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ZTE Grand S Hands On: Superphone Doesn’t Seem So Super

January 9, 2013   Mobile
We love an underdog story. So when we saw that ZTE—a company which in the U.S. is not so synonymous with "quality" —was making a spec-monster phone, we were excited. After playing with it for about ten minutes, we're a bit less enthusiastic. More »


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ZTE Grand S Hands On: Superphone Doesn’t Seem So Super

January 9, 2013   Mobile
We love an underdog story. So when we saw that ZTE—a company which in the U.S. is not so synonymous with "quality" —was making a spec-monster phone, we were excited. After playing with it for about ten minutes, we're a bit less enthusiastic. More »


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ZTE Grand S Makes It Official: Everyone and Their Mother Will Make a Superphone This Year

January 8, 2013   Mobile
The name ZTE doesn't mean a ton in the U.S. The Chinese company has only had a handful of phones make it stateside and they've been way on the low end. Now, suddenly, they're going for broke with the Grand S. More »


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ZTE Grand S Makes It Official: Everyone and Their Mother Will Make a Superphone This Year

January 8, 2013   Mobile
The name ZTE doesn't mean a ton in the U.S. The Chinese company has only had a handful of phones make it stateside and they've been way on the low end. Now, suddenly, they're going for broke with the Grand S. More »


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Why 4K Phones Aren’t Such a Bad Idea

January 8, 2013   Mobile
Moments ago, at a small press event, Raj Talluri, Qualcomm's VP of Product Management dropped this little nugget. "You are just starting to see 1080p display phones. I think that will go even higher." My brain instantly exploded. More »


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Why 4K Phones Aren’t Such a Bad Idea

January 8, 2013   Mobile
Moments ago, at a small press event, Raj Talluri, Qualcomm's VP of Product Management dropped this little nugget. "You are just starting to see 1080p display phones. I think that will go even higher." My brain instantly exploded. More »


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The Best Heart Rate Monitor May Go in Your Ear

January 8, 2013   Uncategorized
Chest strap heart rate monitors are uncomfortable and annoying. HRM watches, like the MIO Alpha, have a lot of potential, but they still lose contact frequently. Valencell is going in a different direction, building a heart rate sensor into something most of us are already wearing: our headphones. More »


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The Best Heart Rate Monitor May Go in Your Ear

January 8, 2013   Uncategorized
Chest strap heart rate monitors are uncomfortable and annoying. HRM watches, like the MIO Alpha, have a lot of potential, but they still lose contact frequently. Valencell is going in a different direction, building a heart rate sensor into something most of us are already wearing: our headphones. More »


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Meet the New Crazy-Fast Snapdragon 800 and 600 Processors

January 8, 2013   Uncategorized
Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro processor has been blowing us away with its speed in phones like the Nexus 4 and HTC's Droid DNA, and that's why we can't wait to meet its big brothers. The Snapdragon 800 boasts a quad-core Krait 400 CPU, that can go up to 2.3GHz per core. More »


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Unlike Its Namesake Blue’s Nessie Microphone Is Real

January 8, 2013   Uncategorized
You know how you can set a point-and-shoot camera to Auto Mode and it'll do a lot of the tweaking for you to get the best shot possible? Wouldn't it be cool if you could do that for audio? Well, the new Nessie is Blue's first shot at a mic with Auto Mode. More »
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