If you are constantly charging more that one mobile device at a time, you should consider getting a desktop charger. There’s one on sale right now over on Amazon that’s worth checking out. The retailer is selling the RAVPower 60W USB desktop charger for $16.79, which is $23.20 off it inflated list price and around $8 less (33%) than the regular price from the past months.
This best-selling device can be quite useful, as it allows you to charge up to six devices at the same time.
There’s no time like the holiday season to sit down and watch a movie with your family. For that, you’ll need a big screen. One solution is the Crosstour Mini Projector which turns any wall into a home theater. It’s just $76 right now on Amazon.
You can adjust the Crosstour Mini to project a screen size of up to 176 inches — just imagine how much a TV that size would cost.
Understanding the importance of creating a complete and accessible ecosystem for Android users, Google recently rebranded and transformed the Android Market to Google Play. Under that one gigantic Play Store umbrella, users can now download not just apps, but also music, video, books, and even buy a phone.
Since people seem to be fixated on comparing the number of apps available on a certain platform, Google and its competitors still like to flaunt numbers every now and then, just to show who’s boss.
In the last few days, we’ve seen several major SoC makers introduced their latest and greatest offerings. From Nvidia’s Tegra 4 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 and 800, to Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa and ST Ericsson’s NovaThor L8580 – these are the mobile processors that will be powering devices this year and beyond.
We’ll have to add one more to the list, as Huawei’s Richard Yu has confirmed to Engadget that it will be challenging Samsung in the octa-core processor race with the company’s Cortex-A15 chip, which will be unveiled in the second half of 2013.
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LG has successfully tested 6G THz data transmission at a distance of 100m. A special power amplifier was used to cope with signal dropoff. 6G probably won’t hit the market until at least 2028. Despite widespread 5G still being a pipedream for most smartphone owners, LG says it has accomplished a significant step towards the development of 6G, transmitting terahertz-range (THz) data outdoors in Berlin over a distance of 100m, or 328ft.
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OnePlus is apparently prepping an entry-level smartphone codenamed Clover. It will reportedly run on the Snapdragon 460 with a large battery. The phone might be priced around $200. OnePlus is not just targeting the mid-range smartphone segment anymore. Android Central reports that it’s descending even lower on the price ladder with a new entry-level smartphone codenamed “Clover.”
According to the outlet, an “insider source” has confirmed that the launch of the OnePlus Clover is imminent.
Samsung has announced that its new security platform, Samsung KNOX, will support Microsoft’s security minded enterprise software, which includes Workplace Join, Windows Intune, Windows Azure and cloud printing of Microsoft Office documents.
The press release dated February 28th represents a big win for Microsoft as it struggles to gain a foothold in the mobile space, and a powerful set of tools for Samsung KNOX enterprise users. The combination of these technologies will improve security and productivity for KNOX users, which really just means you will be able to bring your new Samsung Galaxy S5 to work.
Samsung is ready to commercialize wireless technology that can handle transfer speeds of up to 575MB per second. A 1GB movie could be streamed in less than three seconds at this speed.
Samsung’s technology is based on the 802.11ad (WiGig) WiFi standard, which was finalized in December 2012. 802.11ad uses 60GHz spectrum, in addition to the 5GHz and 2.4GHz bands supported by the currently available 802.11ac standard, for theoretical speeds of up to 7Gbps.
Google has made the Chrome Experiments site to allow developers to showcase their HTML5 demos, where they’re made with Javascript, CSS or even WebGL. These demos are meant not only to show what you can do with Chrome, which has very fast Javascript and WebGL performance, as well as very good HTML5 support, but also so developers can push the envelope with their creations, and push Chrome’s developers to make it even faster.
It just became quite a bit more difficult for Chinese citizens to buy HTC-branded smartphones. According to the company’s official Weibo account (via MySmartPrice), HTC smartphones are no longer listed on TMall and Jingdong (better known as JD.com), two prominent online stores.
In its Weibo announcement, the company says that its official HTC online store still has its smartphones listed, and consumers can still visit its physical store in Shenzhen. However, some of its most recent phones are listed as “Out of Stock” on its official site.