Packing a 3.7” Super-AMOLED display, 1.4GHz Snapdragon processor and Mango, the Samsung Focus Flash looks rather unassuming in this Windows Phone 8 era. Even with its plastic-dominated body, the Samsung Focus Flash surprisingly feels nice in out hands. The Adreno 205 GPU won’t do much to help the Focus Flash keeps pace with the likes of HTC 8X and Nokia …
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New Smartphone
If you have a rooted Samsung smartphone and S Memo in it, then your username and password will be stored in plain text. This is obviously a scary discovery and further signifies the drawback for having a rooted smartphone. There always are a few security risks that may come along with a custom modified device. If you fail to check …
One new exciting features of Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) is the Daydream, which is essentially a built-in screensaver. The Daydream is activated when the device is docked or connected to a charger. It turns out that Google has hidden a rather interesting Easter Egg within the Daydream. Google regularly hides version art in each Android version release since Gingerbread. Users …
Word has it that we will be getting a refresh of the once popular Samsung Galaxy S2. The Plus version of the phone may eventually arrive on Q1 2013. Running Android 4.1 out of the box and sporting a rather limited 8GB of onboard storage, the Galaxy S2 Plus would be available in Dark Blue and Chic White. With a …
For many of us, quad-core smartphones are already overkill and consumers would sing the same tune next year. A major Chinese phone maker, ZTE is planning to release its upcoming beast, the ZTE Apache. The phone would be powered by 8-core Cortex A15 processor. MediaTek, a popular chip manufacturer, has been hard at work to release an octa-core chip, which …
The Japanese electronic giant, Sharp, is saying that device manufacturers are lining up for the company’s latest panel technology. Sharp has been struggling to create enough interest in the industry for the new IGZO panel. The company is currently the biggest LCD (liquid crystal display) panel manufacturer in Japan and it starts to secure interest from other developers. The new …
Like other major phone makers, LG is wasting no time releasing one smartphone after another. After launching the Nexus 4 for Google and its own Optimus G handset, the company is preparing to release a new phone, called the Optimus G2. It may eventually arrive May 2013 and could also come packing with the now famous 5” 1080p displays. While …
Apple may not wish to extend its mobile processor contract production with Samsung next year, due to the increased animosity between the two. Apple may require 200 million processors next year and among major chip makers, only TSMC has the capacity can provide that. Previously Morris Chang, TSMC’s CEO, indicated that his company will dedicate two entire manufacturing plants towards …
Rumors are what making the tech world exciting. They appear almost daily whether by accident or on purpose. Recently, sources referred about a new device called the Samsung SCH S960L. The phone would run Jelly Bean (Android 4.1.2) and its existence has also been confirmed by latest GLBenchmark results. The phone might be an upper mid-range device with a 720p …
Things are getting a bit crazy over the smartphone industry with the eventual release of 1080p HD displays and it’s no wonder that various phone makers all want a slice of the promising high-end market pie. HTC was the first in the market to release 1080p handset with the J Butterfly, followed by the Droid DNA and soon the Deluxe. …