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Weekend tech reading: Firefox OS backed by phone makers, carriers

Weekend tech reading: Firefox OS backed by phone makers, carriers
  • Posted February 24, 2013, 11:46 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Laying the groundwork for its nascent Firefox OS, Mozilla has won over a sizeable list of allies including LG Electronics and China Unicom, and the first phones with the browser-based operating system should arrive in the second quarter of the year. Mozilla announced today...

Weekend Open Forum: Do you still wear a watch?

Weekend Open Forum: Do you still wear a watch?
  • Posted February 22, 2013, 6:31 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in WOF
  • There isn't a week that goes by where we don't hear about how the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets are displacing other technology segments. For many folks, a competent high-end handset can comfortably replace various portable media players, dedicated gaming handhelds...

Qualcomm announces world's first global LTE baseband chip

Qualcomm announces world
  • Posted February 22, 2013, 9:41 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing With Video
  • LTE fragmentation can be a real hassle for travelers and companies making multiple versions of the same device for different markets. Case in point, the iPhone 5 currently produced in two GSM variants plus a CDMA version, and the iPad’s…

BlackBerry Z10 sales estimates slashed by 83 percent

BlackBerry Z10 sales estimates slashed by 83 percent
  • Posted February 21, 2013, 8:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • News that BlackBerry’s new Z10 handset had set sales records in Canada and the UK gave most the impression that the company had perhaps found the path back to prosperity. Those hopes, however, are rapidly falling to the wayside as…

Qualcomm reveals specs of Snapdragon 400 and 200 processors

Qualcomm reveals specs of Snapdragon 400 and 200 processors
  • Posted February 20, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • The latest post on Qualcomm’s official blog sheds some light on the company’s upcoming Snapdragon 200 and 400 processors. Unlike the beefier Snapdragon 800 and 600 processors, these new chips are targeting mid-tier and entry level smartphones according to vice…

HTC aims for a comeback with HTC One flagship smartphone

HTC aims for a comeback with HTC One flagship smartphone
  • Posted February 19, 2013, 12:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing With Video
  • Following a string of leaks over the last few days, HTC has officially announced its newest flagship Android smartphone at a press event in New York this morning. The HTC One represents the firm’s latest attempt to regain lost ground…

Nvidia announces Tegra 4i with built-in LTE, Phoenix reference smartphone design

Nvidia announces Tegra 4i with built-in LTE, Phoenix reference smartphone design
  • Posted February 19, 2013, 10:08 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • Nvidia is stepping up its game in the smartphone market with the introduction of its first system on chip (SoC) with an integrated 4G LTE radio, the Tegra 4i. The latter joins the upcoming Tegra 4 chip for tablets and…

Samsung expected to unveil Galaxy S IV on March 14

Samsung expected to unveil Galaxy S IV on March 14
  • Posted February 18, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Last month we heard rumors that the Galaxy S IV would be launching on April 15 and that we could expect to see an announcement sometime in March during one of the company’s Mobile Unpacked events. That intelligence still looks…

Archos to unveil three Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress

Archos to unveil three Android smartphones at Mobile World Congress
  • Posted February 18, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Archos, perhaps best known for producing budget-minded music players and tablets, is reportedly preparing to enter the lucrative smartphone market. The French consumer electronics maker will launch three Android handsets in the coming months according to specifications that first appeared…

Neowin: Nokia Lumia 820 review

Neowin: Nokia Lumia 820 review
  • Posted February 18, 2013, 11:00 AM by Steven Parker | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • The launch of Windows Phone 8 saw the announcement of a new generation of handsets, consigning a fairly lacklustre set of earlier devices to the past, with the news that those phones would not be upgradable to the newest version…

Rhino Shield makes Corning's Gorilla Glass up to five times stronger

Rhino Shield makes Corning
  • Posted February 14, 2013, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing With Video
  • Corning's Gorilla Glass does a fine job of keeping smartphones relatively safe against typical bumps and scrapes, but given how common it is to hear about cracked displays, there's obviously plenty of room for improvement. Hoping to provide such an advancement, two enterprising...

