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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…
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.…
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…
The day has come – Nokia has officially joined the Android market with not one, but three different devices. These three are Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL, all of which get their power from a rather mediocre 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. There are some changes as well – Nokia X has a…
Not satisfied with releasing a trio of awesome Android devices, Sony has unveiled the next step in its line of fitness trackers, the SmartBand SWR10. The device will be accompanied by an Android app called Lifelog which will help you set fitness goals, monitor athletic progress as well as location data. The SmartBand pairs with…
Sony has just announced a trio of Xperia devices today at MWC 2014 in Barcelona, two smartphones and one tablet. As anticipated, Sony announced the follow-up to the Xperia Z, the Xperia Z2 and the next tablet, the Xperia Z2. Also announced was the Xperia M2, a slimmed down version of the Xperia Z2. The…
AT&T has started rolling updates for two of its super-phones – LG G2 and HTC One. The G2 got “key enhancements to the user interface, battery efficiency and processing speed,” as you may’ve seen in the video LG has released on YouTube. In addition, there are some UI changes included with KitKat’s interface, as well…