Samsung is already making plans beyond CES next month, for February’s Mobile World Congress. They will be showcasing their successor to the successful Galaxy S line with their newest Galaxy line of phones. The upcoming phones specifications seem to be in line with the next generation of flagship devices from other manufacturers. Phandroid States: A [...]
For a while now, the Apple iPod Touch has been the reigning king when it comes to touch-based media players. Samsung is ready to give Apple some heavy competition with a new media player that will likely make its official debut at CES next week. The Galaxy Player YP-GB1 takes the form factor of a [...]
With Mobile World Congress 2011 right around the corner in February, the Android community is about to recieve plenty of new great additions to the current line up. Sony Ericsson might finally reveal the much talked about Playstation phone, now being referred to as the Xperia Play. Reveal or not, they have started sending out invites [...]
It should come as no surprise that Samsung would join the already packed line-up of manufacturers clamoring to get their LTE devices ready for Verizon. Motorola, LG, and HTC have all already been rumored to have their 4G devices in the pipeline for release in the coming months. It is interesting to note that this [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S line of phones has been a major success both in North America and worldwide. Since the June launch in Samsung’s home country of Korea they have sold 2 million units in that country alone. That puts the total sales number up to 9.3 million and on pace to sell 10 million [...]
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is less than a month away and there will no doubt be numerous Android-related devices on display. Leading Chinese semiconductor company, Fuzoh Rockchip Electronics Co., LTD, will be at CES to show off their new mobile Internet platform codenamed, RK29xx. According to their press release: RK29xx will supply powerful support [...]
The more that today’s smartphones progress, the more they the large touchscreens become the focus, and the more delicate fragile devices they are. Motorola is combating that with tough phones meant to stand up to the abusive of normal uses and even on places like a construction site you no longer have to baby your [...]
Next month at CES 2011 NEC will introduce a dual-touchscreen version in their LifeTouch series of tablets now out in Japan. If you like touch screens, how about two 7-inch ones that can run separate tasks on both screens at the same time! We can’t say how the screens will be arranged until we can [...]
Up until now, LG has not been a very big name in the Android scene. They had a few mid-range phones, but nothing big and special. All that is changing. First, the LG Optimus 2X was announced. It will be the world’s first dual-core phone, and will launch in Korea next month, followed by Europe [...]
Android is starting to bring some big hardware innovations next year. Not only will we get Dual-Core chips for high-end smartphones, like the Tegra 2, Orion, and a dual core Snapdragon, but we’ll also get cheap dual cores ARM11 for low-end phones from Broadcom. This should greatly improve the performance of low-end Android phones, but [...]
If you were hoping for a LTE device from HTC anytime soon now, don’t get your hopes up. HTC just announced that there won’t be any LTE devices from them until at least mid 2011, according to Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC. Chou also mentioned that these devices will also feature the NFC technology [...]
Tough, rigid, and rigorous are a few of the many words that come to mind when I think of the Motorola DEFY. It can take a beating, and…well, just keep on ringing, or so we thought. It has now come out that the ear-piece may not be up to the standards we expect. For a mobile phone [...]
With the new year will come many changes for Motorola. The company will split into two parts, one dealing with mobile devices, and the solutions group handling the business sector. In anticipation of this move, Motorola is showing us the new logo for the mobile devision. Not surprising is that they have gone with red, the color [...]
Intel CEO Paul Otellini spoke at a conference hosted by Barclays Capital about smartphones being made with Intel chips. In his speech he stated, “You will see smartphones from premier-branded vendors in the marketplace in the second half of 2011 with Intel silicon inside them.” Some more exciting news is that the company has won [...]
Samsung is always coming up with new ways to be the best at what they do. They recently announced that they have created the first “monolithic” 4 GB LPDDR2 DRAM module to be used in smartphones and tablet PCs. Not only is the DRAM module said to be more power efficient, but it can also [...]
The dual core chip competition is heating up as Texas instruments is announcing their OMAP 4440 chip due to be released to manufacturers mid 2011. The chips will have a dual core Cortex A9 CPU, with each core running at 1.5 Ghz and a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU (the same one in Samsung’s Hummingbird SoC [...]
Will your HTC be getting Android 2.3(Gingerbread)? It’s hard to say at this point. When asked, HTC simple said that the update will be getting put on “A number” of their devices. Absolutely no names were dropped, but this is still exciting. HTC had this to say when asked by TechRadar, “We are excited about [...]
Here we are again, another Android OS release and now comes the “will I ever get it?” questions. According to LG’s official Facebook page, the whole Optimus line will be left out of the upgrade. LG is sighting a 1Ghz processor requirement inside of the Gingerbread update, which the Optimus’ 600Mhz does not meet. I [...]
