Counterclockwise: Nokia X, HTC Butterfly, Nokia 6700 classic Gold

Another weekend, another Counterclockwise - how else are you going to spend your Saturday and Sunday if not reminiscing about the past of mobile phones. This week the write-up is a little sad, several phones that were the first of their kind were summarily forgotten. To cheer you back up, we track down the culprits behind the resolution madness and...

Elephone P6000 is an Android 5.0-powered Chinese smartphone

It appears that Nexus 6 might not be the only available out-of-the-box option for Lollipop-hungry buyers as a Chinese smartphone manufacturer Elephone is also producing a device running vanilla Android 5. Despite its catchy name, Elephone is rather unknown and the handset in question is named P6000. According to their website, the interesting device...

Samsung is making Apple A9 chipsets on 14nm process

After a fierce court battle between Apple and Samsung, the iPhone manufacturer looked for other parts suppliers and TSMC got the Apple A8 manufacturing gig. The legal action is over (for now) and the two companies have made up, so now Korean media reports that Samsung is getting back the manufacturing order for Apple chipsets. According to Etnews,...

Motorola plans to offer affordable 4G smartphones in India

Motorola, apparently has big plans for the Indian handset market. In an interview for the Economic Times, Rick Osterloh, president and chief operation officer at the US tech giant stated that the company will be very aggressive in the 4G market come 2015. The transition to 4G will be quick. Next year, we are going to be very aggressive in the 4G value...

Android 5.0 is now seeding to Samsung Galaxy S4 GPE

Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition is the latest Pure Google smartphone to get updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop. The new firmware is now seeding to the device over-the-air. The Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition is yet to receive Android 5.0.1 Lollipop, which is already available on some of its siblings. We doubt it will be a long wait before the latest...

HTC Nexus 9 now available at T-Mobile with LTE support

The HTC-made Google Nexus 9 tablet is now available in its LTE-capable form at T-Mobile. Hence, the 4G infused model of the Nexus 9 makes its debut, this being the first US carrier to offer it. The magenta carrier will give you one for $0 upfront, then followed by 24 monthly payments of $24.99. This adds up to a grand total of $599.76, so it's definitely...

Upcoming Sony Xperia E4 leaks ahead of MWC unveiling

Although the Xperia E3 has only been available since September, Sony is already working on a successor to its low-end smartphone. According to a comprehensive leak from Poland, we find out that the Xperia E4 should be made official at MWC 2015, and it will be in stores before the end of March. It will be priced at around $200. Two versions will be...

Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime review: Mirror shot

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime has an ambitious name, but behind it is an ordinary midrange phone. It puts functionality ahead of screen fidelity, throwing all the pixels they could afford at the front facing camera instead. As with other Galaxy Grands...Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_grand_prime-review-1178.p...

Alleged live photo of Samsung Galaxy S6 leaks out

Alleged live photo of Samsung Galaxy S6 made the rounds online. Samsung is expected to launch the successor of the Galaxy S5 at some point in early 2015. The handset in the photo above is said to be prototype of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6. It sports ultra-thin bezels and metal edges - we can't confirm if the entire back of the smartphone is made...

Galaxy Note 4 with Snapdragon 810 confirmed by benchmark

A rumor surfaced this Thursday, regarding the possibility of a Snapdragon 810 updated version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Benchmark profiles appeared today on the popular website Geekbench and they seem to prove that a handset, with a model number SM-N916S is a reality. Everything points towards the appearance of a Snapdragon 810 Galaxy Note 4 variant....

Galaxy Note Edge hits UK, Vodafone gets exclusivity

Just as anticipated, the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is finally available for purchase in the UK. Until January 9, 2015, Vodafone will be selling the phone exclusively. Vodafone offers the Galaxy Note Edge only on contract and there's no SIM-free pricing yet. You can get the phone for as low as £49 if you go with the Vodafone Red XL plan at £58.50/month...

Samsung unveils red Galaxy Note 4 for SK Telecom

Same as last year Samsung is launching a festive red color version of its current Galaxy Note. The Velvet Red Galaxy Note 4 is available only for SK Telecom in South Korea. Samsung released a red color option for the international version too, but that wasn't until February. The current color pallet for the flagship phablet is Frosted white, Charcoal...

Xolo unveils Q900s Plus, claims it's the world's lightest phone

Just a few months after launching the Q900s, Xolo has unveiled its successor, dubbed Q900s Plus, which the company claims is the "world's lightest phone". That's a rather strange statement as it weighs the same as its predecessor - 100 grams and there are plenty of smartphone, let alone phones in general that weigh less. Either way, the Q900s Plus...

