With newer rumors and leaks, it is becoming clearer that the next Nexus smartphone will come out of LG’s manufacturing facilities. And finally, that has been confirmed. New documents released by FCC show a trove of images detailing a new device that looks quite similar to the one shown on a leaked clip last week. The official filling clearly details …
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Inside sources have recently revealed to the media some details on the A7 SoC to be used on the upcoming Apple iPhone 5S. The chip is expected to be about 31 percent faster than the older A6 processor found inside the iPhone 5. It isn’t known what type of benchmarking test used to make the comparison. We also don’t know …
A few days ago, we seen leaked pictures showing a couple of interchangeable smartphone lens, which can be connected to the Android smartphones or the iPhone via a magnet. The DSC-QX100 comes with 20.2Mp camera sensor, 3.6x zoom and f/1.8 Carl Zeiss lens. The lens includes components from Sony’s RX100M II camera. The DSC-QX10 a lower-end model with parts borrowed …
With only 120,000 apps in its catalogue, BlackBerry is desperate to gather interests from the software development community. One developer seems to be keen to take advantage this situation and it has single handedly responsible for delivering 47,000 BlackBerry OS apps; or about a third of all apps currently available for the software platform. Unfortunately, most of them have disappointing …
The smartphone industry continues to expand and it appears, Android device manufacturers are the biggest beneficiaries of this trend. According to latest figures released by the UDC, shipments of Android smartphones reached nearly 190 million units in Q2 2013, giving the platform 79.3 percent market share. With over 72 million smartphones shipped last quarter, Samsung benefitted the most in the …
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor will be the staple of premium smartphone users in the second half of 2013. While the Samsung Galaxy Note III and LG G2 will be powered with the Qualcomm’s newest powerful silicon, updated variants of Samsung Galaxy S4 will be equipped with the chip as well. However, it’s easy to forget that what the …
Samsung is pushing further to China’s emerging 4G LTE market by bringing Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S4 Mini with dual-mode LTE capability that runs on both TDD and FDD networks. Today, most countries are deploying FDD LTE technology when setting up 4G network. However, carriers in China are promoting the use of TDD-based 4G LTE networks. China Mobile, the largest …
ZTE will soon release the first Nvidia Tegra 4 smartphone in the market, the ZTE Geek U988S. The company originally planned to use an Intel processor, but instead users will get Nvidia’s newest SoC. The 1.8GHz quad-core processor will be paired with 2GB of RAM for decent multitasking performance. The screen resolution will also bumped up from 720p to 1080, …
The Xiaomi Mi3 is approaching its official release date and a new result from the GFX Benchmark shows us an early glimpse on the device. It appears that the Mi3 manages to hold its own against superphones like the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. We also get some additional details about the phone and it seems to be equipped …
Sources have leaked pictures of the Sony i1 Honami and based on a leaked system dump, the device may not be an ordinary cameraphone. The build.prop file shows that the 20Mp camera sensor is capable of recording 4K (4000 x 2000) videos along with the Augmented Reality features. The Honami will deliver a new launcher, app drawer and user interface …