Apple and Samsung sold half of all smartphones in 2012, Huawei third

Apple and Samsung sold half of all smartphones in 2012, Huawei third
  • Posted February 14, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • The latest mobile phone report from Gartner shows that for the first time since 2009, overall handset sales dropped due to weak demand for low-cost feature phones. But where feature phones faltered in 2012, smartphones had a very strong year…

HP working on Android tablet, considering smartphone, too

HP working on Android tablet, considering smartphone, too
  • Posted February 13, 2013, 4:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
  • HP is ready to give smartphones and tablets another go after notoriously spending $1.2 billion to acquire Palm in 2010 only to shut down its webOS unit 18 months later. Although the company has already sort of jumped back in…

LG unveils Optimus G Pro with 5.5-inch curved glass display

LG unveils Optimus G Pro with 5.5-inch curved glass display
  • Posted February 13, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • LG has revealed a new smartphone that should be able to compete head-to-head against Samsung’s flagship Galaxy Note II. The Optimus G Pro will ship with a 5.5-inch display – the same size as the Note II – but this…

Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 to resolve iPhone 4S cellular issues

Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 to resolve iPhone 4S cellular issues
  • Posted February 12, 2013, 11:15 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Apple
  • Apple released yesterday a supplemental update to iOS 6.1 which claims to resolve potential cellular issues for iPhone 4S owners. iOS 6.1.1 comes with only a single bullet point in its release notes:  "This update fixes an issue that could…

Vertu's latest luxury smartphone will cost you at least $10,000

Vertu
  • Posted February 12, 2013, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing With Video
  • If you are fed up with the “boring” appearance of today’s smartphones and just happen to have between $10,000 and $20,000 burning a hole in your pocket, you can kill two birds with one stone thanks to a new luxury…

Alleged iPhone 5S photos from inside Foxconn leak online

Alleged iPhone 5S photos from inside Foxconn leak online
  • Posted February 11, 2013, 9:57 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple
  • A new batch of alleged next generation iPhone photos have found their way online courtesy of a Chinese website. The pre-production images appear to have been taken inside a manufacturing facility – said to be Foxconn – and show the…

Ubuntu smartphone launching October in two large markets

Ubuntu smartphone launching October in two large markets
  • Posted February 7, 2013, 11:24 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software With Video
  • Last month Canonical announced that a mobile version of Ubuntu would be arriving on a couple of smartphones towards the end of this year or early 2014. But now we have something closer to an actual release date courtesy of…

BlackBerry Z10 Review: The Last Hope

BlackBerry Z10 Review: The Last Hope
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 7:48 PM by Andrew Kameka | Filed in TechSpot, Mobile Computing
  • The BlackBerry Z10 is a sink or swim device that will likely determine if the company will manage to hold on to its dwindling market share and right the ship that sent it from first to worst in smartphone relevance.

    The first smartphone to run the BlackBerry 10 OS debuts at a time when smartphones are as much about play as they are productivity, and this phone can thrive in this era only if it can strike a balance between entertainment and enterprise. Can the BlackBerry Z10 be the savior that BlackBerry so desperately needs?

Android malware steals data, records audio via PC microphone

Android malware steals data, records audio via PC microphone
  • Posted February 4, 2013, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Mobile Computing
  • Two newly-discovered Android apps found on Google Play were designed to spy on their users, claim security experts at Kaspersky. The apps, SuperClean and DroidCleaner, posed as innocuous Android clean-up utilities; however, each app could quietly copy photos, contacts and…

Verizon debuts $60 prepaid plan for 3G smartphones

Verizon debuts $60 prepaid plan for 3G smartphones
  • Posted February 1, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Verizon announced today the introduction of two prepaid plans which bundle together unlimited voice and texts exclusively for 3G smartphone owners. The company's $60 option includes a rather slim 500MB of data, but its $70 plan offers a more bountiful…

Nvidia to build reference smartphones and tablets for OEMs, ODMs

Nvidia to build reference smartphones and tablets for OEMs, ODMs
  • Posted January 31, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Nvidia is no stranger to producing reference designs for the graphics card market and working with partners to get products into customers’ hands. Now, according to a report by Russian site Mobile Review, the company is looking to replicate that…

RIM renames itself BlackBerry, launches BB10 and all-touch Z10 smartphone

RIM renames itself BlackBerry, launches BB10 and all-touch Z10 smartphone

Nokia to launch paid version of Lumia-only music service

Nokia to launch paid version of Lumia-only music service
  • Posted January 28, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Nokia’s Ian Delaney took to the official company blog over the weekend to announce Nokia Music+, a new monthly subscription service designed to complement the Lumia-only Mix Radio – the free service that launched back in September. We are told…

WOF: What should be the next major development in smartphones?

WOF: What should be the next major development in smartphones?
  • Posted January 25, 2013, 7:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in WOF, Mobile Computing
  • Smartphones have come a long way since the first PDAs with phone capabilities hit the market. But as the market matures it's getting increasingly difficult for companies to come up with truly revolutionary new features year after year.

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