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The existing Vega LTE-A with its 5.6-inch screen isn’t enough for Pantech. As part of what looks like the “keeping up with the Joneses” strategy (where Samsung is playing the neighbor), the Korean company will soon be launching another phablet, the one with an even bigger, 5.9-inch screen. Set to be officially announced on October…
Both LG and Samsung are preparing to launch first smartphones with curved displays, and both of them will do it later this month. Samsung, the world’s largest phone maker, may unveil its Galaxy Note 3 Active as early as next week, with LG following suit with its new Z series device. As far as I’ve…
BlackBerry is on the verge of change. Big change. The chances are it can’t go on like this and will likely end-up being acquired by Fairfax Financial in a deal worth some $4.7 billion. Then what? The way I see things, there are two roads going from there. 1. Fairfax could split BlackBerry into pieces…
Looks like Nokia is gearing towards launching another low-cost Windows Phone device, Lumia 525 aka Glee. The information comes from EVleaks, which unfortunately failed to mention to launch date. We do, however, know that Finns are preparing a big event on October 22nd and that could be the time when the Lumia 525 is officially…
Japan is known for many things like tech-savvy citizens, fast trains, electronics industry, weird fashion and vending machines. Google is trying to enter the last mentioned market and is piloting three Google Play machines that offer 18 different games. Everyone with an NFC-enabled Android 4.0+ smartphone can try these out and get either free-to-play or…
Canada’s mobile operators have teamed-up to launch a national blacklist of wireless devices that have been reported as lost or stolen. Effective immediately, the networks will rely on the phones’ IMEI serial numbers to checked against a list of stolen handsets, and eventually ban the use of such phones on their networks. Aside from the…
Japanese carrier SoftBank’s may have to wait a little longer to get its money back from the Sprint acquisition. According to the company’s CEO Masayoshi Son, it will take some time for Sprint turnaround. Here’s what he said in an interview with Reuters: It took around a year after SoftBank bought Vodafone (before) we reached…
Nokia may use its October 22nd event to launch a new member of the Asha family (among other devices) as we have a press render of the upcoming Asha 502 to show you. As you can see from the image above — brought to us by the good folks of EVleaks — this is basically…
The latest crop of Nokia’s Windows Phone handsets are known for their fantastic Pureview cameras. Besides stellar hardware, the phones also ship with a suite of photography apps including a Panorama app that’s perfect for photographing your surroundings. It’s a wonderful app that takes fantastic landscape photos, with one glaring omission — it fell short…
Samsung has kicked off its typical big marketing push for its most recent products, the Galaxy Note 3 phone and the Galaxy Gear smart watch. The first ad was released on Tuesday and represents quite a different tactic for Samsung. Instead of going after its competition in a snarky ad, Samsung keeps with its “design…