Reports are emerging from South Korea that Samsung is preparing its next flagship, the Galaxy S4 and it would be unveiled in MWC 2013 in February. According to an unnamed Samsung employee, the Galaxy S4 is being developed and it should be ready for an introduction early next year. The rumor emerges nicely just after the official announcement of the …
Microsoft has filed a patent application for an interesting method to silence a mobile device. A swift whack will tell the operating system to activate the silent mode. The patent is titled “controlling audio of a device” and the phone simply monitors data delivered by the accelerometer. So if the system detects specific kind of jolt, the speaker is turned …
HP CEO, Meg Whitman, revealed during an interview that her company is planning for a return into the smartphone business. The company seems to take detour in this business and they need to get it right this time. HP’s tablet, the TouchPad was a definite sales flop and the company had unceremoniously dumped its brand name, Palm. Quickly afterwards, HP …
Samsung Brightside looks like a typical mid-range handset and it is priced like one too. At $99, the phone has a good size and the smallish 3.2” display feels responsive. The phone hides a roomy 4-row QWERTY keyboard with keys that are slightly raised and users should have no problem typing long messages. Compared with jumbo displays found in recent …
Meizu has been churning out advanced electronics in China since 2003 and last year, it released a dual-core handset. This time around, the company has offered a powerful device, with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM thrown in for good measure. The Meizu MX 4-Core may look like a typical iPhone clone, but in your hands it should …
The LG Optimus G is gearing up to be the fastest Android smartphone on the planet and the unique back cover alone tells us that it’s no ordinary smartphone. It took more than a year for LG to develop and patent the “Crystal Reflection” back cover technology. The cover is made completely of glass and depending on how the light …
Acer Liquid Glow is another mid-ranger among the Android crowd with its 3.7” WVGA capacitive, multi-touch display; capable of delivering 252ppi to ensure an overall smooth graphics representation on the display. If you are bored with smartphones that come with only one color shade, you’ll be glad to know that the Liquid Glow also has various color schemes, such as …
Rumors on ZTE Warp Sequent, a new mid-range smartphone, surface on Twitter and it may be heading to Boost Mobile. At $200 contract-free, the phone seems like a cheaper variant of the ZTE Grand X IN with some minor design changes including three capacitive buttons under the display. The phone is expected to arrive with 1.4GHz single-core processor and 4.3” …
While many of us may have some reservations about Motorola’s early DROID RAZR models, the new RAZR HD seems to address past issues effectively while offering a much slicker smartphone design. We can easily plenty of similarities between the original DROID RAZR and the newer DROID RAZR HD with their Kevlar back and a large build. But when we see …
Apple is spotted in the final stage of acquiring a firm specialized in fingerprint-based security, meaning future iOS devices may have another layer of integrated security. It is expected that the next iPhone will be unveiled on Wednesday this week and it already has a built-in fingerprint scanner. Considering the fact that this is Apple’s biggest acquisition since 1997, it …