Growing phones, shrinking tablets, and the return of Windows: 2012 in mobile hardware

Before 2012 is over, we thought we'd take a look back. The world of smartphones, tablets, and e-readers continued to evolve this year. Book readers light up, phones continue to grow, and new technologies are invading the market. This year brought many new advancements in technology, and opened the door for older innovations to come to the forefront. 2012...

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Android 4.1 arrived on Motorola DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX

Users of Verizon's Motorola DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX have received a lovely Christmas present from the manufacturer. Multiple reports have confirmed that Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean is now seeding to the first generation DROID RAZR family. The update is available as a rather large over-the-air download. It brings a host of improvements to the devices including Google...

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Merry Christmas to you all from the GSMArena team

Christmas is one of the greatest holidays of the year and we'd like to use the occasion to send you our big Thank You for sticking around with us and sharing our passion for high-tech toys for yet another year. On this day we want to tell you how much we appreciate you, our readers. If it wasn't for you we wouldn't be where we are today and it's only because of you...

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Boggle clone 'Wordament' is first iOS game with Xbox achievements

Xbox achievements have arrived on iOS Microsoft doesn't typically extend its Xbox Live ecosystem beyond its own Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox platforms, but an exception has been made for the Boggle-like Wordament. Well, it's either an exception, or the start of a new trend. Either way, Wordament is the first iOS game to feature Xbox achievements, specific...

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The best social apps – or the next best thing – for the inexplicable Windows Phone 8 user

Despite being a dark horse in the smartphone wars, Windows Phone may do well this holiday season. Here are some of the best social apps - and their requisite alternatives - for Windows Phone 8. So, how is Windows Phone doing? It’s hard to say. As perhaps the last dark horse competitor in what would otherwise be an Apple-Android race, Microsoft’s mobile...

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Sony Xperia T gets Jelly Bean update as a Christmas present

Sony has unexpectedly launched a firmware update for its flagship Android smartphone the Xperia T a couple of months ahead of what was initially scheduled. The Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update then comes just like a Christmas present for Xperia T owners. It has hit the international version of the smartphone (LT30p) as well as the AT&T branded Xperia TL (LT30at)....

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New BlackBerry 10 phone with a QWERTY keyboard spotted

BlackBerry's new N-Series QWERTY smartphone has been spotted just a month left before launch day. With a January 30th release date just over a month away, screenshots and photos of BlackBerry’s new OS 10 software, including a variety of device photos, are making their way to the web, giving us a preview of what RIM will be hoping to sell by the end of January....

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Life and Tiles of a Windows 8 Convert: My Windows Phone honeymoon begins

In the second article in our weekly Life and Tiles of a Windows 8 Convert series, Andrew details his first days, and instant crush on Windows Phone 8 and the Nokia Lumia 920. But will this love affair last? Due to circumstances beyond my control, securing a Nokia Lumia 920 in Canada (my Northern home) was an unfairly hellish affair. It was two full weeks...

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ZTE confirms 5-inch FHD Grand S devices ahead of CES arrival

ZTE seems to be quite eager to unveil that Grand S beast smartphone. So much so in fact that the company jumped the gun and spilled some beans on its upcoming 5-inch device ahead of its CES debut on the event's website. The Grand S will be joining the 5-inch, full HD smartphone club and ZTE says it will be the slimmest device at the party. It's photo has also...

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BlackBerry N-Series smartphone shows up in a live photo

Only a few days after its touchscreen sibling made a couple of appearances, RIM's BlackBerry N-Series smartphone emerged in a duo of live photos. The soon to be revealed BlackBerry 10 smartphone packs a hardware QWERTY keyboard in addition to its capacitive touchscreen. As you can see in the photos above, the BlackBerry N-Series looks a lot like the currently offered...

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Best Windows Phone - which should you buy?

Find the Windows Phone that's right for you When it comes to Windows Phone there's a new player in the starting line up in the form of Windows Phone 8 – Microsoft's latest attempt to make a significant dent in the mobile market. While Android and iOS lead the way when it comes to mobile operating systems, you can draw many similarities between the two which...

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Apple in 2013: what to expect

Maps will improve in 2013. It has to. Because TechRadar's powers-that-be inexplicably rejected a perfectly sensible expenses request for a fully working TARDIS, we're stuck merely putting on our 'informed guessing hat' again, to figure out what's coming from Apple over the next 12 months. This year, such predictions are perhaps tougher than usual: Apple's...

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iPad 5 to debut in March with iPad Mini-inspired design, report claims

Apple is preparing to release another update to its iPad in March, less than six months after launching the fourth iteration of its popular tablet, a new report claims. The fifth-generation iPad is said to be lighter and smaller than the current model, possibly with narrower side bezels like those on the iPad Mini. In what surely has to be one of the final...

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Newsweek tweets cover of its final print edition as it dives into digital age

For Newsweek, the future is digital. After nearly 80 years, the print edition of the venerable news magazine is rolling off the presses for the last time. The final cover was tweeted by Newsweek on Sunday just prior to it hitting newsstands. Newsweek’s print edition is about to hit newsstands for the final time after rolling off the presses for almost 80 years....

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