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How big is that thing in your pocket? Nifty website lets you compare phone sizes

January 27th, 2012 10:21am No comments

How big is the thing in your pocket? Nifty website lets you compare phone sizes

If you’re not sure if that latest phone is going slip discretely into your pocket or leave you with an unwanted trouser bulge, this handy new site lets you compare relative proportions of different smartphones.

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Android rules the US smartphone market; Samsung the #1 mobile brand

August 31st, 2011 11:04am No comments

Android rules the US smartphone market; Samsung the #1 mobile brand

A study by stat-juggling spods comScore has found that Google Android remains on an unstoppable trajectory in the States, with their smartphone market share reaching 41.8 per cent – a huge rise from the 36.4 per cent  share it held in April this year.

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HP: yes, more TouchPads really are on the way

August 30th, 2011 11:34pm No comments

HP 9.7-inch webOS TouchPad

 

If, like us, you spectacularly  failed to bag one of the bargain HP TouchPads that were sold at prices as astonishingly low as £89 recently, HP has offered a glimmer of hope.

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HP Pre 3 smartphone – UK availability update

August 26th, 2011 9:10am No comments

HP Pre 3 smartphone set for bargain basement sale today

There’s been some frantic shopping around online as consumers try and bag themselves a bargain HP Pre 3 handset, but after the initial stock sold out on seconds, we’ve been keeping an eye on their website for updates.

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HP Pre 3 smartphone set for bargain basement sale today. Get in!

August 24th, 2011 9:10am 3 comments

HP Pre 3 smartphone set for bargain basement sale today

HP’s massively discounted Touchpad caused shopping sites to buckle under the strain yesterday as shoppers scrambled to bag themselves a bargain, and HP is set to offer another fantastic deal with the sale of their flagship Pre 3 handset.

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HP closes down webOS, kisses goodbye to TouchPad and webOS phones

August 19th, 2011 10:00am No comments

HP closes down webOS, kisses goodbye to TouchPad and webOS phones

This is really sad news. HP has announced that they plan to discountinue operations for webOS devices, which include the TouchPad and webOS phones like the Veer and HP Pre 3 handset which has just half-heartedly launched in Europe.

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HP Pre 3 silently shuffles on sale in Europe

August 17th, 2011 12:39pm No comments

HP Pre 3 silently shuffles on sale in Europe

It looks like HP has inherited Palm’s penchant for extremely modest product promotion, with the new HP Pre 3 silently turning up in their European store with not even a parp, let alone a fanfare of publicity.

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Android’s commanding lead grows as one in three US phones is now a smartphone

July 6th, 2011 12:15pm No comments

One in three US phones is a smartphone, Android's commanding lead growsS

Those kerrrazy, stat-loving types at comScore have just come from a fun-packed totting-up session to reveal a party pack of facts about the growth of smartphones in the US.

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WordPress for webOS serves up a stunning interface for TouchPad

July 6th, 2011 11:45am No comments

WordPress for webOS serves up a stunning interface for TouchPad

Looking delightfully slick is the new WordPress for webOS which looks a delight on its shiny new promo video.

WordPress for webOS uses nifty sliding panels to let users swiftly move between new and existing content, with a list of your latest comments, drafts, posts or pages available by tapping on the appropriate content.

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HP Pre 3 SIM free webOS handset goes on sale for £399

July 4th, 2011 11:30am 5 comments

HP Pre 3 SIM free webOS handset goes on sale for £399

HP have posted up the price of their new HP Pre 3 handset for UK denizens, with the company asking for 399 of your hard-earned British pounds to own this QWERTY-keyboard packing marvel.

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HP TouchPad gets official release date and UK/US pricing

June 9th, 2011 2:42pm No comments

HP 9.7-inch webOS TouchPad

HP has announced that its webOS TouchPad tablet is set to go on sale next month in Europe, the UK and the US.

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HP Touchpad shows off its awesomely slick webOS interface

June 2nd, 2011 8:57pm No comments

HP Touchpad shows off its awesomely slick webOS interface

Apps may still be painfully thin on the ground for the webOS platform, but we’ve been blown away by this  video showing the super-slick HP Touchpad in action.

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HP Pre 3 smartphone slides in for pre-order on Amazon.de at €449

May 19th, 2011 4:45pm No comments

HP Pre 3 smartphone slides in for pre-order on Amazon.de at €449

We’re still gushing vast torrents of love for the fantastic, silky smooth webOS mobile operating system, but we’ve remained disappointed with the glacial growth of the accompanying app store for the HP Pre.

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Finally, colour coding comes to Google Calendar events

May 10th, 2011 10:15am No comments

At last - colour coding comes to Google Calendar events

It’s a strange quirk that while the modern apps on our smartphones grow infinitely more powerful and sophisticated, when it comes to calendars, they’re all fairly rubbish in comparison what used to run on our ancient Palm Treo 650.

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Android kicks sand in Blackberry’s face as it stays #1 in the US

May 9th, 2011 8:13pm No comments

Android becomes the most popular smartphone platform in the US

Google’s Android mobile OS continues to outrun the RIM/Blackberry platform as the number one smartphone OS in the U.S., according to new data from ComScore.

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