Benchmark confirms Microsoft Lumia 1330 specs

A GFXBench listing confirmed the previously leaked specs of Microsoft's yet to be announced Lumia 1330 phablet. The successor of Nokia Lumia 1320 is expected to debut during MWC 2015 in Barcelona. Sporting a model number RM-1062, the Lumia 1330 features Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with quad-core CPU and Adreno 305 GPU. A gig of RAM (the screenshot...

All four variants of the Nexus 6 available on Motorola's website

The Nexus 6 has been bit elusive ever since it launched. It's difficult to get the phone at all, let alone in the variant of your choice. If you've been waiting to purchase the phone in the US, you should not go check out the Motorola website (link below). All four models, that is the Midnight Blue and Cloud White, in 32GB and 64GB each, are available...

Oppo N3 review: Motor head

The formula for the smartphone to top all others is the industry's elusive philosopher stone. Being complete newbies, but keen as a bean, Oppo's take is perhaps the weirdest. Yet it seems to work. The standard ingredients include the latest chipset, a robust screen, and a high-megapixel camera...Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_n3-review-1184...

HTC to launch more entry-level smartphones in Q1, 2015

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has said that it will focus more on entry-level 4G devices in Q1 2015, adding that the company will promote these as well as specially designed models online. That's a marketing strategy similar to the one followed by China's Xiaomi, which recently became the world's third largest smartphone vendor. According...

Samsung Z1 leaks in live photos, launch date confirmed

The Samsung Z1 Tizen-based smartphone leaked almost a week ago with details regarding the phone's availability and specs. A new set of live photos of the phone showed up today however, further giving us reason to believe Samsung won't back out of the Z1's release. The phone is a typical low-end budget device with a 4" display of 800x480 pixel resolution...

BlackBerry Passport and Z30 go on sale till December 30

BlackBerry is celebrating Boxing Day in Canada by putting up the Passport and the Z30 for sale starting today, December 26, till December 30. You can get $100 off the price of the BlackBerry Passport on all three colors. The Z30 gets a 50% price cut, bringing it down to $250 and you can get further discounts on accessories such as cases. If you're...

Kodak will unveil a range of Android devices at CES

Kodak will unveil a range of mobile devices with Android OS. The first smartphone from the new product gamily will be unveiled in less than two weeks, during CES in Las Vegas. Kodak's family of smartphones and tablets will be aimed at customers looking for high-end, yet simple user experience. There is no word on specs just yet - all we know is that...

Xiaomi has sold 1 million smartphones in India so far

This year Xiaomi ventured outside of its home market, China, and into India. For many months now, it's been holding pretty much weekly flash sales in partnership with Flipkart, the biggest retailer in the subcontinent. And apparently those have been going quite well. Xiaomi's boss for India, Manu Kumar Jain, has announced today via Twitter that the...

Huawei Ascend P8 metal chassis leaks online

Huawei Ascend P8 has already made the news a few weeks ago. The first rumored specs suggest the company's next flagship will follow the tradition for an impressively thin design built around a metal chassis. It should feature a 5.2" 1080p display and run on the HiSilicon Kirin 930 chipset built on TSMC's 16nm process and packing an octa-core processor...

Nokia Lumia 635 now available for $39.99 via Radio Shack

If you've missed some of the bargain Lumia deals Microsoft and other retailers have been offering until the Christmas, you can now catch up and make yourself a great, if somewhat late, Christmas present. Radio Shack, which isn't doing great lately, has launched a great deal for the Nokia Lumia 635. It can be yours for $49.99, but if you provide Radio...

Snapdragon 810 with LTE Cat 9 support now in testing

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 is the top-notch chipset to date, expected to premiere on various flagships early next year on CES and MWC expos. It will offer an octa-core 64-bit processor, new Adreno 430 GPU and brand new Qualcomm modem. The initial announcement specified the LTE support as Cat 6, which translates into 300 Mbps downlink and 50 Mbps uplink....

Oppo to reportedly ship around 50 million smartphones in 2015

China-based smartphone manufacturer Oppo, which shipped 25-30 million smartphones this year, is expected to ship nearly double the number of devices - around 50 million - next year, according to a Digitimes report. Out of the total, nearly 35 million smartphones are expected be sold in China, while the remaining will be shipped to international markets....

