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DisplayMate Finds Huawei’s Ascend D2 1080p Panel the Best, Leaving Sony’s Xperia Z Branded “Disappointing”

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Tweet In these days of quad-core CPUs, 2GB of RAM and incredible GPU performance in our smartphones, it’s easy to forget that the displays are perhaps the most important part of our modern smartphones. Recently, the smartphone world has seen a shift in displays, it was once the reserve of Apple to have high-density displays [...]

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Analysts Predict Quad-Core Smartphones will be the Industry Standard, Hit 40 Million Unit Sales in 2012

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Tweet Apparently, the sweet spot in terms of mobile hardware is a quad-core processor, at least that’s what recent sales numbers show. According to analyst firm Berg Insight, high-end smartphone sales grew considerably in 2012. For devices with retail prices higher than €400 (before subsidized pricing) sales grew from about 150 million units in 2011 [...]

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Nvidia to License Its Kepler-Based Mobile GPU Technology; Why That’s a Smart Move

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Tweet Nvidia has never had a ton of success with their Tegra chips. Tegra 2 wasn’t very popular and was pretty seriously flawed by lacking NEON extensions, and it also arrived too late on the market when dual core chips weren’t such a big surprise anymore. Then came Tegra 3, which was a bit more successful, [...]

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Droid Daily 6/18/13: Lifetime, History, Minuum Keyboard, and More

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TweetFacebook looking for Samsung to make its Next phone? Mark Zuckerberg is trying to convince Samsung to make their next phone to replace the HTC First. But we also learned today that Samsung has turned Zuckerberg and Facebook down. So it looks like no Samsung-Facebook phone coming. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 With Accessories for [...]

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Dish Backs Away from Sprint Merger, Instead Will Focus on Clearwire Acquisition

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Tweet Dish Network announced earlier today that they were stepping down from the offer they made to purchase Sprint. Instead, they’re going to focus on another deal they have with Clearwire. Originally, Dish offered Sprint $25.5 billion to purchase the network and its spectrum. “While DISH continues to see strategic value in a merger with [...]

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