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Nokia is gearing towards launching new Lumia smartphones at Mobile World Congress. During the big event in Barcelona, the soon-to-be-Microsoft-subsidiary will unveil at least three new devices, @NextLeaks has informed us. First, there’s the Lumia 930, which as far as we (don’t) know could be a smaller version of Verizon’s Nokia Lumia Icon. Specs of…
This year we should see the next version of Xiaomi’s flagship smartphone released. Dubbed Mi4, the device has been caught at Antutu benchmarks from where we get to learn about its internals. These include fastest version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 chip (MSM8974 AC), clocked at 2.46GHz. In addition, the Mi4 will also pack 3GB of…
There’s a weird rumor going around the Interwebs, suggesting that Microsoft may allow Android apps to run on Windows Phones. Something like that would quickly increase the app count for Microsoft’s mobile platform, but there are downsides as well. For one thing, this could entice developers to skip “regular” native development for Windows Phone. It’s…
It’s really hard to get a cool case for the HTC One. The phone itself is already sexy enough and putting it into a case could only make it look less desirable. Except if you know what kind of colors you’re looking for. Then, you may want to go for one of HTC’s own Double…
Just as we expected, LG has officially announced the G Pro 2 in Korea. The successor to the Optimus G Pro is one of the best devices ever made, with some features even the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is missing. To help you cut through the clutter, we wanted to highlight the G Pro 2’s…
MediaTek and Broadcom have both unveiled new chips that integrate 4G LTE connectivity. First let’s look at MediaTek’s latest offering… The new MediaTek MT6595 is touted as the world’s first 4G LTE octa-core smartphone SoC with ARM Cortex-A17 CPU. It combines four of these cores with four slower Cortex-A7 cores, while also including PowerVR Series6…
Xiaomi’s wildly popular Hongmi smartphone is going beyond the boundaries of China. But users in other countries won’t see it selling with that name, which translates to Red Rice. Instead, the firm has opted for another (though rather similar) name – Redmi. Now, we don’t know Xiaomi’s expansion plans, but we do know they’re heading…
In addition to the Ascend P7, Huawei will also launch the Ascend D3 at some point this year. As far as we (don’t) know, this model could launch from the floor of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona… or not. We do know that the D3 could easily be more powerful than the P7. While the…
Sony has started rolling out Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update to users in some markets, namely Malaysia and Australia. At the moment, the new software (version 12.1.A.0.266) isn’t available over the air, and you’ll rather have to use Sony’s PC Companion desktop software to download and install it to your phone. That’s not the problem…
Just the other day, SanDisk unveiled a neat little device that will make moving of media files from a smartphone or tablet to computer as seamless as possible. The SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive comes with a regular USB port on one hand, and a microUSB one – on the other. So when you want…