Here’s the first rumor about Sony’s next flagship device, Xperia Z2. According to information PhoneArena managed to obtain, this thing will be a monster-phone rocking a 5.5-inch IGZO Triluminos Display with an industry leading 540ppi pixel density, while setting a new benchmark for the whole high-end range. Qualcomm’s super-fast Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 chipset coupled with…
Nokia Lumia 1520 to be announced on October 22nd? Coming to AT&T and Verizon?
EVleaks spoke with some insiders to find out that Nokia will officially announce the Lumia 1520 on October 22nd. That goes in line with what we’ve heard before – that AT&T will start selling it in November. But wait, there’s more. It looks like another major US carrier will offer the first Windows Phone phablet…
A pair of dual-SIM Galaxy Note 3 phablets get approval from China’s Communications ministry
We know that Chinese users get dual SIM versions of popular devices which the rest of the world can only dream of. Well guess what – that will also be the case with the newly unveiled Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The recent filing to China’s Communications ministry suggests that the Korean company will offer not…
InfoSonics unveils verykool s470 aka Black Pearl: 4.7-inch HD screen, 1.2GHz quad-core chip, 8MP camera
InfoSonics unveiled verykool s470 aka “Black Pearl,” touting it as its “most powerful smartphone to date.” Specs wise, we’re talking about a device that is kind of, sort of comparable to Moto X, except that it uses a different chip and has a worse camera. The s470 comes with a 1.2GHz quad-core processor (most likely…
Acer founder thinks Wintel is destined to fail
Acer founder thinks the Wintel model that has been working for so long is destined to fail. Commenting on latest events in the PC industry at a recent media conference, Acer’s Stan Shih said this will happen since the two giants (Microsoft and Intel) have been keeping most of the profits to themselves, which is…
HTC America lays off 20% of its workforce
HTC has seen better days. Despite launching the well-received HTC One, the company had tough time convincing a critical number of users into buying their phones. Customers are instead turning to the likes of Samsung and Apple, as well as LG and Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE. The latest piece of bad news involves the…
Windows Phone Store crosses 9 million daily transactions mark
Microsoft is steadily building momentum around its Windows Phone Store. Lately, they’ve announced reaching and surpassing 9 million transactions of combined app and in-app purchases per day. That’s 270 million transactions per month or 70 million more than what was reported in June. And that’s just a start with Redmond giant working to further grow…
Nokia Lumia 1520 won’t be called “phablet”?
Nokia and many folks from all around the word don’t like the word “phablet,” which was invented to describe devices which are too big to be called phones and too small to be called tablets. Samsung pioneered this market with its Galaxy Note, and now Nokia is gearing towards launching its first such device, Lumia…
Lenovo-made Vodafone Smart Tab 10 III unveiled in Romania
Vodafone keeps pushing its own-brand tablets. The latest in line, Vodafone Smart Tab 10 III, has been unveiled in Romania and it’s made by Lenovo. Specs wise, this thing packs a 10.1-inch IPS screen with 1280×800 pixels resolution, MediaTek’s 8389 quad-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, 1GB of RAM, 5-megapixel rear and VGA front cameras,…
HTC One Mini clone shows up in China with a price tag of bellow $100
Chinese cloners have did it again. This time their target is the HTC One Mini, which fake version is now available in the world’s most populous country for less than $100. Naturally that price can’t get you hardware that’s comparable to the original HTC One Mini. The simply called MINI ONE has just 512MB of…