Today it was confirmed that the Nexus S, the next Android flagship phone, will come equipped with Near-Field Communications (NFC) with Flash storage. The chip’s manufacturer, NXP Semiconductors, released a statement regarding their partnership with Google and the applications of this new technology. Dec 06, 2010 11:00 ET Google and NXP Integrate NFC in Android [...]
Samsung is now the number one Android handset manufacturer in the US market. This is due mostly to their Galaxy S handsets, with flavors on every major carrier. Verizon has the Fascinate (and Continuum), Sprint has the Epic 4G, T-Mobile has the Vibrant, AT&T has the Captivate, Cellular South has the Showcase, and US Cellular [...]
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha talked at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference yesterday, where he hinted about many of their products for early 2011. He also goes on to note some strong competition in Q1 from someone - probably the iPhone on Verizon. He does mention that he will have products for different carriers, though. [...]
Samsung is not standing still. It seems they are taking the mobile market very seriously and they want to innovate as much as possible. Good for them and good for us, too. This time they are announcing that they’re going to manufacture a NFC (near field communications) chip that also has flash storage in it. [...]
Don’t act so surprised. You know the day when a phone will have a quad-core CPU is coming, you just don’t know how soon. Well, I believe it’s coming earlier than you might expect. Nvidia talks in their recently released white paper about the importance of multi-core CPU’s in smartphones and tablets. The key word [...]
LG has just entered a partnership with QD Vision, a company that can help them manufacturer quantum dot LED displays that promise to offer pure colors with an energy consumption that is smaller than OLED displays. The QLED displays are supposed to be very thin and even work on flexible form factors, not unlike OLED [...]
With the feature-rich technology of smartphones moving forward at such a rapid pace, it’s become necessary to increase the power at which our loved devices can operate properly. What was once a simply a phone in your pocket has become a supercomputer capable of almost anything. The future of powering such a device comes in [...]
This year has been brilliant and promising for smartphones and tablets in terms of technology. Therefore, it looks like a better future is coming by 2011. With all the advanced technology surrounding tablets, they are trying to dominate in the PC market by 2012. Having all these Android-powered tablet PCs, more and more features and [...]
By now, we all know that Honeycomb should be the Holy Grail of Android tablets. In fact, they should’ve just named Android 3.0 the Holy Grail, since it also starts with an “H” and Android fans can’t wait to see what is all about. It could also be overhauled Android interface for smartphones that we’ve [...]
This seems like a very strange statement for a company that just topped the sales charts with the Galaxy S line and has some major buzz surrounding their upcoming Android devices. Samsung seems to be shifting their focus to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) in 2011. A report in iMobile.cn says Samsung will build 63% of [...]
We have been hearing about this for a very long time now, and it seems Bert Nordberg, the CEO of Sony Ericsson, is starting to open up. When asked about a PlayStation branded Sony Ericsson phone he simply said, “The future might be brighter.” Nordberg told The Wall Street Journal that Sony Ericsson is going to make [...]
I’ve said it all along that I don’t understand why Google chose Intel as the preferred platform for Google TV, when Google TV is Android basically, and Android was built on ARM from the beginning. The dual core chips based on ARM will start appearing in devices in 2011 and I’m sure they are pretty [...]
Qulcomm today showed their roadmap for the Qualcomm family of chipsets. They also said that they are getting ready a dual core chipset that offers five times the performance of their first Snapdragon and four times the graphics performance upgrade, but they don’t mention whether it’s compared to the Adreno 2xx family or the older [...]
According to recent reports, it looks the the HTC Knight it getting a new name. HTC has applied to Trademark the name “EVO Shift 4G”. This recent bit of news comes from Engadget, who said this would be the new official name once it launched. While not too much is known about the device, it will be [...]
Following a similar move by Sony, electronic company Samsung is looking to Google to expand their market with the inclusion of Google TV on their future TV models. Samsung televisions already come equipped with integrated apps, but with the recent demand of full internet TV services, the addition of Google TV is a must. The head of Samsung’s TV [...]
It seems like Nexus S will be another phone with a curved display (though different than Dell Venue). All OLED displays are different than LCD in many ways, but two of the big differences are that OLED displays are very thin, and they can also be bent, while an LCD has to stay flat to [...]
Good news today for Japanese consumers wanting to get their hands on new Android devices. Panasonic is finally stepping out of the dark and throwing their hats in the ring. Speaking at a recent news conference in regards to Panasonic’s lack of involvement in the Android explosion, the head of their mobile division, Osamu Waki gave [...]
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