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The long-time rumored LG mobile chip has been officially announced. It’s not the best solution we’ve seen, but it’s a solid first product. Dubbed NUCLUN, it is a 32-bit octa-core SoC that uses ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture to combine four high performance Cortex A-15 cores clocked at 1.5GHz with four battery-friendly Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 1.2GHz.…
Yesterday, Archos unveiled its latest device at an event in Paris, France. Called Archos 50 Diamond, it’s a solid mid-ranger with specs that include a 5-inch full HD IPS screen, 16MP rear camera with LED flash, 8MP front-facing one, and Qualcomm’s 64-bit Snapdragon 615 SoC. Said chip packs eight Cortex-A53 cores, four of which are…
BlackBerry may be looking join the modern wearable device market in the near future. Thanks to the company’s patent filing with the USPTO, we (think we) know what Canadians are working on. According to Bloomberg, BlackBerry got no less than 27 patents, one of which describes a wearable device that can be used to unlock…
We’ve already told you that Microsoft is working on a smart watch of its own. Said device — which will apparently work with iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices — has been caught at the FCC, hinting us that its launch is pretty much imminent. While we can’t say exactly when will the Redmond giant…
Samsung is donating 3,000 GALAXY S3 Neo smartphones, worth about $1 million, to support the ongoing fight against Ebola. The devices will be donated through the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA), and will be used in the Humanitarian Connectivity Project, the UN’s IT project that utilizes mobile devices to provide…
After launching its HERE Maps app for select Samsung smartphones, Nokia is doing the same for the entire Android community, parts of which have already tried cramming the application on their non-Samsung devices. Nokia wants to “manage” this process, hence it’s out with a version of the app that should work across the board. For…
Samsung has turned to Twitter to share the image you can see above. As you can tell for yourself, there’s Sammy’s latest phablet with lollipop wallpaper, hinting us something’s cooking in Korean kitchen. Sure, the company may’ve just wanted to celebrate the latest version of Android, but we tend to think there’s more here than…
Fitbit is preparing to launch few new devices in the near future. Two of these, Charge and Charge HD, will be fitness bands, and another — Fitbit Surge — will be the company’s very first smart watch. However, Fitbit doesn’t want you to think of it as a smart watch — as that makes it…
Philips has teamed-up with Alibaba to launch what is the world’s first smartphone running Alibaba’s Android-based YunOS 3.0. The device is a powerhouse, boasting a 5.5-inch 2K screen, fast 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip, 3,000 mAh battery, 4G LTE connectivity, dual SIM support, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. Moreover, there’s Sony’s 20.7-megapixel…
You may’ve heard it – Lenovo is looking to acquire BlackBerry. The Chinese firm has barely scratched the surface with its Motorola acquisition; it wants more. And BlackBerry, we think, would be a perfect fit for them. Some time ago, I’ve mentioned about something similar in a post exploring the future of BlackBerry. Lenovo has…