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Intel has today announced a reference design for a 7 inch tablet as part of its Intel Learning Series initiative. The tablet will be known as the Intel Studybook and will retail for between $199 and $299 and multiple editions will be available by summer ahead of the new school …

It's been discovered that Nokia's Lumia 900 is now available for pre-order in the UK as of today with availability expected to be “in the coming weeks”. It is possible to place your pre-order through Phones4U or Carphone Warehouse. While Nokia still hasn't committed to a specific time of release, …

Lenovo has teased one of its upcoming tablets via a YouTube video, the IdeaPad S2109 which runs Android 4.0 ICS and sports a 9.7-inch display. The video gives a good look at the tablet which is just 8.9mm thick and uses an alluring gunmetal unibody case. The 9.7-inch display equals …

Nokia has recently stolen the Windows Phone limelight due to its string of successive Lumia series launches across the world, but let's not forget the other players. To some people's amazement, Nokia was not the first to have a Windows Phone 7 handset out and about in the market. HTC, Acer, LG …

Samsung has been the leader of the Android smartphone world for over a year now with their market-leading smartphones such as the Galaxy S and its consequent successor, the Galaxy S II. However their lower end phones have never overly impressed me; so can the Samsung Galaxy xCover (also known …

Just 3 years ago, HTC was the industry's darling. It had moved from clunky old designs to a a sleek new range of phones and was adding in ‘smart' by the bucket-full. It's just announced a 70% drop in first quarter profits. So what went wrong? Before 2007, you could …

We have reported before on the 4G problems that affect people in the UK and Europe. It looks as if the British Advertising Watchdog are going to investigate Apple however because of the misleading marketing campaign. Apple will be investigated over claims that the new iPad offers 4G connectivity, which …

Samsung's upcoming “thinner, flexible and unbreakable” AMOLED displays will from now on be known as ‘Youm'. The quietly named display technology hopefully means an imminent launch from the Korean company. Estimates from Samsung in the recent past indicate a launch sometime in 2012. Samsung has passed an application over to …

It appears as if announcing six phones in the lead up to Mobile World Congress just wasn't enough for LG, among them was the LG Optimus 3D Max. LG is reportedly preparing a new flagship Android that will be up against the HTC One X and Samsung's currently unannounced but highly anticipated …

Ever since Asus' Transformer Prime was released to the masses late last year, owners have been complaining about GPS and to an extent Wi-Fi performance. A later breakdown revealed that the a design issue was the cause. The Prime has a aluminum body, with no plastic RF window, behind which …

Most companies on the planet do not turn over $5 billion a year. To be honest, most companies won't turn over $5 billion over the entire course of their existence. Right now, things are bubbling up nicely for Samsung and its starting to bang in some serious numbers. KitGuru gives …

All of the 3D smartphones released into the world so far such as the Android powered LG Optimus 3D and the HTC Evo 3D  have never enjoyed any degree of major success in the retail market.  This is perhaps one of the reasons Samsung, who currently has 3D technology incorporated …

Google's direct attempt at a tablet in collaboration with Asus is now unlikely to launch until at least July. The earlier leaked design was reportedly ready for a May launch but in an effort to tweak the tablet further, Google has pushed the date back. It turns out that previous …

We have reported before that some people have been complaining that their new iPad 3 has been experiencing Wi-Fi problems. While the Kitguru staff have yet to experience the issue, there are several discussions online which are continuing to grow. One thread on the official Apple forum for instance has …

One of the man reasons Apple users feel superior when they boot the Mac, is the supposed lack of viruses. There’s no doubt that locking hardware to software with the Unix operating system has security advantages, but is it invulnerable?  New reports suggest not. KitGuru dresses like Colombo to investigate. The idea …

The new mobile game ‘ Draw Something' has become the fastest growing mobile game in history. Within the space of 50 days the game, originally designed by OMGPOP has reached over 50 million downloads. Zynga bought the company and have been able to claim the success as their own, yet …

A recent study from Pew Internet has discovered interesting statistics on American's habits where book reading is concerned. The study reveals that the average e-reader user has read 24 books in the last year, compared to just 15 books read by those preferring traditional paper books. In a country where 99% of …

Today is the big launch day for HTC's latest and greatest smartphones; the HTC One X and One S.  Beginning this morning you will be able to grab either the 4.7 inch, quad-core powered One X or the 4.3 inch, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 powered smartphone from a variety of UK …

A judge in America has largely sided in Apple's favour yesterday in regards to how some technical terms will be defined in the patent fight against Samsung over smartphones and tablets. Apple sued Samsung last year in the United States, claiming that the South Korean company are ‘slavishly' copying the …

Apple are facing a problem in the shape of the ‘Flashback' trojan horse virus which is said to have infected around 600,000 Macintosh computers, with more than half in the States alone. Russian antivirus software company Dr. Web have issued a report this week which states that the computers running …

The latest rumours out of Korea about the upcoming Galaxy S III flagship Android smartphone are pinning it to have the best display in a Samsung phone to date. Reports are stating that Samsung Mobile Display has started production on a 4.65 inch Super AMOLED Plus HD display with a …

Research In Motion used to dominate the market, but in recent years they have been struggling to compete against Apple and the raft of Android phones available to consumers. In the last year their sales figures have been continually dropping and the CEO's have stepped down. Even in their homeground …

One of the more bizarre stories today reported by the China Xinhua news agency shows how important Apple devices are now in the minds of the Chinese culture. The official state media group say that Chinese people are leaving paper replicas of Apple iPads and iPhones as ‘offerings at the …

The Korean need for national pride is about as strong as the Chinese need to be the world's factory. So what happens when the immovable object (Koreas desire to do everything itself) meets the irresistible force (China's need to do it for you)?  With the launch of Samsung's next chip factory now …

Motorola is finally bringing the Droid RAZR Maxx to Europe following the phone's launch through Verizon in the states over two months ago. Minus the Droid branding and LTE radio it is much the same deal with its Super AMOLED 4.3-inch display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM and a chunky …

Another month passes by and that means one thing for fans of Android statistics; some more numbers on the amount of people running the latest Android 4.o update. If you haven't received your Android 4.0 update just yet, do not worry too much. If you have a relatively recently mid …

Avatron have updated their Air Display software, available now on the App Store for $9.99. This allows users to set up the new iPad as a 1024×768 HiDPI display to display high resolution elements and text available in OS X Lion. We know the new iPad display runs at 2048×1536, …

Intel are planning to release a new tablet for emerging markets, the codename is ‘StoryBook'. The product is set to follow in the footsteps of the Classmate PC sales model. I spoke to an industry insider this morning in Taipei who confirmed that the StoryBook tablet PC will house a …

The smartphone market is dominated by Apple and Samsung, according to a study issued by Canaccord Genuity which we received by email last night. The two companies combined account for a staggering 95 percent of the handset market profits during the fourth quarter. Apple accounted for 80 percent of the …

We have already heard rumours of Google and Asus combining to sell a $199 Nexus tablet and Google may now be resorting to old ways to distribute products. Rumours have it that Google will open its own online store to sell tablets directly to customers. Just like the Nexus One, …