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LG has released it’s earnings report for Q4 2012, revealing that it pulled in a revenue of $2.58 billion by shipping 15.4 million devices, with 8.6 million of those devices being Android smartphones. Compare that to Q3 2012, in which LG sold only 7 million smartphones. That means that LG saw a 23 percent increase…
It wasn’t too long ago that we gave you a glimpse of Koush’s backup application, Carbon. When we first went hands on with the application, some features were missing and one needed to be rooted to use it. Starting today, that’s no longer the case. Carbon has been released into the Google Play Store in…
It looks like the floors of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month are going to be a little bare this year. HTC has already announced it would not have a press conference at MWC, and now, according to Pocket-Lint, it looks as if Samsung is following suit. Samsung will have a show-floor presence at the show,…
If Huawei can have its phablet device (Ascend Mate), so can ZTE. The Chinese company has been showing off its still not officially announced Grand Memo device at an event in Hong Kong. The giant phone has a 5.7-inch 720p screen and will most likely be launched from the floor of Mobile World Congress in…
Looks like Samsung will soon release a special version of the Galaxy Premier in its own backyard. It is said that the upcoming device will be known as Galaxy Pop and feature a quad-core (rather than dual-core) processor. By now we got used to seeing the electronics giant releasing improved versions of select devices in…
No wonder Japan is such a high-tech society when its kids get phones like these. The newly unveiled Junior SH-05 is an Android smartphone with solid specs even for adults, let along pupils. Made for 4th graders (and above), it runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, while the phone’s specs include a 1.5GHz dual-core processor,…
No, your eyes are not lying to you. Unless ours are lying to us. What you see right here looks to be a LG Nexus 4 all done up in a white casing, which could be well on its way to the Google Play Store at some point in the future. With both the Nexus…
We’ve seen more than a few leaks of the greatly anticipated HTC M7, and today ETradeSupply has given us another leak of HTC’s flagship smartphone for 2013. We now have pictures of the chassis of the device, basically the shell of the phone itself that will house all of the smartphone parts such as the…
With almost twice as many smartphones shipping in Q4 of 2012 than the previous year, it’s no surprise that Google’s Android OS has maintained its lead in the smartphone race. A new report from Strategy Analytics estimates that a total of 152.1 million smartphones operating on Android shipped in Q4 of 2012, making Android’s global…
It looks like the rumor that HTC will be holding its own separate event for its next flagship device is completely true. The week before Mobile World Congress, HTC will take the wraps off of the highly-anticipated M7, leaving MWC without one more flagship handset announcement. We’ve already seen the device floating around the internet a…