Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 priced at $200. New Galaxy S4 Mega to join the S4 Active and S4 Mini?
When Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, it said the new tablet would be affordable. However, it didn’t provide an exact price. Now, if New York-based retailer Adorama is correct, it looks like the 8GB version of the tablet costs just $199.99. Of course, the Tab 3 7.0 can’t be bought anywhere in the [...]
Nokia Lumia 928 officially bringing more Windows Phone 8 to Verizon on May 16
Nokia and Verizon Wireless have finally announced the Lumia 928 – a new Windows Phone 8 handset that we’ve been seeing around quite a lot lately. So, after all, that May 14 event in London will be for another Lumia product. As expected, the Lumia 928 will be exclusively sold by Verizon in the US, [...]
Asus ships 3 million tablets, touts the future of Windows slates. Acer still hates WinRT, readies 8” Win8 Iconia Tab
Some PC vendors are getting a hang of what it takes to make a competitive tablets. The most successful among them is Asustek. Asus just reported their first quarter earnings and they have sold 3 million tablets during the last three months. With no Chinese New Year Gift Giving Season, or the new version of [...]
AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note gets to taste Android 4.1 Jelly Bean too starting today
Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Note II isn’t the only device graced with receiving an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean today. It’s been joined by AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy Note – the original model from 2011, which AT&T released in February last year. Unfortunately though, AT&T and Samsung have gone with a tethered update this time around. [...]
Nokia PureView 808, 700, X7 and others receive software updates
While Symbian, known as Belle OS in its last days, is dead for while, it’s not yet completely buried. Nokia has started rolling out software updates for most of its Symbian smartphones that were released in 2011 and 2012. Included are the PureView 808 (with its awesome 41MP camera), the Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia [...]
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 and Mega 5.8 now official, launching in May with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on board
Samsung has finally announced its two new Galaxy Mega 6.3 and Galaxy Mega 5.8 Android devices – initially believed to be called Galaxy Fonblet. According to Samsung, the motivation behind these huge devices is that they can “offer the latest smartphone features with an extensive viewing experience.” Both run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, and come [...]
Nokia tablet with integrated mechanical keyboard/cover shows up in patent app
According to various execs, Nokia has been exploring ways of how they could enter the tablet market for a long time. The problem was finding a differentiated way to do that, instead of releasing just another good looking slab with big touchscreen. So far Nokia didn’t succeed and we are still waiting for the first [...]
iPhone with OLED displays on the sides, fully flexible iDevices show up in Apple’s patent apps
Apple is doing some serious R&D in flexible displays, other flexible electronics. And their efforts are now starting to show up in public with increasing frequency, via various patent apps. Few weeks ago we told you about Apple’s iWatch patent app and the iPhone with wrap-around display. Before that we had those crazy ideas of integrating microphones and [...]
AT&T intros Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with LTE, will sell it for $249
AT&T has just announced the upcoming availability of a 4G LTE-ready Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9. The tablet will be released on April 5 (this Friday), normally costing $399 with a new 2-yr data plan – however, AT&T says that customers who buy it “will receive up to $150 off, for a limited time, lowering [...]
Sprint Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update now available
Sprint’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, affectively named Epic 4G Touch, is now getting into the (still rather exclusive) Android Jelly Bean club. That’s because the manufacturer together with the Now Network have released the update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch. This update is unfortunately [...]
LG, Pantech want in on smart watch buzz too. LG says it also has its own Google Glass type of thing
The first solid rumors that Apple is working on iWatch got everyone scrambling to get in on the smart watch buzz. First – Samsung joined in with a semi-official announcement of its own smart watch efforts. Late last week we’ve heard that Google’s Android team is developing wrist wearable device too. Now LG and Pantech [...]
Samsung is working on its own iWatch. Here are some smart watch designs they explored over the last decade
Well, it didn’t take long. Only 5 weeks since the first rumors about Apple’s smart wearable iWatch device appeared, we now learn that Samsung is busy developing its own smart watch, too. As Samsung Mobile’s executive vice president told Bloomberg: “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long. We are working very hard to [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 now official with 5″ 1080p Super AMOLED screen, 1.6 GHz octa-core CPU, 13 MP camera
It’s finally happened. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is now official, Roman numerals be damned (yes, Samsung has dropped those it seems – the teasers were in fact revealing the change to come). Almost all of the specs that were rumored over the past few days turned out to be correct, in case you’re wondering. And [...]
Windows Phone 8 wins PC Mag Readers’ Choice satisfaction award, Apple iOS, Android and BlackBerry follow
Although Windows Phone 8’s smartphone market share is still insignificant when compared to Android and iOS, the future looks somewhat bright for Microsoft – at least if we’re checking out the most recent Readers’ Choice satisfaction award given by PC Mag. According to the publication and its survey respondents, Windows Phone 8 is the top [...]
As Galaxy S4 launch approaches, has Samsung surpassed Apple where it matters most — Marketing Hype?
The real smartphone wars are nothing more than a battle between Samsung and Apple. No one else is even close. Blackberry and Windows Phone barely rise to the level of also-ran. Operating systems such as Tizen, Jolla, Aliyun, Firefox Mobile et al appear to be nothing more than tools for hobbyists. Across nearly every single [...]
Foxconn knew about Samsung’s plan to invest in Sharp. Foxconn-Samsung partnership in the making?
Yesterday Sharp announced that Samsung bought a bit more than 3% of its shares, paying around $111 million, and in the process becoming the Japanese company’s biggest shareholder that isn’t a financial institution. Now this is good news for troubled Sharp, as well as for Samsung, since its investment secured it a steady supply of [...]
Smartphones will outsell feature phones in 2013, for the first time ever
This year may be a very important one. It may just be the year in which global smartphone sales will be more than feature phone sales. At least that’s what well known analyst house IDC thinks. The smartphone market share should be 50.1% of the total pie of phone sales worldwide. That’s only barely past [...]
My son switched from iPhone to Android HTC One X. What do I do now?
This is war! Despite everything I taught him, my fifteen-year-old son chose an Android device – the HTC One X – over the iPhone. Despite the fact that I told him the iPhone is the best. No, despite the fact that iPhone is the best. Why would he do that? Teenage rebellion? The other kids [...]
Fighting cheap Androids. Seppo Aaltonen, Nokia phone Strategy Lead: ~9 million apps downloaded to S40 each day #MWC13
Nokia mobile phone division was the only part of Nokia that managed to stay more or less sustainably profitable through most of 2011-2012 transition. But without its own set of challenges. For the last 2 years Q1 was particularly difficult quarter for Nokia’s low end handset division. In 2011 Nokia was late to react to [...]
MWC 2013: Dual SIM Nokia 301 and ultra-cheap Nokia 105 unveiled
Apart from announcing the Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 WP8 handsets, Nokia has also introduced two new featurephones at MWC today. These are both candybars, being called Nokia 301, and Nokia 105. The 301’s highlight feature is its 3.2MP rear camera with “clever software features” (like panoramic photos, sequential shots, self-portrait mode, and self timer). [...]
