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Philips has teamed-up with Alibaba to launch what is the world’s first smartphone running Alibaba’s Android-based YunOS 3.0. The device is a powerhouse, boasting a 5.5-inch 2K screen, fast 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip, 3,000 mAh battery, 4G LTE connectivity, dual SIM support, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. Moreover, there’s Sony’s 20.7-megapixel…
Philips is teasing the world with the upcoming Philips I908 that could be the next device to claim the world’s slimmest smartphone title.
Philips is preparing one of those super-mid-rangers for the ever-growing smartphone market of China. The upcoming Philips l928 has been caught at Chinese social network Weibo and from there we get to learn what’s it all about – this unit will rock a 6-inch full HD screen, MediaTek’s eight-core MT6592 chip, 2GB of RAM, 13-megapixel…
It seems there’s a subset of users in China who can’t imagine owning a non-clamshell smartphone. Samsung has thus far served this community best and now Phillips wants a bigger slice of the pie. The newly launched Xenium W9588 isn’t exactly an easy sell, quite the contrary. It’s a super-expensive mid-range smartphone with specs that…
Samsung is not the only company making clamshell smartphones. Philips is joining this trend with a device marked as W8568, which is about to start selling in China where apparently this form factor still counts for something. The phone runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, sporting a 4-inch qHD (540×960) main display, 8-megapixel camera on the…
It was back in May when we first spilled the beans on the Philips Xenium W8510. Now we have few additional details to share… Arguably the most interesting thing about this phone is its powerful battery with capacity of 3,300mAh, which according to Philips, can deliver 35 days of standby, a whopping 18 hours of…
Thanks to our friends from @leakschina we know about one upcoming Philips smartphone which likely won’t be released in the Western hemisphere. It’s the Phillips W6500 that comes with a 4.3-inch qHD touchscreen, MediaTek’s MT6589 quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz, coupled with 1GB of RAM. Plus, there’s a pair of cameras — 8-megapixel on the…
Philips is getting ready to launch its very first quad-core smartphone in June. Details are still scarce about the upcoming Xenium W8510, but we do expect it to have a “standard for Xenium devices” powerful battery, providing the “superb stand-by time.” It is said that the phone will have a 4.7-inch HD screen (720p?) while…
Smartphones. Phablets. Tablets. With so many devices in our hands and pockets, the area has grown fast, but beyond the constant upgrades of screen sizes and CPU cores, something is still missing. It’s time to start thinking about what else these devices can do for us, and using them as remotes for the world around…
Philips will soon launch a new Android smartphone that not only has a big screen, but also dual-SIM capability. In that sense, the forthcoming Philips W8355 will compete head to head with Samsung’s Galaxy Grand i9082, which is a slightly better device. Specs wise, aside from two SIM card slots – Philips’ baby packs a…