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Acer do want to make a Windows Phone 8 device but only after seeing Microsoft putting more advertising dollars behind the platform. In an interview with Pocket-lint, Allen Burnes, EMEA vice-president for Acer’s smartphone division, said that Acer doesn’t yet see Windows Phone as a safe bet. He went on to add: “We want to…
Samsung is rolling out a small update for its brand-new Galaxy Note 8.0 in Germany. The 174MB-heavy download doesn’t bring along Android 4.2.2 (the tablet will stay at version 4.1.2), but it does come with software tweaks that “improve stability”, and there’s also the nicer lookin’ transparent notification bar amongst other things. Software version N5100XXBMF1…
TELUS and Rogers have both announced plans to sell the 4th gen iPad and iPad mini. As expected, they’ll be selling models with both Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity, offering them with their tablet plans. No subsidies will be included and you’ll rather pay the full price of Apple’s tablet and then use it with a…
The existing Samsung Galaxy S4 with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 chip may be fast, but there’s always something faster – the same phone with Snapdragon 800 SoC. The good news is that Samsung is working on it and has already put that phone through tests at AnTuTu, where the faster processor helped it break all previous…
As mobile phones become bigger and bigger, they demand more and more power. The battery technology can’t keep up with demands of modern smartphones prompting handset makers to look for power efficiencies and other ways to extend the battery life. A promising approach is to add solar panels to the phone. Some efforts we’ve seen…
CAGR of app users has been 251% over the last 5 years, outpacing the growth of the stationary internet users worldwide by an astonishing factor of 15! However, stationary internet user base is still more than two times bigger than mobile app user base, but its growth rate of 16% (CAGR) looks rather deplorable compared…
Acer Liquid ZX is the company’s upcoming smartphone that will ship with a small-ish 3.5-inch screen and the “proud to be small” attitude. That, at least, are the words of Acer’s president of smartphone ST Liew who added that such a device will be suitable for users who can’t bear having huge devices filling out…
The hot-new HTC One is already available from a number of carriers in Canada — including Bell, Rogers, TELUS and SaskTel — and the list may not stop there. Two smaller players, Mobilicity and Videotron, are apparently preparing to join this trend, as well. The information comes from XDA-Developers Forums, where one thread talks about…
After the ZTE Open, we have Alcatel’s Firefox OS-based OneTouch Fire getting FCC’s seal of approval to be sold in the U.S. Yet again, this doesn’t mean any U.S. carrier will sell this phone and it just could be part of Mozilla’s efforts to make Firefox OS-powered devices available for developers in the country. Similarly…
Good news for all of you waiting to get the upcoming HTC One Mini aka HTC M4 – it will come with a 720p HD screen, its leaked UA Profile confirms. This and the fact that it has an aluminum body will put it ahead of Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Mini which has a qHD (540×960…