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Hands-on with Jolla’s Sailfish OS (video)
Posted On 29 Dec 2012 By Myriam Joire. Under: Uncategorized.
We recently had the chance to spend time with David Greaves and Vesa-Matti Hartikainen of Jolla and take Sailfish OS for a spin. As you might recall, this open source mobile OS builds upon Mer (a fork of MeeGo that includes Qt) and uses the Nemo fram...
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Hands-on with Jolla’s Sailfish OS (video)
Posted On 29 Dec 2012 By Myriam Joire. Under: Uncategorized.
We recently had the chance to spend time with David Greaves and Vesa-Matti Hartikainen of Jolla and take Sailfish OS for a spin. As you might recall, this open source mobile OS builds upon Mer (a fork of MeeGo that includes Qt) and uses the Nemo fram...
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Texas Instruments to cut 1,700 jobs as part of its shift away from mobile
Posted On 14 Nov 2012 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
Texas Instruments signaled its intentions to back away from the volatile mobile market as the summer came to a close. Unfortunately, we're now learning that the shift comes at a price -- as part of a wider set of cost-cutting measures, TI is shedding...
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Motorola Solutions outs HC1 head-mounted computer, keeps workers’ hands free in sticky situations (update: video)
Posted On 22 Oct 2012 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
We're very familiar with Kopin's Golden-i, but it was surprising that an early collaboration with Motorola Solutions didn't immediately lead to Motorola selling the head-mounted computer on its own. That odd discrepancy is being patched up now that M...
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Amazon eyeing up TI’s smartphone chip business, according to Israeli newspaper
Posted On 15 Oct 2012 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Remember when Texas Instruments revealed it was planning to dump its mobile processor business in favor of embedded systems? Israeli business sheet Calcalist is reporting that Amazon is in "advanced negotiations" to snap up that part of TI's OMAP div...
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Huawei Ascend P1 LTE hands-on
Posted On 06 Oct 2012 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
We've had the unexpected early opportunity to try what should be a production-grade Huawei Ascend P1 LTE -- early enough that the phone has yet to formally ship to its initial carrier. While we've seen hints of the 4G model towards the start of the y...
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Texas Instruments wants to ditch smartphones, switch focus to embedded processors
Posted On 26 Sep 2012 By Daniel Cooper. Under: Uncategorized.
Texas Instruments has made the startling announcement that it's going to wind down its wildly successful smartphone and tablet business in favor of embedded systems. VP Greg Delagi told investors that the switch would create a more "stable" and "long...
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD torn down, proves an easy fix
Posted On 17 Sep 2012 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
Interested in what makes your new Kindle Fire HD 7-inch tick? The crew at iFixit certainly is. As is the repair shop's custom, it just tore down Amazon's new reader tablet to gauge its repairability as well as look for any surprises. In the case of t...
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ViewSonic VSD220 Smart Display with Android 4.0 comes to US in October, dips to $399
Posted On 11 Sep 2012 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
You might remember ViewSonic's slightly strange VCD22 Smart Display from our journey to Computex. If the sight of that 22-inch, Android-based all-in-one desktop set your heart aflutter, you'll be glad to know the finished version is coming to the US ...
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BlackBerry PlayBook 4G LTE hands-on
Posted On 09 Aug 2012 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
RIM's attempts to get a cellular-equipped version of the BlackBerry PlayBook have been troubled, to say the least. The company signalled its intentions around Mobile World Congress last February, only to watch as carriers backed off -- partly as RIM ...
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