HTC First Facebook smartphone won’t be making it to the UK
The HTC First, the Facebook phone that we’ve been waiting for years to finally become real, has gone from $99.99 to $0.99 to being rumored to get canned in just about one month. And it all seemed to be going so well during Facebook’s announcement in early April… To add insult to injury, the HTC [...]
Google plans to include haptic/tactile feedback engine into Android to… make their ads more effective
Looking from the business model point of view, Google is an advertising company. All their apps and services, almost all the technologies they are working on, are geared for one purpose only – get as much pageviews as possible to display ads on, and get as much information about you, to show the most actionable [...]
Samsung ships 10 million Galaxy S4s in 26 days. SGS4 should become world’s best selling smartphone in Q3
Just as promised earlier, Samsung announced that it shipped 10 million Galaxy S4s in less than a month. In 26 days, to be exact. We already knew that sales of SGS4 were off to a great start. They sold 4 million devices during the opening weekend, then another 2 million in ten more days, and now [...]
Samsung and Lenovo are leading smartphone vendors in China, Apple ranks 6th
Since Samsung is the incontestable leader of the global smarpthone market (32.7% of all shipments in Q1 2013), it’s no surprise that the South Korean company is also the largest smartphone vendor in China. However, its market share isn’t as high as worldwide there. According to Analysys International, Samsung shipped 17.3% of all smartphones in [...]
Nokia compares its Lumia 925 to iPhone 5, Galaxy S4, HTC One and Sony Xperia Z (photography skills)
Nokia’s Lumia 925 is certainly a great camera phone – thanks to the company’s PureView technology, optical image stabilization, the new Smart Camera software, and the Carl Zeiss lens. But just how good is it, really? Well, Nokia claims it’s the best you can get, especially when it comes to low-light photography. Nokia has posted [...]
Asus FonePad gets better CPU, more storage
The Asus FonePad just got a hardware upgrade. In its native Taiwan, Asus launched a new version of the tablet today, one that comes with a beefed-up processor and more internal storage space. Whereas the original FonePad announced back in February comes with a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z2420 processor, the new and improved model [...]
ZTE Grand X2 In announced: Intel Atom Z2580, Android Jelly Bean
ZTE has announced yet another Android smartphone powered by a dual-core Intel processor – about a month after unveiling the ZTE Geek. The new smartphone is called ZTE Grand X2 In and, just like the Geek, it comes with a Intel Atom Z2580 chipset (aka Clover Trail+). Unlike the previous handset, which sports a 5 [...]
Samsung shipped 4 million Galaxy S4 in 4 April days, 6 million by May 10th. On track to sell 10 million by May’s end
Everyone knew that Galaxy S4 will be a big seller for Samsung. Now we are starting to get some inklings of just how big it’ll be. And it seems, that with Galaxy S4, Samsung is getting into Apple’s kind of opening weekend sales territory. According to Korea’s ChosunIlbo, who quotes an unnamed Samsung exec, they [...]
Some future iPhone to have sapphire crystal capacitive Home button with built-in fingerprint sensor
Let’s just get one thing clear first. If this year’s mobile phone release from Apple will be an iPhone 5S, then there’s absolutely no reason to think its outer shell won’t be exactly identical to the iPhone 5. That’s what Apple does when outing an S model, so why would it change? Then again, although [...]
Amazon reportedly working on two Kindle phones, one to have 3D screen
An Amazon Kindle-branded smartphone has been making the rounds in rumorland for years now. Yet it’s nowhere to be seen just yet. Then again, Apple was said to be working on a tablet years before the iPad was actually unveiled (and the same goes for the iPhone), so simply because we’ve heard so many rumors [...]
New HTC Butterfly 2 coming in Q3?
The HTC Butterfly sequel that we told you about last month might be launched in the third quarter of the year (July, August, September). This is what DigiTimes says, noting that the new handset should feature a Full HD display of unknown size, BlinkFeed, BoomSound speakers, and an Ultrapixel rear camera – all these are [...]
Apple’s next high-end iPhone might be called iPhone 6, not iPhone 5S
Apple’s iPhone launch history doesn’t include too many surprises. Looking at the 3G – 3GS and 4 – 4S models, now, after the iPhone 5 everyone expects to Cupertino company to introduce an iPhone 5S. However, the name of the new flagship smartphone from Apple could be iPhone 6. British website Stuff.tv has unveiled a [...]
HTC First (AT&T’s Facebook phone) now costs $0.99. It couldn’t compete with Samsung’s Galaxy line and Apple’s cheap iPhones
HTC First, aka the long-rumored Facebook phone, was launched in the US on April 12 as an AT&T-exclusive device. The handset’s initial price was $99.99 on contract, or $450 off contract. Starting today, AT&T is selling it for just $0.99 on contract, or $350.99 sans agreement. What made AT&T slash the price so drastically, after [...]
Next Microsoft Surface tablet might have 7.5″ screen, retail for $399
The next Microsoft Surface tablet (or one of the upcoming models) has been detailed today, in a bit of info that kind of contradicts what we heard yesterday about Microsoft’s tablet plans. The next Surface will be smaller than the current 10.6-inch models. The new tablet will have a 7.5-inch 1,400×1,050 touchscreen. Mass production is [...]
Verizon’s Nokia Lumia 928 to be offered with $25 Windows Phone Store credit. 6 inch Lumia phablet coming in Q4?
Nokia will announce a new product on May 14 in London, and it’s very likely for that to be the rumored Lumia 928. In the US, the Lumia 928 should be available via Verizon Wireless before the end of this month – as several leaked images have previously suggested. Now EVleaks says Verizon and Nokia [...]
iPhone 5 and Sony Xperia Z are top sellers in Japan
While Samsung is the world’s largest smartphone maker at the moment, it doesn’t seem to be too successful in Japan. Of course, the Japanese smarthpone market is a bit weirder than the rest, and that’s because local vendors – Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Fujitsu, NEC – are all quite popular there. According to the latest report [...]
After iPhone 5S, Apple could launch an iPhone 6 with larger display (in June 2014)
Although Apple’s plans regarding its seventh-generation iPhone (most likely called iPhone 5S) are far from being well-known, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek has ventured to talk about the eight-generation iPhone, which should be released in 2014, possibly under the name iPhone 6. According to Financial Post, Misek assumes that Apple’s going to launch the iPhone 6 [...]
New Nokia Lumia 920 ad makes fun of Apple and Samsung’s Galaxy line
Ever since it launched the Lumia 920 last year, Nokia has tried to lure possible customers with the fact that this handset would allow them to be different from all those iPhone and Samsung Galaxy users out there. The latest Lumia 920 ad, posted over at the official Windows Phone YouTube channel, continues to suggest [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 launched in 60 countries
Samsung announced that its new Galaxy S4 flagship smartphone has been launched in 60 countries – over the weekend and today (when the company unveiled its latest affordable tablet, the 7 inch Galaxy Tab 3). The S4 was released in South Korea first (on Friday), and now it’s available in pretty much all major markets [...]
New Apple iPad Mini 2 with Retina Display not coming until October? Cheaper model could be launched earlier
We’ve been hearing about a new iPad Mini for quite a while now, and everyone seems to believe the tablet is going to be available sometime in September. However, it might not happen that soon. Apple Insider has obtained a research note from KGI Securities, which suggests that the iPad Mini 2 will not enter [...]
