It’s hard to predict what the next big trend in consumer technology will be. A few years ago, everyone was convinced it would be home 3D displays. Companies raced to get 3D TVs and monitors into stores so we could all watch Avatar and play 3D games. Even smartphones started to launch with 3D screens. It’s unlikely you have any 3D displays in your home because they were ...
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has signed an agreement with Alphabet subsidiary Google to sell some of its mobile phone businesses to the latter for USD1.1 billion. With this transaction, HTC's nearly 2,000 employees who worked with the company on its Pixel smartphone will join Google. Meanwhile, HTC will provide non-exclusive licenses to some of its intellectual properties to Google. Cher Wang, chairman of HTC, said that HTC has ...
China UnionPay has reportedly decided to launch a mobile payment service named "AndroidPay" for Android smartphones. According to reports in Chinese local media, several information sources confirmed the new service will reportedly be available in China in the third quarter of 2015. Several smartphone makers also confirmed the news. Cao Jingsheng, vice president of Coolpad Group, said ...
Google has finally taken the wraps off its newest Android flagship smartphone, the Nexus 6. As expected, the smartphone will be powered by the latest version of Google's mobile platform, which is called Android Lollipop. It appears that Google successfully secured the Nexus 6 name after all, even though previous rumors suggested that the company faced some issues on the matter. Along with the Nexus 6 announcement, Google also introduced ...
Amazon adds Fire to Kindle Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos takes the stage to unveil a number of new products including the Kindle Fire tablet. There's also a touch-screen update to i. We got up close and personal with the Amazon Kindle Fire. An Amazon associate kindly showed us around the device's OS, demoing multimedia playback, web brows. Josh looks at two versions of the Kindle Fire HD - one with Special Offer ads and one without. How do they differ? Does ...
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