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Samsung is organizing a worldwide developer challenge to drive development of apps for its Tizen-based Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smart watches. There’s $1.25 million left aside for aspiring developers, including a $100,000 cash price for the overall winner. “This challenge marks the beginning of Samsung’s plan to boost the app ecosystem for the…
Samsung is preparing to launch a successor to the original Galaxy Core, which is also available in Galaxy Core Plus and Galaxy Core Advance variants. The upcoming Galaxy Core 2 has been leaked and it’s an everything but impressive device with relatively low-end specs. While it rocks a quad-core chip (clocked at 1.2GHz), it also…
The leaked Acer Iconia B1-730 HD will apparently get its power from Intel’s Atom Z2560 processor clocked at 1.6GHz, while the rest of the specs will include 1GB of RAM, 5-megapixel rear camera, 7-inch 1280×800 pixel screen, and 8 or 16 GB of expandable storage. The upcoming tablet already got a page at Amazon Germany…
Samsung is yet again teaming-up with Swarovski over a fancy handset. The fruits of this latest partnership will be unveiled at some point next month with special version of the Galaxy S5 smartphone adorned with Swarovski crystals hitting select markets. Initially, the Crystal Collection for Galaxy S5 will be launched in South Korea with some…
Sony may not be the only vendor offering a Smart Lens for long; Oppo is working on a similar product as we speak. And as you can see from the images here, this handy accessory will be able to turn any phone into a full-blown DSLR camera. Actually, we’re hoping that an Oppo-made device won’t…
A new, still unannounced Motorola device marked as XT912A has been caught at GFX Bench, and we think it could be the earlier rumored Moto X+1. Alas, we’re not sure and this could also be another member of Verizon’s Droid family. In fact, the 2011 Droid Razr was marked as XT912 so this could also…
Samsung is working on another big phone, part of its Mega series. The still unannounced Galaxy Mega 7.0 (marked as SM-T2558) has been caught at TENAA, which is China’s equivalent of the FCC. As a phone from this family, it’s rather mediocre, specs wise. The Galaxy Mega 7.0 will come with a 7-inch screen, 1.2GHz…
LG is looking to launch new tablets this year, with two such devices getting their spots in the FCC database. Marked as V700 and V400, these two will likely be unveiled in the next few months. The FCC listings don’t tell us anything about these two, but we’re guessing one of them will be more…
Some time ago, we’ve mentioned that Verizon Wireless will get Kyocera Brigadier. At that time, we were pretty clueless what this device will be all about and all we could do is speculate it will be a rugged phone like many other Kyocera phones from the past. The good news is that this will indeed…
For some reason, Motorola decided not to preload the Drive Mode app on the Moto G. The application that simplifies the UI for drivers to make sure they keep hands behind the wheel and eyes on the road ahead came pre-installed with the Moto X. And now we’re hearing that Moto G users will get…