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We knew we wouldn’t be seeing the successor to the HTC One at MWC 2014,with HTC opting instead to unveil a pair of mid-range devices, the HTC Desire 816 and the Desire 610. The 816 is being touted as HTC’s “flagship mid-range” smartphone, with the device touting many of the HTC One’s features such as…
ZTE has unveiled the Grand Memo II LTE at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This is not a high-end phablet, but a mid-end one, rocking Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 quad-core chip, 6-inch 720p HD screen, and Android 4.4 KitKat with ZTE’s own MiFavor 2.3 UI on top. In addition, the 7.2mm-thin phone has a 13-megapixel rear…
Well folks, the day has come. No longer will you have to move *anything* from your phone to computer — cause you’ll have enough storage on the phone itself. You’ll just need one thing – SanDisk’s new 128GB microSD card. The new memory card can “take” 16 hours of full HD video, 7,500 songs, 3,200…
Lenovo unveiled three new phones in Barcelona — Lenovo S860, S850 and S660 — none of which we would describe as super-phone. Instead this trio is targeting mid-end of the market. All of them come with dual-SIM capability, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, 3G + Wi-Fi connectivity, and should start selling from June of this year.…
Intel can’t miss the mobile revolution; it just gotta stay in this market if it wants to grow in the future. Despite struggling to compete with the likes of Qualcomm and MediaTek (let alone handset makers which make their own processors), Intel is pushing forward. At Mobile World Congress, they’ve unveiled two new 64-bit chips…
Alcatel is not fooling around. The three new POP S series phones are not the only thing the company wanted to unveil at Mobile World Congress; there’s a also new tablet. While the OneTouch POP 7S is not the sexiest tablet we’ve seen to date, it will (apparently) offer quite a bang for the buck.…
Alcatel unveiled a series of affordable LTE-enabled smartphones at Mobile World Congress. The new OneTouch POP S range includes three devices – POP S3, POP S7 and POP S9, with screen sizes ranging from 4- to 6-inches. According to Alcatel, all new phones keep POP series’ DNA of “easy to choose, easy to use,” offering…
The new YotaPhone is here, and again — like that was the case with the original YotaPhone — we won’t be able to try one until much later in the year. The concept remains the same – there’s a regular display on one end, and e-ink one on the other. The new YotaPhone (we’ll call…
Aside from the new powerful Snapdragon 801, Qualcomm also unveiled a pair of chips for the new wave of rock-solid mid-range devices. The Snapdragon 610 and Snapdragon 615 are 64-bit chips, packing four and eight ARMv8 cores, respectively. In addition, both of them integrate multi-mode global Cat4 LTE modem, dual-SIM/dual active (DSDA), 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth…
Qualcomm announced an improved version of its popular Snapdragon 800 SoC. The new Snapdragon 801 is not as powerful as the upcoming Snapdragon 805, but it’s fast, nonetheless. Compared with the existing Snapdragon 800, the new chip comes with 14% faster Krait 400 processor cores, 28% faster Adreno 330 graphics, and 45% faster camera sensor…