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Samsung sells 10 million Galaxy S4s in under a month

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23 May
2013
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M1 customers queuing to collect the Samsung GALAXY S4 With LTE at M1 roadshow at Wisma Atria

Call it plastic, safe or even boring. Despite the criticism, Samsung has sold a record 10 million of its flagship Galaxy S4 phones in under a month as it tightened its stranglehold on the smartphone market.

That’s four phones sold a second, according to the Korean electronics giant, which unveiled the figures today surely to the dismay of fellow Android rivals as well as Apple, which has seen demand for its iPhone cool off in recent months.

 
Tagged in: android, Cellphones, Galaxy S4, sales, samsung,  
 

M1 3G users can soon connect via femtocells while indoors

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22 May
2013
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M1 is rolling out a service that makes use of customers’ home or office broadband links to provide a better connection on the cellphone, whether this is to make calls or surf the Web.

Instead of connecting to the nearest base station that may be several kilometres away, these users’ phones hook up wirelessly to a femtocell device installed indoors, next to their broadband modem, and tap on the faster wired connection to reach the cellphone operator.

In essence, this offloads the traffic from the often congested cellphone networks to much faster, and often under-used fixed line networks. 

 
Tagged in: Cellphones, Singapore, 3G, femtocell, M1, offloading,  
 

Hands on: MSI S20 Slidebook

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20 May
2013
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To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure about the MSI S20 Slidebook when I first saw it. Slide-out Windows 8 machines, like those from Sony and Toshiba before it, haven’t done really well, mainly because of the limitations that often come with such a design.

Can MSI make a difference with this portable tablet cum laptop?

 
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Four affordable – yet fast – ultrabooks for about S$1,500

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18 May
2013
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ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch

If money is no issue, then Lenovo’s X1 Carbon Touch (above) is an ideal slim and light companion for all your work trips. But if you can’t bear to part with S$2,999 for the expensive laptop, there are affordable – yet fast – ultrabooks that make for great machines on the go.

 
Tagged in: Featured, laptops, PCs, Singapore, Apple MacBook Air, Dell XPS 13, HP SpectreXT, Intel, samsung, Series 7 Ultra, Singapore price and availability, ultrabook,  
 

Does Galaxy S4 “Nexus” from Google mark a new trend?

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17 May
2013
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Google Nexus Galaxy S4

It was the device that Android geeks had been dreaming of. A phone stuffed with all the best hardware, run on a clean, fast interface that does away with any bloatware.

When Google unveiled plans to sell a version of Samsung’s popular Galaxy S4 with its stock Android interface on Wednesday, many Android fans must have got their credit cards out ready to spend. The bigger question, though, is whether this is the start of a trend – a good one.

 
Tagged in: android, Cellphones, google, Software, Galaxy S4, Google I/O, nexus, samsung,  
 

Singapore do-not-call registry to keep spam calls, messages out from Jan 2014

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15 May
2013
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Phone users in Singapore can finally say no to annoying spam SMSes or phone calls by adding their phone numbers to a much-awaited do-not-call registry from January 2, 2014.

When it swings into action, telemarketing companies will have to check against the registry to ensure that they do not call, SMS or fax people who have opted out of marketing messages.

 
Tagged in: Cellphones, Internet, Media, Singapore, data protection law, Personal Data Protection Commission, privacy, SMS, spam,  
 

Nokia Lumia 925 goes metallic, still has great camera

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15 May
2013
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It’s got a metallic case, it’s slimmed down drastically and it has the great camera as before. Say hello to Nokia’s new Lumia 925, which was unveiled hours ago as the follow-up to the flagship Lumia 920.

 
Tagged in: Cellphones, Featured, Windows Phone, 4G, Lumia 925, NFC, Nokia, Qi,  
 

New media versus old media? How about quality media?

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11 May
2013
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There’s a rather unhelpful argument going on right now in Singapore, and it seems to be between new and old media.

On one side are professional journalists whose credibility depends on the stories they deliver daily. On the other, social commentators who run independent blogs, watching over the mainstream media for mistakes and highlighting them whenever one is spotted.

 
Tagged in: Internet, Media, social media, Web 2.0, fake photo, New Media, photojournalist, The New Paper, The Online Citizen, Yawning Bread,  
 

Hands on: BlackBerry Q10

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10 May
2013
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For BlackBerry die-hards who are still firing away e-mails everyday on their phone’s keyboard, the new Q10 is the device they’ve been waiting for.

This is the one with the familiar, easy-to-use keyboard and it is built like a solid and dependable – if rather less sexy – corporate tool that many had first come to know BlackBerry for.

 
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Research firm: mobile content revenues to reach US$65bn in 2016

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8 May
2013
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Android apps on Google Play store

Users will spend US$65 billion on e-books, games and other content on their smartphones and tablets by 2016, up from this year’s US$40 billion, according to a research report released today.

The upsurge, according to Juniper Research, will be fueled by tablet users buying games, videos and e-books on their mobile devices, along with easier direct payment methods offered on smartphones by telecom operators.

 
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