Do you remember Oppo? It’s the company that makes the Oppo Finder which, at 6.65mm in thinness, is the world’s thinnest smartphone on sale despite what Apple would want you to believe with the iPhone 5.
The Chinese company wants another smartphone industry milestone under its belt with the smartphone maker reportedly preparing the world’s first smartphone with a full HD 1080p screen.
In an interview with Chinese site CNMO, Oppo Mobile Chief Executive Officer Chen Mingyong said that the …

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD is the latest gadget to feed the tech dismantling hunger of the iFixit team, which found the tablet easy to repair in case of component replacement.
The crew of teardown experts easily opened up the Kindle Fire HD with only a plastic tool in hand, and they quickly detached the back case to mark the first glance of its internal hardware components.
Internals unsurprisingly come from electronics fixtures, with iFixit saying all parts are simple to replace: a 1.2GHz …

HP acquired Palm some time ago, but failed to develop the operating system. They gave up the idea after the HP Touchpad tablet didn’t enjoy any success with the American public and stocks were exhausted after being placed at a price of nothing.
Their ambitions are big and want to bring HP-branded smartphones. webOS lost the team that developed Palm. Meg Whitman that occupies the HP CEO position recently said they plan to develop a smartphone to continue their line of all-in-one desktops, …

Motorola just released in China a very interesting product and it goes by the name CloudBB (HMC3260). This terminal is basically a PC with an 18.5 inch touch screen and Android operating system, and comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Basically this is an oversized tablet intended to replace the PC.
China Digital TV Media Group will be responsible for this product’s marketing strategy, promoting it to the 13 million customers of its video on demand service, but also as a device for …

Since the first hard drive models, launched more than 50 years ago, manufacturers have used air to fill the insides of their carcasses. Urgently needed to create the micrometer fluid cushion, generated by the platter’s rotation, on which the reading and writing heads are floating, the air is not the best gas for the manufacture of storage media, says those from Western Digital.
The company announced that its subsidiary, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has developed a technology that …

After the launch of its new iPhone 5 smartphone, Apple quickly announced that it will gradually roll out iOS 6, the latest version of its mobile operating system, to older iPhone models starting 19 September.
This the tech giant’s indirect way of saying that iOS 6 is backward compatible to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, along with the second- and third-generation Apple iPads.
Announced at its WWDC back in June, iOS 6 brings more than 200 new features to Apple devices.
One of the most …

In a somewhat unsurprising move, Apple will oppose Samsung’s motion to allow sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the US.
According to Bloomberg, Samsung needs to wait for at least one week before Lucy Koh, the US District Court Judge who handles both companies’ patent infringement cases in the country, will reconsider the preliminary injunction.
In a court filing, Apple contended a lift in the sales ban of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices will confuse consumers and disturb the local …

Amazon will allow customers to opt out of ads on its updated lineup of Kindle Fire tablets, for a price.
The offer will cost buyers $15 to avoid seeing occasional ads, said the online retailer in an announcement on Sunday after a heap of criticism online on its arrangement, which is also a factor why Amazon Kindle Fire tablet prices are at a minimum of $159 to $599.
The company attracted backlash both from critics and users who expressed their disappointment in online forums of having no opt …

Already announced some weeks ago, the Sony Xperia V is a durable smartphone, designed to withstand dust and moisture. However, this is not its main attraction.
Sony Xperia prepared for V a 4.3 inch screen with sensor-on-lens technology that reduces glare surrounding objects and improves image quality by using a simplified touch sensor with fewer layers and applied closer to the surface of the screen.

Basically, the sensor-on-lens technology bonds the touch sensor to the mineral glass shield …

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE tablet has yet to receive approval from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which means a probable delay on its release.
News agency Reuters reports spotting an email sent from Amazon to customers who preordered the 8.9in Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE tablet.
The missive warned about a likely delay in shipments because the FCC has yet to approve the device.
“We will send you an email asking you to confirm your pre-order of Kindle Fire when it is …