From DailyTech: Samsung has officially announced its new 7” Galaxy Tab 3, which will be available in Wi-Fi or 3G versions. The tablet is designed to be extremely portable and is narrow enough to be held in one hand.

The 7” screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 and a pixel density of...

From DailyTech: Last year at Google Inc.'s (GOOG) I/O developer conference it unveiled Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which brought Project Butter (smoother animations), improved predictive keyboards, offline voice search/questions, and Google Beam (tap to share). Many expected that Google...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, the biggest mobile phone maker in the world, is working on a special version of a rugged Galaxy S4 smartphone, which could withstand against water and dust. Ultimately Samsung wants its flagship based on Google Android operating system to compete...

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Friday confirmed that that it will formally reveal its fourth-generation Core i-series “Haswell” microprocessors on June 4, 2013, or around 3.3 quadrillion nanoseconds from today. The new family of processors will surpass old technology expectations...

From CNET News.com: It seemed inevitable, and now it's happened: For the first time ever, feature phones have taken a back seat to smartphones in terms of quantities shipped.

In the first quarter of 2013, device makers shipped 216.2 million smartphones worldwide, a volume that...

From DailyTech: LG Electronics, Inc. (KSC:066570) said during its Q1 2013 earnings release that it is preparing a flexible-screen smartphone for launch in Q4 of this year. The OLED smartphone could be the first flexible smartphone to hit the market, after years of product demoes...

From DailyTech: Amazon is looking to complete its gadget collection by releasing a television set-top box as soon as this fall.

According to BusinessWeek, the box will plug into user's television sets and allow the streaming of Amazon's video services -- such as the Video on Demand...

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics America on Thursday announced it will expand the Ativ brand to include all of its Windows based PCs. Ativ, previously the brand for the company’s Windows-based convertible PC devices, now unites all of Samsung’s Windows devices under one cohesive...

From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer this week announced the Xonar Essence STU USB external digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and headphone amplifier, based on the acclaimed design and quality of Xonar Essence ST/STX internal sound cards and going beyond their already high standards...

From CNET News.com: Microsoft and its partners have cracked the tablet market, according to a report from Strategy Analytics.

Windows 8 tablets (which include Windows RT) took 7.5 percent of the global tablet market based on operating system (OS) market share in the first quarter...