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Juniper Research estimates that the number of smartphone shipments exceeded 157 million in the third quarter, with Samsung increasing its lead in terms of unit shipments. During the period, the Korean company shipped a record 56.3 million smartphones, which is almost double than what Apple did (26.9 million). Samsung’s flagship device, the Galaxy S3, played…
This year, Panasonic wanted to re-enter the European market, offering few Eluga smartphones. However, that hasn’t worked as planned so the company may quite its European affair less than a year after announcing the bold expansion plans. According to Nikkei business daily, the Japanese giant has strong yen coupled with financial uncertainty in Europe and…
HTC is once again moving beyond devices, having launched the Best Deals service in Europe. As you can imagine, using HTC’s new offering, smartphone users will be able to access personalized money-saving deals, categorized by their preferences, interests and location. Preferred deals can then be reviewed, bookmarked or shared; as well as sorted by popularity,…
We know that Huawei will enter the Windows Phone game. Heck we’ve seen their W1 model, but apparently the Chinese company won’t stop with a single model. What we have here is an unidentified Windows Phone device wearing Huawei’s brand. And we can’t really say what’s it all about, or whether it will ever be…
Let me make this clear – I’m an “Android guy.” I don’t have an iPhone and don’t want one. I like my widgets more than (almost) anything and iOS doesn’t allow me to have them on the homescreen. However, when it comes to tablets, I tend to prefer the iPad with the brand new iPad…
The low-cost smartphones costing less than $150 present a strong growth opportunity for the mobile phone industry, according to the new NPD DisplaySearch Smartphones: Displays, Designs and Functionality report. These devices are forecast to double every year from 2010 to 2016, increasing from 4.5 to 311 million. As you would expect, 60% of the demand…
HTC seems to be working on a solid mid-ranger, one that would pack a 720×1280 pixels HD screen and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 chip. The device marked as HTC OPERAUL has been caught at NenaMark, revealing that it will also run Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, while the mentioned CPU will be clocked at 1.4GHz. Moreover, the…
Samsung announced that it has started mass production of wireless charging modules for smartphones. Developed by the company’s arm Samsung Electro-Mechanics, the module is super-thin, ready to be attached to smartphone’s back cover. We’ve no idea which Samsung clients will use this technology but we’ll definitely see these modules built inside Sammy’s own smartphones. Speaking…
Thanks to the ever-savvy ninjas from evleaks, we have a new leaked of Samsung Galaxy Premier to show you. As we said in our previous post, the GT-I9260 is a Galaxy Nexus-like device with specs that include a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED+ screen, 8-megapixel camera on the back, 2-megapixel front-facing camera, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, Bluetooth 4.0,…
Few days ago we told you about the new entry-level smartphone in US Cellular’s portfolio, Alcatel One Touch Shockwave. Well, a similar device is heading in same direction, Huawei Ascend Y, offering comparable value for money. Specs wise, this little fella packs a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 800MHz processor, 3.2-megapixel camera on the back, Wi-Fi, GPS,…