HTC Droid DNA free at Verizon until May 21
If you’re interested in grabbing the HTC device that had a 1080p Full HD touchscreen way before the One, here’s something for you. Verizon has started a promo on the Droid DNA. It’s not the simplest thing in the world, but it’s not the most complicated either. And the thing you need to remember here [...]
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 [...]
White LG Nexus 4 shows up in Dubai ahead of Google I/O. May not get to Moscone Center in time
With Google annual I/O developer conference opening later today, mobile side of it is likely to be a bit disappointing. From all things that already leaked and that didn’t leak, its pretty much clear that there won’t be a new major Android update announced today. The best we can expect – is a new point [...]
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 [...]
Galaxy S4 Google Edition gets Samsung out of Nexus phone program, for early Android access run-around
There will be no new Google Nexus phone announced at Google I/O later today. But the will something better. A Google Edition of what is arguably the best or second best smartphone on the market – Samsung Galaxy S4, running the stock version of latest Android. There’s no word which stock Android version will that [...]
Liquid E2 might help Acer sell 2 million Android phones this year
Expected to become available in Europe starting this month, the Acer Liquid E2 is one of the cheapest quad-core Android Jelly bean handsets ever. Acer will ask only €229 (about $296) for it. This low price is possible thanks in no small part to the quad-core MediaTek MTK 6589 CPU that’s powering the E2. That [...]
BlackBerry Q10 arrives in the US in June. Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile detail their launches
The BlackBerry Q10 was announced alongside the Z10 all the way back in January. The Q10 is the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone to have a physical QWERTY keyboard (but definitely not the last, as the Q5 unveiled today has proven). It’s been out in the UK for a few weeks now, but not so in [...]
BlackBerry Q5 officially announced as the affordable device we’ve known as the R10 or R-series
After quite a number leaks over the past few weeks, the BlackBerry R-series smartphone, the one we thought would be called R10, is now official. Only it’s actually been named the BlackBerry Q5. So there goes everyone’s assumption that the ’10′ in Z10 and Q10 stands for the OS version they both run. The Q5 [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note III confirmed for the second half of 2013? Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 LTE listed at Bluetooth SIG
We’ve reported more than once that the Galaxy Note III would be unveiled in September. And it looks like that will happen. According to an internal document uncovered by Oled-display.net, Samsung has confirmed a new 6 inch flagship model that’s “scheduled for released in H2 2013”. This, of course, has to be the Note III. [...]
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 [...]
Sony Xperia ZR won’t be released in the UK, Germany, France. Xperia L available now in some countries
It looks like Sony’s latest waterproof Android smartphone, the Xperia ZR (officially announces yesterday) will not be launched in several important European markets. Clove is reporting that Sony has no plans to introduce the ZR in the UK, while Xperia Blog has discovered that this is also the case for France and Germany. For the [...]
Nokia’s Lumia 925 (Catwalk) WP8 handset now official. T-Mobile, Vodafone, China Mobile will launch it
As expected, today in London Nokia has announced the Lumia 925 (previously known as Catwalk) – its second new high-end Windows Phone 8 handset for 2013, after the Lumia 928. The 925 is Nokia’s first WP8 handset that uses a metal case – an aluminum one, to be exact. It’s also the first to feature [...]
Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy S4 will be out on May 23, earlier than expected
Verizon’s variation of the Samsung Galaxy S4 has been up for pre-order for quite a long time. And for some of that time, an actual release date of the device was unknown. It then got out that May 30 would be the big date starting when the phone would be available in stores and online [...]
Nokia Lumia 925 (Catwalk) gets unofficially unveiled through leaked images
Once again, on the eve of a smartphone unveiling event official press renders of the device get leaked. This time we’re talking about what should be Nokia’s first Windows Phone device not to be clad entirely in plastic (nay, polycarbonate). It’s going to be called Lumia 925. It was known for a long while solely [...]
Sony Xperia L arrives in the UK on May 15
The Sony Xperia L will become available in the UK, SIM-free and unlocked, on May 15 – so in just a couple of days. And a bit later than expected. This device was announced in mid-March alongside the Xperia SP, and now it’s finally ready to go on sale, at least in the UK. You [...]
New Nokia Catwalk (Lumia 925) possibly teased in new video
While Verizon’s Nokia Lumia 928 was announced last week, Nokia didn’t officially reveal anything related to the rumored Lumia 925, aka Catwalk. However, this particular Windows Phone 8 handset is likely the one that Nokia is teasing in a brand new video uploaded on YouTube yesterday. Sadly, the video doesn’t reveal much. It’s letting us [...]
Waterproof Sony Xperia ZR now official, lets you shoot Full HD video underwater
Sony has announced a brand new Android smartphone – the Xperia ZR, which can be considered an improved, waterproof version of the Xperia SP (the handsets have similar sizes: 131 x 67.4 x 10.4 mm vs. 130.6 x 67.1 x 10 mm). The Xperia ZR is IP58-certified, providing “the highest level of water-resistance”, and allowing [...]
Blue Samsung Galaxy S4 spotted in Japan. S4 Mini appears in live photos
While the Samsung Galaxy S III is available in no less than six color versions (Pebble blue, Marble white, Sapphire black, Amber brown, Titanium grey and Garnet red), the new Galaxy S4 can be purchased just in black, or white. These are the only colors announced by Samsung for its latest flagship smartphone – but [...]
Xiaomi Red Rice in the works with 4.7″ HD screen, $130 price. Images leaked
In terms of affordable smartphones, Xiaomi’s already got the MI2A on the market, launched exactly one month ago alongside the new version of its flagship device. But it turns out the $240 MI2A isn’t cheap enough for Xiaomi. So the Chinese phone maker with a cult-like following is working on another handset that will be [...]
Oppo Find 5 successor comes in September with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, 8 MP front camera
The Oppo Find 5 is right now the only 5-inch phablet with a 1080p Full HD touchscreen made by a smaller Chinese company (read: not Huawei, ZTE, or Lenovo) that’s officially available internationally. And sales are apparently going well. Understandably though, Oppo is already working on a successor to the Find 5. It’s unclear what [...]
