Earlier today HTC kicked off Mobile World Congress by announcing its new HTC One series of Android smartphones. The new series marks a new era for HTC and also brings about a new naming scheme. The three phones announced today are the flagship One X, mid-range One S and the …
Read More »Future iOS devices might get a smaller dock connector
Rumours, and I stress rumours are saying that future iOS devices, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch models, could be getting a smaller, redesigned dock connector. The sources state that while this smaller dock will not be in the iPad 3 it will likely be included in the iPhone …
Read More »Samsung teases new 32nm quad-core Exynos chip
Samsung has just teased their latest quad-core Exynos chipset at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) event recently. The new chipset is to be manufactured on a 32nm process unlike the current Exynos dual-core chips that are currently found in smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S II, which are built …
Read More »Asus teases the Padfone: smartphone-tablet hybrid
We have known about the Asus Padfone for quite a while now; it has been sighted as early as May last year but it seems as if we are fast approaching an official announcement at Mobile World Congress next week. Asus has uploaded the below teaser video which tells us that …
Read More »Nielsen: 71% of consumers interested in mobile payments
In a recent research poll done by Nielsen they have revealed that many consumers wish to use their mobile phones as credit cards. A massive 71% of all application downloaders are intereseted in an application that would allow them to use their smartphone as a credit card. It was also …
Read More »HSPA+ Multiflow could double 3G data speeds
Nokia Siemens Networks has recently announced it will demonstrate what is currently know as “HSPA+ Multiflow” at MWC in Barcelona next week. HSPA+ Multiflow is a technology that allows a device to connect to two HSPA+ enabled towers at the same time, or to another when signal from one tower …
Read More »LG announces a new 3D smartphone, the Optimus 3D Max
While the LG Optimus 3D was not an overwhelming sucess when it was debuted last year it did open up a new market of smartphones, namely 3D smartphones. Now LG has announced the sucessor to the Optimus 3D claiming it is “real proof of LG’s commitment to portable 3D entertainment.” This successor will …
Read More »Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail
It has been exactly a month and two days since Kim Dotcom and three of his high-ranking employees were arrested in Auckland over file-sharing and copyright allegations and today Mr Dotcom was granted bail. The other three have already been released on bail. The North Shore District Court (literally 5 minutes …
Read More »The history of Samsung includes a lot more than just smartphones
Samsung: the South Korean based technology giant everyone is talking about, mainly due to anticipation of the Samsung Galaxy S III, the follow up of arguably the best Android phone ever. It also turns out they manufacture boatloads (literally) of different products in massively varied industries. While they are mostly …
Read More »Samsung announces sequels for the Galaxy Ace and Mini
Samsung has just announced two new Android smartphones ahead of Mobile World Congress; the Galaxy Ace 2 and the Galaxy Mini 2. The original Ace and Mini were some of Samsung's most sucessful phones in 2011 and Samsung have now renewed each phone with healthy specifications. The Samsung Galaxy Ace …
Read More »Slow flash storage leads to slow smartphones
If I ran a poll asking our readers what features are most important to them when purchasing a new smartphone, I would be willing to bet the top three would be the display, chipset and the brand of phone. However researchers at NEC have found embedded flash memory modules and …
Read More »Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 gets showcased ahead of MWC
Qualcomm's next generation mobile chipset is known as Snapdragon S4 “Krait” and will integrate a quad core processor, a more advanced Adreno 225 GPU and LTE connectivity. This will be the first major new architecture in a couple of generations of Snapdragon chipsets. The new System on Chip from Qualcomm is …
Read More »SkyDrive to receive paid storage and PC apps
Microsoft has been keen to upgrade Skydrive to the point where it can compete with the likes of Google and Dropbox and it looks as if they're about to take that extra step. Information discovered recently shows that Microsoft plans to introduce paid upgrade options. This storage will be added …
Read More »OS X “Mountain Lion” marks the end of the road for some models
A few days ago Apple launched the first developer preview of Mountain Lion and with it marks the end of the road for some Mac models. Mainly those with Intel's GMA 950 and X3100 cards inside, this includes pre-late 2008 model MacBooks. While this could be explained by the fact …
Read More »LG announces Optimus Vu phone, bizarre 4:3 aspect ratio
LG has just officially announced its latest Android smartphone, the Optimus Vu. Right from the start you can tell the Vu is not your usual Android smartphone with its 5 inch, 4:3 aspect ratio display. This puts it in the “phablet” group, alongside Samsung's Galaxy Note only with a more …
Read More »Android takes over but Nokia still sells the most phones
