BlackBerry comes out swinging with Z10 and Q10 smartphones

The new BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones were officially announced today as the company's first smartphones powered by QNX technology, which has also been used in the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, as well as in the auto and health care industry. The BlackBerry Z10 is the touchscreen device with a textured surface, a slight curve on the back and a 4.2-inch display. It also has a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core processor, 2 gigabytes of RAM and...

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Very short review of TOP 3 tablets on the market

Yesterday I bought second tablet in my Android carrier - Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8000). Internet is full of different reviews about this device, so I wont be writing essay about it. What I want to do, is to write about 3 current high-end tablets you can find on the market and why non of them are worth to buy. This concerns: Galaxy Nexus 10, Galaxy Note 10.1 and Asus Transformer Infinity. I will mostly write short pros and cons of each.Every...

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More pictures of HTC M7 and HTC Sense 5.0

It seems that leaked yesterday pictures of HTC M7 were not a fake. Today we have another portion of promising photos, this time published by androidpolice.com.Source: www.androidpolice.comWatermark on the screen makes those images trustworthy. It's a common watermark used by HTC in beta-software. Looking at the lock-screen I can say that HTC 5.0 is not that minor update as some have stated. I must say I'm getting more and more excited about it. And...

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Nokia Lumia 822 showcases Windows Phone 8 from Microsoft

I've had another experience where a particular smartphone was just a joy to carry around. This time, it was the Nokia Lumia 822 from Verizon Wireless. Maybe it was the live tiles of Windows Phone 8 or the seamless integration with everything Microsoft, such as Windows Live and all the features surrounding it. Whatever it was, I took a likening to the Lumia 822 and now I must say "well done" to Nokia and Microsoft. Nokia has been around for the long...

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HTC M7 - next HTC flagship device

Today htcsource.com came up with a nice photo of incoming HTC flagship model - HTC M7.Source: http://htcsource.comIn a matter of fact, this picture shows not only new, incoming device but also the main screen from HTC Sesne 5.0 UI. Obviously not much can be concluded based only on this photo, but it seems that HTC is following the fashion of angular and edgy graphic elements. The same happened to Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Personally...

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PayPal is letting the numbers tell mobile payments success in 2012

PayPal likes the numbers coming from their 2012 balance sheet. The online mobile payment company is reporting $14 billion in customer payments, compared with a projection of $10 billion for last year. According to PayPal, during the holiday season from October to December, 692 million payments were processed, making it the busiest three months in the company's 14-year history. PayPal's growth continues with 123 million active accounts, driven...

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Getting properties and functions of JavaScript objects

I was looking for a way to get all the properties and functions for a particular JavaScript object. Looking around the web I found this discussion of StackOverflow which gave me my answer. I created a small helper function to which you pass your object and it spit out all its properties and function in the console. This is how it looks like:function listPropsAndFunctions(object) {    var o;    for (o in object) {        console.log((typeof object[o] == "function" ?...

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HTC battery bank short review

Lately I've been using one of the best phone accessory I've ever had. And the funny part is, I didn't suspect it to be that great. But let's start from the beginning!Full name of that red & black little thing is "HTC External Battery Bank for all Micro USB Handsets".What is so great about it? In simple words - it's small and can save your butt in many situations. The capacity of 6000 mAh is enough for full two charges. What...

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More cores, more power and still no effective cooling system

I think we really have a problem here. Watching the world of technology, there is a clear tendency to equip mobile devices with more and more power. Looking at the specifications of fleshly unveiled Nvidia Tegra 4 (72 custom Nvidia GeForce GPU cores, new quad-core variant of ARM's Cortex-A15 CPU) I can say I'm already pretty amazed. But this enthusiasm might be suppressed very soon!Where is the issue? You might say we've already been there few years ago, when multi-cores CPUs were gaining more and more attention from non-professional desktops/notebooks...

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Welcome!

This is the first post on my new blog - http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.com.I want to post here some reviews of devices I own, some mobile news etc. Some information concerning my ROMs as well. Basically I don't know yet what form will this blog have, but I'm sure it's worth to give a shot this way of communicating with Android fans. This surely wont be personal blog :)You can find my blog at android-revolution-hd.blogspot.com.See you arou...

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TechRadar editors select Best of the Best at the 2013 CES

The winners of the first annual TechRadar Best of CES Awards 2013 were announced today. TechRadar editors touched, played, used and reviewed the hottest and newest items the Consumer Electronics Show has to offer and named their top choices direct from the show floor at the convention center in Las Vegas. Winners of the TechRadar Best of CES Awards 2013 include: Best in Show: Sony Bravia 4K 65-inch Television Peoples' Choice Award: Steam Console...

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The 2013 CES is a haven for gadgets and technology enthusiasts

Members of the media enjoy a sneak peak of what's to come at this year's CES event. The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show is underway and Las Vegas is the place to be this week for gadget lovers. The keynote addresses will kick things off today, with Kazuhiro Tsuga, president of Panasonic Corp. leading the way. Tsunga was to share to his vision for the future and elaborate on how Panasonic is engineering a better world for us all. We'll...

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Saving the Windows Phone 8 Emulator State

    Saving the emulator state between runs was one of the feature needed for the Windows Phone emulator, but till now it is not officially supported. It even makes more sense now when the Windows Phone 8 emulator is a full working operating system and not a trimmed one like Windows Phone 7/7.5 was. You could configure an email account, personalize the start screen, install some applications, install certificates or even save the state of...

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GetNativeSystemInfo on Windows Phone 8

  This post is related/continues my previous one. I have written a small sample that shows how to call the GetNativeSystemInfo and IsProcessorFeaturePresent functions on Windows Phone 8 devices using a  C++ runtime component. For the moment I cannot think of a really good use for calling these functions because there are only two processors on the devices currently available. You could detect which of the two processors the...

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