All Entries Tagged With: "smartphone"
Unnecto Quattro – Preview
The Unnecto Quattro is an entry-level Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset newly demoed by its Italian manufacturers at the CTIA 2012 Wireless Conference. Its star feature is its ability to house dual SIM cards; one full-sized and one microSIM for minimal confusion. In terms of its other specs, the Quattro features a pretty average 4-inch 800 [...]
New Blackberry 10 Homescreen
Thorsten Heins unveiled the Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha at Blackbery World last week as a developer demo version of RIM’s upcoming products, and in so doing gave users a sneak preview of the new homescreen and entry point to the updated OS. The shots show the homescreen will be less widget-based and more of an [...]
Kyocera Rise Android ICS handset – Preview
Kyocera has released the Kyocera Rise, its newest Android handset, featuring a four-row QWERTY slide-out keyboard and the Android Ice Cream sandwich operating system. The device is targeted at the budget market, running on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with 2GB of storage and 512MB RAM in tow. The Kyocera Rise offers a 3.5-inch 480 [...]
LG – No Windows Phones
LG revealed this week that it has no plans to release a Windows Phone handset in the near future. The spokesman was responding to questions from the Korea Herald, and said that Microsoft’s low market share in the smartphone market made deviating from the Android path a non-starter for the company at present – ‘the [...]
HTC One X – Review
HTC had a difficult 2011, but the One X, One S and One V are a new trio of handsets that could well restore the company’s fortunes. All three smartphones run HTC’s lightweight Sense 4 UI atop Google Ice Cream Sandwich. AT&T One X launched on May 6 for $199 on contract. It loses NVidia’s [...]
US Smartphone Figures For March
ComScore has released details of US smartphone sales figures for March, with the usual good showing from Apple and Samsung. Android leapt almost four percentage points to feature in 51% of new US smartphone purchases, but Apple is cruising along well, helped by good iPhone sales numbers, and climbed to 30.7% of all American smartphone [...]
Nokia 808 PureView
The ultimate in image-capture smartphones, the Nokia 808 PureView , will arrive in stores this month, as announced by the Finnish smartphone manufacturer this week. PureView boasts Carl Zeiss optics and state-of-the-art imaging algorithms to make the most of its 41MP snapper. That should be OK for Skyping. Russia and India are rumored to be [...]
Samsung Reveals Quad-core Exynos CPU
Samsung will unveil the long-awaited Galaxy 3 handset in London on May 3rd, and the company has just announced a new quad-core processor, expected to feature in the upcoming premium handset. The Samsung Exynos 4 Quad is built on Samsung 32nm HKMG architecture and is effectively four ARM Cortex A9 CPUs running at 1.4GHz Demands [...]
Intel Medfield XOLO X900 To Debut Today
Intel has announced that the Lava International XOLO X900 will be on sale at the Croma retail chain in India from today, April 23. It will be the first Intel Medfield CPU-powered device to launch, despite expectations that a Lenovo handset would go on sale in China as the first smartphone to pack an Intel [...]
Leaked Shots Of HTC Golf
A leaked press snap has turned up online, allegedly the HTC Golf , a soon-to-be-released entry-level smartphone. In appearance its very similar to the HTC Wildfire line, earlier budget handsets produced by HTC. The HTC Golf is expected to run the latest Android OS, Ice Cream Sandwich, with HTC’s Sense UI overlaid. The HTC Golf [...]
