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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…
Panasonic has seemingly lost interest for the mainstream smartphone market. Instead, at Mobile World Congress they’ve unveiled a pair of rugged devices made for special use cases. The new Toughpad FZ-E1 and Toughpad FZ-X1 look similar, but there’s one important difference between the two. While the former (FZ-E1) runs Windows Embedded 8 Handheld platform, the…
Folks looking for an extra piece of mind may like the Blackphone, a device that brings Android security to a whole new level. Product of Geeksphone and Silent Circle, it runs a custom version of Google’s mobile OS called PrivatOS and ships with pre-installed apps to enable private calls, texting, video chats, file exchange up…
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.…
Qualcomm is slashing the price of its Toq smart watch from $349.99 to $249.99. That’s $100 off the original price, making the phone that much sweeter. You can argue that Toq doesn’t have as many apps as Pebble does; but it rocks a color screen. That’s Mirasol baby, the power-saving display technology that keeps the…
The fact that Nexus 6 won’t be launched until much later in the year doesn’t stop some media from bringing us early information about it. According to DigiTimes, the next Google-phone will rock Qualcomm’s 8-core 64-bit Snapdragon 810 SoC. This chip is still not announced but should be officially unveiled in the second half of…
Singapore-based announced OAXIS unveiled an innovative phone case called InkCase Lite that promises to turn any device into a YotaPhone. Yup, this means that with this case you get an e-ink based panel on the back. The problem, however, is that the case has its own battery that makes the entire setting thicker. Still, it…
T-Mobile’s JUMP! early device trade-in program has been given a few tweaks, allowing T-Mobile customers more flexibility when it comes to upgrading to a new smartphone. The program, which launched mid-2013 allows T-Mobile customers to upgrade their devices more frequently in exchange for paying a little bit more each month. Pretty much every major carrier…
MWC 2013 is upon us, with wave upon wave of smartphone and gadget flooding out senses. In the midst of all of this madness, HTC has just dropped HTC M8 speculators a little bone. That bone has to do with the name of HTC’s 2014 flagship smartphone and successor to the HTC One which is…