2014 HTC phones to get Sense 7 later next year by May

Android developer @LlabTooFeR said on Twitter that the Android 5.0 update for the HTC One M8 and M7 won't bring Sense 7.0. Both phones will still have essentially the same Sense 6 as on the KitKat ROM. The Sense 7.0 update is said to arrive first on the upcoming HTC "Hima" flagship arriving early next year. The 2014 gen devices are said to get the...

Denim update comes to more Lumia devices in Malaysia

After the Nokia Lumia 520, Microsoft has started rolling out its latest Lumia Denim update to some more Lumia devices in Malaysia. According to the availability list, the Nokia Lumia 525, Nokia Lumia 620, and Nokia Lumia 720 are now receiving the update, which carries build number 8.10.14219.341. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements,...

Delhi High Court lifts the ban on the OnePlus One sales in India

Shenzhen OnePlus Technology Co., otherwise simply known as OnePlus, was recently banned from importing and selling the OnePlus One in India due to an injunction granted to Micromax over the use of Cyanogen branding and software on OnePlus devices. The Delhi High Court has now reversed its decision, allowing OnePlus to continue selling phones in India....

Merry Christmas to you all from the GSMArena team

Christmas is upon us an as one of the greatest holidays throughout the year, we'd like to extend our warmest regards and to send a big Thank You your way for sticking with us for yet another year. It's because of you we are here today and it's only because of you that our job is so great. We really do hope these holidays will bring you lots of reasons...

BLU outs a trio of affordable Studio smartphones with LTE

A week after the release of Studio 7.0, BLU launched a trio of affordable Studio smartphones with LTE connectivity. BLU Studio 6.0 LTE, Studio 5.0 HD LTE, and Studio Mini LTE are currently available to order contract-free on Amazon for $279, $199, and $119 respectively. As its price tag suggests, the BLU Studio 6.0 LTE is the most capable device from...

Images and specs of BlackBerry Z20 Rio make the rounds

Images and specs of BlackBerry's upcoming Z20 mid-range smartphone made the rounds. Codenamed Rio, the all-touch handset is expected to debut at by February next year in black or white color scheme. BlackBerry Z20 features Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 with 1.5GHz dual-core Krait CPU and 2GB of RAM. A 5" 720p touchscreen, 8MP main camera, 2MP front-facing...

HTC Desire Eye is apparently available in India already

HTC announced the Desire Eye for India back in October, but up until today it hasn't been for sale in the subcontinent. After more than two months since its unveiling over there, however, the Desire Eye is finally advertised as being in stock by at least one mobile phone retailer in Mumbai. Keep in mind though that this is an actual physical store...

Apple-led Rockstar group to sell its patent portfolio, drop lawsuits

Rockstar Consortium, a patent-holding company jointly owned by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson, and Sony among others, has agreed to sell much of its portfolio to patent risk management firm RPX, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The deal will see RPX pay around $900 million for over 4,000 patents. In addition, Rockstar will also put...

Xiaomi MiPad 2 switches to Intel SoC, leaked pictures reveal

Xiaomi could already be working on a successor to its MiPad 7.9 which was unveiled earlier this year. The new tablet has allegedly been made the star of a quick photo session somewhere in China. At this stage there's no way to make sure that these images are really depicting the next MiPad and not some knockoff, so keep that in mind. Alleged Xiaomi...

Samsung closes one of its flagship store in London

Samsung is shutting down one of its flagship experience stores in London. The store was located in Westfield Stratford shopping center and was one of the ten major stores in UK. Although no reason was given for the closure, one would assume it was due to relatively poor sales in recent times. Samsung says it will do its best to find the employees...

NVIDIA Shield Tablet gets Android 5.0.1 update

NVIDIA is rolling out update 2.1 for the Shield Tablet, which updates the Android version from 5.0 to 5.0.1. Along with the newer version of Android (which mostly includes bug fixes), the tablet also gets new effects in the Camera Awesome app, Shield Power Control Menu, OpenGL 4.5 support, localization improvements, memory optimizations, and general...

Samsung launches the Galaxy Note Edge in India

Samsung has launched its unique Galaxy Note Edge smartphone in the Indian market. The phone is priced at 64,900 INR ($1023) and will be available in the first week of January in black and white color options. The Galaxy Note Edge is essentially the Note 4 with a unique curved display. The curve on the side shows additional information, which can be...

Bharti Airtel to charge for VoIP calls over 2G and 3G in India

India's leading cellphone carrier (and second-largest Asia Pacific carrier) will now be charging for voice calls made over its 2G or 3G network. This basically includes calls made using services such as Skype, Viber, and Google Hangouts, among others. The VoIP data will be charged separately and won't be part of your existing data pack. Although there...

