Samsung Galaxy S IV said to come with different CPUs

In a manner similar to last year's dual arrangement, Samsung might offer its upcoming Galaxy S IV flagship with different CPU types. They reportedly include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 in the US or Exynos 5 Octa for areas where LTE networks are not present. The latest information comes from a note to investors from a Taipei-based JPMorgan analyst. It falls in line with...

Read More

Samsung GT-I9500 captures the Browsermark 2.0 top spot

Samsung GT-I9500 made an appearance in Rightware's Browsermark 2.0 database by recording the most impressive score to date. The device is likely the soon to be unveiled Samsung Galaxy S IV. The result you see above is the best we've encountered in our experience with the Browsermark 2.0 benchmark. It is also higher than any score recorded in Rightware's own powerboard....

Read More

23% of people can't be happy without apps?

"All my apps and data were wiped. I feel so empty" Back in the good ol' days, between walking a mile to school shoe-less, in the snow, you'd make you're own fun with a cardboard box and a piece of string. Or so my Dad tells me. In 2013, people seek entertainment on their phones, with 23% of the people surveyed by Apigee saying they "would be unable to feel...

Read More

Pandora instates monthly listening cap on free mobile users

40 hours? Sounds like a challenge Are you listening, mobile Pandora users? That's the sound of free unlimited music shriveling up. The internet radio service today announced a plan to cap free mobile listening at 40 hours per month, starting in March. The reason, explained Founder Tim Westergren in a blog post, is rising royalty rates. "Pandora's per-track...

Read More

Pandora instates monthly listening cap on mobile users

40 hours? Sounds like a challenge Are you listening, mobile Pandora users? That's the sound of free unlimited music shriveling up. The internet radio service today announced a plan to cap free mobile listening at 40 hours per month, starting in March. The reason, explained Founder Tim Westergren in a blog post, is rising royalty rates. "Pandora's per-track...

Read More

Qualcomm determined to solve 4G LTE roaming in 2013

Qualcomm can put an end to #3Gworldproblems 4G LTE is the fastest commercially available wireless data standard, but as travelers will attest, fragmentation between the world's more than LTE-supported 40 frequencies means that it's not universal in the U.S. and Europe. Qualcomm, the third-largest semiconductor producer in the world, is looking to put an end...

Read More

Qualcomm confident Snapdragon 800 'easily' beats Nvidia's Tegra 4

Qualcomm has a unique definition of 'easily' The rivalry between Snapdragon and Tegra chips isn't showing any signs of letting up, as Qualcomm used its MWC showing to claim the lead over Nvidia's Tegra 4. Qualcomm's Senior Vice President of Product Management, Raj Talluri, told The Verge that his company isn't overly concerned about competing against Nvidia's...

Read More

Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 800 "easily" beats the Tegra 4

Qualcomm has a unique definition of "easily." The rivalry between Snapdragon and Tegra chips is not showing any signs of letting up, as Qualcomm used its MWC showing to claim the lead over the Tegra 4. Qualcomm's senior vice president of product management, Raj Talluri, told The Verge that his company is not overly concerned about competing against NVIDIA's...

Read More

Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 review

Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 review Samsung has always enjoyed dabbling with the rugged crowd: be it the original Xcover or the Beam range, it's enjoyed offering up more robust phones. The Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 brings with it a whole new gamut of features and functionality and really shows straight away that it's not a phone to be messed with. Let's get the...

Read More

Yota's LCD/e-ink phone could go global with Qualcomm licensing

The aptly named Yota Phone is truly unique If you think smartphone designs are getting a little stale, you may want to hold out for the next Russian export from Yota Devices. Thanks in part to a licensing deal with Qualcomm, the company's two-sided Yota Phones, which combine e-ink and LCD displays, could soon hit the global market. Yota Devices announced...

Read More

Spotify revamps tired iOS app with improved UI and faster navigation

Spot(ify) the difference Music streaming service Spotify has issued a major update to its app for iOS devices, bringing a revamped user interface and easier, faster navigation for subscribers. The app's look and feel hadn't altered much since its introduction back in September 2009, but today's update brings a very welcome sidebar navigation tool similar...

Read More

Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Fame review

Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Fame review The Samsung Galaxy Fame offers a lot of technology for what will presumably be not much dollar – looking at the spec sheet you can see this could be seen as the natural successor for the why-won't-it-die Samsung Galaxy Ace. Of course, you can argue that the Galaxy Ace 2 already has that mantle, but with sales of the predecessor...

Read More

Samsung Galaxy S4 release date, news and rumours

The S3 still could do with a few tweaks It certainly feels like Samsung is taking over the world right now – at least, the Android world. There's no doubt that 2012's Galaxy S2 was the phone of the year. And not in recent times, discounting Apple of course, can we remember the anticipation and expectation of a phone as much as the Galaxy S3. If you needed...

Read More

The UMI X2 is a quad-core, 5-inch 1080p smartphone for $260

Recently, the Micromax Canvas HD has been making some serious noise in our specs page, as being a very competitively priced device with an impressive specs sheet to boot. Now, Chinese company UMI is giving them some competition, as they're slated to release their own flagship, which joins the 5-inch 1080p club, and is set to be released in India for Rs. 14,000 (~$260)....

Read More

Samsung apes Apple's Passbook for new Wallet app

Samsung Wallet is the company's answer to Apple's Passbook (credit: The Next Web) It appears the copying machines are firing up in South Korea again, with Samsung replicating Apple's iOS 6 Passbook app for its future Android handsets. The Next Web reported Wednesday that Samsung has unveiled a new ticket and coupon management app for Android, and this...

Read More

Hands on: Huawei Ascend G510 review

Hands on: Huawei Ascend G510 review The Huawei Ascend G510 is promising a big screen experience at a low price point as the Chinese firm looks to tie up the bottom end of the smartphone market with an onslaught of new devices. Playing big brother to the Ascend Y300 which shares the same design ethos, the Ascend G510 will sport a surprisingly attractive price as...

Read More