Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show, Chinese manufacturer Huawei made a big splash with its elegantly refined Android Ice Cream Sandwich-sporting Huawei Ascend P1 S, a slim smartphone that’s even sleeker than the Motorola Droid RAZR. The phone packs a lot of punch into a svelte package, including a dual-core 1.5 GHz CPU, 8-megapixel [...]
After having announced that the third-generation Galaxy S III flagship Android smartphone would miss the anticipated February Mobile World Congress launch in Barcelona, Spain, there were rumors circling that the device may see a March release when Samsung France had sent out some press invitations. Now, it appears that the March date is also off [...]
After having been available on the iPad, Microsoft’s OneNote note-taking application, which is a popular choice among Tablet PC owners, is now available for users of the Android platform. Available for smartphones and tablets, OneNote allows Android users to synchronize their notes with the desktop Windows software, if they are an existing users, and there [...]
LG has posted a teaser video that announces some of the basic features of the company’s new LG Optimus Vu smartphone. The device, which will follow more well-known predecessors like the Dell Streak 5 and the Samsung Galaxy Note, will also have a 5-inch display. What’s curious is that rather than going with a widescreen [...]
There’s been more chatter of a Symbian successor to the venerable Nokia N8 in the camera phone department. The device is said to sport a 12-megapixel camera, 4-inch nHD resolution AMOLED display with a Clear Black Display screen, and Nokia Belle pre-loaded. Additionally, a leaked photo, if accurate, suggests that the Nokia 801 would bear [...]
Sony is now beginning to support Mac users with its Android XPERIA smartphones by making a version of its synchronization software available to OS X customers. Though Mac users can mount their phones as a drive and drag and drop content into their phones, Sony’s new Bridge software will give an iTunes-iOS-like environment where Android [...]
While most camera phones today, including capable smartphones with high-megapixel cameras, can take excellent images in bright conditions, the included LED flash modules on these devices still are not bright enough to light up a picture when taken in a dimly-lit setting, like in a home, restaurant, or bar at night. Camera manufacturers like Nokia [...]
It appears that Motorola and Verizon Wireless are readying a new software update for the Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX smartphones, which are essentially based on the same software and design except that the latter has a much more capacious battery while retaining a still slim form factor. The software update for both devices are [...]
Once a concept of Middsex University design student Kieron-Scott Woodhouse, the bamboo-clad Android smartphone design will soon be commercialized as the ADzero phone. Rather than plastics, metals, or other materials, the ADzero phone features a natural bloc of bamboo wood back, which helps to add charm to the device as no two phones will be [...]
While originally anticipated for launch at Mobile World Congress this month, Samsung had changed its mind and floated around dates for the successor to the Galaxy S II flagship smartphone. The third generation device, widely believed to be called the Galaxy S III or Galaxy S 3, is now slated for a separate Samsung-specific launch [...]
According to the Norway regional Facebook page for Samsung, the company has announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be coming soon to two handsets–the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note–before the end of the first quarter of this year. It looks like Norway may be among the first countries where [...]
It’s unclear if Motorola will be bringing the small rugged Defy Mini Android smartphone to the U.S. under AT&T, but an AT&T-compatible model was recently spotted at the FCC for U.S. regulatory approval. The phone would be compatible with AT&T’s 3G/4G HSPA+/WCDMA network. The phone is a smaller version of the original Defy, which was [...]
The previously leaked Sony Nypon smartphone is now speculated to adopt the XPERIA P brand when the phone gets announced, probably at Mobile World Congress in February. The phone was leaked at around the same time that we’ve seen the recent Sony Kumquat leaks, which is now said to be launching as the XPERIA U. [...]
In addition to the much hyped Galaxy S III‘s rumored potential debut at Mobile World Congress in February, it appears that Samsung may also be prepping a Galaxy S Advance smartphone to launch at the same trade show. The Galaxy S Advance bears the model number i9070 and will basically be a dual-core version of [...]
It is speculated that LG may announce the Optimus L3 E400 at Mobile World Congress this year. The phone, which has not been seen previously, was discovered recently as a Swedish retailer is currently taking pre-orders for the device. Dubbed as an entry-level smartphone, the Optimus L3 does have striking good looks. The device will [...]
Though unadvertised and not marketed by HTC nor Verizon Wireless as a global world phone, the Android LTE HTC Rezound may in fact be a world phone complete with a GSM radio. After the device was shipped overseas, a user had inserted a T-Mobile UK SIM card into the advertised CDMA/LTE smartphone and was able [...]
Announced back in 2010, Lumigon has yet to release its high-end, audio-centric T1 Android smartphone. The company’s ware has been dubbed vapor status and now it is looking to change that by releasing an updated render of the Lumigon T1 smartphone, which will run on Google’s Android OS. The device, which was designed in collaboration [...]
Though the rumored Samsung Epic 2 for Sprint never came out, the phone may still be launching as recent leaks suggest. The device was most recently found on the Cellebrite device system and the Epic 2, complete with its sliding QWERTY keyboard, may make its way now potentially to Sprint’s pre-paid brands instead. As such, [...]