Apple Online Store now supports PayPal in the US and UK

As of today the Apple Online Store in the USA and the United Kingdom has a new payment option - PayPal. In addition to payment with credit or debit cards, you can now complete your purchase with a PayPal transaction. There is more good news - in addition to the PayPal purchase, you can also opt for PayPal's Credit for up to 18 months, interest free....

Huawei Ascend Mate7 Monarch edition marches in for $710

Huawei releases today the Ascend Mate7 Monarch edition, which is a slightly more premium version of the regular phone. The majority of specifications remain the same as the original with a few improvements. The 6" 1080p display is now protected with sapphire instead of Gorilla Glass, which should make it even harder to scratch or break. Additionally,...

Nexus 5 production stops, but you can still buy it

With the Nexus 6 already here to carry on the family legacy it is only natural that the days are numbered for the Nexus 5. But the LG Nexus 5 still has a lot of appeal as the last-available budget-oriented Nexus device, a long-standing tendency for the smartphone line, which seems to come to an end with the Motorola's premium offering. A report surfaced...

Cyanogen-powered Micromax Yu phone launches on Dec.18

Last month, Micromax officially announced its plans to create a new mobile device brand - Yu. The devices using this brand are to be sold online only, emulating the business models of Chinese companies such as Xiaomi and OnePlus. The first smartphone in the series was then said to get unveiled sometime in December, and today we know exactly when that...

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy E5 and E7 have full specs leaked

Aside from the recently unveiled A series, Samsung is working on another new line of devices - this will be the Galaxy E series. Two handsets in it have been leaking a lot lately, namely the SM-E500 (Galaxy E5) and SM-E700 (Galaxy E7). We've already seen some specs for both of them, but today a rumor comes and gives us the full list. According to...

Nexus 6 is available from the Play Store in the UK again

The Motorola Nexus 6 is once again out in the Google Play Store for the UK. You can order one, but there are caveats. First of all, only the blue 32GB model is actually available, while white units and ones with double that storage capacity are nowhere to be seen. The biggest problem, however, is that the listing says the device will be shipping in...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC will support 450 Mbps LTE

It's already pretty clear that most of next year's flagship Android smartphones will be powered by Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 810 chipset. A while back this was rumored to have encountered some issues, but the company making it has assured us that it's on track for a release in the first half of 2015. And when it does make it into your next handset,...

Apple Watch production issues resolved

A couple of interesting rumors about the future of Apple device releases have surfaced today. The information provided mostly by supply chain sources and summarized by Taiwan's United Daily News concerns the production schedules of the Apple Watch and the iPhone 6s. Diligent readers will remember, that back in October Rosenblatt Securities analyst...

64-bit Xiaomi passes the TENAA, is is the Redmi 2?

A new Xiaomi smartphone has passed through the TENAA with a couple of images and a peek at the specs. The device looks much like the Redmi 1S and could prove to be its successor - the Redmi 2. It's going to arrive with a 4.7" 720p display and a 64-bit chipset (likely the Snapdragon 410) with a quad-core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. Other confirmed...

Meizu teasers promise a Dec 23 event, likely for the Blue Charm

Meizu has scheduled an announcement quite close to Christmas - December 23 - which will be held in Beijing. The company has officially released only tantalizing tidbits, but the rumor mill claims that Meizu is going after Xiaomi's Redmi 1S and Redmi Note affordable devices with a new Blue Charm line. Going by the rumors, the line will consist of the...

New photos of Lumia 1030 leak, device said to be here to stay

A few interesting photos found their way to Baidu today. They show a Lumia prototype device, which is said to be the 1030 McLaren. Interestingly enough we saw very similar photos last month of what appears to be the same unit and perhaps even the same photo-shoot. Back then, the Lumia at hand was said to be a cancelled successor to the Lumia 1020,...

Nexus 9 now available in India on Amazon

If you're in India and have been waiting to get your hands on the Nexus 9, you can stop refreshing the Google Play Store because it is now available on Amazon. Although the tablet has been listed on the Play Store for almost a month now it still shows as coming soon. Amazon, however, is selling it right now. Amazon has only the 16GB WI-Fi model, that...

