HTC Butterfly announced for the international market

HTC has officially unveiled the Butterfly, which is the GSM variant of the J Butterfly released in Japan two months ago. For those who are not aware, the HTC J Butterfly is the company's first smartphone with a 1080p display. The Butterfly is almost identical to the J Butterfly, except it is designed to run on GSM networks worldwide. To recap the...

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RIM offering incentives to switch to BB10

RIM is beginning its push for BB10 RIM is betting the farm on the release of its BlackBerry 10 operating system. Having not released a new phone in roughly 18 months, the Canadian smartphone company has a lot of work to do to make BB10 succeed. To help its new operating system, RIM has just launched an incentive program for its business customers to upgrade...

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Tim Cook talks: Quotes from Apple’s CEO and what they could mean for the company

As 2012 comes to a close, Apple CEO Tim Cook has sat down with the media to discuss what's at the company's core. Apple has never been a company to talk at length to the public. The Silicon Valley-based computer design firm has always prided itself on keeping projects under wraps, ensuring that any upcoming product launch would be met with a certain element...

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Rhapsody launches SongMatch, its first auxiliary mobile app and Shazam rival

Rhapsody unveiled SongMatch, its first standalone mobile app that competes directly with Shazam but offers music playbacks. Finally after weeks of bug fixes, Rhapsody has launched its answer to Shazam and Soundhound, called SongMatch for U.S. users. Except unlike the competitors, Rhapsody SongMatch guarantees that it treats its users better. ...

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Galaxy S3 problems: What users complain about the most

Have you encountered any problems with Samsung’s flagship Android smartphone? We take a look at some of the most vexing Galaxy S3 issues and see if we can find solutions or workarounds for you. Some people felt it was too big, but the Samsung Galaxy S3 has been selling steadily since it first hit the market back in May. Samsung sold 20 million Galaxy S3...

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T-Mobile US will officially carry Apple products in 2013

T-Mobile US just took a major step in becoming more competitive. The carrier announced that it will officially carry Apple products beginning in 2013. The Big Magenta delivered the important news in a rather stealthy fashion. The announcement was part of Deutsche Telekom's financial plans through 2015. No specifics of the deal between Apple and the US carrier...

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BitTorrent’s Android apps reach 10 million download milestone

BitTorrent has announced its collection of Android mobile applications have been downloaded 10 million times, with its uTorrent and Remote apps making up a large portion of that figure. Keen BitTorrent users have really embraced the company’s Android applications, as they have been downloaded 10 million times since they first started to appear in November last...

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Frequency launches popular video curation app for the iPhone

Frequency, an app that curates online videos, is rounding out its cross platform support with the debut of its new iPhone app. Video curation app, Frequency, has been a popular iPad app for discovering new videos from around the Web. Now that same experience is heading to the iPhone, and the experience has been rebuilt from the ground up. Frequency is...

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Foxconn following Apple's lead into 'made in USA' expansion

Apple brings Mac manufacturing back to USA, and Foxconn may follow Now that Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has spilled the beans on plans to bring manufacturing of its Mac computers back to America, its major Asian supplier has confirmed its intentions to do the same - someday. Bloomberg reported Thursday that Foxconn Technology Group is exploring...

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Samsung Galaxy S IV to come in April with an unbreakable screen?

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S IV is making the headlines again with new rumors hinting at a possible April 2013 announcement date. In addition, Reuters is reporting some gossip about an unbreakable display that the flagship will be featuring. Samsung is said to ditch the usual glass cover for its displays in favor of a plastic one, which is said to be virtually impossible...

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SwiftKey Flow slides in to rival official Android keyboard

Tapping is so last year Swiping is fast becoming the new tapping when it comes to smartphone keyboards and SwiftKey Flow is looking to get in on the action. The Swype system has been established for some time and recently Google introduced its own version with the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update, which signals just how popular this method of text input has...

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Latest smartphones give HTC a new lease of life

Onwards and upwards HTC could well be on the road to recovery after a rocky year, as sales jumped more than 20 per cent in November. The Taiwanese firm managed to rake in $730 million (around £453 million/AU$698 million) in November, which is 23.3 per cent more than it managed to coin in October. The firm has launched several new handsets at the back end...

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Exciting HTC M7 Project phone could be Europe’s Droid DNA, and not the Deluxe after all

HTC is rumored to be working on a new smartphone codename the M7 Project, and it appears to be an upgraded Droid DNA, making it a prime candidate for release in Europe next year. The Droid DNA is one of HTC’s most sought after phones, but anyone wanting to see its 1080p screen in Europe has so far been denied the opportunity, as the DNA remains a Verizon exclusive...

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HTC November sales reverse downward trend, up 23%

HTC just revealed its November revenues numbers, which show the company has halted its 4 month decline. That's hardly surprising, though, as HTC released its first two the Windows Phone 8-running smartphones that month - HTC 8X and HTC 8S. HTC also released its refreshed flagship, the One X+, but the availability of that one has been relatively limited, so we don't...

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This could be the Samsung Galaxy S4 processor

Power at the ready The Exynos 5440 quad-core could well be the processor which finds its way into the Samsung Galaxy S4 sometime next year. Samsung has confirmed that the quad-core chip, based on the dual-core version found in the Korean-made Google Nexus 10 tablet, on its Kernel Git webpage - so we know that it definitely exists. Little else is known...

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Apple and Samsung head back to court to debate $1bn ruling

It's all about the Benjamins - and the patents Samsung and Apple can't keep away from the courthouse with the two tech giants popping back to chat about Samsung's $1.05bn (£652m) fine. Predictably, the Koreans are gunning for the verdict to be overturned or, at the very least, to have the fine slashed down to a more palatable amount. Equally predictably,...

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