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After HTC, Huawei may be the next company to adopt aluminum bodies for its phones. According to the image above, caught by the French site NoWhereElse, the upcoming Huawei Edge (or that’s Huawei Ascend Edge) may be released in the next few months as the company’s second flagship device for the year (after Ascend D2).…
Bigger screens mean bigger devices. And while handset makers are giving their best to make the bezel around the screen as petit as possible to make smartphones more compact, we’re still waiting for a device with real edge-to-edge screen. Pantech is apparently working on such a “bezel-less” product as we speak, preparing it as an…
In an image sent to Angry Birds fansite Angry Birds Nest today, Rovio hinted at the new installment of the Seasons franchise. This coming episode will bring the tally up to 16 for this flavor of Birds. Like previous episodes, this release will correspond with the current season (at least for those of us in the Northern…
Owners of Verizon’s Droid Bionic will be receiving a OTA software update next Monday, which will bring to the device Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean. Included in the Jelly Bean update are some hot features such as Google Now and expanded voice search capabilities. An improved notification scheme is also included, providing users quick access to…
U.S. Cellular will be carrying a new ZTE smartphone, the ZTE Director. The budget handset will be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and includes a 1 GHz Qualcomm processor and 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage which is expandable via a microSD card. The device also sports a 3 MP camera, a 1500mAh…
Here it is. The moment you’ve all been waiting for. Or maybe not. Either way, Zuck’s new Facebook Home launcher has just gone live on the Google Play Store, allowing owners of the Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note 2, HTC One X and One X+ to play with the new Facebook interface. The Galaxy…
Facebook fans can now get their hands on the new HTC First smartphone today for $99 from AT&T on a new two-year contract. The phone, which comes with the new Facebook Home interface pre-installed touts mid-range specs, coming with a 4.3-inch 720p display, a dual-core 1.4 GHz Qualcomm 400 processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of…
Well, um… I guess… Okay, I’m not really entirely sure how to critique HTC’s new ad for the HTC One. It aims to be 3 minutes and 48 seconds of the show Bachelorette but instead of choosing a man, the woman is trying to choose a phone. In the end, that phone is obviously the One.…
Sprint customers who want a little color in their lives are in luck today, as the carrier is exclusively selling the Samsung Galaxy S III in a new color scheme, Amethyst Purple. This marks the third color option for the Galaxy S III on Sprint, with other options including Pebble Blue and Marble White. Sprint’s…
Sprint-owned Boost Mobile may emerge as the first U.S. carrier to offer one of LG’s F-Series devices, namely the F7. Announced during this year’s Mobile World Congress, it’s basically the beefed-up version of the L7 with built-in LTE connectivity. This in turn will make it Boost’s third 4G-enabled device, after HTC One SV and Boost/ZTE…