Samsung Galaxy Grand 3 makes a visit to TENAA in China

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Grand 3 made a visit to TENAA in China. The mid-range phablet is bound to make a debut in the near future. In line with past rumors, the Chinese regulator filing reveals that Samsung Galaxy Grand 3 packs 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset, 1.5GB of RAM, and 16GB of expandable memory. A 5.25" 720p display, 13MP main...

Apple and IBM launch the first wave of business apps of iOS

Apple and IBM launched the first wave of MobileFirst business apps for iOS. The duo of tech giants entered into a global enterprise mobility partnership back in July. The first wave of solutions is available for banks, retail and insurance businesses, financial institutions, telecommunications companies, airlines, and governments. Citi, Air Canada,...

Verizon's Galaxy Note 4 is updated to support the Gear VR

Samsung started selling its Gear VR accessory a couple of days ago, but one little known thing is that carrier-customized versions of the Galaxy Note 4 won't work with it out of the box. They each need to receive a software update to enable using the Gear VR. That is now in the process of happening to Verizon's version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4...

Microsoft Lumia 535 Dual SIM review: The first of many

It's a Lumia like the rest of them. A new youth player promoted to the first team, which will have no trouble blending in. It's just a different name on the familiar kit. Microsoft is starting from the bottom up - an entry level handset, no redesign to speak of...Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/microsoft_lumia_535_dual_sim-review-1177.p...

Samsung Galaxy A7 gets new round of leaked specs

So far, Samsung has only officially announced two smartphones in its new A series - the Galaxy A3 and the Galaxy A5. But they're going to be joined by the Galaxy A7 at some point, as has been made evident by a myriad of leaks over the past weeks. While still not unveiled by the Korean mobile device maker, the Galaxy A7 has today had a new round of...

Meizu Blue Charm Note logo and specifications out in the open

Yesterday we saw an unofficial photo of what is set to be the new Meizu Blue Charm Note. Today another piece of the production puzzle has leaked - a rendering of the supposed logo for the handset, along with some information on possible specs. The logo itself is nothing too spectacular or outrageous. A nicely done and quite stylish blue rendition...

You can get a OnePlus One without an invite for the holidays

Most of the time you need an invite to buy a OnePlus One, but the company is feeling generous this holiday season and is letting you grab one without an invite. Pricing starts (as usual) at $300 and the phone will arrive by December 25 (so Santa won't be late). The deal is valid until supplies last, but before you commit we should remind you that...

Xiaomi Mi 4 with international LTE support to arrive December 16

Xiaomi announced today that the long anticipated Xiaomi Mi 4 FDD-LTE will be available starting next Tuesday - December 16. This of course comes as great news because the original Xiaomi Mi 4 is equipped with a FDD-LTE modem which is mostly unusable outside China. The new FDD modem will still work on China Unicom as well as most international 4G networks....

Xiaomi infringes Ericsson patents, ordered to stop sales in India

The Delhi High Court has ordered Xiaomi to stop sales, advertising, manufacturing or importing of devices in India. This is the result of the company infringing upon Ericsson's standard essential patents. Ericsson has managed to get an injunction against Xiaomi, which prevents the later from operating in India. According to Ericsson, the company had...

Samsung Galaxy Alpha features Corning Gorilla Glass 4

Corning has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Alpha, which was introduced back in August this year, features the recently unveiled Gorilla Glass version 4 (GG4). "Corning spends a great deal of time collaborating with Samsung to recommend solutions that will continually improve their device design and performance," said Cliff Hund, general manager...

Samsung Galaxy S6 specs leak through AnTuTu screenshot

We have recently seen a leak of an AnTuTu benchmark screenshot that displayed the specs of the upcoming Galaxy S6. Today, another such screenshot has emerged with slightly different specs. As before, the new screenshots shows the phone having a QHD display, with an octa-core CPU and Mali-T760 GPU, which according to the previous screenshot is the...

Apple Pay bank support grows as iOS 8 adoption reaches 63%

Apple Pay, the company's latest advancement in wireless, one touch transactions is quickly gaining popularity, mostly thanks to Apple's devoted push towards gaining substantial third-party support in the US. The last week saw three new banking institutions join the list of partners - L&N Federal Credit Union, UW Credit Union and M&T Bank....

Vivo X5 Max goes official with 4.75mm waistline, 1080p AMOLED

Just as promised, Vivo officially launched the X5 Max today. This is the thinnest smartphone in the world with a profile of just 4.75mm achieved with the help of one the thinnest screens measuring just 1.36mm thick. The Vivo X5 Max sports a 5.5" Super AMOLED display of 1080p resolution and has dual SIM slots - one for a microSIM and the other for...

