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Intel can’t miss the mobile revolution; it just gotta stay in this market if it wants to grow in the future. Despite struggling to compete with the likes of Qualcomm and MediaTek (let alone handset makers which make their own processors), Intel is pushing forward. At Mobile World Congress, they’ve unveiled two new 64-bit chips…
Alcatel is not fooling around. The three new POP S series phones are not the only thing the company wanted to unveil at Mobile World Congress; there’s a also new tablet. While the OneTouch POP 7S is not the sexiest tablet we’ve seen to date, it will (apparently) offer quite a bang for the buck.…
Alcatel unveiled a series of affordable LTE-enabled smartphones at Mobile World Congress. The new OneTouch POP S range includes three devices – POP S3, POP S7 and POP S9, with screen sizes ranging from 4- to 6-inches. According to Alcatel, all new phones keep POP series’ DNA of “easy to choose, easy to use,” offering…
The new YotaPhone is here, and again — like that was the case with the original YotaPhone — we won’t be able to try one until much later in the year. The concept remains the same – there’s a regular display on one end, and e-ink one on the other. The new YotaPhone (we’ll call…
Aside from the new powerful Snapdragon 801, Qualcomm also unveiled a pair of chips for the new wave of rock-solid mid-range devices. The Snapdragon 610 and Snapdragon 615 are 64-bit chips, packing four and eight ARMv8 cores, respectively. In addition, both of them integrate multi-mode global Cat4 LTE modem, dual-SIM/dual active (DSDA), 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth…
Qualcomm announced an improved version of its popular Snapdragon 800 SoC. The new Snapdragon 801 is not as powerful as the upcoming Snapdragon 805, but it’s fast, nonetheless. Compared with the existing Snapdragon 800, the new chip comes with 14% faster Krait 400 processor cores, 28% faster Adreno 330 graphics, and 45% faster camera sensor…
The day has come – Nokia has officially joined the Android market with not one, but three different devices. These three are Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL, all of which get their power from a rather mediocre 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. There are some changes as well – Nokia X has a…
Sony has just announced a trio of Xperia devices today at MWC 2014 in Barcelona, two smartphones and one tablet. As anticipated, Sony announced the follow-up to the Xperia Z, the Xperia Z2 and the next tablet, the Xperia Z2. Also announced was the Xperia M2, a slimmed down version of the Xperia Z2. The…
Offering carrier-branded smartphones must be a sound strategy for Orange, which keeps adding these devices left and right. Last year, the French operator group unveiled 14 new own-brand devices, doubling the number from last year. And you know why – cause these phones are selling like crazy, offering great value for money to the users.…
LG announced the new LG G Pro 2 phablet in Korea ten days ago, and the beautiful device has made its way to MWC 2014 in Barcelona. The device will go on sale in Korea by the end of February. Appearing alongside a slew of LG devices, like the LG G2 mini, F70 and F90,…