Nokia EOS set to be first Windows Phone 8 PureView phone
The Nokia EOS is set to be the first Windows Phone 8 handset to sport the Finnish firm's impressive PureView camera technology.Last year Nokia launched the ridiculous 41MP toting 808 PureView at MWC...
View ArticleUpdated: Pebble Smartwatch units shipping to early backers today
Updated: Whatever was holding up Pebble's iPhone app is apparently no more as the company was able to push out its app for iOS just as the first phones started shipping. The app is free, though needs...
View ArticleTim Cook says Apple struck on right screen size with iPhone 5
Apple landed on just the right size when it came up with its 4-inch screen for the iPhone 5, according to company CEO Tim Cook. "We've put a lot of thinking into screen size and we think we've picked...
View ArticleSiri was meant for Android phones before Apple stepped in
Ask Siri where she was born and she'll say that she was "designed by Apple in California," but that's only the half truth. She almost belonged on Android phones.The brains behind this voice-activated...
View ArticlePCs hit hard as mobiles and tablets overtake iPlayer viewing
It wasn't a bad year for iPlayer in 2012, with the BBC's on-demand service raking in more requests for TV programmes than ever before. For the first time, the humble PC fell to less than half of all...
View ArticleMozart may be first in line at HTC to receive Windows Phone 7.8
The HTC Mozart may be the first handset in the Taiwanese firm's fleet to received the Windows Phone 7.8.That's according to Polish site Windows-Phone.pl, which claims to have spoken to an (unconfirmed)...
View ArticleNokia slowly turning fortunes around, but it's still got a way to go
Things are looking up over at Nokia as the Finnish firm posted a healthy profit for the final quarter of 2012.Nokia managed to rack up €8.04 billion (around £6.76 billion/$10.7 billion) of profit...
View ArticleUpdated: Graphene: the miracle material explained
We could be on the brink of a new industrial revolution, and it's all down to a single layer of carbon atoms called Graphene.Graphene is the thinnest, strongest, lightest, stiffest material ever made,...
View ArticleUpdated: Could Samsung's next display push beyond 440ppi?
With a pixel density of 326ppi, Apple's 4-inch iPhone 5 is home to one of the more, though by no means most pixelated, high-res screens on the market, but Samsung is reportedly working to one-up...
View ArticleLenovo eyeing RIM for possible mobile mingling
Lenovo is looking into ways to boost its mobile business, and according to the firm, a partnership with Research in Motion may just be the way to go about it.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in...
View ArticleHuawei Ascend P2 flies the coop in leaked press shot
Just last week, the first mention of specifications for Huawei's rumored Ascend P2 smartphone were released.According to that report, the Ascend P2 will boast a quad-core 1.8GHz Hisilicon K3V2...
View ArticleSamsung reportedly sets ridiculously ambitious sales goal for Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy S4 rumors are at a fever pitch, and so are the company's sales expectations for the soon-to-be-announced smartphone each month, according to South Korean media.Korean language news site...
View ArticleSamsung sells 63 million smartphones in three months
Samsung has reported record financial figures, with a huge 76 per cent jump in profits for the last three months of 2012. This is thanks mostly to its range of Galaxy smartphones flying off the...
View ArticleAcer Liquid E1 gushes into view, brings Jelly Bean with it
Acer has announced a new midrange Android smartphone called the Liquid E1. And despite not being at the top end, it comes with Android Jelly Bean.The Liquid E1 has a 4.5-inch screen with a 960 x...
View ArticleSony Togari could join the oversized smartphone brigade
An image claiming to show the huge screen of a handset currently known as the Sony Togari has leaked online.Picked up by Chinese site CNMO the display apparently measures 6.44-inches, dwarfing the...
View ArticleRecord number of smartphones shipped in 2012
As if it wasn't obvious enough already that the smartphone had arrived, new numbers released on Friday confirmed what we already suspected--everyone is switching to smartphones.According to the latest...
View ArticleSamsung officially breaks cover on the rugged Galaxy Xcover 2
Today Samsung uncovered its latest rugged smartphone with the Galaxy Xcover 2.A follow-up to last year's Galaxy Xcover, the Galaxy Xcover 2 is built for the outdoors with a dust and sand proof case and...
View ArticlePureView 808 the last Symbian phone from Nokia
Nokia has given the Symbian operating system a 41 megapixel salute this week, confirming that the PureView 808 smartphone is its swan song for the once-popular mobile OS."Nokia 808 PureView, a device...
View ArticleBlackBerry Z10 to cost £480 unlocked from Carphone Warehouse?
We know what RIM's flagship BlackBerry Z10 smartphone will look like, what it's capable of and when it'll be launched. Now we've got the first indication of how much it will cost.If leaked inventory...
View ArticleIn Depth: From birth to death: why Nokia's Symbian was the future of mobile tech
It's official: Nokia's 808 PureView is the last of the firm's Symbian handsets. Symbian has been on death row for a while - we reported that Nokia had put it into "maintenance mode" back in October,...
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