Daily Archives: 02/01/2013
Ubuntu OS for smartphones announced, first devices shipping in early 2014!
It’s finally anounced, Ubuntu based smartphones, and shipments starts in early 2014. The mobile version of the Ubuntu is built around Android kernel and drivers, but won’t use Java Virtual Machine and promises “the full power of the smartphone”. Ubuntu OS for smartphones supports ARM and X86 processors, which allows Android phone makers run it on their devices with minimal adaptation. Proper Ubuntu phones are promised to arrive in early 2014, but if you can’t wait so long, you can head to city of London and try demo phones there, and there’s downloadable images for couple of weeks. Check out the Ubuntu phones video after the break.
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Nexus 7 dock to become available in Europe and in U.S this month!
It’s been rumored for a while now, that ASUS made dock for Nexus 7 would be launched in Europe and U.S. There’s now some good news for all you Nexus 7 owners. According to report from dutch site AndroidWorld.nl, ASUS made dock for Nexus 7 will arrive in mid-January to Europe with price tag of 29.99€. In U.S B&H Photo, started to accept pre-orders in im December, is now showing expected availability date of January 10th.
Nexus 7 dock connects to the device with pogo pins and allows it to connect to other devices through microUSB and headphone jack.
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Nokia to abandon mobile business and sell it’s assets to Huawei or Microsoft in 2013?!
It first seemed that Nokia’s Lumia 920 was the company saver, but now Forbes predicts that Nokia is abandoning it’s mobile business and selling it’s assets to either Huawei or Microsoft. The prediction was written by Forbes contributor Tristan Louis, founder of Keepskor. He also states that 2013 will see great deal of movement in the mobile industry, and Nokia’s departure from the mobile handset market will be among the year’s most notable events.
Nokia abandons the mobile business: The biggest shocker (and what I suspect will be my most controversial prediction), though, will be the the departure of Nokia from the phone business as the company sells its mobile operation and infrastructure divisions to Huawei in order to focus on software and services. With the company’s bet on Windows 8 having failed in the marketplace, it will see Microsoft and Huawei competing for the mobile device division and will eventually sell its smartphone group to Microsoft and the rest of its telecom interests to Huawei.
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Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
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CTIA and MobileCon merging in 2014, forming ‘super mobile show’!
For tech reporters and bloggers there’s annual tech conventions, that are must go, such as CES in Las Vegas, CTIA in Las Vegas and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. CTIA today announced that they are going to emerge with MobileCon(another must go event) and form ‘super mobile show’. Last years MobileCon was pretty quiet last year and this sounds like a great opportunity for both enterprise-centric and consumer vendors to get together and bring back excitement to the event. CTIA 2014 is scheduled for September 9-11th in Las Vegas. Full press release after the break.
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TonisTechBlog’s most popular stories of 2012!
It’s time to look back at the year of the 2012 and compile the most popular posts on TonisTechBlog in 2012. 2012 started at CES in Las Vegas, after that tech crowd met in Barcelona to take part of Mobile World Congress, then in New Orleans in CTIA and in many other tech conferences and expo’s. 2012 was also very busy year for TonisTechBlog, and when the year 2012 was nearing it’s end, TonisTechBlog broke all of it’s previous records in page views, unique visitors and in produced content. You can now check out the top 5 popular posts on TonisTechBlog after the break.
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Apple already testing iPhone 6 and iOS 7, according to report!
It’s not a surprise that Apple is already developing new iPhone, and new a new version of iOS, but earlier this week The Next Web claims to have seen the evidence of Apple’s next handset and mobile system. It seems that one iOS developer discovered that the app name “iPhone 6.1″ running iOS 7 was making requests from an IP address within Apple’s campus. iPhone 6 is believed to be launched in the middle of this year. The Next Web also tells that “although OS and device data can be faked, the unique IP footprint leading back to Apple’s Cupertino campus leads us to believe that this is not one of those attempts.” This report confirms that Apple continues to regularly push new iPhone models and new iOS versions, and it confirms just that, nothing more.
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ASUS Zenbook Touch U500VZ surfaces on ASUS website, pricing still unknown!
Zenbook Touch U500VZ, is ASUS’s 15-inch ultrabook and it has quietly popped up on ASUS’ website. Though the company has yet to announce the laptop officially and there’s no pricing revealed yet. ASUS’ 11-inch Zenbook models are also confirmed to get touchscreens as well. ASUS Zenbook Touch U500VZ is packed with Core i7-3632QM processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics card and dual 256GB SSDs. It also has IPS technology display with 1080p rersolution as other Zenbook do too. You can check out more specs and photos from the source link after the break.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 rumored of launch in Brown and Red in South Korea!
Previously it was rumored that Samsung is going to launch Galaxy Note 2 in black, but that’s was only a rumor and not true. Now a magazine page in South Korea shows that company is going to launch Galaxy Note 2 is launching in Korea in two new colors, Brown and Red. There’s no official word out yet about the availability date. Remember to be little bit skeptical before there’s official word from Samsung. Company hasn’t commented about this news and the forum post where this photo was, has been disappeared. It’s always good to see more color options than grey and white.
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Open WebOS ported to the Nexus 7, toured in video!
There was many disappointed people when HP decided to cancel WebOS hardware before the TouchPad Go could even have press release. Simon Busch, from WebOS Ports, can’t bring HP’s tablet back to life, but instead ports open WebOS to the Nexus 7.This time the conversion is much more complete, compared it to Galaxy Nexus edition, along with supporting core functionality like accelerometer and Wifi, it’s also cord free now. There’s still lag, but hey it’s only a alpha version for now. Check out the video after the break.
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Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
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