Consumers who constantly worry about losing or damaging their phones or tablets may be pleased to know that they can now purchase insurance for their mobile devices.

An Irish insurance company specialising in mobile devices, Mobilecover, recently started offering such a service in Singapore, providing insurance coverage against damage, loss and theft for smartphones and tablets.

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HP has released an affordable, entry-level Android tablet, the HP Slate 7, which looks set to challenge Google’s Nexus 7 in the 7-inch tablet arena.

The most attractive thing about the HP Slate 7 might just be its price – at a mere S$249, the Slate 7 is S$100 cheaper than the Nexus 7 in Singapore. Pre-order it online at the HP online store and the HP Slate 7 costs only S$199 – that’s substantially cheaper than the Nexus 7, which is priced from S$349. …

Japanese audio company Nakamichi has come up with three earphones which it claims will fit Asian ears better. The K109, K119 and MV7, it says, has alloy metal housing on the outside and comfortable soft ear buds to fit inside the ear.

The in-ear headphones also come with microphones, allowing users to toggle easily between listening to music and making or receiving phone calls. …

Haven’t gotten dearest Mum a gift when Mother’s Day is in less than a week? No sweat. Get her a tech gift that makes life better every day.

Here’s a Geek-Girl’s Emergency Everything Know-It-All Mama’s Day Gift Guide. You can call it the Geek MA gift guide. …

Dell Vostro 5460

Road warriors and professionals now have another option to choose from when shopping for a business laptop – the Dell Vostro 5460.

An ultra-portable machine, the Vostro 5460 is encased in an aluminium chassis that measures in at 18.3mm in thickness and weighs a mere 1.54kg. …

Netgear’s latest NAS products

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) now have another option for data storage with Netgear’s latest ReadyNAS networked-attached-storage (NAS) products, which promise powerful and reliable storage.

The NAS offerings bring enterprise features and capabilities such as unlimited snapshots of the file system and cloud-managed replication. Multiple versions of the file systems can be created and restored at any point, reducing the chances of data loss. …

Samsung, the biggest smartphone player, shipped a whopping 213 million smartphones in 2012, commanding nearly 30 percent of the global smartphone market. From October through December last year, it sold an impressive 720,000 phones per day.

The Korean electronics giant looks set to maintain its reign as the king of the hill, with the launch of the Galaxy S4 with LTE in Singapore. Available from April 27, the widely anticipated smartphone with 16GB of internal storage will retail for S$998 without a contract.

How did Samsung become one of the largest players in the smartphone market, beating competitors like HTC, Sony and LG despite its late foray into the Android market in 2009?
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Samsung NX300

Samsung has packed in the features in its new flagship NX camera aimed at the prosumer market. The new NX300, shipping in Singapore now, can be fitted with a 45mm 2D/3D lens that claims to be the first one-lens 3D system capable of capturing both still images and full HD movies in 3D. …

The Seagate Wireless Plus

If you think that the best way to hook up to an external hard disk is simply to connect it to your PC via USB, there’s actually a lot more you can do with the storage devices these days.

Seagate recently started shipping in Singapore its Seagate Wireless Plus portable hard disk that connects with phones over Wi-Fi, along with the Seagate Central backup device that comes with smart TV apps.  …

Xanithus Laser Gaming Mouse

As if there aren’t enough gaming mice, there’s a new competitor in town now with Prolink’s introduction of two new mice that promise speed and other advanced features prized by gamers.

The Hesperus and Xanthinus, introduced this week, are two high-end gaming gaming mice that come with an Avago 8,200dpi gaming sensor. …