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TechnologyTell Review: LithiumCard slim external battery
HTC One M8 now available at Sprint, AT&T retail stores
Kickstarter find: Zabosu allows you to be a puppetmaster of people
Rumor: HTC working on budget-conscious, plastic-made One (M8) version
Cryptic Nokia codenames leak out, including 'Ara', 'Superman' and 'Tesla'
Rumor: iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 both coming in Q3 with Touch ID, A8 chips
Apple still King in the tablet arena, Samsung trailing close behind
Evidence piles up in support of LG G3′s purported Quad HD display
Samsung Galaxy S5 Developer Edition now official, 'coming soon' to Verizon
Sprint intros waterproof, shatterproof WeGo handset for kids
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TechnologyTell Review: LithiumCard slim external battery

I'm always checking out the latest crowd-funded projects for things that are new and neat. When I came across the LithiumCard project, I instantly knew it was going to be a winner. How could it not? The thing is gorgeous!

When the good people at LinearFlux emailed me, wanting to know if I'd like to check out a LithiumCard for my own, I couldn't type 'yes' fast enough. How could I refuse a pre-production prototype? Prototype! So for all you project backers, eagerly awaiting your production model, have patience where it's due. This is the real deal.

Design

If someone didn't know any better, they might think that the LithiumCard is a sleek, modern business card holder. Heck, if it were a business card holder, I'd still expect people get one in droves anyway. I would. But it's just a really thin, complete charging solution. Thin about 3 nickels kind of thin.

Drooling yet? The packing quality is top-notch.

One end has the flip-out USB port along with either a MicroUSB or Lightning charge tip. The other end has a power button to check battery level and initiate charging. There is only one LED indicator, disguised smartly as the line that separates the text between Linearflux and LithiumCard on the metal face. The LED blinks while charging out, making it easy to tell when it's good and done.

As for construction quality, this LithiumCard is pretty tough. Short of splitting it in half to see what's on the inside, there really isn't much that one can do to damage it. Certainly not wear and tear through normal use, even if normal use means to slip it in your back pocket and sit on it often.

The flexible, rubberized cable is made very well too. Combined with how the Micro USB plug clicks right into the bottom of a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, my smartphone can suspend from the cable without breaking loose. Not all Micro USB cables I own can do the same without having a device slip from the tip's clips.

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HTC One M8 now available at Sprint, AT&T retail stores

The much awaited HTC One M8 is now available. We learned that its price dropped to $150 on-contract with Sprint and Verizon. Initially, it's only Verizon selling the smartphone in stores but as of April 10, Sprint also started to carry the phone. AT&T still sells the phone online. T-Mobile will start selling the handset more »

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Kickstarter find: Zabosu allows you to be a puppetmaster of people

That's a cute logo, Zabosu. Very cute.

Chalk this one up to creative "imagineering." A startup called Zabosu is currently crowdsourcing funds for a proposed service that would let you "actually take control of another person, anywhere in the world there's a 4G cellular signal."

As far as we can tell, this is not enabled via human trafficking, hypnosis or mind-altering drugs. Rather, it's an Android app. And the person being controlled gets paid for the privilege. It's an interesting idea with all kinds of potential…

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Rumor: HTC working on budget-conscious, plastic-made One (M8) version

It's no secret HTC has at least two One (M8) derivatives in the pipeline, a Mini and Max flavor, but what if I were to tell you there's also a plastic-built spin-off in the works? No way, you say?

I get it, it sounds far-fetched, since the Taiwanese have always insisted on their flagships' superior build quality versus the…

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Cryptic Nokia codenames leak out, including 'Ara', 'Superman' and 'Tesla'

Nokia has been quite the busy bee of late, even going so far as to branch out beyond smartphones built on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, but by the looks of it, the Lumia product portfolio expansion isn't set to stop anytime soon. Or the Asha spread.

The X line? I guess anything's possible, however Nokia's Android dive was probably a one-off affair, what with MS likely to close the…

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Rumor: iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 both coming in Q3 with Touch ID, A8 chips

Samsung might be mocking Apple now for how the "Retina thingy" on the iPads delivers inferior screen resolution to its latest Galaxy Tabs, but Cupertino may well have the last laugh come September.

According to reputable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that's when the next-generation iPads will see daylight. Well, he doesn't spell out the…

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Apple still King in the tablet arena, Samsung trailing close behind

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We've been saying Android is King but in the tablet game, Apple is still the winner. More than 70 million iPads were sold last year alone while Samsung only sold 37 million. The Cupertino company holds about 30 percent of the market but Samsung is trailing close behind. Looks like the tablet battle is just between that two tech giants which means it will only get worse year after year.

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Evidence piles up in support of LG G3′s purported Quad HD display

Not that there was much doubt still floating around, but two new stories relating to the forthcoming LG G3 prove Quad HD display resolution is the next must-have feature for high-end smartphones. At least the G2 makers seem dead set on moving past Full HD, and odds are everyone from Samsung to HTC to Sony will follow suit before long.

Expected out in…

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Developer Edition now official, 'coming soon' to Verizon

Available starting today in roughly 125 countries both with carrier subsidies and in unlocked flavors, Samsung's Galaxy S5 will soon get its own Developer Edition. Only on Verizon for starters, though we expect other mobile operators stateside to follow suit before long.

Then again, "before long" is a pretty abstract notion, as the Verizon…

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Sprint intros waterproof, shatterproof WeGo handset for kids

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So Sprint has already launched the Samsung Galaxy S5. The mobile carrier is still sensitive to the needs of other sectors of the society...i.e. the kids. A new mobile phone was recently announced by Sprint that parents would be glad to give to their kids. Officially called as the WeGo, this phone can be mom and dad's best friend whenever their kids are away from them.

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