HTC has announced a new mid-range Android smartphone in Taiwan called the Desire 500. The phone is priced at a suggested retail price of NT$11,900 and will be launched exclusively through Taiwan Mobile on August 1. The Desire 500 looks somewhat similar to the One S from the front but trades in the metal body for plastic. It has a 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 resolution display, Qualcomm Snapdragon...
Nokia's teaser from yesterday promised something big for today and it delivered, sort of. The Nokia Lumia 625 is an entry-level Windows Phone 8 handset with a rather big (for the class) screen - 4.7". That's not groundbreaking, though as the WP7-powered HTC Titan had a 4.7" screen back in 2011. The Lumia 625 is mostly a stretched out 620 with some additional extras. The Nokia Lumia 625...
There's a whole lot on customization options like yellow shoe laces matching the chair color, coffee art hinting that your phone should be more customizable than a cup of Joe. All in all, in line with the slogan "the first smartphone that you can design yourself"...
With the next-gen version of the Google Nexus 7 expected to be launched around the end of this month, sources from the upstream supply chain are saying that the manufacturer of that slate, ASUS, will see its third quarter numbers reflect the pick up in sales of the popular 7 inch Android tablet; a leaked Best Buy flyer shows that the tablet will be available a week from today with some changes...
As if to prove how big it is now, and to double down on the all-important software efforts, Samsung is now a company with its own developers conference. That's right, after Apple, Google and Microsoft, Samsung is showing that it is at least that important for developers, gracing them with their own dedicated event...
Late Monday, we showed you a picture of the Motorola DROID Ultra wearing a 'V' shaped black and white racing stripe down the Kevlar back; this, we figured, was a picture of the Limited Edition version of the Motorola DROID Ultra. We started thinking aloud about the possibility that this would be a version of the phone offered to Verizon employees at a discount. Just a way for Big Red's executives to thank the reps for all of their hard work...
