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Some 10 days ago we’ve told you about the still unannounced Acer V360 and now we caught another smartphone made by the Taiwanese company – V350. What’s confusing, however, is that this is a better device, despite having a lower model number. The information comes from GLBenchmark, which is known as the place where many…
We’ve seen the all-touch BlackBerry Z and in the same article we mentioned that “classic” BlackBerry devices will also be offered, featuring full QWERTY keyboard beneath the touchscreen. Well, what we have here is the first image of such (N-Series) device that looks promising. As you can see, it has an edge-to-edge screen AND Bold…
Remember the Oppo Ulike 2, which we’ve talked about a month ago. If you recall, it’s especially designed device made for girls that comes with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera and some neat software with “beautification features.” Rest of the specs include a 4.5-inch qHD (540×960 pixels) touchscreen, 16GB of non-expandable storage, while Android 4.0 Ice…
Samsung has some seriously ambitious plans for next year as it’s gearing toward shipping 510 million phones in 2013, up from expected 420 million this year. That’s like a 20% growth year-over-year! But wait, there’s more – the vast majority (390 million) of these devices will be smartphones, making the Korean company the world’s largest…
EU Commission has sent Samsung the so called “Statement of Objections” wherein their preliminary view is that Samsung abused its position of owning standard-essential 3G UMTS patents (SEPs) and trying to gain an injunction against Apple products. The Commission says Samsung was wrong because they gave a commitment to license those patents on Fair, Reasonable…
Back in October we’ve told you about the Samsung GT-N5100, which at that time got its DLNA certification. Now such a device popped up at GLBenchmark’s website revealing us it could be Sammy’s next Note device. From what we’ve understood, this will be a 7-inch tablet with screen resolution of 1280×800 pixels a la Nexus…
ZTE Grand X has been caught at the FCC from where we learn that it’s heading to T-Mobile. The device marked as V970T wears the Magenta carrier’s logo while also boasting support for all the right bands to sing along AWS-based 3G network. The filing doesn’t reveal all the specs but do know the V970…
HTC has started pushing out Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update to One S users in Europe. We’re not sure whether this is a pan-European rollout or just something that targets certain markets, but we do know some users got it. And they say you should better be connected to a fast hotspot to download the…
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece, talking about the upcoming Google Motorola X phone which should apparently be released at some point next year. Dennis Woodside, a former Google top sales turned Motorola’s chief executive, didn’t want to discuss products under development, but he did say that they’re “investing in a team and…
Huawei’s chairman of devices, Richard Yu, couldn’t help himself – he wanted to show the world the device he’s been using lately prior to its official announcement. It’s the upcoming Ascend Mate with which the Chinese company is entering the phablet market, currently dominated by Samsung Galaxy Note devices. Mr Yu went ahead and whipped…