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The GSMA has announced the winners of the 19th annual Global Mobile Awards. Many of the best-known brands are on the list, except for Samsung. Last year, the Korean giant went home with the “Smartphone of the Year” award for the Galaxy S3, but this time round – that title went to HTC One. The…
We’ve seen a number of dirt-cheap tablets in our time. Alas, most of those came from little known Chinese companies; while Alcatel is now owned by China’s TCL, it’s not exactly an unknown company. After announcing three new phones and an LTE-enabled low-end tablet, they’re out with another tablet targeting the very low-end of the…
It’s hard to compete with WhatsApp in consumer messaging market, but BlackBerry should be able to easily beat it in the enterprise space. To that end, the company unveiled BBM Protected — the first solution offered in the new eBBM Suite — to bring secure and reliable real-time mobile messaging to regulated industries. The service…
BlackBerry unveiled a pair of new smartphones at Mobile World Congress. The first of the two, Z3 (aka Jakarta), is the result of BlackBerry’s co-operation with Foxconn. This unit has a z10-like all-touchscreen form factor and is heading to Indonesia, where interested users will be able to buy it starting from April for some $200.…
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! We’ve all been waiting patiently for Samsung to unveil the next device in its Galaxy S lineup, the Galaxy S5. Sammy is holding a press event in Barcelona today, where we are very sure they will unveil their flagship smartphone for 2014, the Galaxy S5. We may even see…
Aside from the Android-powered Nokia X range, the Finnish company also unveiled two low-cost feature phones – Nokia 220 and Nokia Asha 230. The first of the two is said to be Nokia’s most affordable Internet-connected phone ever, selling for €29 before taxes and subsidies. It has a 2.4-inch QVGA (240×320) screen, 2-megapixel camera, FM…
Asus isn’t announcing anything exciting at Mobile World Congress; all we have are two new Fonepad models – one with 4G LTE connectivity support, and another that can take two SIM cards. Aside from rocking a 4G radio, the Fonepad 7 LTE (model number ME372CL) remains the same under the hood. Its specs include a…
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…
Well folks, the day has come. No longer will you have to move *anything* from your phone to computer — cause you’ll have enough storage on the phone itself. You’ll just need one thing – SanDisk’s new 128GB microSD card. The new memory card can “take” 16 hours of full HD video, 7,500 songs, 3,200…
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.…