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Huawei to ship 10 million P6, says its design a year ahead of Apple, Samsung. Price only EUR 327 in China
Huawei has some big plans for its new Ascend P6 flagship. How big? To the tune of 10 million units of P6 sold this year, according to Huawei Device CEO Yu Chengdong. Which doesn’t sound like a lot if you compare to iPhone or Galaxy S sales, but is a pretty ambitious goal for a [...]
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HTC Butterfly S officially announced. Available for $765, in Asia-Pacific only
HTC Butterfly, also known as Droid DNA on Verizon, was the phone that started the company turnaround late last year, after a painful 12 month slump. After late 2011 debacle of HTC Sensation and its variants, and the failure of the original HTC One line in 2012, Droid DNA, released on Verizon late last year, [...]
HTC Desire 200 priced at $167 (EUR 124) in Taiwan. HTC gets serious about low end smartphones too
We know HTC as primarily high-end and mid-range device maker. They have repeatedly stated the lack of interest in the cheapest smart device category, and since the not so successful Wildfire series, never really ventured into the sub $200 smartphones. But things are now changing. With HTC’s confidence boosted by the success of One flagship, [...]
XT1055 might be a Motorola X Phone for US Cellular
Motorola hasn’t introduced a single new smartphone in the US since 2012. But it will do it starting “late summer”, when the long-rumored Moto X is going to be released. Motorola and Google are planning to launch several versions of the handset (also called X FON in some reports) via all major US carriers. From [...]
AT&T BlackBerry Q10 will be in stores on June 21
AT&T has just announced that the BlackBerry Q10 will be available to buy from its stores and online on June 21. This will come after pre-orders for the smartphone should have started shipping today. The Q10 has been up for pre-order at AT&T for about a couple of weeks now, and it’s finally getting ready [...]
LG Optimus G Pro reaches 1 million sales in South Korea
The LG Optimus G Pro has reached the one million sales milestone in the company’s home country of South Korea. It took the phablet about four months to achieve this number of shipments. The Optimus G Pro’s first 500,000 sales in South Korea occurred over a period of just 40 days, as we told you [...]
6.18 mm Huawei Ascend P6 finally gets official, becomes the world’s thinnest smartphone
After many weeks of leaks, both unofficial and official, the Huawei Ascend P6 has been unveiled today in London. Well, what was left to unveil wasn’t really that much, since we’ve basically known what it looks like and all its specs for a while now. Either way, it’s good to see the leaks regarding the [...]
Sony Xperia Z confirmed by T-Mobile USA, price not announced
T-Mobile USA’s Xperia Z wasn’t much of a secret lately, so it’s no surprise that today Sony and the fourth largest American carrier have finally (and officially) confirmed its upcoming release. The handset will be available exclusively at T-Mobile in the coming weeks, for a price that hasn’t been disclosed. Looking at T-Mo’s current range [...]
HTC Desire 200 officially unveiled, no launch date or price given
Seen yesterday in a leaked video, the HTC Desire 200 is now official, as it’s appeared over at HTC’s global website. The idea behind the Desire 200 is that “you don’t have to pay premium prices to get an incredible HTC smartphone.” So it’s going to be a cheap device, although HTC has yet to [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note II gets a software update (still Android 4.1.2)
Samsung has started rolling out a software update for its Galaxy Note II – the GT-N7100 version. Unfortunately, the update doesn’t bring Android 4.2.2, so the handset still runs Android 4.1.2. According to Sam Mobile, the update should be available as of now in most European countries via Kies, or over the air. It’s a [...]
Windows Phone 8 GDR2 update to arrive in July, Nokia Lumia 920 might get it first
Since its introduction in late 2012, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 has not received any major software update. Portico, aka 8.0.10211.204 or GDR1, doesn’t count – it’s minor. But this will probably change next month, when the GDR2 is expected to be rolled-out. According to Telstra, Australia’s largest mobile carrier, the expected approval date for the [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 arrives at AT&T on June 21
A few days ago, AT&T announced that it would start selling an LTE-capable version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet “in the coming weeks”. And today the carrier has finally decided to let us in on all the details of the launch. Turns out that you didn’t have to wait for weeks, plural – [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom priced in the UK
Samsung’s brand new smartphone- camera hybrid, the Galaxy S4 Zoom, will only be available starting later this summer. Until then, in case you want to know how much it will cost (at least in the UK), we can tell you now. Retailer Handtec is taking pre-orders for the S4 Zoom, asking £467.99 (€552, or $786) [...]
Oppo Find 7 to arrive in mid-September with 4,000 mAh battery, high-end specs
Oppo’s next flagship Android smartphone will apparently be called Find 7. This will be the successor to the Find 5 that was announced last year (and is pictured below). This upcoming handset was first rumored last month, and now we get a full list of rumored specs alongside the alleged name. So brace yourself. The [...]
New Samsung Galaxy S4 with LTE Advanced confirmed, could be launched this month (in Korea)
Samsung’s Mobile Chief J.K. Shin has confirmed that a Galaxy S4 version with support for LTE Advanced would be released in South Korea soon, possibly before the end of June. The S4 with LTE-A will be slightly more expensive than the regular LTE edition, using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip – probably because Samsung doesn’t [...]
HTC Desire 200 shows up on video
Here’s an unannounced HTC Android smartphone that’s going to be very cheap when it launches later this year: the Desire 200. We first heard about it last month, when details about it appeared alongside info regarding the dual SIM Desire 600 (which has been official unveiled since then). The Desire 200 now appears in a [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 might have a black version
Earlier this month, when Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 and Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, it only showed the tablets in white color versions. Since then, we’ve seen both of them in brown, and now even a black edition of the Tab 3 8.0 has been spotted. Techtastic posted some photos allegedly showing [...]
