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Samsung announced a successor to the original Galaxy Grand smartphone that has a potential to quickly emerge as one of the company’s best-selling devices. Specs wise, the Grand 2 rocks a big 5.25-inch 720p HD screen, 1.5GB of RAM, 1.2GHz quad-core processor and two SIM card slots. In addition, it also comes with an 8-megapixel…
For quite some time, Canonical has been working to unite its mobile and desktop platforms. One of the first visible results is here – the unified icons for desktop and mobile. The icons now have the trendy flat design, and overall look more stylized when compared to the old desktop iconography. On the other hand,…
LG is set to start making its own chips and it’s likely that some of the company’s next year devices will use the home-grown technology, rather than Qualcomm-made gear. It is said that LG’s Odin chip series will debut next year, offering four or eight cores depending on the variant. Unfortunately though, we don’t have…
The HTC One has been one of the hottest smartphones of 2013, and now it’s getting a new gold paintjob. It’s not being released in the U.S., not yet at least, opting instead for a European debut. The Gold colored HTC One is now available from Finnish retailer Giganitti for €650. The Gold HTC One…
Nokia is rebranding its Nokia Music app/service to Nokia Mix Radio. Alongside a new name, the company also launched an updated Windows Phone app. Should you not be familiar with the service, Nokia Music / Nokia Mix Radio provides users with a unique way to enjoy a variety of mixes and experience new music they…
T-Mobile keeps beefing-up its 4G LTE network. The latest expansion spans 22 markets across 13 US states. The new places added to the Magenta carrier’s LTE coverage include: California: San Luis Obispo Colorado: Silverthorne Florida: Key West, Naples-Marco Island Indiana: Evansville Kentucky: Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Frankfort Louisiana: Baton Rouge Massachusetts: Barnstable Town Minnesota: Red Wing…
Huawei’s upcoming Ascend Mate 2 has been caught in the wild and it’s likely it will be officially announced during the upcoming CES in Las Vegas, exactly a year after the original Mate was unveiled. We don’t know all of the specs but we do have many details: Huawei’s next phablet will rock a 6.1-inch…
Good folks from TUAW caught this amazing iPhone 6 concept that rocks a wrap-around screen making for a true “all-touchscreen” experience. However, while technology to make this possible is already available — with Samsung planning to launch such a device next year — somehow we doubt Apple is thinking between these lines. For one thing,…
Moving from Apple’s iOS to Google’s Android can be a challenge. For smartphone users old and new, it can be tricky to transfer all of those contacts, pictures and music from an iPhone to an Android device, such as the HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4. Google chairman Eric Schmidt has come to the rescue,…
Few days ago we’ve told you about an upcoming 8-inch Nokia tablet. Codenamed Nokia Illusionist, the device will actually be called Lumia 2020, fitting nice in the whole Nokia naming scheme — after all, its bigger brother is called Lumia 2520 so it makes perfect sense for a smaller tablet to wear the Lumia 2020…