Welcome to the Week in Review, your weekly recap of important Windows Phone news. Nokia Lumia 928 now on sale • Shipping on May 20th • On Verizon • $99 with 2-year contract • $499 without contract • AMOLED screen instead of LCD, slightly lighter and thinner than 920 • Very powerful Xenon flash on
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On their website Acer has now revealed the full details of their much leaked Acer Iconia W3 8 inch Windows 8 tablet. The full specs of the device is: Windows 8 Pro – Intel® Atom™Z2760 8″ WXGA (1280×768) Multi-Touch LCD 2 GB Memory eMMC64GB storage Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3650 802.11 b/g/n & BT 2M
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Nokia today detailed the screen technology in the newly announced Nokia Lumia 925 device. Lumia 925 comes with a 4.5inch PureMotion HD+ display with 1280 x 768 pixels covered by Gorilla Glass. But it is a AMOLED display as opposed to LCD in Lumia 920. Why Nokia used AMOLED instead of LCD on Lumia 925
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BlackBerry has officially announced the BlackBerry Q5 for emerging markets. The Q5 is essentially a low-end version of the Q10. Hence, the name reflecting it is half of the Q10. Specs for the Q5 show it will have 2GB RAM, 2MP front-facing camera, 5MP rear camera, 1.2GHz Dual-core Processor, 8GB internal memory, an LCD versus OLED, and no HDMI out port
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May has become a strange time of year to release a tablet, thanks to the announcement of last year’s Nexus 7 which took the competition right to the Kindle Fire and proved that a tablet didn’t have to be expensive, to be good. Here we are, one year on and the Nexus 7 is still
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Flush from that springtime financing boost from Samsung, Sharp’s reportedly readying production on new screens for Apple’s next smartphone. According to Nikkan Kogyo, one of Japan’s business dailies, the display manufacturer will start production on LCD panels for the next iPhone in its Kameyama plant this June, although there’s no specifics about size and resolution differences since the iPhone 5. Company team-up Japan Display (which includes LG Display, Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba) has also allegedly received orders from Apple, with production already underway.
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Earlier this year, it was believed that the iPhone 5S would go into production in March ahead of an early summer release. But after rumors of manufacturing issues began to circulate, the handset’s expected arrival time was pushed back to the fall. And a new report out of the east this morning corroborates that theory.
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Today, Acer had a small event in New York where they announced a few new tablets. And one of those was an Android tablet. Introducing the Acer Iconia A1. It’s actually a nice tablet, but can it hold a candle to the Nexus 7? Well here are the specs: 7.9-inch 1024768 IPS LCD display 1GB
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The 1080p Super AMOLED display on the Galaxy S4 is a brilliant feat of engineering. With over two million pixels crammed into a screen that is only 5 inches long diagonally Samsung have achieved a display with a pixel density of 441 ppi, blowing Apple’s Retina Displays out of the water. While accomplishing these pixel
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The HTC One is the successor to the HTC One X and One S of 2012 which were met with positive reviews, yet only a lukewarm market reception. Considering all the issues that HTC is currently facing with record low profits and supply issues this may be HTC’s Hail Mary phone; a far cry from
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Are you on Verizon? Are you impatient for the Nokia Lumia 928 to be announced and released? Are you a fanatical DIYer? If you said yes to all of these, we have some great news for you
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UK technology retailer Clove has slashed its pricing for the HTC 8X Windows Phone, which is now available for just £276 (including VAT). While the price still remains high for many consumers, it’s now a more affordable smartphone. The high-end device is HTC’s current flagship Windows Phone and we painted a positive painting with our in-depth review. Should you be looking for a Windows Phone 8 device, but are not interested in Nokia, Samsung or other manufacturers, the HTC 8X is indeed a solid choice. Available in blue and black variants, the 8X sports an 8MP BSI rear camera, 2MP front camera, dedicated HTC ImageChip, 1080p HD video recording, 4.3 ” 1280 x 768 Super LCD 2 Display, dual-core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4, 1GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage, 1800 mAh battery, NFC, LTE and runs Windows Phone 8.
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No… there’s no need to pinch yourselves because it’s true— Samsung has taken the wraps off of yet another addition to its Galaxy family. This new toy— called the Galaxy Win— is a lower-end mid-range device that comes with a 4.7-inch WVGA LCD TFT display with a 800 x 480 resolution, a 1.2GHz quad-core Come comment on this article: Samsung announces the Galaxy Win smartphone featuring quad-core processor, dual-SIM capabilities and a whole lotta Jelly Bean Visit TalkAndroid for Android news, Android guides, and much more!
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If you’re on Verizon, we’re sure you’ve been wondering where your high-end Lumia device is. It seems like the carrier just doesn’t want to carry one. Sure you have the Lumia 822, and sure there’ve been leaks all over the Internet about a Lumia 920 variant coming. But you haven’t seen anything of substance concerning the latter
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There’s not too much to say about this one except here are the first almost official images of the Verizon Nokia Lumia 928 aka ‘Laser’ that is due sometime this month. The images were leaked by @evleaks, so we’re sure they’re legit. The Lumia 928 is supposed to be the Verizon/CDMA counterpart of the Lumia 920 but with some minor updates, including a supposed Xenon flash, which is clearly visible next to the adjacent LED and a slightly thinner frame (though not as thin as ‘Catwalk’). Otherwise, it shares the same 4.5” LCD display, 1.5GHz dual core CPU.
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During MWC in February, T-Mobile US announced that they will be carrying Nokia Lumia 520 variant Lumia 521 in US. The device has now passed FTC. It comes with 1 GHz Dual Core processor, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB mass memory, support for microSD cards up to 64GB, 4” IPS LCD display, 5Mpix camera and
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Watch out, Richard Yu! Not long after the China launch of the 6.1-inch Huawei Ascend Mate earlier today, the notorious @evleaks tweeted out the above two press shots of an Ascend G700, as well as referring to an old tweet from the often reliable @paopao0128 (of Blog of Mobile fame) who suggested the G700 will feature Android 4.2, a quad-core MediaTek MT6589 SoC (as opposed to the quad-core Huawei HiSilicon K3V2 chip on the Ascend Mate and the Ascend D2), an “HD” LCD (our money’s on 720p only, like the leaked G710) and both WCDMA and TD-SCDMA flavors. Another fresh G700 leak we found shows a hands-on photo obtained from Sina Weibo (which has since been deleted, but it’s also right after the break), and it also mentions that the phone will have a 5-inch display plus 2GB of RAM. There’s no info on pricing, but the careless leakster on Weibo reminded us that the budget-minded G series devices never go over 2,000 or about $320 unsubsidized. To put that into perspective, the quad-core, 5-inch full-HD D2 is currently available for almost twice as many yuans
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Samsung has announced today that it plans on dropping its LCD patent case against LG. The case was over Samsung’s OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays. The case originated in 2011 when Samsung believed that 11 of its researchers leaked the details of its OLED displays over to LG. LG fired shots back by filing its …
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Can’t decide between getting the BlackBerry Z10 or waiting for the Q10? We’ll give you a little more food…err.. battery for thought.
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We haven’t even caught official wind regarding what Samsung’s going to announce in just two days and we’re already starting to hear some rumors regarding the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. According to SamMobile, Samsung is undecided on what display panel technology to use for the device. The apparent trade-off with the beautiful OLED-based panels we’re
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