Nokia has confirmed that the PureView camera technology first revealed in the 808 PureView Symbian smartphone will eventually make its way to the Finnish phone company's Lumia Windows Phones. "PureView imaging technologies [will] be used to deliver high end imaging experiences in future Nokia products," said Nokia representative Chris Hollis to Phone ...
A judge has ordered Google and Motorola to deliver information concerning how the Android operating system was developed to Apple. The two companies must also give Apple information about Google's planned acquisition of Motorola. The cases relating to this action hail from 2010, when Apple sued Motorola over smartphone patents. Motorola counter-sued. ...
MetroPCS's latest LTE 4G smartphone comes from LG. The Connect 4G offers a decent spec list, but stumbles a a few times on the road to smartphone nirvana.
Opera Software today announced that Opera Mini 6.5 is now available to BlackBerry smartphones via BlackBerry App World. It includes most of the features available in Opera Mini on other platforms, such as social network integration, speed dial, data compression, and full HTML site support. The application is free, and can also be downloaded directly ...
Samsung isn't messing about with its tablets range, having unveiled all manner of differently-sized tablets over the past months, not least the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 at MWC 2012 – but what of its equally sized Note-less sibling, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1? Arithmophobes should steer clear of a product with all those numbers in its name, ...
Samsung has created a sensor capable of capturing both a standard RGB image and depth information at the same time. The new technology could give devices Microsoft Kinect-like gesture recognition capabilities without the need for two separate sensors, allowing for the installation of the tech on much smaller devices like mobile phones. The CMOS ...
Nokia today announced that it and partner Microsoft has refreshed the appearance of Nokia maps to unify the user interface of both the Nokia Maps and Bing Maps systems. Nokia says that the overarching goal of the redesign was to make the maps easier to understand, yet still provide detail and context for what's in view. Nokia said that it has reduced ...
Samsung indicated this week that it is prepared to significantly increase the investment it is making in its homegrown Bada operating system. Right now, the mobile OS is only available in Samsung's home market of Korea, where it had sold more than 10 million units. It wants to make Bada a viable alternative to Google's Android platform. Samsung said ...
LG demonstrated a new technology at Mobile World Congress 2012 that lets users switch between voice and video modes while in the midst of a call on an LTE network
Verizon Wireless has announced that it will carry the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 4G LTE Android tablet starting March 1. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 features a 7.7-inch Super AMOLED Plus 1280 x 800 pixel display and a dual-core 1.4GHz processor. It runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb and is only 7.9mm thick. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 will cost $499.99 with a two-year contract. ...
The GSMA, organizers of the Mobile World Congress event, have just announced that Samsung was named "Manufacturer of the year" and that the Samsung Galaxy S II was named "Smartphone of the year" at the organization's annual GSMA Awards. We happened to be sitting with some Samsung representatives when the word came in, and we can tell you that they were ...
Verizon has announced that it will offer its customers a new handset, the Brightside by Samsung. The Birghtside offers users a slider form factor for those that prefer a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging as well as support for Verizon's 3G data network.