All Hopes on Windows 8.2 for a Full-Featured Start Button

Windows 8.1 is just around the corner and it’s pretty obvious by now that Microsoft’s new Start button won’t do anything else besides taking users to the Start screen. Windows 8 adopters, on the other hand, call for Microsoft to either bring back the traditional Start button and a Start Menu, or improve the existing version. Of course, all hopes are on the next Windows 8 update, presumably called Windows 8.2, which could feature several other major improvements. “The designers of the ‘reintroduced’ Start button must have realized they weren't really giving us what we had asked for. I half suspect they purposefully left out a "hide Start button" option so that when we inevitably ask for the option to go back to the Windows 8 design,...

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Market Availability of Exynos / Snapdragon Galaxy Note III Models Leaks

Galaxy Note III, the upcoming large smartphone that Samsung Electronics should add to its popular Galaxy Note series, is expected to land in various markets out there with a different processor inside, depending on the local connectivity options. To be more precise, Samsung is expected to announce one handset model with a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 processor inside, as well as one with the Samsung Exynos 5420 Octa-Core CPU. This is not something new to Samsung, as the company made a similar move with other flagship devices before Galaxy Note III, packing them with specific processors depending on the market they were targeted at. According to a recent article on SamMobile, specific details on countries that will receive...

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ASUS MeMOPad, a Quad-Core High-End Tablet

When it comes to the tablet market, there are a lot of competitors and a lot of tablets of all sorts of shapes, sizes, specifications and so on. Manufacturers such as Samsung or Apple are fighting quite a battle for supremacy through operating systems, specifications, form factor and so on. Deciding to enter the fray is ASUS, with its new MeMO Pad FHD 10 LTE, that will be joining the high-end device class and probably price range. While looking quite similar to the MeMO Pad FHD 10, which comes with a dual-core processor, this particular device has LTE connectivity, a quad-core CPU and a 1920 x 1200-pixel IPS display. As far as the operating system goes, it will be coming with Google's Android OS, version 4.2.2. Other specs include...

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