Research firm Gartner has just released their data for sales of smartphones in the last quarter of 2011 and to be honest it doesn't really hold many surprises. In Q4 2011 over 75 million Android smartphones were sold worldwide which gives them the dominant market share of 50.9%. This number …
Read More »Huawei engineers participate in the world’s largest desktop cloud
No matter what we think of the cloud and its possibilities, it will no doubt start to take over many tasks we once thought were loyal to the physical PC. All my articles are drafted and saved to WordPress, other documents live on Google Docs, while images I use are stored …
Read More »Nomophobia rates on the rise in the UK, now at 66%
Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact and according to research conducted by OnePoll the percentage affected by this strange phobia is on the rise. OnePoll surveyed 1000 people in employment in the UK and found that two in three people fear misplacing or spending time …
Read More »Apple victorious in Germany, pain felt by Motorola is minimal
Germany is well and truly Apple's stomping ground when it comes to anything related to lawsuits and today German courts have ruled in favour of Apple in a lawsuit against Motorola. Apple has been granted an injunction against Motorola for utilizing the “slide to unlock” style lockscreen which is patented …
Read More »Android Jelly Bean may bring live dual-boot and reach out to laptops
Google's next iteration of Android is rumoured to be known as Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, which may launch as soon as the second quarter of this year. I have read in the past that some features and optimisations were planned to be part of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but were …
Read More »LG’s X3 smartphone will pack in a Tegra 3 chipset
In the second LG smartphone related leak in as many days (the first being the successor to the Optimus 3D,) the upcoming X3 has been shown off with some specification and benchmark information. The upcoming and presumably flagship LG smartphone will run on the mighty powerful Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset, just like …
Read More »Tegra 3 powered Acer Iconia Tab to launch in the EU next month
Acer's upcoming Iconia Tab A510 which was announced last month at CES is reportedly due for a launch in Europe next month attached with a healthy price tag. The latest Acer tablet packs in Nvidia's latest Tegra 3 chipset and a full gigabyte of RAM but it gets exciting when the …
Read More »PayPal doesn’t see the light in NFC
It now appears as if PayPal are now working on their own form of payment technology; turning their back on Near Field Communications (NFC). Although they have experimented with NFC in their Android application and as a point of sales system in Sweden recently, they do not see the brilliance …
Read More »Google Public DNS now has over 70 billion requests daily
DNS servers, those things that are supplied automatically by our ISPs and all too often like to mess with our internet. Come to think of it, I am probably better off blaming my ISP's DNS servers than my modem for problems I have had in the past. This is why …
Read More »Apple commands that Samsung stops mocking fanboys
It comes as no surprise Apple would sooner or later reply to Samsung's “Next Big Thing” advertising campaign which takes stabs at Apple's iPhone and its owners, while also exposing the advantages of Samsung's Galaxy S II. As part of an ongoing lawsuit between Apple and Samsung (no surprises there,) …
Read More »Samsung unveils its first Android 4.0 tablet, Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0)
Samsung has announced this morning their latest addition to its tablet lineup, the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0). This is the first tablet to be produced by Samsung that will run on the lastest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Layered on top of the stock user interface will be …
Read More »Nokia admits there is no Plan B if Windows Phone 7 flops
Windows Phone 7, the fairly capable mobile operating system is currently Microsoft's only existing product in the mobile space. The same statement now appears as if it applies to Nokia as well. Recently Nokia Europe's Senior Vice President, Victor Saeijs told a Swedish newspaper that there is no fall back …
Read More »US Air Force could end up going on a tablet spending spree
Recently Apple announced iBooks 2 which included the launch of educational textbooks which can sufficiently replace the older traditions of learning. Now the United States Air Force is reportedly interested in moving from older and presumably more bulky electronics to putting essential tools and critical information comfortably in the palm of servicemen. …
Read More »HTC to reveal flagship Endeavour at MWC
While many Android fans may be focused on the upcoming and reportedly delayed Samsung Galaxy S III we still cannot ignore HTC's own smartphones. Their upcoming flagship is rumoured to be the HTC Endeavour (referred to as the Edge in this article) and is destined to be powered by Nvidia's …
Read More »ARM based Windows 8 devices will have desktop UI, Office 15
In a recent Windows 8 blog post Microsoft has revealed some very interesting information on the upcoming ARM edition of Windows 8, currently dubbed as Windows on ARM. They are saying that Windows on ARM (WOA) is still under development but should ship at the same time as x86/x64 PCs later …
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