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Looks like Oppo may be looking to enter the smart camera market, currently dominated by Samsung’s Galaxy Camera. According to AndroidAuthority, the Chinese company has held a briefing on the Android-powered camera, in which attendees were told the device would be “high resolution,” and use an “owl” image processor to make for awesome photos in…
The soon-to-be-launched Xiaomi Mi3 has been caught at GFXBench benchmark from where we get to see how it compares with competition, including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, as well as some other devices such as the NVIDIA Shield and HP Slatebook 10 X2 tablet. Unsurprisingly, the built-in Tegra 4 processor makes the Mi3…
Those tech-savvy Japanese always need an extra gimmick on their phones. To satisfy this tech hunger of its (potential) subscribers, NTT DoCoMo announced a new version of the Sony Xperia A with Hatsune Miku, a locally popular humanoid based on the singing voice synthesizer Vocaloid. Developed in collaboration with Hatsune Miku maker Crypton Future Media,…
Huawei’s hot-new Ascend P6 is now available in the UK where interested users can get it for 330 GBP sans any strings attached. On a contract, the P6 could be yours for free with plans starting at 21 GBP per month though that tariff won’t get you a ton of mobile data, quite the contrary.…
Looks like China Mobile will be offering an improved version of the Oppo Find 5, one that will sport faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz. In comparison, the existing model — which is now available in Europe and North America — comes with last year’s Snapdragon S4 Pro. Oppo has already started…
Sony’s newly unveiled SmartWatch 2 will be available in the UK sooner than we’ve expected it to be. According to phone retailer Clove, interested users will be able to grab their unit as early as July 15th which is less than 10 days from the moment you’re reading this. The price is set at 120…
Volkswagen is running a series of print ads to help stop texting while behind the wheel. Designed with the help of Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town, South Africa – the “I’m in traffic” campaign depicts smartphones’ next word prediction capability to show dangers of this practice. Here’s what these ads are saying: I’ll be there…
If you’ve ever tried to find your friends in San Francisco’s Dolores Park, you know how challenging it can be to find your crew in the small yet crowded park on a sunny day. A new app changes all of that, allowing Dolores Park visitors a way to find each other easily. The app, called…
Good ol’ EVleaks can’t help but keep amazing us with its leaks. Their latest gig is Verizon’s Droid Maxx (marked as XT1080M), which is presumingly a version of the (also) upcoming Droid Ultra (XT1080) with bigger battery. It’s still unclear when Verizon and/or Motorola will officially launch the Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx though all…
HTC is still struggling to return to the place it once held in the smartphone market. Their recent quarterly earnings do show the signs of recovery but they’re still far off the figures the Taiwanese company’s shareholders used to enjoy. Despite launching the HTC One, the company made just $41 million after tax from $2.35…