ZTE Speed goes official with $99 contact-free price tag

ZTE took the wraps off the budget-friendly Speed smartphone in the United States. The entry-level LTE handset is available for Boost Mobile and costs $99.99 with no contract. ZTE Speed features Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 chipset with 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. There is no word on the resolution of the device's 4.5" display for the time...

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G goes on sale in India on Dec.30

Last month, Xiaomi announced that both the Redmi Note and the Redmi Note 4G would be headed to India before the end of the year. Yet while the 3G-only model has been a flash sale star already, the same can't be said for its 4G-capable sibling. Now though, the Chinese smartphone maker has thankfully unveiled the release date for the Redmi Note 4G in...

LG Fx0 is a transparent phone running Firefox OS

Mozilla's Firefox OS has made its debut in Japan today, with the announcement of the Fx0. This oddly named smartphone manufactured by LG is designed by Tokujin Yoshioka, and it's transparent. Literally. As you can see from the image below, the Fx0 lets you peek at its internals without ever needing to take off a cover or something like that. And it's...

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge makes it to India in January

At some point, Samsung may have changed its mind about the Galaxy Note Edge merely being a "limited edition concept device". At least when it comes to the number of countries where it will launch, since that number is growing quite rapidly. Today the Korean smartphone maker has announced the Galaxy Note Edge for India. It will become available in...

Huawei Ascend GX1 gets official with 6" screen, tiny bezels

A new Huawei phablet, the Ascend GX1, got leaked just a few days ago. And today it became official, as the Chinese company introduced it for its home market. The Ascend GX1 is a midrange offering, but it comes with one obvious differentiating factor compared to its competition - very, very small lateral bezels which make for an 80.5% screen-to-body...

Asus unveils Pegasus X002, its $128 Redmi 1S competitor

Xiaomi really started something with its extremely affordable Redmi line. Now it looks like every smartphone maker under the sun is trying to deliver a competitor for those devices. The latest company to do so is Asus, which has announced the Pegasus X002 today, thus also introducing a new smartphone brand. This thankfully features neither "fone"...

Samsung confirms Lollipop updates for Galaxy S4, Note 2

A rather interesting page has come to our attention, which reveals new information on Samsung's plan for Android Lollipop rollout. The URL in question comes from the Finnish section of Samsung.com, so it is about as reputable a source as it can get. It holds a table, that details the next planned update for a number of handsets and tablets and surprisingly...

Samsung Galaxy Alpha gets four exclusive leather backs

The Samsung Galaxy Alpha got four new cool looks thanks to a collaborative project between the company and Free Lance and JB Rautureau. Now, you can grab a limited edition Galaxy Alpha with four different looking handmade leather back covers. Just 100 of each variety will be made and all will have a unique number and a certificate of authenticity....

Oppo R5 review: One to remember

The world's thinnest smartphone record is as fragile as a piece of china. It was broken three times in the last couple of months alone. The Oppo R5 may not be the thinnest smartphone around anymore, but it's pure class - and mind you, it's the second time we meet it in person...Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_r5-review-1183.p...

Project Ara chipsets and form factor confrimed

Google's project Ara has really been gaining momentum the past few months and it seems that everything is moving along nicely with the revolutionary modular smartphone concept. After the fairly recent announcement of the remodeled Spiral 2 circuit board design the guys over at Google ATAP have shared a new portion of info on their progress as a sort...

More HTC One (M9) Hima specs have surfaced

During the past month we have been hearing a lot about HTC's upcoming flagship codenamed Hima. A lot of information surrounding the new device has been circulating in the rumor mill, but now it seems that finally we have a full specs sheet leak for the next-gen smartphone. The new HTC One Hima will indeed be powered by a Snapdragon 810 SoC. The octa-core...

Meizu m1 note is official, packs 5.5-inch 1080p display for $160

Meizu has turned a new page in its smartphone portfolio with the official announcement of the m1 note. The phone is the first member of the company's Blue Charm line-up, or at least that's its rough translation from "Meilan" in Chinese. The Meizu m1 note features a 5.5" IGZO display of 1080p resolution making for a pixel density of 400ppi. The phone...

