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The low-cost smartphones costing less than $150 present a strong growth opportunity for the mobile phone industry, according to the new NPD DisplaySearch Smartphones: Displays, Designs and Functionality report. These devices are forecast to double every year from 2010 to 2016, increasing from 4.5 to 311 million. As you would expect, 60% of the demand…
Thanks to the ever-savvy ninjas from evleaks, we have a new leaked of Samsung Galaxy Premier to show you. As we said in our previous post, the GT-I9260 is a Galaxy Nexus-like device with specs that include a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED+ screen, 8-megapixel camera on the back, 2-megapixel front-facing camera, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, Bluetooth 4.0,…
Few days ago we told you about the new entry-level smartphone in US Cellular’s portfolio, Alcatel One Touch Shockwave. Well, a similar device is heading in same direction, Huawei Ascend Y, offering comparable value for money. Specs wise, this little fella packs a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 800MHz processor, 3.2-megapixel camera on the back, Wi-Fi, GPS,…
Galaxus, a French blog, spotted a document in the FCC archives that suggests Google is preparing to release a 3G Nexus 7 tablet. The FCC ID labels the device as ME370TG, which is consistent with Asus’ Nexus 7 tablet which has a product ID of ME370T. The document also details the performance of the device’s…
If you’re an Android fan that’s looking for yet another collectible figurine, then you should turn your attention to the new Halloween-inspired werewolf. This addition of the collectible Android figurines is pretty cute and would look great next to rest of your (assumed) collection. The figurine will go on sale on October 30th at 8PM…
At this point, we already know just about everything about the LG Nexus 4 when it comes to hardware specifications, but the latest leak hints at some upcoming Android 4.2 features that we’ve yet to see before. The picture you see above comes to us from Carphone Warehouse’s very own pre-order page for the device that…
Good news for Sprint Galaxy S III owners – You will soon be treated to some Jelly Bean love starting today. This makes Sprint the first carrier in the country to update a device to Android Jelly Bean. While it’s great to be first, the achievement will seem even sweeter if the other three major…
More rumors about a 10-inch Google Nexus tablet is making the Internet rounds this morning. We started hearing about a Nexus 10 tab early this summer, and since then, the expectation has been for it to be released at some point. Now pictures of the mysterious tablet’s manual has surfaced on Korean site Seeko, as…
Samsung held a big Galaxy Note 2 event on Wednesday to celebrate the US launch of its 5.5-inch smartphone. While Sprint and T-Mobile have announced their launch details, Verizon has taken the unusual strategy of launching its pre-order page without confirming the phone’s launch details or pricing. Earlier rumors suggested Verizon would start accepting pre-orders…
Despite their limited use cases, conversational personal assistants such as Siri are becoming more and more popular for smartphone users. Personal assistants rely on a wealth of transcription information, and one company that has excelled in this arena is Nuance, whose Dragon Speaking software is the de facto standard for voice transcription services on computers.…