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HTC has presented a new J Butterfly smartphone in Japan, a device that will probably be released outside Japan as Butterfly 3. The device includes a Snapdragon 810-soc, front camera with a resolution of thirteen megapixels and a…

The Turkish manufacturer General Mobile has presented the first Android One smartphone with an HD-ready screen and a 64-bit processor. Google provides Android One smartphones with software updates and guarantees that devices will receive…

MediaTek has unveiled its X20 soc for midrange and high-end smartphones and tablets. The soc consists of three clusters with a total of ten computing cores. The three building blocks are connected with interconnects designed by MediaTek…

The South Korean Competition Authority is investigating Oracle. The question is whether it is illegal to bundle software in maintenance contracts. The committee states that customers cannot choose themselves which software is…

A developer on the Xda forum has managed to get Android Wear running on the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch. The smart watch normally has Tizen as its operating system. The first build of Android Wear is not really usable yet.In…

Microsoft is working on version 3.0 of its PlayReady-drm technology. This should make it possible, among other things, to play protected 4k content. However, it only works on hardware that supports PlayReady 3.0.PlayReady 3.0 is a new…

Microsoft is working on version 3.0 of its PlayReady-drm technology. This should make it possible, among other things, to play protected 4k content. However, it only works on hardware that supports PlayReady 3.0.PlayReady 3.0 is a new…

ARM claims that processors with the new A72 cores offer comparable performance to Intel's Core M 5Y10. The chip design company made this claim in announcing the details about the architecture of the Cortex A72 core for smartphone…

Qualcomm would have its Snapdragon 820-soc produced by Samsung. Until now, TSMC produced all Snapdragons. With the move, Qualcomm could make the 820 at 14nm, while at the same time wanting to convince the Samsung mobile branch to opt for…

Automaker Mini will show augmented reality glasses at the Auto Shanghai Show. The glasses show information to the driver via a head-up display, such as routes and assistance when parking a Mini.Mini does not want to say which hardware is…