Apple is very likely to announce its latest iPhone on September 10 and there's a good chance we will also see the new budget iPhone debut alongside it. The naming and the existence of the Apple iPhone 5C was allegedly confirmed by an Amazon listing and now, we have yet another listing that shows the design of the upcoming affordable iPhone. The ITSKINS Zero 3 lightweight case for the...
BlackBerry recently launched its BB 9720 QWERTY smartphone and the device is already up for grabs from an UK-based online retailer. The contract-free and unlocked version of the BlackBerry 7.1 OS powered smartphone is priced at £180 (about $281) and is available for purchase right now. The BlackBerry 9720 is targeted at emerging markets and comes with a 2.8-inch display with a...
A leaked internal Rogers document that was the subject of a published report out of Canada on Saturday, states that there is a limited amount of Motorola Moto X handsets being sold by the mobile operator this weekend; Rogers has confirmed the report and while it is not clear which Rogers stores throughout Canada will have the heavily anticipated model in stock, the best bet would be to use the carrier's online Rogers Reservation System...
Apple's next-generation iPhone is arguably the most hotly anticipated smartphones of the year. The iPhone 5 successor has appeared in so many leaks that we lost count and we have even seen parts of its alleged gold-version in live images. Now, we have a new set of images that shows us the frame of the gold color variant of the iPhone 5S. The Apple logo and the iPhone branding on the back of...
A new Oppo smartphone has appeared out of the blue and the latest leak comes from the popular twitter account of evleaks. The leak shows us an unknown device in its white color paintjob. The alleged smartphone does not resemble the current flagship, the Find 5 but takes a new design approach. The unnamed Oppo smartphone has the capacitive keys and an averagely sized bezel. The leaked image...
The animosity between Microsoft and Google is growing to the point that these two tech titans could replace Apple and Samsung when it comes to the mobile industry's hottest rivalry; just last week, Google blocked Windows Phone 8 users from access to YouTube after the crew in Redmond offered a YouTube app to Windows Phone users that apparently continued to violate Google's ToS. Microsoft responded and the battle was on...
According to the latest data from AdDuplex's mobile advertising network, the entry level Nokia Lumia 520 handset currently accounts for 27% of all Windows Phone 8 models being used; throw all Windows Phone models into the equation and the Nokia Lumia 520 still accounts for a rather hefty 18% of Windows Phone units in use today...
According to a Taiwan based source, only 3000 units of the HTC Butterfly S Hello Kitty model will be released; the phone is being offered by the Taiwan based manufacturer in conjunction with Eva Air, an airline in the country. The phone will feature the color white, not the pink that is part of the Hello Kitty color scheme. The Hello Kitty character will be printed on both the front and back of the phone...
USA Today decided to poll random people walking on the streets of Venice Beach California to see what new features the average non-smartphone obsessed American consumer might want to see on the next iteration of the Apple iPhone; after all, the Apple iPhone 5S is expected to be unveiled on September 10th along with the low-cost Apple iPhone 5C...
The LG Enact is an entry-level Android smartphone, but will feature a 5-row sliding QWERTY keyboard and a 2460mAh battery. While the LG Exalt is a basic flip-phone, but will feature a large 3" 400x240 pixel internal display and an LED external display.
The Samsung GT-i9506 has already been launched in Korea; this is the version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with a Qualcomm Snapdrsgon 800 under the hood and LTE-A connectivity. Now, this variant of Samsung's Android flagship model has visited the FCC. Because the FCC only concerns itself with the phone as it deals with U.S. communications standards, we know that LTE band 5 (850MHz) is enabled on the device...
You might remember the deal that Best Buy had a few weeks ago; at that time, you could trade in your working Apple iPhone 4 or Apple iPhone 4S and get a gift card for $150. Thanks to a $50 discount, that turned out to be exactly the price of the 16GB Apple iPhone 5 at the big box retailer. Essentially, you were trading in your Apple iPhone 4 or Apple iPhone 4S for the Apple iPhone 5...
At the end of July, we told you about the world's thinnest smartphone, the BBK Vivo X3; the phone has just received certification in China and will be known as the Vivo X3T with a thickness of 5.75mm. With that measurement, even the 6.18mm Huawei P6 looks like a fat slob and we won't even talk about the Oppo Finder which weighed in at 6.65mm thick...
The Fresh Paint app that was recently launched for Windows Phone 8 models only worked on those handsets that had a sufficiently large amount of RAM; but an update to the app on Friday will now allow it to work on Windows Phone models running as low as 512MB of RAM. That means that all of those consumers who recently purchased the Nokia Lumia 520 and Nokia Lumia521 will be able to use Fresh Paint...
On Thursday night, we passed along some more speculation about the next Apple iPhone that came from well-connected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from KGI; recently, we told you that Kuo expects the next iPhone to include a fingerprint scanner in the home button. Yesterday, Kuo mentioned that we could see an Apple iPhone 5S loaded with 128GB of native storage...
