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iPad 2 carries bill of materials of US$326.60, says IHS iSuppli

With the second-generation iPad, Apple has held the line on the bill of materials (BOM), maintaining virtually the same costs as the first version of the device, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis of the product    

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Japan earthquake: NAND flash supply to tighten

Market observers have predicted that NAND flash memory, which is widely used in smartphones, tablets and other digital consumer electronics, will be in tight supply due to supply concerns caused by the recent e    

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iPad 2 line watch: the few, the proud, the soaking wet

Last night you couldn't walk down the street in New York City without becoming seriously soaked and breaking your umbrella, but you didn't really think that would stop those crazy Apple fans, did you?    

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Symbian UI overhaul scheduled for the fall?

While Symbian might be good as dead to most Engadget readers, Nokia must continue supporting the millions of S^ wearing faithful until it can fully transition to a Windows Phone smartphone shop in 2012. So we w    

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China market: China Mobile occupies over 70% of 4Q10 handset-based e-mail users, says Analysys

In the China market, there were 54.22 million active users of handset-based e-mail services at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, with China Mobile accounting for 70.75% of the number, according to China-ba    

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Sequans powers new HTC WiMAX smartphone for KDDI Japan

4G chipmaker Sequans has announced that it is the provider of the WiMAX chip inside the HTC EVO WiMAX smartphone that was announced in Japan on February 28 by KDDI and HTC.    

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Motorola Xoom update rolling out starting tonight, brings 'required enhancements' for Flash 10.2

In the spirit of issuing software updates with the sole purpose of preparing for more software updates, Motorola says there's about to be some brand new firmware for the Xoom, which will cross the Ts and d    

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Glass substrate demand growth for mobile PCs exceeds LCD TVs, says CDTT president

Corning Display Technologies Taiwan (CDTT) president Alan Eusden has indicated that glass substrate demand growth for the mobile PC segment will reach 18% in 2010-2014, exceeding the demand growth for LCD TV, a    

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iPad 2 review

To say Apple's iPad 2 is an easy tablet to review is somewhat of an understatement. The device, a follow up to last year's wildly successful (and currently market-defining) iPad, is nearly identical w    

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ComScore: Android leapfrogs BlackBerry among US smartphone subscribers to take first place in market share

Last time we checked in with ComScore's report on smartphone platform market share among US subscribers three months ago, Android was doing a little happy dance as it overtook iOS for the number two spot o    

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