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A while back, Matt Smith announced that he would be leaving Doctor Who  at the end of this year. This left many Whovians asking, "Who is the next Doctor?" After months of anticipation and speculation, the BBC has finally answered us. They announced last Sunday that the Twelfth Doctor would be played by Peter Capaldi. Capaldi has been a Doctor Who  fan for quite some time, and he even sent the BBC a letter asking them to make more episodes when he was fifteen years-old. He appeared on the British sci-fi classic before in "The Fires of Pompeii" when David Tennant was the Doctor. Peter Capaldi is most famous for his role as Malcom Tucker on The Thick of It on BBC Two. He also starred as a W.H.O. doctor in the recent zombie-thriller World War Z . Coincidence? I think not. Most long-time Whovians have welcomed Capaldi into the Doctor Who  universe, but some newer fans are a little skeptical. At fifty-five years-old Peter Capaldi is a little older than recent Doctors, ...

Smartphone cameras have drastically changed in the past few years. Most smartphone cameras have improved so much that most people use their smartphone as their main camera. Some companies have decided to make  cameras with fewer megapixels and better sensors , while most smartphone manufactures have improved their cameras by adding more megapixels. Nokia is one of these people and they have proven it even more with their latest smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 1020. Look and Feel Nokia's Lumia line of handsets has some of the most unique hardware on the market. If you see something that looks like a Nokia phone on the street, there is a pretty good chance that it is a Nokia. Nokia pioneered the unibody polycarbonate design, and is pretty close to perfecting it. Their Lumia line is full of beautiful, colorful, and unique polycarbonate bodies. The Lumia 1020 does not stray too far away from its siblings. The 1020 comes in three gorgeous colors; matte white, black, and yellow. We ...

Many electronics are released throughout the year. Some of these products are very exciting, and many people wait to see what they bring. Products with much anticipation also bring many rumors and leaks. Some people make renders of products based on their rumored specifications to show their opinions, while others make renders to try fake them as real pictures. Companies themselves will also "leak" images of their products to create more hype for their devices. All this leads to numerous leaks of products from all sorts of companies. Here are some of the most credible rumors from this week. Moto X The Moto X has been anticipated by many tech geeks for a very long time. Ever since Google bought Motorola such a long time ago, we have been waiting for Google and Motorola to do something together. Sure the Razr M, HD, and Maxx HD now have close to stock Android skins, but you do not buy a company to make a better software experience on a few carrier cell phones. Th...

It has been over a year since we first started Mobile Tech Note. We have seen many new advances in mobile technology such as Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Android Jelly Bean, quad-core processors, and 1080p displays. Laptops have gotten even thinner, faster, crazy high-resolution displays, and they can flip and twist in all sorts of ways. To those of you that have been with us this whole year, thank you very much. If you are reading for the first time, welcome. We have some news for you. We will admit, or website did not look very good. It wasn't elegant, smooth, or pleasant to look at. It had a dated design, even though we found it during many design changes. We know that some of you out there like our writing and regularly read our articles, so we decided to update our website's look. Now our website has a brand-new flat design. The rounded green buttons looked bland so we turned them into flat, transparent black buttons with green wording. This transparent look adds a...

The iPhone has always been one of the most coveted smartphones on the market. Millions of people around the world buy them, and even more people want to buy one. Since so many people want the iPhone, but can not afford it, Apple made the iPod Touch and has sold millions of them. Many Android competitors compare their devices to the iPhone, and try to say that their device is better than it. Needless to say, Apple has has a huge success story with the iPhone. This year's iPhone mixes things up by being, design wise, a mash up of previous iPhones with the glass and aluminum body. The iPhone also gives in to recent trends by increasing its screen size. Is Apple's new design an improvement over the 4's and 4s's? Is the new four inch screen any more useful than the previous 3.5 inch screens? Find out the answers to these questions and more in our review of the iPhone 5. Hardware The iPhone has almost always been the definition of a premium design.  The original iPho...

Almost ever since Android was released, hardware manufacturers have been putting their own spin on the mobile operating system. Most hardware manufacturers have made skins for Android to differentiate themselves from other companies. Some of these skins improved Android in its early years, but they have been lagging behind stock Android lately. Most of the skins that companies put on their Android smartphones today are cartoonish, drastically different from stock Android, and slow down the phone itself. These faults with skins have made many people, tech savvy and not, want companies to do away with skins on their Android smartphones and let stock Android's light shine. Installing a stock Android ROM is a way to solve this problem, but you should not have to go through the troubles that come with flashing ROMs to get stock Android on your phone. Samsung, Google, and HTC have attempted to solve this problem by releasing versions of their flagship devices, with stock Android 4...

HTC just recently showed off their new Android flagship, the HTC One. After last year's HTC One X, S, V, SV, XV, XL, and many other variants, HTC decided to try again at making a single flagship. HTC is taking some bold steps with the One by introducing their four megapixel "UltraPixel" camera, and the new BlinkFeed home screen. Is the HTC One the Android phone that we have been waiting for? Are these bold new features enough to keep HTC a known brand? Scroll onward to read our scoop on it. The HTC One is the most beautiful Android phone on the market. Period. While the One X had a unibody polycarbonate design, the One has a machined aluminum design with polycarbonate accents. It has a back similar to the pyramid/upside-down smiley face back of the Droid DNA and J Butterfly, but the similarities end there. This rounded back design makes the One better and more comfortable to hold in your hand. The front is also made of machined aluminum, and it has dual front-facing ...