By Jacob Kleinman |
HTC is preparing to release a scaled down version of its HTC One flagship smartphone, Bloomberg reports, citing two sources “familiar with the matter.” The long-rumored handset, also called the M4, will reportedly go on sale this August; photos of the 4.3-inch HTC One mini leaked earlier this month.…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Samsung officially announced the rumored Galaxy S4 Zoom in a press release today, confirming the specs we’ve been hearing for weeks. The smartphone-camera hybrid features a 16-megapixel camera and is the first handset to offer 10x optical zoom. Samsung’s press release does not reveal when…
By Jacob Kleinman |
BlackBerry is hoping for market success with the Q10 (hands-on) and Z10 (review) handsets by offering consumers the choice between a physical QWERTY keyboard with 3.1-inch display and a full-sized 4.2-inch touch-screen device, respectively, but the fragmentation of BB10 could be the company’s undoing according…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Another leaked Galaxy Note III photo surfaced today, this one comparing the phablet prototype to two smaller handsets which emphasize its massive display. The newest picture of the Galaxy Note III was published by gaming blog GforGames after arriving in the site’s inbox from an unnamed sender. The latest…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Yelp, which saw its fair share of controversy last month, rolled out a new update to its iOS app this week, unveiling a refreshed visual design and introducing a number of enhanced features to help you find points of interest “spontaneously” based on past activities,…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Samsung’s stock dropped sharply in value today following a report from J.P. Morgan warning that Galaxy S4 sales would likely “disappoint” in the company’s third quarter, The Wall Street Journal reported. Samsung (which trades on the South Korean market) ended the day down 6.2 percent at 1,427,000…
By Adriana Lee |
We’ve reached a tipping point for mobile usage: According to Pew Internet & American Life Project, a majority of Americans are now rocking smartphones — although there seems to be a slight disparity over how users define smartphone. Pew got slightly different numbers when it rephrased…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Despite the feeling of dread and despair surrounding HTC amid news of declining profits, shipping delays and executives resigning left and right, there’s still a glimmer of good news. The HTC One‘s launch boosted sales of the Taiwanese company’s smartphones by 48 percent, and the…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Android is officially dominating the Chinese smartphone market, just recently edging over the 50 percent benchmark according to a new report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The Android adoption rate in China increased by 2.8 percent this quarter, pushing the operating system’s overall market share up to…
By Jacob Kleinman |
According to Digitimes, HTC is considering implementing Liquidmetal for its next generation of smartphones later this year. The Taiwanese company is reportedly looking to collaborate with nearby chassis manufacturer Jabon International on the new project. Both HTC and Jabon declined to comment on the rumors. Apple…
By Adriana Lee |
There is no doubt that Android numbers are the ones to beat in the U.S. Google’s mobile platform accounts for more than half of all smartphone sales here, with 51.2 percent marketshare. A year ago, it was 45.4 percent. That’s not a massive surge, but…
By Todd Haselton |
Smartphones that cost under $250 are expected to increase in popularity by 2018 as feature phone users shift to carrying a smartphone. ABI Research recently published a report that suggests manufacturers will ship 788 million such devices in 2018, 46 percent of all smartphones, up…
By Adriana Lee |
Smartphone saturation has reached an all-time high. These days everyone, rich or poor, teens to grandparents, are rocking these advanced handsets. But are they so attached to these devices that they’d actually forego sex for a week before giving them up? If they’re young women,…
By Adriana Lee |
Whether you’re sold on BlackBerry 10 or not, you might be curious about the all-new platform from the company formerly known as RIM. After all, BlackBerries used to be a dominant player in the mobile space, and the company has been struggling to reinvent itself…
By Adriana Lee |
Now here’s a handy accessory for mobile users with tons of data — a tiny USB flash drive with room enough to stash 8 to 32 GB. The MicroB connector fits any mobile device with a compatible port — sorry, iOS users — and boasts an…
By Todd Haselton |
Global shipments of “smart connected devices,” including smartphones, tablets, PCs and notebooks, surpassed 1 billion units shipped last year according to a new report from IDC. The company said total unit shipments increased 29.1 percent over 2011 and that the estimated value of all devices…
By Adriana Lee |
If the race for innovation in mobile batteries hasn’t yet begun, it sure should. Writer Matthew Panzarino said it well (though, for some reason, he targeted the iPhone specifically): “Do you know why Apple doesn’t do ‘full on’ multitasking? Why it is so incredibly strict…
By Maximum PC |
The STRaND-1 nanosatellite carries a Google Nexus One At a time when the who’s who of the mobile world are busy strutting their stuff at the Mobile World Congress, Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) Ltd are celebrating a mobile launch…
By Aaron Baker |
At $49.99 with a two-year agreement, the price point of the Pantech Discover is exceptionally competitive, given the features. Available at AT&T now, it goes head to head with the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One X+. Sporting a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4…
By Aaron Baker |
Make no doubt about it – devices litter the show floor at CES 2013, and one of those is the Hisense U958. It offers a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Play CPU, 4.5-inch FWVGA display with 854×480 pixels, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with customizations, and…
By Adriana Lee |
CES isn’t even over yet, and already the press and pundits are lamenting the overall lack of innovation on the show floor. Well, there’s at least one phone maker out there trying to do something different. Like the little engine that could, a largely unknown…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T is preparing to launch its fourth quarter 2012 results in January, but the carrier recently revealed that it has already sold an incredible amount of smartphones in Q4. The company set a new record by selling 10 million smartphones during the quarter, up from…
By Todd Haselton |
The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show hasn’t even officially started yet, we’re still in the middle of press day. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t had a chance to attend a fair share of press conferences, including NVIDIA, LG, Sharp and, most recently, Panasonic. So what’s…
By Adriana Lee |
Device manufacturers and PR reps dedicate huge resources to making us want their products. They do studies, gauge metrics and still, many of them can’t figure out why one device is considered lustworthy by the masses, while others can’t even be given away. Google may…
