iPad Air teardown reveals a hard-to-repair tablet that’s full of glue

iPad Air teardown reveals a hard-to-repair tablet that’s full of glue:
In the horrifying spirit of Halloween, the brand new iPad Air has had its innards ripped out. What tricks and treats did Apple hide inside? Let’s find out! The iPad Air has only […]

FAA to allow personal electronic devices during takeoff and touchdown

FAA to allow personal electronic devices during takeoff and touchdown: Sure it's not healthy, but we admit that we get a bit shaky in the time it takes to complete our final descent. We've read all of SkyMall, and it's just too hard to be away from the warming glow of our Kindle Paperwhite. Thankfully, however, the FAA has finally pulled the trigger on the long-awaited ...

Android tops 81 percent of smartphone market share in Q3

Android tops 81 percent of smartphone market share in Q3: Now that we know what smartphone market share looked like in the third quarter when broken down by manufacturer, it's time to compare performance by platform. As you'd imagine, the world is still Android's oyster. Strategy Analytics estimates that the OS has crossed the symbolic 80 percent mark, ...

Nexus 5: A Pure Google Dream Phone That's a Crazy Good Deal

Nexus 5: A Pure Google Dream Phone That's a Crazy Good Deal:

We found out just about everything about the Nexus 5 over the past several weeks thanks to leakafterendlessleak. Today Google finally revealed its horribly kept secret, and there are very few surprises. Here's what you need to know.

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Design

The Nexus 5 has grown a little bit since its Nexus 4 predecessor. It has a 5-inch, 441 PPI, full HD display. It's thinner, lighter, of course has a bigger screen, a horizontal Nexus logo, and a much bigger camera lens.

Specs
The LG phone has 2GB of RAM and is packed with a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 chip, which is like muscle car specs in a smartphone. Its a quad-core chip that has a bonus core that lets you do stuff while the rest of the phone is asleep, which gives you a little help with battery life.
The back camera has an 8MP shooter and there's a 1.2MP lens on the front, which is disappointingly, the same as the Nexus 4's hot mess. However, the camera has some new features that might make it perform better.
Finally, the device has LTE support for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint, HSPA+ bands plus GSM and CDMA, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC tech, and Qi wireless charging.

Pricing

Once again, this is an area where the Nexus 5 matches up pretty well with the 4. It's $350 for the 16GB off contract and $400 for the new 32GB version. You can pick it up from the Google Play store starting now.

Apple confirms iPhone 5S battery defect, will replace for free

Apple confirms iPhone 5S battery defect, will replace for free:
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Growth of Android tablets sales in Q3 cut Apple’s market share to less than 30%

Growth of Android tablets sales in Q3 cut Apple’s market share to less than 30%:

In IDC’s report released today covering worldwide tablet market for the third quarter, the research firm notes that the market as a whole continues to grow thanks to strong growth from Android tablets. Apple shipments remained steady during the quarter compared to last year at 14 million units in Q3, but its share of the market drops from 40.2% last year to just 29.6% this year as Samsung, Asus, Lenovo, and Acer all post significant growth for the quarter compared to the same quarter last year.
Samsung is up from 12.4% last year to 20.4% of the tablet market in Q3 2013 (a 123% increase), while Asus is up 53.9% to 3.5 million units, Lenovo sold 2.3m (up 420.7%), and Acer recorded 1.2M (up 346.3%):

Samsung once again secured the second position with shipments of about 9.7 million units. The company, which owes a measure of its tablet success to its ability to bundle them with other successful Samsung products, such as smartphones and televisions, grabbed 20.4% of the worldwide market. ASUS, which makes the Nexus 7 for Google, shipped about 3.5 million total units during the quarter for a third place finish and 7.4% market share. PC powerhouse Lenovo moved into the number four tablet spot with shipments of 2.3 million units and a 4.8% share. Finally, Acer rounded out the top five with 1.2 million units shipped and a 2.5% share. Notably, vendors from outside the top five were responsible for over one third of the shipments in 3Q13. IDC tracks dozens of tablet vendors, and this quarter “Others” represents a combination of major vendors (such as Amazon, Microsoft, HP, and Dell) and lesser-known, so-called white box vendors that typically sell ultra-low cost Android devices at often unsustainably low margins.

Making up the rest of the market, around 35.3%, is the other category with 16.8M units during the quarter. Those tablets consist of many unauthorized and inexpensive Android tablets as well as tablets from Amazon, Microsoft, HP, and Dell.
We’ll have to wait to see numbers from the current quarter to see if Apple’s launch of new iPad models will help it increase its lead during the fourth quarter. It’s bound to gain back some of its market share with sales of the new iPad Air and Retina iPad mini, but Android tablets have been gaining every quarter. Last year Apple had over 40% market share in Q4.


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Amazon's high-end smartphone to use 4 sensors for 3D gesture and eye-tracking input

Amazon's high-end smartphone to use 4 sensors for 3D gesture and eye-tracking input: The oft-rumored Amazon phone is back in the news on Wednesday; the word today is that Amazon has hooked up with a number of Asian compact camera module manufacturers to allow for 3D gesture and eye tracking input. The phone, which is scheduled for a release in the second quarter of 2014, will have new and unique methods of inputting information...