Samsung is deliberately trying to spoil Apple’s fun and rumors are circulating that the phone will make its debut in MWC 2013 early next year. Although Samsung has officially denied these speculations in a press statement, it’s a common practice for phone makers to quietly feed rumors into the market. The result of Rightware benchmarking tool shows a brand new …
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Although RIM (Research In Motion) has quickly restored its services to millions of users after a 3-hour outage in Africa and Europe, the disruption clearly echoes a bigger failure. These things don’t bode well for the struggling phone makers, especially when the company is working hard with their turnaround plans. It is clear that something hasn’t put right, RIM may …
A little known Swedish computing devices manufacturer, the Handheld Group, announced the Nautiz X1; which could be the toughest handset in the market today. It’s shock-resistant, dust-proof, waterproof yet also smartly designed, very slim and lightweight. The firm claims that the phone is suitable for outdoor enthusiasts and common professionals alike. The Handheld Group has learned many things from creating …
Motorola RAZR V is a mid-range smartphone with unique chrome accents and sloped Kevlar backing. The phone is some 5mm narrower than the original RAZR and the 4.3” qHD display should satisfy users better. To make whites more accurate and text much sharper, Motorola opted for standard TFT LCD display, instead of Super-AMOLED. This would easily mean that we lose …
Samsung has commenced the mass production 2GB LPDDR3 DRAM modules for mobile devices, in less than a year after it started the production of DDR2 modules. LPDDR3 is needed to keep up with latest high-performance processors and avoid bottlenecks. These chips would also allow for advanced 3D graphics representations on high resolution display. A LPDDR3 DRAM module is capable of …
Instead of an ARM-15 based processor like previously reported, it’s now known that the A6 processor is actually Apple’s first attempt to custom design a processor. The A6 is claimed to have twice the computing and graphics processing power compared to the previous A5 processor. Apple is known as among a few licensees that are vested with the legal permission …
Google’s Motorola Mobility announced the upcoming release of an Intel-based smartphone, Motorola RAZR i. The RAZR i has 4.3” Super-AMOLED edge-to-edge display and under the hood there’s a powerful Intel Atom Z2460 x86-based 2GHz processor. Intel is having a tough time loosening ARM’s grip on the mobile industry, despite the availability of powerful, energy-efficient Medfield processor. While many ARM-based processors …
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 …