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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…
Thanks to gizmobic.com we know how the soon-to-be-launched Oppo Find 7 will look like. These guys managed to score not one but few photos of Oppo’s upcoming beast-phone as well as its retail packaging. Once launched – the Find 7 will be one of the best phones on the planet (better than Galaxy S5?), rocking…
Samsung was just warming up with the Galaxy Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit; the Korean giant will apparently launch another fitness device later this year. Called S Band, this will be a rather wrist-band device that doesn’t have a screen a la Gear Fit. Instead, all it offers are vibration alarms and…
Talk about how mobile technology is helping solve real-world problems. Samsung announced a trio of accessories for users of the Galaxy Core Advance that require special assistance. The Ultrasonic Cover, Optical Scan Stand and Voice Label are made to assist disabled and visually impaired users. The Ultrasonic Cover allows users to detect obstacles and navigate…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Leap Wireless and its assets, including Cricket Wireless. The deal includes 4.6 million customers, spectrum, network equipment and other assets, all of which will be transferred from Leap to AT&T. But, there’s always some “but” in deals like these. If it wants to proceed with…
U.S. Cellular is revamping its shared data plans to add more megabytes for the same amount of cash. Here’s what’s new: $40 plan now gets you 1GB of data, up from 300MB $50 plan has grown from 1GB to 2GB $60 plan – from 2GB to 3GB In addition, the carrier has also introduced a…
Good ol’ EVleaks is back with fresh information, this time revealing what we can expect from the upcoming Google smart watch. According to the popular leakster, LG will be the one making this device which will have a 1.65-inch 280×280 pixels IPS display, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage… And that’s all we…
Lenovo may be among the first companies to adopt NVIDIA’s newly announced Tegra K1 chip. Using his official Weibo account, Lenovo’s Vice President revealed that the company’s upcoming 4K 50-inch smart TV will use the world’s fastest 200-core CPU + GPU. As far we know, aside from the Tegra K1 no other chip comes with…
The European Parliament approved legislation that will require all mobile device makers to use a single, interoperable charger that works with both smartphones and tablets. The new legislation builds on top of existing rules that require phone makers to use the same charge port (microUSB); the new thing is that tablets are now part of…