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 ...
LG today announced the Optimus 3D MAX, an apparent update to last-year's Optimus 3D. The 3D MAX features 2D and 3D image/video capture and playback with twin 5-megapixel main cameras and a 3D display. LG says it can convert Maps and other items into 3D for a more immersive experience. It also has a VGA user-facing camera for video chats. Other features ...
Ericsson today announced that it has devised a way to triple the upload speeds across HSPA networks by making some alterations to how base stations handle such traffic. Ericsson said that a new set of software algorithms allows it to surpress the interference that WCDMA/HSPA base stations have to deal with on the uplink. Using the interference suppression ...
LG today announced the Optimus 4X HD, the first phone with the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The phone sports Android 4.0, a 8.9mm-thick body, and a 4.7-inch true HD IPS LCD, like the Nitro, but slightly larger. The Tegra 3 chip in the Optimus 4X clocks in at 1.5 GHz and includes a fifth processor that handles simple, low-power tasks such as phone ...
U.S. Cellular today announced the availability of the Samsung Galaxy S II for $229.99 after $100 mail-in rebate. The S II includes a 4.52-inch display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 8-megapixel camera, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Nokia has released a teaser video on YouTube that hints it will announce a smartphone with a high-end camera in the coming days. The video includes the tagline "Get Ready to Capture a Pure View" and shows a montage of images. At the same time, Reuters today reports that Nokia is prepared to also announce an inexpensive Windows Phone smartphone at its press ...