Asus is back at it with a new phone/tablet hybrid. The original Padfone was well received in its native Taiwan, but failed to set the world alight. Can a sequel, with a raft of top-flight specs, do the business?
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Microsoft’s many partners were left a bit peeved when the company unveiled its Surface tablets; it must have been a kick in the teeth to have to start competing against the company you’re making devices for in the first place. But that may have been just the start. It looks as though Microsoft may be about to drop a similar bomb on the mobile market. Read more
The Samsung Galaxy Beam has (finally) arrived to solve one of life’s smaller problems: imagine you’re sat in someone’s front room, and they’re making you watch Eastenders. Or Homes Under the Hammer or something. Until today, your only choices would be to sit there and take it, or to pummel your host to death with their own remote.
Now you can just take control of the room’s AV focus yourself by shoving your own pictures and videos onto the wall in 50-inch style… Read more
Last night Sony held an investor conference to unveil its plans to turn things around, following a terrible fiscal year that’s seen the company project a $6.4 billion loss. The plan? Focus on gaming and, more specifically, force the Playstation brand into every phone going. Read more
LG’s Prada Phones have, according to LG at least, enjoyed moderate success in the past among people for whom everything’s gotta have a name on it. Now a third in the handset lineup is on the way, after both companies have teased a 2012 launch. Read more
Think the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa are the only Facebook phones in town? Think again. Mark Zuckerberg just popped up in the middle of the HTC press conference at Mobile World Congress to tell us there are “dozens” of Facebook phones coming this year.
At the close of 2010 we found out that Sony Ericsson PSP phone would be called the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. It’s coming close to launch time for the baffling hybrid device, and in light of that, of course we’ve got some video leaks.
Deciding what the best Android phone is can be a nightmare. Google has already been criticised for the fragmentation of the Android market, which has quickly become confusing to consumers. In reaction, Google has launched the Google phone gallery, which displays all Android phones in one place.