Dual-SIM HTC Desire SV unveiled, coming soon to Asia with WVGA screen and dual-core CPU

If you had trouble keeping up with HTC’s rather hectic smartphone naming scheme, the company’s latest dual-SIM mid-ranger will only make things harder to understand. The Desire SV is not to be mistaken with the recently released C and X members of the Desire family, though the three have quite a lot in common.

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Apple apology to Samsung hits newspapers in the UK, but is it better this time around?

Remember how Apple lost its Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction quest in the UK earlier this year? In short, a UK judge found that the Samsung Android tablet is “not as cool” as the iPad – it’s still a win – and therefore the device was not banned from selling in the region.

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iPad mini vs Nexus 7: drop test time, tablet edition!

Our international man of gadget destruction is back!
In September, Darcy LaCouvee travelled to bustling Hong Kong to get the iPhone 5 and pitch it in a ruthless drop test against the flagship of the Android armada, the Galaxy S3. Suffice it to say, we didn’t like how that test ended, but luckily the mighty Note 2 saved face for the Android camp just a couple of weeks later.

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GO Launcher EX 3.19

1.(Improve) More operation effects of home screen themes (We will release new themes in GO Store next soon)
2.(Improve) The entrance of app drawer search move to left corner
3.(Improve) The operation of app drawer search
4.(Improve) Add 10 more icons to UI3.0 theme which is updated to v1.8

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Chrome for Android gets performance update, Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 support

Since it shed its beta skin in June, the Chrome for Android app hasn’t gotten many updates from Google. While the browser is fast and stable enough, it’s still lacking some features found on the desktop version.
What can we expect to see from the new version of the mobile browser that’s just been pushed out to Google Play?

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Google Now ‘s built-in pedometer tracks your biking and walking miles

While you were looking for the way back home from a late Halloween bash, Google tucked a surprise inside Jelly Bean. Google Now brings a new feature for Jelly Bean phones, the pedometer. Though there haven’t been any official mentions of the feature, you might have noticed it while checking for directions on your phone. What the pedometer does is show how much you have biked or walked over the month.

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Rumor: HTC Opera UL is the official Facebook phone Zuckerberg said “didn’t make sense”

There’s been a lot of back and forth during the last few months about an upcoming official Facebook phone, which seemed very likely one day only for rumors to be crushed the next. One of the most consistent speculations was that FB was working with HTC at the manufacturing of the device, although we even heard that the social networking giant might take upon itself to build the handheld from scratch.
But then Mark Zuckerberg came and denied everything (more than once), saying even that “building out a whole phone really wouldn’t make much sense for us to do”. And that’s despite the company’s main future focus said to be on mobile. So, case closed, right?

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T-Mobile LG Optimus L9: an affordable ICS smartphone with a decent spec sheet

T-Mobile has a convincing and affordable mid-level Android phone to offer this holiday season, the LG Optimus L9. The device was officially launched yesterday but, it initially didn’t become available on T-Mobile’s website due to some technical issues. The issues seem to be fixed by now, so you are free to order it if the Optimus L9 tickles your fancy.

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Samsung Stratosphere 2 pic leaked, Verizon release is imminent

It’s pretty obvious that slide-out QWERTY smartphones are not everybody’s favorites, due to their “robust” bodies and mid-range specs. Still, students, elders and even businessmen tend to favor them, what with their added functionality and all.

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Google’s Nexus 4 system dump is out and about – apps, wallpapers, ringtones and more up of grabs

The inevitable has happened. With a few days left before its official launch, and with review units being sent out to some lucky hands, a Nexus 4 system dump has been uploaded online, giving everyone access to the phone’s many Android 4.2 goodies.

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