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We’ve told you that Google is preparing to hold the first Project Ara conference in April. Now we have a new tidbit to add to the story — the Mountain View-based company is looking to make these devices as affordable as possible. According to Time (brought to our attention by AndroidCentral), the basic “grayphone” will…
Boeing is out with its very first smartphone (as far as we know). The new Boeing Black is not a device you will be able to buy in your local store; rather it’s a specialized product made for the US defense and security community. Built from the grounds up, the Black integrates a number elements…
Samsung won’t be the only chip maker with a hexa-core chip for long. Taiwan’s MediaTek is planning to join the party later this quarter with its MT6591 SoC with clock speeds of up to 1.5GHz. According to the company’s leaked roadmap, this chip will be compatible with China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network though we assume WCDMA…
HTC is not the only company mocking the newly announced Galaxy S5. China’s Oppo is joining the bandwagon as well, having shared an image above through Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter). As you can see for yourself, Oppo claims that 7 is bigger than 5 where that “5” looks very much like “S” in Samsung’s…
During Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced SDKs for its newly launched products. The new SDKs include: Samsung Gear 2 SDK – For creating apps for the new Tizen-based Gear 2 and Gear Neo. It ensures everybody a level of openness and flexibility in the ecosystem of apps for Samsung wearables. S-Health SDK – Opens up…
The newly announced Nokia X series may be Android-based devices but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to run all apps out of box. According to the Finnish company, around 75% of existing Android apps will work without a problem, while 25% will require certain tweaks. As far as I can tell, the problem occurs…
Marvell is the latest chip maker to join the 64-bit craze with its new Armada Mobile PXA 1928 platform. The SoC consists of four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz, full HD-capable GC5000 GPU and a 5-mode LTE modem that also supports older 2G and 3G standards. If we can take Marvell’s track-record for…
Motorola’s MotoMaker is coming to Western Europe and Mexico soon, according to a report from The Verge. This means that for the first time, Moto X owners outside of the U.S. will be able to customize their Moto X smartphones with the number of options that MotoMaker offers. MotoMaker allows Moto X customers to customize…
Project Ara has found itself in the hands of Google after the company sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo this last January. The modular smartphone will be getting its very own developers’ conference in April. The Project Ara developers’ conference will mostly take place online, with a handful developers attending on-site conferences at the Computer…
From the fanciful world of concept designs comes a 10 inch HTC tablet, the HTC Babel. The concept was created by Facebook user Phone Designer, who took HTC’s design aesthetics and rendered a very thin and sleek-looking tablet that can run either Windows or Android. Quite a novel idea, and one that we would love…