BlackBerry patent filing shines a light on potential Torch-style BB10 handset

Is BlackBerry going to revamp its Torch line? BlackBerry may be planning to launch a sliding BB10 handset akin to now defunct Torch range, judging by a patent filing unveiled this week. The filing shows a handset that appears to be a cross between the all-touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 device and the sliding BlackBerry Torch handset which combined a touchscreen...

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Android Jelly Bean 4.2 update may mark end of the road for HTC One X handset

4.2 and out for the HTC One X? 2012's HTC One X will be boosted to Android 4.2, before too long but chances of a further upgrade to Android Key Lime Pie are somewhere between 'slim' and 'none', according to reports. GottaBeMobile brings word from a notorious HTC tipster that the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update will be joined by the latest version of Sense...

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Apple announces Q1 2013 results, revenue rises, but profits fall

Apple has just announced its Q1 2013 results. Technically, these are its Q2 results as the US financial year does not coincide with the calendar year. But no matter how you call the quarter, it's still interesting to see how Apple has been doing business-wise in the first three months of this year. Especially, after the not-so-positive projections. The good news is...

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Apple sold 37.4M iPhones, 19.5M iPads as Mac numbers dip

Thanks, iPhones! Apple posted its second quarter fiscal year 2013 earnings today as industry observers and the jackals of Wall Street watched closely. By the numbers the firm sold 37.4 million iPhones last quarter, which ended March 30. That's compared to 35.1 million the same quarter one year ago. iPad sales amounted to 19.5 million, up from 11.8 million...

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Mozilla 'thrilled' at demand facing first Firefox OS phones

'This phone is on fire' Phones running Mozilla's Firefox OS are today making it into the wild. Spain-based Geeksphone opened orders for two dev preview handsets this morning and within hours Keon and Peak had sold out. The startup OEM's online shop is currently displaying a two-line message that it's temporarily shut down for maintenance, an indicator it's...

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Justice is served: Payday for 'Antennagate' finally in the mail

'We're cool, right guys?' (credit: digital.sina.com.hk) A DVD. Dinner for one. Parking five miles from any event in San Francisco. There are a number of things you can buy for $15, and those of you affected by "Antennagate" will soon be flush with dinero. Well, $15 of dinero. Reports indicate that Apple has started paying out settlement checks for...

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Microsoft man emphasises phones' future

Think about disruptive tec One of Microsoft's UK based thought leaders has indicated that smartphones will be the pivotal member of the trinity of devices with tablets and PCs in coming years. Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer for Microsoft, told an audience at the Internet World conference in London that, although smartphones are now becoming ubiquitous,...

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Sony releases AOSP Android 4.2 Jelly Bean for the Xperia Z

Just it did for the Xperia S a while ago, Sony has now officially released ASOP version of Android 4.2 for its Xperia Z flagship. Currently, the majority of the features on the Xperia Z are working in the pure Android environment. There's SD card support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and LED light as well as the sensors are all working well. The camera is also working flawlessly,...

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Samsung sells almost a third of all smartphones in Q1

According to DRAMeXchange, a division of the TrendForce market analysis group, first quarter smartphone shipments in Q1 were up to 216.4 million units globally, with almost 30% of those being made by Samsung. Things aren't as bright over in Apple's camp, as the iPhone 5 didn't gather as much interest as new Apple flagships usually do, which has resulted in a dip in the...

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Dual-core Intel-powered Lenovo K900 launches on May 6

Lenovo announced its K900 flagship back in January at CES in Las Vegas. Powered by the Intel Clover Trail platform, the Android-running beast impresses with a 5.5" IPS 1080p screen and a 6.9mm stainless steel and polycarbonate body. Well, the wait is over - Lenovo is unleashing the K900 upon the Chinese market on May 6. Unfortunately there is no info when the...

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More supply woes for HTC One as Nokia wins ban on mic

Poor HTC One, you haven't had it easy Nokia has won an injunction in the Netherlands that will ban HTC from using the current microphone components found in its HTC One phones around the world. The injunction is effective immediately and will last until March 2014. It prevents supplier STMicro from selling its microphones to HTC, meaning HTC must now scramble...

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10 best fitness apps for Android

Insert your own 'Run' and 'Forrest' caption here It used to be easy to tell a couch potato from a gym bunny. But nowadays even the most healthy among us has an HD screen in their pocket, and sofa surfers are as likely to move for a Wii as a wee. Tech and pecs are no longer mutually exclusive, so which bits of fit kit should we all have on our handsets? ...

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HTC One now available in unlocked 32GB version

One phone to rule them all For those keen on grabbing a HTC One but not wanting to be locked to a particular network, we have good news - an unlocked 32GB model is officially on its way. The 32GB handset ditches the unlocked bootloader of the 64GB Developer Edition, but we can only see this being a big miss for the major tinkerers out there. The new unlocked...

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Firefox OS running GeeksPhone Keon and Peak now on sale

The first two Firefox OS phones are already on sale – they are the Keon and Peak from GeeksPhone. The two are aimed at developers and run a Developer Preview of Firefox OS, so while they might not build up a user base they should help devs have apps ready by the time the consumer-oriented Firefox phones hit the stores. The prices are as announced a few days ago – the...

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EE boasts pretty standard 4G take-up, loves its 'high value' customers

Gosh, you're so high value EE's 4G take-up continues to trickle rather than swell, with the network claiming 318,000 people on its super-fast network after five months. That equates to 2.3 per cent of EE's contract customers - EE says that 53 per cent of its customers are on post-pay deals; so 2.3 per cent of 53 per cent of its customers are on 4G. That's...

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It's Mine Bluetooth Bracelet review

It's Mine Bluetooth Bracelet review As our mobile devices become smaller and more intricate, the easier they are to lose. And the more powerful they become, the more desirable they are to thieves. The It's Mine Bluetooth bracelet links up to your mobile device and alerts you if the link is broken - by either the bracelet or the device going out of range. It does this...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 arriving in AT&T stores on April 27

We have already reported on AT&T's plan on shipping the Samsung Galaxy S4 to customers on April 23 if ordered from their website. If, however, you prefer walking down to your local AT&T and picking it up yourself, then you'll be glad to know that the phone will be available for sale starting April 27. Starting 4/27, #Samsung Galaxy S4 16GB available in our stores.soc.att.com/XRVqUv #GalaxyS4 twitter.com/ATT/status/326…— AT&T (@ATT) April 22, 2013 According to the a tweet from AT&T's account, the 16GB...

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