Samsung has yet to reveal any products other than the Galaxy Note that use its S Pen input device, but that may change at Mobile World Congress later this month. We may see a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Note unveiled, it seems. Outed by Samsung's own official website, the Galaxy Note 10.1 is listed as making an appearance at a Samsung event for developers ...
The European Commission has approved Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. "This is an important milestone in the approval process and it moves us closer to closing the deal," said Google in a statement. "We are now just waiting for decisions from a few other jurisdictions before we can close this transaction. As we outlined ...
Today the U.S. Justice Department approved Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. However, the regulatory body said it would not hesitate to take action if it feels standard essential patents are not licensed fairly. Earlier today, the European Commission also approved the deal. It still has to clear hurdles in several other ...
Motorola today announced an approximate schedule for planned upgrades to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its devices. In the U.S., Motorola said that the Atrix 2, Atrix 4G, Photon 4G, and Xyboards 8.2/10.1 will receive Ice Cream Sandwich some time in the third quarter of 2012. Motorola is still in the "planning and evaluation phase" with respect ...
The DROID is dead, long live the DROID. The Motorola DROID 4, that is. This time around, Motorola's keyboard-toting Android smartphone features a 4-inch qHD resolution display, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, dual HD-capable cameras, and support for Verizon's blazing fast LTE data network. It also offers users the best keyboard available on a horizontal ...
Apple filed for a preliminary injunction against the Google Galaxy Nexus in the U.S. this week. This time Apple cites four patents that are allegedly infringed upon by Google's flagship smartphone.
Not content with having two other tablets in the 7-inch class category, Samsung has taken the wraps off of the Galaxy Tab 2, the true successor to the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab that was released way back in 2010. The Galaxy Tab 2 features a dual-core processor and is the first Samsung tablet to launch with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
According to sources reporting to Reuters, the U.S. Department of Justice is set to announce its approval of search giant Google's purchase of smartphone and tablet manufacturer Motorola Mobility. Google is purchasing Motorola in an effort to secure its patent portfolio in order to bolster defense of Google's Android operating system from the patent ...
Alleged pictures of the new BlackBerry 10 OS have been leaked. BlackBerry's new operating system won't be released until sometime later this year and when it launches, only one phone – the BlackBerry London – is expected to launch with it. The new photos from Crackberry give a better view of BB10, and were reportedly snatched from ...
Apple's heavily-rumoured iTV will not be able to compete with the picture quality offered by Samsung sets, according to an AV product manager with the Koreans. Samsung's Chris Moseley told Pocket-Link that the firm isn't overly concerned with what Apple launches if it decides to enter the TV market. Moseley says Apple's much-touted plan to 'revolutionise' ...
The Ascend D1 Q has been announced by Huawei chairman Yu Chengdong and it's expected to be the firm's first quad-core phone, set for launch at MWC 2012. According to Japanese site Blog of Mobile Chengdong let slip about the Ascend D1 Q on his Weibo profile – Japan's version of Twitter. It's being suggested that the "D" stands for Diamond, ...
Motorola executive Christy Wyatt said that it's not the company's software customizations that delay system updates, rather, it's the hardware. Speaking to media at an event in New York, Wyatt explained, "When Google does a release of the software ... they do a version of the software for whatever phone they just shipped. The rest of the ecosystem doesn't ...