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Samsung is apparently working on the next phone in the Galaxy Pocket series, PhoneArena is reporting. The device marked as SM-G110B may be the first phone ever to run Android 4.4 KitKat on a QVGA screen. We don’t have all the details, but we do know that the mentioned display will have a diagonal of…
Apple has recently scored a patent for a holographic screen, prompting one designer to show us how an iPhone equipped with this technology could look like. And what he came up with is nothing short of amazing. While we’re sure a phone with this technology is still years away, it is kinda nice to look…
Windows Phone will get a proper file manager soon, according to Microsoft’s VP of Windows and User Experience Joe Belfiore, who confirmed the news during the recent Reddit AMA “Ask Me Anything” session. In fact, he kept the news for Reddit, saying that he “avoided tweeting on this very topic just for all you redditors.…
Ubuntu for Android, the platform that promised to revolutionize the way we use and think of mobile devices while allowing us to keep using our existing (Android) apps, is not coming anytime soon. Instead, Canonical is putting resources behind its own mobile platform that can work across different devices. Here’s what Canonical said in response…
Xiaomi announced that the number of pre-orders for its Redmi Note phablet has reached 15 million. It’s unclear though whether all these users actually paid to get the big phone or they simply registered their interest with the option to “push the button” once the Note is back in stock. In any case, these are…
Android 4.4 KitKat keeps rising while Gingerbread keeps losing its market share, according to the latest figures released by Google. Looking at all devices accessing the Google Play Store, KitKat added 3.2% of new users on top of last month’s 5.3% share. This is largely due to updates released by Samsung for their Galaxy S4…
Another day, another HTC One Mini 2 leak. Today we have the “regular” press image render to show you with no protective cases messing the view of the phone. Again we can confirm that the mini version of HTC’s flagship device won’t have a second camera. In fact, it is said that users shouldn’t expect…
Folks from the Human Media Lab (HML) at Queen’s University in Canada are working on a rather amazing device called PaperFold, which as far as we (don’t) know may never be released to the general public. The prototype unit you’re about to see consists of three separate e-ink displays that could either work separately or…
Another LG devices has landed in Verizon’s portfolio and it’s the earlier leaked Optimus Exceed 2. The rest of the world knows this phone as LG L70, which is a part of the vendor’s low-cost L-series III. Specs wise, the Exceed 2 / L70 comes with a 4.5-inch WVGA screen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 5-megapixel rear…
Microsoft has completed the acquisition of Nokia in a deal that was worth $7.5 rather than $7.2 billion, which was the initial figure. The rise in the price also affected Stephen Elop’s severance package that grew from $26 to $33 million. Not bad for a man under whose reign Nokia’s stock price and market share…