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Marvell is the latest chip maker to join the 64-bit craze with its new Armada Mobile PXA 1928 platform. The SoC consists of four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz, full HD-capable GC5000 GPU and a 5-mode LTE modem that also supports older 2G and 3G standards. If we can take Marvell’s track-record for…
Motorola’s MotoMaker is coming to Western Europe and Mexico soon, according to a report from The Verge. This means that for the first time, Moto X owners outside of the U.S. will be able to customize their Moto X smartphones with the number of options that MotoMaker offers. MotoMaker allows Moto X customers to customize…
Samsung announced two new chips – Exynos 5 Octa (5422) and Exynos 5 Hexa (5260). The first of the two will find its way to the latest Galaxy S5, with at least some versions sporting that SoC instead of the one made by Qualcomm. Chances are these will be non-LTE variants offered across Europe, Latin…
During last year’s Mobile World Congress, Samsung unveiled its first Knox solution to make it more secure for enterprise and government customers to use Sammy-made devices and implement BYOD policies. Now the Korean company is out with Knox 2.0 that adds a number of new features to the mix, including: Two-factor biometric authentication that requires…
The GSMA has announced the winners of the 19th annual Global Mobile Awards. Many of the best-known brands are on the list, except for Samsung. Last year, the Korean giant went home with the “Smartphone of the Year” award for the Galaxy S3, but this time round – that title went to HTC One. The…
According to a report from The Verge, Motorola will be launching a few wearable devices in the coming year. The news was revealed at MWC 2014 in Barcelona in an interview with Senior Vice President of Motorola Rick Osterloch. According to Osterloch, Motorola will launch a stylish smartwatch, promising to address style and battery life…
NVIDIA’s Tegra 4i has made it to Europe, appearing inside of the Wiko WAX Android smartphone. Wiko, a French smartphone maker unleashed the Wiko WAX at MWC 2014, announcing an April launch date for various European countries including France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, UK and Belgium. The Wiko WAX sports a 4.7 inch 720p display,…
Good folks of GizChina managed to catch two Ubuntu-based smartphones in Barcelona. First, there’s the Meizu MX3 which we knew will be one of the first devices to get Canonical’s mobile platform. Things are seemingly progressing in the right direction with the first Ubuntu-powered Meizu phone hitting the market by the end of year. But…
We’ve seen a number of dirt-cheap tablets in our time. Alas, most of those came from little known Chinese companies; while Alcatel is now owned by China’s TCL, it’s not exactly an unknown company. After announcing three new phones and an LTE-enabled low-end tablet, they’re out with another tablet targeting the very low-end of the…
It’s hard to compete with WhatsApp in consumer messaging market, but BlackBerry should be able to easily beat it in the enterprise space. To that end, the company unveiled BBM Protected — the first solution offered in the new eBBM Suite — to bring secure and reliable real-time mobile messaging to regulated industries. The service…