as the S III and HTC One X.

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The Desire C has a 3.5-inch screen with a resolution of 320 x 480. It uses a 600 MHz processor and is apparently being marketed as a 3.5 G device, presumably meaning HSDPA. Internal storage is 4 GB, and the phone has a five megapixel camera. The phone will run Android 4.0. Another leaked photo of the same smartphone turned up that shows the device in the wild rather than in a staged PR shot.

The smartphone was previously known by the codename HTC Golf and HTC Wildfire C. The smartphone is expected to launch at the end of June and will presumably carry a budget price in line with its lower-end hardware.

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The smartphone platform will integrate with company’s cloud-based storage service and other web products. Baidu is the number one search engine in China. This will be a completely different product from the Yi Android-based OS. This sounds a lot like Google’s move years ago when it unveiled Android to compete with other mobile operating systems.

Baidu executives claim that the company is in talks with global partners for use of the operating system. However, the company didn’t offer specific details on the operating system or launch plans. Those details will come next week when the Chinese search engine has promised to reveal partners and more. Baidu has already been tipped to be working with Foxconn on a so-called Baidu Phone. This device could well be running the new operating system and the prices been tipped at the equivalent of $159.

[via The Next Web]

The smartphone will be offered at no charge on a monthly service plans of £10 and up. The Ascend will also come with a free customizable back cover worth £19.99. The Ascend runs Android Gingerbread 2.3 for the operating system and his 10.9 mm thick. It has a two-megapixel camera with four times digital zoom. It also supports mobile Internet speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps.

The display for the Ascend smartphone is 2.8-inches. Huawei says that the Y 100′s 30 frame per second video recording capability is twice the speed of other entry-level smartphones. The phone also supports 802.11n Wi-Fi. The free customize backplate offering will run through August 31 and buyers would get about your when they purchased the smartphone. The back to me customize with the users own picture or a library of artwork.

The new free version from the company is aimed to go directly against Google Maps Navigation. The big issue for many with the free CoPilot GPS app is that it doesn’t do turn-by-turn navigation. To enable turn-by-turn navigation and other features such as live traffic updates you have to shell out money to the tune of £19.99 for a lifetime license and £9.99 for traffic updates.

The free app lets you get maps for one country in the deal. The download is 20 MB and available right now. We have to wonder when other GPS companies such as TomTom will follow suit with free navigation apps. Does anyone else think the days of paid GPS apps are coming to a close?

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The GX has a slightly curved design with a 4.6-inch mobile Bravia display. The processor inside is a 1.5 GHz dual core unit, and the 13-megapixel camera can record HD video and has an LED flash for still shots. The smartphone has 16 GB of storage and will come in white or black colors. The SX claims to be the world’s lightest LTE smartphone at 95 g.

The smartphone uses a 3.7-inch Mobile Bravia display. It also has 1.5 GHz dual core processor and uses 8 GB of internal storage. This phone has an 8-megapixel camera and a few features that are aimed at the Japanese market alone such as mobile TV and an infrared port. It will come in black or white colors. Both phones have HDMI connectivity and support DLNA streaming. Pricing is unannounced and availability will be sometime this summer.

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To be able to use the Visa payWave technology the smartphones require a Visa app to be installed on the phone and an NFC equipped credit card terminal. Payments made using the smartphone app over the equivalent of $32 here in the US require a password to be entered into the app. Smaller payments require no password.

The thing that always bugs me about this sort of NFC payment requiring no password is that if you lose your phone, anyone can swipe it and pay since no signatures are required. The app gives the user a rundown of all transactions and the balance on the account. I’m not sure what I think about NFC payments at this point, what about you?

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A guy going by Valcho says that he used AirDroid to extract the Flipboard.apk files so you can install Flipboard on any Android device you might have laying around capable of running it. It appears that the post is very fresh so we are not clear at all right now how well the apk works when pulled out of the Galaxy S III.

If you rush over and download the apk, be sure and let us know that installs and works correctly on your Android device. Users are already asking for the S Voice apk as well. The Flipboard app is eventually expected to come officially to devices other than the Galaxy S III, but until then this unofficial support is all we have.

[Thanks Paul!]

Both of the smartphones use technology from the Kyocera Dura series smartphones. The Hydro has water resistance ratings of IPx5 and IPx7. That means the smartphone won’t get damaged if you are caught in the rain or if you drop it in the sink. The phone can be submerged in water up to a meter deep for 30 minutes and still be okay.

The Rise has a slide up touchscreen LCD with a QWERTY keyboard underneath. Both of the smartphones have a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive 480×320 IPS LCD and use a 1 GHz QUALCOMM Snapdragon processor. Both have 2 GB of ROM, 512 MB of RAM and support microSD cards up to 32 GB. The phones also have 3.2-megapixel cameras with LED flash and the ability to record video. The phones also have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, and three axis accelerometers. Pricing is unannounced at this time.

It will be one of the first designs to use the Medfield Atom processor and will be available for contract and prepaid plans. The processor is a 1.6 GHz Atom, and the smartphone will use a 4.03-inch touchscreen. The rear camera will be an eight-megapixel unit.

At this point, we have no idea what the price for the smartphone will be. We do know that it will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread. We’re expecting the device to land at about $424 since the smartphone we’re talking about is very similar to the Lava XOLO X900. If you’re interested in the smartphone, you can preregister now.

[via SlashGear]