Acer Liquid Jade S goes official with 64-bit MediaTek SoC

Acer took the wraps off the Liquid Jade S smartphone. An updated version of the Acer Liquid Jade, the dual-SIM newcomer is the Taiwanese manufacturer's first device with 64-bit chipset. Acer Liquid Jade S packs MediaTek MT6752M SoC with 1.5GHz octa-core CPU. The rest of the device's specs include 2GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable memory, 5" 720p IPS...

Vivo X5F gets certified by TENAA as a thicker X5 Max

Tomorrow Vivo should finally make the much-teased X5 Max smartphone official. But it turns out that's not the only handset that could get unveiled in mere hours. TENAA, the Chinese equivalent of the FCC, has certified a Vivo X5F for sale in the country. And this looks like it's essentially going to be a cheaper, smaller, and thicker version of the...

Meizu Blue Charm Note and Meizu K52 leaked in pictures

Back in March, a device supposedly to be called Meizu Blue Charm Note first leaked, and now it may be close to an official announcement. That is because it has appeared in another leaked image, which you can see below. Or rather, the back cover of the handset has. The Blue Charm Note's cover is the orange colored one in the middle. The leak from earlier...

Apple releases iOS 8.1.2, addresses ringtone issues

Just a few weeks (and less than a month) after it pushed out iOS 8.1.1, Apple is back today with yet another new iteration of its mobile OS. iOS 8.1.2 comes with its share of unnamed bug fixes, and it also addresses what surely has been a pretty annoying issue for some. Namely, for certain devices ringtones purchased through the iTunes App Store may...

Samsung Galaxy E5 (SM-E500) has a few specs revealed

Samsung is working on a new Galaxy E series of smartphones, according to recent rumors and findings. So far two handsets have surfaced as part of this new line, the SM-E500 and the SM-E700. And until today we knew a bit more about the latter, since some of its specs got leaked a few days ago. The same has today happened for the SM-E500, which may...

HTC Desire 620 gets announced for Europe, out next year

HTC first unveiled the Desire 620 in late November, but then it did so only for its home market of Taiwan. Now though, the handset has been announced for Europe, where it's set to land sometime during the first quarter of 2015 (so before the end of March). The Desire 620 could be viewed as a successor of sorts to the Desire 610 that became available...

Snapdragon 810-powered Galaxy Note 4 now in testing

A rumor is currently circulating, stating that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will soon be getting with a brand new chipset. The SoC in question is allegedly the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810. Samsung's flagship device currently comes in two hardware flavors - the in-house developed Exynos 7 Octa and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805. These are both solid chips, but...

Next Samsung Exynos SoC rumored to feature Cat.10 LTE

LTE Cat. 6 is quickly becoming the standard with new flagship handsets. It delivers quite respectable data speeds of up to 300Mbps on the downlink wherever capable enough networks are available. And while carriers still have a long way to go to catch up to current tech, chipset manufacturers are already preparing to move forward. Recently Qualcomm...

Kirin-powered Huawei Honor 4X gets listed before announcement

According to an oizoioi report, a Kirin 620-powered version of the Huawei Honor 4X is now available for pre-sale. This is particularly interesting given the fact that the company hasn't yet announced the device - a launch event is scheduled for December 16. The device is powered by the Kirin 620, rather than the Snapdragon 410 used on the original...

75,000 Xiaomi Redmi Notes to go on sale in India later today

The Xiaomi Redmi Note was temporarily on sale in India a week ago, but the 50,000 units lasted only 6 seconds. There's a new batch coming to Flipkart, this one a bit bigger - 75,000 units. You still need a registration before sale begins at 2pm local time (you won't have time to make one). The Xiaomi Redmi Note is priced at INR 9,000 (the equivalent...

US Cellular offers Nexus 6 at $200 on contract, $660 off

US Cellular is now selling the Nexus 6, starting at $200 with a 2-year contract, the 64GB version is a $50 upgrade. You can also grab the device with a pre-paid SIM at $660, but 64GB storage will cost you an extra $70. AT&T has already started shipping the device at $250 (32GB) or $683 off contract. Sprint is asking $300 for the Google phablet...

Android Studio sees version 1.0 - first stable release

The Android OS has come gone a long way since its modest early versions. Core libraries, features and mostly APIs receive constant updates and redesigns to utilize new and improved hardware and bring better experiences to the user. Android 5.0 Lollipop brought about a brand new virtual machine - ART and a thoroughly reviewed code base. It was only...