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Looks like Alcatel is looking to join the “Mini” craze that started last year with the Galaxy S III Mini. This year we’ve got the Galaxy S4 Mini, HTC Mini and even ZTE’s Nubia Z5 Mini, which most likely won’t be available outside of China. Alcatel is apparently working on the One Touch Idol Mini,…
BlackBerry may be thinking to go private and get some “breathing room to fix its problems out of the public eye.” Citing “several sources familiar with the situation,” the Reuters report says that the Canadian company is in talks with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, which is the same company that leads Dell’s current…
Microsoft is preparing to launch the GDR3 update to Windows Phone 8 and is apparently testing some builds as we speak. Among the new features Windows Phone users can expect are rotation lock, UI changes to Live Tiles, text syncing to PCs, and a driving mode option made for in-car use. For some reason, the…
We’ve told you that Rogers will unveil its new two-year plans on August 9th, and voila – they’re here now. As expected, these look very similar to the plans announced by Bell and TELUS, asking for a base price including data for the first customer, with an additional $55 for each additional smartphone. All plans…
The newly announced LG G2 will be available in its unlocked, SIM-free form for 599 EUR in Europe. That at least will be the price in Germany where Notebooksbilliger has started taking pre-orders, asking 599 EUR for the 16GB model and 30 EUR more for the one with 32 gigs of internal storage. Both black…
Back in June, we’ve told you that 5.6mm thin Umeox X5 smartphone is preparing to take the “world’s thinnest smartphone” title from the Huawei Ascend P6. The good news is that this device is coming to Europe, and it will be officially announced in September at IFA, Berlin. It is said that France will be…
The hot-new LG G2 is heading to Canada where it will be offered by a few carriers. Among them, TELUS was the first to announce its plans to sell LG’s beast-phone, followed by Rogers which tweeted its excitement soon afterwards. TELUS has already launched a dedicated page praising the G2, saying there’s no need to…
Looks like LG is preparing to get back to the tablet game. A new, still unannounced device has been caught at the Bluetooth SIG and we tend to think this could the Korean company’s first tablet after Optimus Pad, which was launched back in 2011. Details are scarce to say the least, but it’s likely…
Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy Grand DUOS (model number GT-I9082). The new software has been caught in Russia and it’s safe to assume that the global rollout will follow shortly. The update’s build number is I9105PXXUBMG8, and it brings along few new features like lockscreen widgets, dedicated…
MediaTek may have scored a deal with Amazon to make chips for the next Kindle Fire tablets, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report. It is said that Amazon could use the company’s MT8135 quad-core chipset, which is based on ARM’s big.LITTLE design. As such, we’re talking about a SoC that boasts two…