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Norman Yan
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I am a university student with an interest of all things technology, whether it's smartphones, computers, tablets etc. Also an avid Android user, and things that I like to do when not at university or writing articles includes long walks on a beach and shepherding iSheep and hunting iWolves.

AH Primetime: Carbon-Fiber, Aluminum and Plastic Smartphones
Aug 05, 2013 · By Norman Yan
AH Primetime: Carbon-Fiber, Aluminum and Plastic Smartphones
In the current smartphone market it becomes increasingly important for manufacturers to differentiate their products.…
Aug 05, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Intel's CEO Predicts $150 Atom Powered Tablets By the End of the…
Intel is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker with 3 out of…
Jul 18, 2013 · By Norman Yan
LG Unveil The World's Thinnest Full HD Display; Presumably for Thin Phones
In the quest to make ever thinner and lighter phones, manufacturers are working overtime in…
Jul 11, 2013 · By Norman Yan
HTC Supposedly Enlists Robert Downey Jr. For Their Next Marketing Blitz
HTC was the biggest Android manufacturers a couple of years ago, unfortunately with the emergence…
Jun 21, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Motorola's Moto X Specifications Have Been Leaked
When Google spent $12.5 billion on purchasing Motorola Mobility last year users were expecting the acquisition to…
Jun 15, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung Plan to Launch 12.2-inch Tablet; Beat Apple to the Punch
Smaller 7-inch devices appear to be ruling the tablet space with the highly successful Nexus…
Jun 10, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Series Announced: 8-Inch & 10.1-Inch Launching In Early…
Hot on the heels of ASUS's slew of announcements at Computex, Samsung wishes to steal…
Jun 03, 2013 · By Norman Yan
ASUS Announces FonePad Note: 6-inch 1080p Display, Dual-core 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM
In the world of phablets only one name comes to mind, the Samsung Galaxy Note.…
Jun 03, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Seagate Demos Their New Ultra-Thin Tablet Hard Drives at Computex 2013
When it comes to computer hard drives there are only two companies that come to…
Jun 03, 2013 · By Norman Yan
New Report Suggests HTC are Looking At Liquidmetal For New Smartphone Casings
A new report suggests that HTC will be cooperating with fellow Taiwanese company Jabon International on…
May 28, 2013 · By Norman Yan
HTC Falls Into Chaos Amid Staff Departures, Manufacturing Issues and the Disastrous…
  HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer is long past its glory days as the number…
May 22, 2013 · By Norman Yan
The Nexus Q is Stilled Trapped In Limbo
The Nexus Q was one of Google's rare misses. The 'first social streaming media player'…
May 17, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Archos' New Budget 8-incher Brings Quad-Core Performance and Jelly Bean for only…
Archos is no stranger when it comes to designing Android tablets at prices that would…
May 17, 2013 · By Norman Yan
NEC introduces the world's first liquid-cooled smartphone, the Medias X
The world of liquid-cooling electronic devices is typically reserved for high end gaming desktops and…
May 16, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung accounts for 95% of all Android Device Profits, According to Analysts
When you say Android, most people think Samsung. This shouldn't come as a surprise as…
May 16, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Huawei's Gorgeous P6-U06 Leaks Out Again; Flaunting Its Brushed Metal Body
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Samsung and their continue insistence on using plastic in…
May 09, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Sony Xperia A Passes through FCC with Removable Battery
The Sony Xperia Z was released a mere 3 months ago yet its days as…
May 09, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Can Samsung Improve The Exynos 5 Octa With A Software Update?
    The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has been one the most talked about and anticipated devices…
May 05, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Sorry BlackBerry, The US Defense Department Has Approved The Use of Samsung's…
Samsung and Apple are the two biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world, yet despite their…
May 02, 2013 · By Norman Yan
AH Primetime: Why Your Next Android Tablet Will Wipe The Floor With…
When Apple brought out the iPad in 2010, they revived what was thought to be…
May 01, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung Shows Off The New Diamond Pixel Layout Behind The S4's AMOLED…
The 1080p Super AMOLED display on the Galaxy S4 is a brilliant feat of engineering.…
Apr 30, 2013 · By Norman Yan
AH Primetime: Motorola X Phone Roundup
The Motorola X Phone or Google X is the phone that promises to revolutionize the smartphone industry…
Apr 28, 2013 · By Norman Yan
AH Primetime: Top 10 Applications If You Have Too Much Money
  Do you have too much money? Did you just win the lottery three times…
Apr 27, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung Galaxy S4 Blitzes DisplayMate Mobile Display Tests
DisplayMate is one of the leading display evaluation sites and they conduct a variety of tests to…
Apr 27, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Google Is Working On Yet Another Version of Jelly Bean, Android 4.3
Despite most people expecting the next version of Android to be 5.0 Key Lime Pie,…
Apr 26, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Should You Buy The HTC One?