Mid-range HTC A12 leaks with Snapdragon 410 chipset

Alleged specs of an upcoming HTC A12 mid-ranger made the rounds online courtesy of @upleaks. The unannounced smartphone is tipped to debut in February 2015. HTC A12 reportedly features 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 chipset with 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. With a rumored 4.7" HD display, the yet to be revealed device will slot below...

Apple resumes iPhone sales in Russia with increased pricing

Less than a week after it halted online sales in Russia, Apple resumed offering its products in the country. Unsurprisingly, the Cupertino giant increased the prices of its iPhone lineup to counter the drop of the local currency against the U.S. dollar. Apple iPhone 6 with 16GB of on-board memory now costs 53,990 rubles (about $956). The price is...

Microsoft Lumia 535 gets update to fix touchscreen woes

The touchscreen issues that the Microsoft Lumia 535 has been encountering have been widely documented up until this point. The software giant first confirmed the problems earlier this month, and then promised a fix would come on December 27. Well, it looks like Microsoft was working overtime on that, since a new firmware update for the Lumia 535 is...

Nokia N1 Android tablet launches in China on January 7

Back in November, Nokia (the part of the company that wasn't sold off to Microsoft) announced its first ever Android-running tablet, the N1. We got specs and pricing information then, along with a very vague release time frame of "Q1 2015". Today though a rumor out of China has that down to an actual launch date - January 7. Because the translation...

Samsung SM-G430 surfaces with 5.5" 1080p screen

Samsung sure likes to launch a lot of smartphones each year. And while 2014 is almost over, we're clearly going to see a lot of new stuff from Samsung next year. One such handset seems to be the SM-G430. This has surfaced through an import listing from an Indian website specializing in these things. A few units have made it to the subcontinent for...

LG G2 Android 5.0 screenshot leaks before rollout

The Lollipop update frenzy is well under way and LG's current flagship - the LG G3 was definitely not left behind with updates rolling out during all of the December, first in South Korea and then in a number of other countries. In the height of all this one question remains unanswered - will last year's LG flagship - the very popular LG G2 receive...

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 Plus possibly spotted in a spy photo

A couple of spy shots of an upcoming Huawei smartphone have appeared. They're believed to portray the upcoming Huawei Ascend Mate 7 Plus, which the company is preparing to be the successor of the Ascend Mate 7. There aren't that many visual differences between the phones. The Ascend Mate 7 Plus comes with the same almost zero-bezel design of the Mate...

Oppo R8205 and R8200 make the rounds at TENAA

Oppo will be releasing two new additions to its R smartphone lineup. The devices look promising enough on paper and they just appeared on the TENAA website, which means official announcement isn't far away. The two handsets dubbed, at least for now, R8200 and R8205 are almost identical with one small, but significant difference. Both phones boast...

Xolo Q900s Plus with 4.7-inch HD display goes on sale in India

Just over a week after unveiling it, Xolo has launched the Q900s Plus, a successor to the Q900s, which was released back in July this year. It comes in black color, and is now available for purchase on Infibeam for 7,999 INR ($126). Specification-wise, the device sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (MSM 8212) chipset with 1.2 GHz quad-core processor...

Nokia C1 is the company's first post-Microsoft Android phone

Following the announcement of the Nokia N1, the company's first Android tablet after the Microsoft deal, now we hear the Finns are working on a phone running Google's mobile OS. The phone is dubbed simply C1 and an alleged product shot of it popped up. Alongside it, there's also a rumored spec sheet, which includes an Intel-made chipset with 2GB RAM....

Motorola Moto X (2nd Gen) 32GB now available in India

After Motorola's initial launch of the Moto X(2014) in India, back in September users were left to wonder as to if and when the 32GB version would be available, along with the wood and leather back covers variants. The larger storage model is now exclusively available through Flipkart for INR 32,999 ($520) in Black and Royal Blue colors. The two aforementioned...

Android One coming to Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

After launching the Android One brand in India earlier this year, Google is now expanding the devices to other south Asian markets, namely, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The same three devices will be available in these markets for now - Micromax Canvas A1, Karbonn Sparkle V, and Spice Dream UNO. Except for Bangladesh, which along with these three...

Xiaomi is now valued at more than $45 billion

The Chinese smartphone and tablet manufacturer Xiaomi is now valued at over $45 billion. The latest estimate tops the $40 billion valuation, which the company received in early November. Xiaomi raised over $1 billion in the latest round of funding. Participants in it included All-Stars Investment, the Russian firm DST Global, and the Singapore sovereign-wealth...