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Looks like Amazon smartphone is still in the pipeline. The new rumor comes from The Information, which has learned that the phone is known internally as “Project Aria,” and that the online retail giant is in the midst of exploring markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America for potential launches. These markets will, naturally, follow…
Google will stop allowing users with non-KitKat devices to use the Google Wallet Tap & Pay capability after April 14th. Folks with Android smartphones and tablets with older version of the platform will still be able to store loyalty cards and offers, send money to friends, view orders, and use the physical Google Wallet card…
Many folks expected the Galaxy S5 to sport a metal (uni)body. Alas, that hasn’t happened and what we have today is yet another plastic phone from Samsung. Truth to be told, it’s still an awesome device with few novel features such as the built-in heart rate monitor. Alas, we’ve heard that this won’t be the…
A new, still unannounced Samsung device has been spotted while getting approval from China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center, which is known as Tenaa. What you can see here is a low-to-end smartphone that comes with a twist. Actually, there are two things about this phone that make it an interesting product. First, it has a…
Xiaomi is launching MIUI software optimized for tablets. Available as an open beta, the software will work with the 2013 edition Nexus 7 though we assume version(s) for other devices will follow shortly. The company says that the ROM has a brand new architecture that takes advantage of extra screen estate, and can work both…
If Orange can do it, so can EE which happens to be partly owned by the French operator. I’m talking about launching an own-brand smartphone, one that would cater to first-time smartphone buyers and users who don’t want to spend a small fortune on their mobile device purchase. Details are scarce at the moment, but…
This isn’t the first time we’re talking about BlackBerry Kopi. In fact, we’ve heard about this device before but have also learned that it was cancelled. That, however, doesn’t stop its lucky owner (or that’s tester) from leaking it out to the Interwebs. And voila, what you can see here was made for BlackBerry fans…
Meizu is thinking to take the “Xiaomi route” and allow other phones to run its own version of Android. Called Flyme OS, Meizu’s platform builds on top of the Android core adding quite a few enhancements and tweaks along the way, all of which helped made Meizu phones popular in the first place. This, of…
Yup, we’ve told you that former Apple CEO John Sculley is looking to launch a phone making company in India, and voila – now we know it will be called OBI. According to The Economic Times of India, the company will unveil a range of affordable smartphones and feature phones as soon as next month,…
Like that was the case with the Galaxy S4, this year’s model will also be available in multiple “variants,” Galaxy S5 Zoom being one of them. At least we have something like that on the GFXBench website, where the Samsung phone marked as SM-C115 has recently passed through the tests. The specs of this phone…