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Xiaomi is killing it, having ended the first half of the year with whopping 26.1 million smartphones sold! In comparison, during the entire 2013, the company has moved a total of 18.7 million phones. Talk about impressive growth. Speaking of which [growth], this impressive half of the year has prompted Xiaomi to revise its figures…
Although the HTC One M8 is still a rather awesome device — and one of the best phones money can buy — we can’t help but start thinking about its successor and what it will be all about. Some rumors have already started coming in, suggesting the Taiwanese company will keep using an all-aluminum body…
And yet again we’ve caught the still unannounced Moto X+1; this time the source is Brazil’s Logos Bookstore, which famously leaked the Moto E two days before it was officially announced. According to them, the upcoming Moto smartphone will rock a 5.2-inch full HD screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core chip clocked at 2.3GHz, 2GB of…
LG’s Brazilian arm has announced that few of the company’s older phones will get KitKat updates in the near future. Among those “affected” are the LG Optimus G, Optimus G Pro, L7 II and dual-SIM G Pro Lite. Some others won’t be so lucky though, including the LG Optimus 4X HD and Optimus F5. The…
ASUS has started rolling out Android 4.4 KitKat update for the aging Padfone 2, which will go straight from Jelly Bean 4.1 to the latest version of Android. Alas, this comes with a caveat and users will see their data disappearing like it’s nobody’s business. Something gotta give I guess; but we’re certain installing all…
Microsoft is working on the Windows Phone 8.1 update that will introduce support for folders. According to the blog post at the company’s website, which was quickly removed, users will be able to group multiple app icons and create folders that way. For what it matters, that’s already possible in iOS and Android. According to…
We don’t get to see clones of the Chinese phones that often. Usually, we have fake iPhones and knock-offs of popular Samsung and HTC devices, not fake China-made phones. That’s not the case with the iNew V8, which is a new “variant” of the Oppo N1 — that’s right, in a weird twist of events…
The newly released Android “sub-platforms” — Android Auto, Android Wear and Android TV — may be based on Google’s mobile OS, but they won’t allow OEMs to change stuff around. Forget about TouchWIZ and Sense UI – Samsung and HTC (respectively) won’t be able to do those sort of things with their car, watch and…
Samsung may be working on a Tizen-based Galaxy S5 or at least such device has been caught at the Zauba website which tracks imports to India. They list not one but three Galaxy S5 units running Sammy’s own platform rather than Android. It’s unclear whether this device will actually be released or Samsung just wants…
The other day, Google announced its Android Auto platform and the first thing that came to mind is how it will sing along iPhones. There are plenty of families with members who have different phones, some of which may run iOS and some others – Android. It’s only obvious car makers want to make everyone…