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Intel is looking to make a big splash at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year by announcing their latest smartphone technologies, namely its dual-core Atom processor, at the event. Intel has taken a back seat in the mobile market for some time now, but surprised us last year by producing SoC’s for smartphones,…
According to Strategy Analytics, Apple became the number one mobile phone vendor in the United States during Q4 2012, overtaking Samsung, LG, and all of its competitors for the first time with 34 percent market share. Previously, Samsung had taken the lead for shipments each quarter since 2008. The numbers come from the Wireless Device…
A recent leak has revealed a release date for the M7 in the UK and Europe, but details of a stateside release have been elusive. We have heard rumors that the M7 would be launched simultaneously on all major U.S. carriers. According to a trusted source from HTC Source, we now have new details about its release…
HTC CEo Peter Chou got a little hyphy at the company’s year-end party in Taipei earlier today, giving props to the development team behind the HTC M7, and inciting whoops and cheers from adoring onlookers in the crowd. According to a broadcast from Taiwan’s NextTV, Chou just couldn’t keep the M7 in his pants, whipping…
I tend to browse through Kickstarter a lot — the Design and Technology categories in particular — eager to find some great new ideas from creative and intelligent people. A few months ago I stumbled upon an interesting app called “1 Second Everyday” with the caption “Imagine a movie that includes every day of the…
Need more evidence that Android’s next version will be soon upon us? Look no further. According to some slides from Qualcomm that leaked, the next version of the Android operating system, also known as Key Lime Pie, will be announced around “Spring 2013”. While none of this should come as a surprise to anyone who…
Most of the news about HTC as of late has centered around their oft-rumored flagship phone, the HTC M7, but today we have learned of a few other handsets that HTC has in the works for 2013. The two new devices, code-named the HTC M4 and the HTC G2 probably will not show up at HTC’s February…
The BBC’s 5 live Breakfast interviewed Stephen Bates, BlackBerry’s UK Managing Director, on the day the company was prepared to launch its new BlackBerry 10 operating system. The talk turned to Apple and the iPhone when the interviewer asked what BlackBerry has learned from the Cupertino company and its phones. Rather than address the question or…
LG will be launching a new dual-SIM smartphone next month – Optimus L7 II. The device resembles the original Optimus L7 but it also has a redesigned case, while running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean right from the get-go. Rest of the specs are the same and include a 4.3-inch screen with WVGA (800×480 pixels) resolution,…
Intel and Acer announced a new Atom-powered Android smartphone at an event in Thailand. Dubbed Acer Liquid C1, the new device uses Intel’s latest mobile Intel Atom Z2420 chipset (codenamed Lexington) clocked at 1.2GHz, which was only recently announced at CES. In addition, it also comes with a 4.3-inch qHD (540×960 pixels) screen and 8-megapixel…