No matter what you thought about the first HTC ad with Robert Downey Jr., it is always interesting to watch what goes on behind the scenes; the commercial, best we can tell, is all about the many different things that HTC can stand for. Happy Telephone Company, Hipster Troll Car Wash and Hot Tea Catapault were some of the choices selected...
A humorous ad for the Nokia Lumia 925 once again focuses on the Finnish manufacturer's niche of producing handsets that take great photographs under low-light conditions; the commercial, for U.K. carrier 3, starts out by repeating the old adage that consuming carrots helps you see better in the dark. So a group of athletes sits down at the table, eating more carrots than Bugs Bunny can even fantasize about...
Earlier this week, we showed you leaked pictures that revealed a pair of interchangeable smartphone lens that connect via a magnet to an Apple iPhone or Android handset; on Friday, images from a manual for the lens was revealed and confirms that there are two such lens in the work. One is the DSC-QX100, which features a 20.2MP sensor, and an f/1.8 Carl Zeiss lens with 3.6x zoom. It includes parts from the Sony RX100M II camera...
Every once in a while, we hear from those who think that Nokia or BlackBerry should drop their current operating systems and use Android as a replacement; on the surface, it would seem to make sense. Android, after all, is the top smartphone OS globally. With Windows Phone 8 and the new BlackBerry 10 platforms struggling, why not go with the leader...
One of the most famous tenets of Google life has been the idea of "20% time", which dictated that 80% of your time working at Google would be spent on company mandated projects, and 20% of the time (or one day out of five) could be used to work on whatever projects you wanted to. The 20% Time list of products is pretty impressive, including (most famously) Gmail, AdSense, GTalk, Google Sky, and Google News...
Apple hasn't announced the iPhone 5C or even confirmed that it does exist (although we have plenty of leaks to suggest it does), but that isn't stopping one online retailer from putting up iPhone 5C cases for sale. Not surprisingly, the cases are listed for pre-order, and they give absolutely no idea of when the cases will ship...
Verizon spokesman Albert Aydin sent out a tweet Friday morning to add to the announcement about the August 22nd launch date for Verizon's version of the HTC One; while other U.S. models are powered by Android 4.1.2, Aydin confirms that that Big Red's variant of the device will come with Android 4.2.2 under the hood...
Recently, we've gotten a couple rumors saying that Samsung is set to unveil its Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the IFA conference on September 4th in Berlin, but until now we haven't really known what to expect from the internals of Samsung's smartwatch. Luckily, there is a new rumor about the specs, including an Exynos 4212 chipset...
With less than one month to go before the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 5S, we're finally starting to move out of the realm of rumor and into the realm of fact. In that regard, we're getting more leaked shots of some of the iPhone 5S and 5C components, although some are pics we have seen before, and none really show anything all that interesting (to our untrained eyes). If you guys spot something, let us know...
Ever since the news first broke about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) using the PRISM program to monitor metadata on communication, and subpoena further data from various companies there has been widespread fear of (and jokes about) the NSA tracking everything we do online. In an effort to help quell those fears, Google has announced that it will automatically encrypt Google Cloud Storage data, but we're not sure that will actually fix the problem...
The razor-slim Huawei Ascend P6 has snatched the slimmest smartphone title right under the nose of the big guns. The China-based maker is not only keeping up with its high-profile competitors in terms of both hardware and software, but has achieved what few...
HTC One was announced way back in February and launched in March, but the Verizon users were initially left out of the fun. Nearly four months later Verizon and HTC announced the One flagship will hit Verizon's network this summer. And the great new is the wait if over and it's finally happening! HTC One will become available through Verizon's online and retails stores on August 22. It will...
Originally, it was rumored for release in early August, then the rumor shifted to August 15th, and more recently it has been rumored for release at the end of the month. Well, all of that turned out to be wrong. Verizon has finally announced the availability for the HTC One, and it will be released on the carrier this coming Thursday August 22nd...
Jobs, the biopic dedicated to Steve Jobs, the former chief executive of Apple and one of the men who found the company, is now airing and the first reviews are in…
Alcatel has been doing mid-range and budget smartphones for quite a while but it seems the manufacturer is readying a phablet that'll challenge the big league's competitors. The Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin has snapped a shot of an Alcatel official presentation showing the One Touch Scribe Pro and its specs. The phablet has a "massive" 6.0-inch display of unknown resolution and runs on a...
While the Z Ultra's massive diagonal has become a recurring topic, the quality of the display is just as great and a topic of its own...
There's no denying that the Ubuntu Edge has won a place in our hearts. Not only is it a great looking phone, but the promised specs on it far exceeded even our wildest dreams...
As one of the most anxiously awaited smartphones according to many, the news that wireless charging for the LG G2 will be a Verizon-exclusive sent a rather unpleasant jolt down fans' spines...
The Samsung smartwatch is coming. Samsung will announce its first smartwatch under the Galaxy Gear name on September 4th…
Meizu is getting ready to launch its new flagship - the Meizu MX3. It has already sent invitations for an event on September 2 in Beijing, China. There is no further official information on the event, but there are a few rumors and leaks on the Meizu MX3, so we bet we'll get to see it unveiled there. The Meizu MX3 has already leaked via a render image showing what the phone will look like....