The HTC One is the successor to the HTC One X and One S of…
Apr 20, 2013 · By Norman Yan
The European Union Launches An Antitrust Investigation Against Android
Google faces more legal strife today as the European Union begins to scrutinize Google's Android platform as…
Apr 09, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Ematic Redefines The Budget Tablet With A $79.99 Device
Budget tablets aren't exactly a brand new concept with devices such as the Nexus 7,…
Apr 04, 2013 · By Norman Yan
New Report Shows Smartphones Being Primarily Used For Gaming.
Flurry Analystics recently released a report on how people use their smartphones. Being the fifth annual…
Apr 03, 2013 · By Norman Yan
A HTC Facebook Phone Image Leak Shows Off Three Different Colours and…
With the emerging dominance of smartphones and the mobile platform more and more companies are…
Apr 03, 2013 · By Norman Yan
HTC Explains The Reasoning Behind The One's 4 'UltraPixel' Camera
The HTC One is one of the most anticipated phones of the year. The phone…
Apr 03, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Indestructible Smartphones Just On the Horizon?
The world of smartphones is constantly changing and evolving, with new software and hardware developments…
Mar 31, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Latest Motorola X Phone Rumors Suggest A November Launch Date And Impressive…
The Motorola X Phone is one of the most anticipated phones of the year and…
Mar 25, 2013 · By Norman Yan
LG Optimus G Pro Spotted On FCC With LTE For AT&T
The Optimus G Pro is the current flagship phone for LG and is the successor…
Mar 21, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Avast! Mobile Security Giving False Positives For 'Malware'
We have long heard about the apparent malware issues that plague Android with predictions that…
Mar 21, 2013 · By Norman Yan
A Leading Expert Touts The Samsung Galaxy S IV's AMOLED Display
The Samsung Galaxy S IV is probably the most anticipated phone of the year with…
Mar 18, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung and Apple Set To Integrate Wireless Charging Into Their Devices
Wireless charging is becoming increasingly prominent in smartphones with companies such as Nokia, HTC, LG…
Mar 08, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Possible Cases for the Samsung Galaxy S IV Spotted at CeBIT
With the Samsung Galaxy S IV release only days away and the a promise an event…
Mar 07, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Newest Version of Chrome Beta Brings Password Sync and Data Compression.
  A couple of days ago we heard reports of Google working on their own…
Mar 06, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Brand New HTC Sense 5 Wallpapers Now Available For Download
HTC has had a history of designing beautiful artistic wallpapers for their phones, the announcement of the…
Mar 06, 2013 · By Norman Yan
IDC Predict Smartphone Sales to Outweigh Feature Phones
The International Data Corporation (IDC) is one of the world's leading market research, analyst and advisory firms when it…
Mar 05, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Verizon's CFO Predicts End of Phones Subsidies and LTE-Only Devices
Verizon's CFO Fran Shammo has made some bold claims during the Deutsche Bank 2013 Media,…
Mar 05, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Verizon Galaxy Nexus FINALLY Gets Android 4.2.2 Update
Verizon has't had the best track record when it comes to rolling out updates for…
Mar 05, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Charcoal Black Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Leaks Out
Last week during MWC in Barcelona, Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8.0. The device is designed…
Mar 03, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Spotted, CDMA Galaxy S IV on Antutu with Exynos 5 Octa?
The Samsung Galaxy S IV is one of the most anticipated phones of the year…
Mar 02, 2013 · By Norman Yan
MWC 2013: Will The Visually Stunning Dead Trigger 2 Be F2P &…
Madfinger Games is no stranger to making some of the most visually impressive games current available for…
Feb 28, 2013 · By Norman Yan
HTC Might Update The One X, X+, One S and Butterfly To…
The release of the new HTC One not only introduced a new phone, but a completely…
Feb 28, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung Tells Us to Get Ready for Galaxy S IV
With the expected release of the Samsung Galaxy S IV just around the corner and the invitations…
Feb 28, 2013 · By Norman Yan
European Commission Invest €50,000,000 Into 5G, Expect Results By 2020
Carriers around the world have barely had time to push out 4G LTE to their…
Feb 26, 2013 · By Norman Yan
New Firefox 20 Beta Adds New Features and Support For More Devices
Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers for desktops and has been…
Feb 26, 2013 · By Norman Yan
New Lenovo K900 with Intel Clover Trail Dual Core Gets Benched
It was only earlier on this week at MWC when Intel unveiled their new Clover…
Feb 26, 2013 · By Norman Yan
Samsung Godiva Passes Through the FCC; Hitting Verizon Real Soon?
The Samsung Godiva is a midrange device for Verizon that has seen its fair share…
Feb 26, 2013 · By Norman Yan