Samsung reportedly sets ridiculously ambitious sales goal for Galaxy S4

Galaxy S4 would have to achieve about 1.5x the Galaxy S3 sales Samsung Galaxy S4rumors 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 Money Today reports that Samsung has already ordered 10 million Galaxy S4 components per month....

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Report: Samsung Galaxy S4 could sell 10 million every month

Galaxy S4 would have to achieve about 1.5x the Galaxy S3 sales Samsung Galaxy S4rumors 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. According to Korean language news site Money Trade, Samsung has already ordered 10 million Galaxy S4 components per month....

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Google sends FCC request to build “experimental radio network”

Google has requested FCC permission to build an “experimental radio network,” but is it worth getting hyped about? Google has sent a to request to the FCC to build an “experimental radio network.” While this may seem like Google’s jump into the wireless space with the likes of AT&T and Verizon, don’t get your hopes up just yet. The Wall Street Journal...

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Mobile Web browsing on the rise: Opera user base grows to nearly 230 million in 2012

Web browsing software company Opera has just released some noteworthy statistics from the end of 2012, namely that its mobile presence has grown immensely. It’s no secret that mobile devices are beginning to play a larger role in the way people surf the Web and communicate. But this past year, however, has shown a record-breaking increase in mobile Web...

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Huawei Ascend P2 flies the coop in leaked press shot

Shutter bug (credit: Unwired View) 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 processor, a 5-inch screen with 1280 x 720 resolution, and run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. This was of course after Huawei neglected...

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Lenovo eyeing RIM for possible mobile partnership

BlackBerry, brought to you by Lenovo 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 Davos, Switzerland, Lenovo Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming told Bloomberg, "We are looking at all opportunities --...

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Twitter enters a brave new – GIF friendly – world with Vine release

As expected, Twitter has released Vine, a cross between video and animated GIFs that allows you to create looped six second content – that you can directly embed in tweets as well. The wrestling match for mobile app dominance just got a little more interesting. Just as we suspected, Twitter launched video looping service Vine today, giving users a video-meets-GIF...

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Acer officially unveils the stylish Liquid E1 mid-ranger

Today Acer announced a new member of its lineup of mid-range Android smartphones. The smartphone is called Liquid E1 and is basically a trimmed down version of the CloudMobile S500. Powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage, the Acer Liquid E1 runs with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean out of box. It's sporting a 4.5-inch display of...

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Could Samsung's next display push beyond 440ppi?

Taking pixels to the stratosphere With a pixel density of 326ppi, Apple's 4-inch iPhone 5 is certainly home to one of the more high-res screens on the market, but Samsung is racing to one-up Cupertino for its next generation of smartphones. The sometimes-reliable DigiTimes reported Tuesday that Samsung Display is rumored to be working on "new pixel layouts"...

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Samsung outs Galaxy Grand for South Korea with quad-core CPU

Samsung already announced the international version of the Galaxy Grand, but today it showed its home market som love by unveiling a special quad-core version of the phone for it. The quad-core Galaxy Grand has its CPU clocked at 1.4GHz and supports VoLTE. Other than that and the DMB-T support, the South Korean smartphone is identical to its international version....

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Nokia reports a profitable Q4, smartphone sales pick up

Nokia has swung its way back into profits with its Q4 report showing healthy €439 million ($585 million) in profit. Nokia managed to generate revenues of €8.04 billion ($10.73 billion). Nokia's good performance was largely thanks to its Siemens Network division while Devices and Services is still some way from returning to profitability even though its performance is...

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Graphene: the miracle material explained

Graphene: is there anything it can't do? (Hint: no.) (credit: Nokia) 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, and if it lives up to its potential it could change pretty much everything. Why...

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Symbian is officially dead, 808 PureView is the last of its kind

We all knew this was eventually coming, but it's now official. Symbian on Nokia is dead. Nokia managed to send off the once might platform in style. The 808 PureView will go down in history as the last Symbian device by the Finnish manufacturer. Nokia announced the news alongside its great Q4 results today, which showed $585 million profit and $10.83 billion in...

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Nokia Lumia 505 to land in Peru, Chile and Colombia

When Nokia officially announced the budget-minded Lumia 505, it was widely believed to be an exclusive to the launch exclusively at carrier Telcel in Mexico. However, those rumors have now been refuted as the Lumia 505 went available in a number of other South American countries. The Windows Phone 7.8-running smartphone will hit the shelves in Colombia, Chile and...

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Temple Run 2 lands in Google Play store

Within hours of its iOS release last week, Imangi Studios’ Temple Run 2 game shot to the top of the free-app chart. Now owners of Android devices can have a go. If the success of the iOS version of Temple Run 2 is anything to go by, then we have a pretty good idea of what’s going to be sitting atop the Google Play free-app chart before the day’s out. ...

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Nokia posts a profit at the end of 2012, helped by sales of more than four million Lumia phones

Nokia has published its financial performance data for the final quarter of 2012, where it shows a profit and confirms sales of more than four million Lumia Windows Phone devices. Apple isn’t the only one chatting about its financial performance for the final three months of 2012, as Nokia has also announced its official figures. No records have been broken,...

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Apple-Samsung patent ruling to be reviewed by the ITC

The US International Trade Commission will review ruling, which could lead to an import ban on few devices from Samsung. The ITC will be reviewing the preliminary ruling, which found the Samsung smartphones and few tablets breaching upon the four patents held by Apple. The final verdict on the case was supposed to be come by March 27 and now that date is very...

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Mozart may be first in line at HTC to receive Windows Phone 7.8

Music to Mozart's ears? 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) HTC employee who revealed the news. Now our Polish isn't the best, but we believe the source said something along the lines of...

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No buttons, no problem: Here’s how touchscreens work when you can’t see

The world loves smartphones and tablets, but what if you – or someone you know – can’t see see a display, hear feedback, or even touch the screen? Surprisingly, a number of brilliant workarounds exist to keep you connected. I have a confession: I don’t like touchscreens. My fingertips have thick callouses from years of playing music. Some smartphones and...

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Apple boss addresses rumor of iPhone component cuts (sort of)

Apple is usually content to leave the rumor mill churning away, happy for the publicity. A recent report suggesting the company had ordered a cut in orders for iPhone 5 components has, however, elicited a response. Apple posted a mixed bag of results on Wednesday for the quarter ending December 29, 2013. Granted, they were the kind of sales figures most companies...

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update hits international Galaxy S2 smartphones

Samsung has reportedly begun sending its Android 4.1 update out to selected Galaxy S2 smartphones. Initially for unlocked devices, the software adds many new features and a new, Galaxy S3-style look to the phone. Reports are coming in from Galaxy S2 owners in the UK and Europe that their phones are now receiving the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update. The new software...

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Samsung Ativ Odyssey comes to Verizon today, faces stiff competition from the Nokia Lumia 822

Verizon has announced the availability of the Samsung Ativ Odyssey, the latest addition to its range of Windows Phone 8 hardware, however it faces stiff competition from the Nokia Lumia 822. Finally, the Samsung Ativ Odyssey’s journey is over, as it’s available to buy from Verizon today. The Ativ Odyssey has lived up to its name too, having been announced way...

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Nokia Drive+ Beta now available for all Windows Phone 8 users

Nokia's much awaited turn-by-turn navigation application, Drive+ is now available for free to all Windows Phone 8 users in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. The application is still technically a beta, but we have already had numerous chances to see that it's actually pretty great and little to no bugs. So as long as you live in one of the three countries...

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