Sony intros new Xperia M and Xperia M Dual with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Sony has officially announces its sixth new Android smartphone for this year: the Xperia M – which is also the smallest among its new handsets. Reportedly designed to “bring Sony experiences to a new market and price point,” the Xperia M features a 4 inch scratch-resistant display with 854 x 480 pixels, and supports Sony’s [...]
Boosted by One, HTC’s sales jump almost 50% in May. HTC One is holding strong against Samsung’s Galaxy S4
HTC has published its May monthly sales report a bit early. And it looks amazingly good. It seems that HTC One was the breakthrough the Taiwanese company so desperately needed. Now, that they figured out the production problems, and are rolling out the One flagship around the world, sales are taking off at a great [...]
LG may already be testing Nexus 5 prototype after all. Sold 3 million Nexus 4s to date
Despite some info to the contrary, LG may be working on the Nexus 5 after all. According to popular Korean site Daum.net, which does get quite a few Korean gadgets right, LG’s Mobile Communications division has already produced a prototype Nexus 5 device. The next generation Nexus has been in testing inside LG for the [...]
Moto X may transform Motorola into Google X type advanced project lab, with very strong product focus
Moto X phone is real and is coming this fall. Motorola certainly took its time to produce the first smartphone after it was bought by Google. The acquisition deal closed a year ago, and its now been almost 9 months since Motorola released any new device to the market. In the meantime, it more or [...]
Huawei Ascend W2 shows up in leaked press pic. May cost $290 at launch
As Windows Phone GDR2 update release approaches, WP vendors are readying early summer refresh to their smartphone portfolios. We already know about Nokia Lumia 925, which should start shipping in a few weeks, Samsung should announce their new WP device on June 20th. And today we get the news about Huawei Ascend W2 handset, in [...]
Specs of Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom with 10x optical zoom and waterproof SGS4 Active leak before June 20th launch
June 20th update to Samsung’s summer smartphone portfolio is shaping up to be one really big event. I am not sure if Samasung Galaxy Ace 3 and Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 we told you about yesterday, will make it. They might be just too plain and low end to warrant anything more than a simple press release. But [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini running on Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 CPU shows up in Netherlands
By the amount of things that have already been leaked about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, I wouldn’t have expected any surprises before its June 20th announcement. But it seems we do have one. And that’s the CPU Galaxy S4 mini runs on. It has long been rumored that Samsung will use its own [...]
Samsung phone ASP rose 30% to $222 in Q1 2013, LG’s – 15% to $182. Galaxy S3/Note and Optimus G/G Pro a big help
If I had to choose two most successful Android vendors today – they would be Samsung and LG. Samsung’s dominance is obvious – they are shipping ~42% of all Android handsets and rake in 95% of all Android profits. LG, is a bit of a surprise. While far far behind Samsung, their fortunes have been [...]
Amazon Kindles priced cheaply in China. Kindle Fire HD will go for $225-240, Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi for $138
We already knew that Amazon is almost ready to storm the Android tablet strongholds all around the world with its Kindle Fire tablets. They will become available in 170 countries around the world in about two weeks. What we didn’t know yet, was how Amazon will go about it. And will Amazon will be able [...]
Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 and Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 are ready to ship in June
Samsung continues to churn their Android devices in all shapes and sizes, and at any price point. Hi-Tech.mail.ru reports that two new low end devices from Sammy, one tablet and one smartphone, are almost ready ship and will show up in stores in June. The smartphone – Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 (GT-S7270), the next in [...]
Meizu MX3 PCB prompts speculation about 5.5″ or bigger screen
Among the new Chinese smartphone upstarts like Oppo, Xiaomi, Meizu, Coolpad, etc; – Meizu has been around, or at least known outside China, the longest. Back in 2007, branching out of mp3 players, Meizu caused quite a stir in phone geek circles by announcing a blatant copy of iPhone, only 4 days after Steve Jobs [...]
Huawei Ascend P6 to retail for 1999 Yuan. About US$330, or 250 Euro
The new Huawei flagship – ultra thin Ascend P6 is almost here. And we also know almost everything about it – the looks, the specs and the announcement day. Which, most likely, is June 18th, when Huawei is holding a press event in London. The only thing missing is the price of the device, and [...]
iPhone 5S display may double pixel count to 1.5 million, come with iPad mini like narrow bezel
Chinese sites are ablaze with a new set of iPhone 5S rumors today. They seem to have originated with Wei Feng Network, and say that the new iPhone will come with a much narrower bezel, adopting the iPad mini like design. The display size will remain the same 4 inches, but Apple plans to double [...]
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 [...]
Look out Google, Amazon gets ready to hijack Android with Appstore in 200 countries, Kindle Fire in 170
Lookout Google. Amazon just got really serious about hijacking your Android. Amazon has been playing with its Amazon Android App Store and then Kindle Fire tablet for several years now. But as long as its Appstore and Kindle Fire tablet running forked version of Android were available only in U.S., and later very few limited [...]
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 [...]
7.9” Microsoft Surface RT may come in June, should cost $249-299
To say that Microsoft Surface and its trimmed down Windows RT tablet OS was not a success, is an understatement. Despite all the efforts and money the Redmond company poured into the project, according to most observers, they managed to sell less than a million of new devices. But Microsoft is nothing if not persistent. [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition – stock Android phone very few will care about
Well, the last minute rumor about Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition with stock Android was true. Google just announced that this new phone will be available on June 26th. It will have the latest version of clean Android, will receive the OS updates together with other Nexus phones, will have all the Galaxy S4 specs [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini shows up again in a batch of live pics
For two years in a row, Samsung has been extremely good at keeping their newest flagship more or less secret almost until the launch day. Yes, bits of info dribbled here and there weeks before the launch, but we’ve usually been kept in the dark about the newest device as a whole. It seems that [...]
Mobile device wrapped in electronic display. Erick Tseng’s crazy Android phone idea from 2009
Back in 2009, when Android was a scrappy, buggy mobile OS upstart, before Nexus One, before its growth surge of 2010-2011, and before Larry Page got so obsessed about own hardware, that he bought Motorola; Google’s mobile team was playing with a lot of interesting ideas. Like building, or at least designing, some crazy looking [...]
