Powerful, durable, and has a reliable battery. These are three of the rumored features of the much-hyped flagship Google smartphone, aptly named the “X Phone,” which, if speculation is proven correct, will be launched in the spring of 2013, possibly during the 2013 Google I/O Conference or at a later date. When Google bought Motorola […]
Image courtesy of rapidberry.net The long wait is almost over for BlackBerry fans. CMO Frank Boulben confirmed at CES 2013 that Research in Motion will be launching at least six new BlackBerry handsets with a new OS on January 30 on simultaneous worldwide events. BlackBerry has actually been confirming the launch date since last year,
Any Android mobile manufacturer worth their salt these days has got a 5-inch 1080p smartphone in their stable – and now LG has joined that ever-increasing number. Japanese carrier NTT Docomo has announced LG’s latest phone, the Optimus G Pro. The device, which is intended to compete against the likes of the HTC Butterfly and
Note: this is a guest post written by Nancy Perkins One of the most favored Linux-flavored operating systems for desktop and notebook computers, Ubuntu, is coming to smartphones, as confirmed by the open-source OS’ commercial sponsor, Canonical. The popular free platform first demoed January 2 came as a follow-up to an experimental version presented last
Note: This is a guest post written by Nancy Perkins Worst Smartphones of 2012 – The year 2012 was inundated with a handful of bigger smartphones equipped with crisper screens, better cameras, and LTE capabilities. But even with the release of a number of great handsets this year, a select few still managed to come
Note: This is a guest post written by Nancy Perkins HTC Droid DNA, 2012 pic.twitter.com/P2vGXivB — Evan Blass (@evleaks) November 6, 2012 Officially announced last October in Japan, the HTC J Butterfly is now coming to the US under the moniker HTC Droid DNA. At least that’s what the photos tell us, if we put
Note: This is a guest post written by William Judd Windows Phone 8 was finally launched this Monday, as Microsoft had the foresight to not hold their press conference on a pier in hurricane-stricken New York City (unlike rivals Google). One of the big themes of the launch as delivered by Steve Ballmer was killer
After my recent move to Telstra’s 4G network about less than a month ago, I’ve been recommending it to whomever I met. The 4G/LTE is available even to pre-paid users, meaning the super fast connection is within everyone’s grasp. The download speed within the CBD can vary between 2Mbps to 40 Mbps (my first test
Samsung Galaxy S3 Review – I was on the iPhone 4S and then Nokia Lumia 800 for a couple of weeks. But after using the Samsung Galaxy S3 for some time, I fell in love with the phone completely. Nokia Lumia 800 feels inferior compared to the Galaxy S3 (size, quality, smoothness, etc). Now I
Note: This is a guest post written by Joe Pawlikowski. If we were to describe 2012 in terms of smartphone developments, we could do so in just two words: go big. Samsung, the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer, has pushed the screen size envelope this year, delivering two of the largest smartphones we’ve yet seen. They’re
Every year, we are bombarded with new gadgets, new smartphones. Or actually, a new smartphone comes out like every month from different brands and we are often left with our old smartphones lying inside our drawer, aging. Wouldn’t it be great if you can sell them away easily? How about finding the price online from
