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What you see above is the next Hongmi / Redmi phone from Xiaomi, as seen by Chinese Tenaa, which is the country’s equivalent of the FCC. Just as we’ve heard before, the successor to the wildly popular Hongmi smartphone will grow in size, dumping a 4.7-inch display for a bigger 5.5-inch one. The screen resolution,…
ZTE should unveil its next flagship device, Nubia X6, later this month. As far as we know, it will be the first smartphone made by the Chinese firm to come with unibody alloy design, making for a sexy look & feel. Now we learn that the X6 will also boast a powerful camera with Optical…
Focus on the mid-range device and the vast Chinese market seems to be working for HTC. The Taiwanese company has scored 450,000 pre-orders for its Desire 816 phablet in the country in just three days! That’s a fairly impressive figure that pushed HTC’s stock up for more than 3 percent. After few bad quarters, HTC…
Although BlackBerry devices are already more secure than other commercially available phones, some folks need an extra layer of security. For heads of the governments and top-level executives the “default” security just won’t cut it. Chances are NSA (other other agencies for that matter) can slide through built-in security mechanisms. That shouldn’t be the case…
We know pretty much everything there is to know about the upcoming All New HTC One. It will build on top of the current HTC One adding a bigger screen, faster processor and second rear camera to the mix. Now, thanks to the GSMarena report, we know what that second shooter will be used for.…
ZTE is preparing to add an interesting device to its offering soon. The upcoming Grand S EXT will be the firm’s first smartphone to be made with the Nano Molding Technology (NMT), which means its body is composed of plastic and metal that were injection molded together. As you can see for yourself, this in…
The upcoming Pantech Vega Iron 2 may be the first smartphone to rock Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon 805 chip. Announced earlier this year, this SoC packs four Krait 450 cores running at 2.5GHz and Adreno 420 GPU that make it Qualcomm’s best chip yet. Aside from such powerful core, the Iron 2 will also rock a…
We gotta give it to Sony for being the first major vendor to introduce dust- and water-resistant phones to the West. For years that capability came as given with many devices sold in Japan, but now that trend is global. The newly announced Samsung Galaxy S5 is water-proof and so will be the upcoming LG…
Even though the Galaxy S5 is still not available for purchase, Samsung may be already working on a “lite” version of the device. Or that’s actually the “Neo” model, cause “Lite” naming is reserved for more affordable phones. Anyhow, thanks to the Zauba website, which tracks India’s imports and exports, we’ve caught Sammy-made device with…
Sony has started rolling out Android 4.4 KitKat update for its powerful phablet, Xperia Z Ultra, folks over at XDA forums are saying. The first model to benefit from the KitKat goodies is marked as C6833 which is the version the company is selling in Hong Kong; but we’re sure all other variants will be…