An HTC spokesperson today confirmed that Metro PCS, U.S. Cellular, and Virgin Mobile will all offer the HTC One V. The phone runs Android 4.0 with Sense 4, and features a dual-core processor, 3.7-inch display, and 5-megapixel camera.
ZTE may have announced eight new smartphones, but only two are headed to the U.S., the PF200 and the N91. Here are our initial hands-on thoughts.
Samsung is showing off - for the first time in public - the speedy Galaxy S Blaze 4G for T-Mobile. The phone pairs a blazing fast processor with blazing fast data, in an affordable little package. Read on for our first impressions.
Samsung and Toyota today announced a new partnership with the goal of integrating smartphones into the in-vehicle infotainment systems of Toyota's cars and trucks. The system will use MirrorLink to make the connection. The cars will use a user interface created by Toyota that is safer to operate when driving a vehicle than the user interface of the smartphone. ...
Samsung today announced the Rugby Smart for AT&T. Like previous Rugby phones, this model is rugged, including being waterproof for up to 30 minutes under three feet of water. While previous Rugby models were feature phones, the Rugby Smart runs Android 2.3 and sports a 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display. Other features include HSPA+ data, 5-megapixel camera, ...
Samsung today announced a new version of its Exynos processor with four application cores. The new chips use a 32nm processes that leads to an approximate 26% improvement in computing power while also delivering a 50% improvement in battery life. The processors can be clocked up to 1.5GHz. More details will be provided by Samsung in the coming days. ...
Reuters is reporting that Nokia plans to announce the Lumia 610 next week in Barcelona. The Lumia 610 is reportedly a cheaper version of its Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones that will be targeted at a wider market.
Nokia's MWC 2012 antics have been cranked up another notch after it released a teaser video for the forthcoming show. The video depicts a pure white landscape, with the ending slogan of "Get ready to capture a pure view" at the end, with 27 February being listed as a date to keep in your diary. Given that's when Nokia is holding its press conference ...
LG has unveiled the a new quad-core Android handset called the Optimus 4X HD ahead of MWC 2012. The announcement of the new handset comes barely a day after the company announced the Optimus 3D Max handset which comes loaded with NFC tech and a 4.3-inch glasses-free 3D display. A considerably larger phone, the Optimus 4X HD has a jumbo 4.7-inch ...
We might be all aflutter at the prospect of the Samsung Galaxy S3 but there's life in the Galaxy S2 yet as Samsung announces that it has sold 20 million of the handsets. Having been on the market since April 2011, that's a very impressive 2 million devices exchanged for cash every month. Want to hear that fact again in a slightly different way? ...
ZTE has confirmed that it will be bringing a total of eight new handsets to MWC 2012 in Barcelona covering both Android and Windows Phone. We've already seen ZTE launch its first Windows Phone, the Tania, earlier this year and the Chinese manufacturer has its sights firmly set on becoming a top three handset provider by 2015. He Shiyou, Executive ...
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit with the European Commission against Motorola, claiming that the company is not offering licenses to standard essential patents at fair and reasonable rates. Microsoft is specifically calling out the licensing fees Motorola wants for 50 patents related to H.264 mobile video playback, which Microsoft claims are 1,000 times ...