There’s a meme going around the Internets these days that goes: “We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.” That may be overstating things a bit. Still, losing your phone is a big deal and the cause for a lot of cursing, tears, and anger. Especially if you didn’t put any protection on it.
Sony is introducing some new technologies on its XPERIA S flagship smartphone for 2012, including the ability to repel stains and rapidly charge the phone. The former feature is something that manufacturers have experimented with in the past, including HTC with its Teflon coating on the original international GSM variant of the HTC Hero. According [...]
Following Sony’s leaked code names of upcoming devices for 2012, it looks like we’re getting a better grasp of at least two new, unannounced models. Specs and photos for the Sony Tapioca and Sony Nypon smartphones were leaked. At this time, it’s still unclear what the final release names of these smartphones will be. The [...]
After having announced that the company will be introducing fewer smartphone models in 2012 than it had in 2011, Motorola is also revealing some of the company’s strategy ahead of its earnings report. Motorola says that it will be working to refine its Android Smart Actions, a feature that was introduced along with the Droid [...]
The ‘quietly brilliant’ smartphone-manufacturer has begun sending out media invitations to its event in Barcelona for February 26 during the trade show Mobile World Congress. In the past, HTC has used MWC to introduce its worldwide lineup of GSM smartphones with a few of those devices re-branded to reach the U.S. market, and the invitation-only [...]
Amazon’s done it on company’s Kindle e-readers by offering consumers cheaper hardware pricing in exchange for displaying ads on the e-readers. Now, it looks like ads are coming to some Android smartphones by way of the OS’s notification drawer on Japanese carrier KDDI. According to Engadget, the carrier bundles its own third-party app store known [...]
The leaked Sony Kumquat smartphone that we had recently reported on may launch as the Sony XPERIA U smartphone, joining its bigger brothers the Sony XPERIA Ion and the Sony XPERIA S. Still not a lot of information is known about the phone, but Indonesia’s regulatory body, which is the equivalent of the U.S. FCC, [...]
Huawei’s new high-end smartphones, which will be introduced at Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona, will be part of the company’s new ‘Diamond’ series. The Diamond series, according to Huawei’s chairman Richard Yu, will best the company’s latest Ascend P1 S smartphone flagship, which was introduced just this month at CES 2012. The Ascend [...]
We had reported recently about a recent list of leaked product names from Sony’s XPERIA smartphone camp, and now we may have a clearer picture, literally, of what one of those devices may look like. The Sony Kumquat, which bears the product number ST25i, has been depicted in a new leaked image. The device bears [...]
The venerable camera phone that is known as the Nokia N8 is still one of the most respected camera-enabled smartphone on the market, having been used to photograph magazine cover shoots, film feature films, and create short-length movies. Now, hackers are taking the Nokia N8 and pushing Nokia’s Carl Zeiss optics-powered Nokia N8 with a [...]
Samsung is prepping a new software update for its Galaxy Note, a device that can make voice and data calls with a large 5.3-inch high-resolution screen. Chief among the update is a new keyboard, which brings a number of new functionality. The first new change of the Galaxy Note’s on-screen keyboard is an always visible [...]
The issue of poor reception with metal construction on cellular phones was made notorious on Apple’s iPhone 4, which had a stainless steel band that served as both the phone’s antenna and as structural support for the phone. In what was known publicly as Antennagate, the iPhone 4 had diminished reception when a user held [...]
In addition to having introduced the XPERIA S (and its 4G LTE cousin the XPERIA Ion for AT&T), Sony is also unveiling the XPERIA acro HD Android smartphone. The acro HD features the same specs as the XPERIA S, but eschews the illuminated strip at the bottom where the Android navigation buttons are placed, and [...]
Though Motorola’s latest MOTOLUXE handset won’t be targeted at the U.S. market, we did get a chance to catch up with the company’s mid-range offering, which we’re hearing will retail for about $400 without a contract. Unlike Motorola’s super slim Droid RAZR or dual-core powerhouses like the Droid Bionic, the MOTOLUXE offers more pedestrian hardware [...]
Casio and Verizon may be teaming up with a high-end smartphone release with a venerable specs sheet that includes quad-core processing, 4G LTE connectivity, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The two had partnered up in the past to release a rugged, waterproof 3G Android smartphone and it’s unclear if the element-resisting features of the [...]
After protesting the possibility of U.S. legislation on piracy in an attempt to safeguard national privacy, Wikipedia had blacked out its website on Wednesday. It looks like although the U.S. portal of the online community-curated encyclopedia had gone dark, there was some light at the end of the tunnel on Wednesday as Wikipedia had released [...]
HTC’s rumored quad-core Tegra 3-powered HTC Edge may get a codename change and be known internally as the HTC Endeavor. Interestingly, the phone may be released as the HTC Supreme. It looks like HTC is going grand with names for its smartphones if its Android flagship will be called the Supreme and the Windows Phone [...]
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