The Google Nexus 5 is expected to land from LG for a second year in a row, and be loosely based on the G2 flagship. We say loosely, since it won't have the bold stuff like back buttons, yet will borrow the top-notch specs like a 5.2" display and a Snapdragon 800 processor (not 600 like we heard before). The design should actually jibe with the second edition Nexus 7, say the sources, with very thin bezel on the sides, and camera unit moved closer to the edge of the phone...
It is all but certain that Apple will be unveiling two new iPhone models, iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, on September 10. Both devices have been leaked numerous times and have provided us some valuable information and now, we have an interesting prediction from a popular analyst, who claims that Apple will be launching a 128 GB model of iPhone 5S. According to KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple...
The Google Nexus 5 is expected to land from LG for a second year in a row, and be loosely based on the G2 flagship. We say loosely, since it won't have the bold stuff like back buttons, yet will borrow the top-notch specs like a 5.2" display and a Snapdragon 800 processor (not 600 like we heard before). The design should actually jibe with the second edition Nexus 7, say the sources, with very thin bezel on the sides, and camera unit moved closer to the edge of the phone...
With a number of rumors circulating around the Tizen OS, just the other day we passed along the word from industry sources stating that Samsung has been pulling back on the development of Tizen flavored handsets; originally expected to have launched early this month, back in July the timeframe for the release was pushed back to October or November. Just a few days after that report, Russian bogger Eldar Murtazin said that Tizen was DOA...
Just so you can be prepared before receiving your new Motorola Moto X, you can now purchase both a desktop dock and a car dock for the phone; for those who might inquire why you would make such a purchase before you've even received the device, think about how you purchased a crib for your first born before he or she was "launched"...
The long-awaited Nokia Lumia Amber update is rolling out for all Windows Phone 8-powered Nokia Lumia phones. The update is built on top of the WP8 GDR2 update from Microsoft, but has some exclusive features, developed by Nokia. This includes a brand new camera app, the Smart Camera. This app launched with the Lumia 925 and will now be available to all other WP8 Lumia phones. The high-end...
A Special Edition of the LG Optimus L5 II is coming to Russia. Korean based OEM LG announced on Thursday that it will be launching the phone in Russia with a flowery design on the back and Dual SIM slots; available only in white, it is not known if LG plans on offering this model in other markets besides Russia...
Do you live in the US? Do you have a pet? Good! That means you can join the fun and grab a brand new Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone from Nokia's latest contest, plus a $1000 will be thrown in to sweeten the victory. But first, you'll have to take your smartphone and start snapping some photos. Interested? Then here's what you need to know about the "Discover Your Pets" contest by Nokia...
Apple has released the iOS 7 beta 6 to developers. The latest beta comes just a week after Apple released beta 5 and oddly near the end of the week when usually the betas are released on Monday. The general consensus is that the update was released in a hurry to patch some major bug in the previous update. Apple's changelog mention that the new update addresses an issue with iTunes in the...
With tons of sports-related apps available for the smartphone totin' fan, will one more such app end up getting lost in the crowd? Considering that we are taking about Fox sports, chances are that it will be a survivor; the new Fox Sports 1 channel is set to launch this Saturday at 6am when the Speed Channel goes off the air and is replaced by Fox Sports 1...
What you're about to see are the remains of an HTC One X – a smartphone was smoking hot... quite literally. It belonged to a guy in Taiwan who had the misfortune of his handset catching fire spontaneously while charging. The reasons that caused the accident are not yet known...
For quite a while now we've been hearing rumors about Nokia possibly working on a Windows RT tablet. Well, these rumors may be on the right track as we're now looking at what might be device in question. The spy photo you see below was leaked on a Chinese Twitter-like web site, depicting a slate bearing three branding logos. One of them is clearly Nokia's and below it we see a "Windows RT" label indicating the OS running on this colorful tablet...
A published report on Thursday thrust a dagger through the heart of U.S. consumers who were hoping that Samsung's Exynos chip would make its way on to the U.S. version of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note III; the report states that there will be two variants of the Samsung Galaxy Note III. The SN-900 will offer 3G connectivity and will be powered with an Octa-core 1.8GHz Samsung Exynos 5420 with the ARM Mali-T628 MP6 GPU...
August 22 – that's the date which you have to mark in your calendars if you're excited about the upcoming Asphalt 8: Airborne. That is when the 8th installment of the popular racing video game franchise will be launched, as the guys at Gameloft confirmed via Twitter. The game will be released on Android and iOS, priced at $0.99...
Motorola advisor Guy Kawasaki has been passing off information about the Motorola Moto X almost from the beginning; who could forget his hint about the customizable aspects of the device with the posting of a Porsche Exclusive on his Google+ page? Then, in late July, Kawasaki posted some pictures from what appears to be a party held on the Motorola campus. One of the pictures showed a lucky gentleman holding a green Moto X...
