iPhone 5 by Continental: for when regular iPhone is just too cheap

Want to stand out from the crowd where one out of three in the US is sporting an Apple iPhone? Continental Mobile has got your covered, but for a hefty pile of cash, as the luxury company has done a one-of-a-kind iPhone 5 done entirely in diamonds.

As a result Continental Mobile prices the unique looking handset for $56,000. However, it is still barely scratching the surface of expensiveness, compared to the $15.3 million gold- and diamond- covered iPhone 5.

The special iPhone 5 is part of the British-based company's Adams and Aurora collection. Check out the beautifully handcrafted smartphone up close in the photos below.

Diamond iPhone 5 by Continental Mobiles

Continental Mobile won't be putting the special iPhone 5 edition into mass production. Only 10 units will ever be made, thus making the handset a rare piece of tech to carry.

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Rumoured BlackBerry R10 affordable BB10 handset leaks in luscious red

Out of the black and into the red

Images of a QWERTY-packing BlackBerry 10 handset have leaked on social media this weekend, which may have given us another look at the company's rumoured affordable R10 device.

The photo of the bright red handset was posted by an Instagram user this weekend and appears to be a less premium version of the BlackBerry Q10 device recently went on sale in the UK and Canada.

The picture above follows last month's leak, which showcased the same device in white, but those blurry-cam photos aside, talk of actual specifications is thin on the ground as yet.

Reports have suggested the R10 will launch for a price point of around $300-400 and will arrive in the second half of 2013.

BlackBerry Live reveal?

BlackBerry recent said it would be launching more handsets for all sectors of the market, which will be a relief to some fans, given the high bounties placed on the Q10 and Z10 devices.

Perhaps we'll get official confirmation of the BlackBerry R10 at the BlackBerry Live expo in Orlando, Florida this month, where the company is expected to unveil the second generation of BB10 devices.

Source : http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/rumoured-blackberry-r10-affordable-handset-leaks-in-red-1149302

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Pelican Imaging's 16-lens camera coming to Nokia Lumia phones next year?

On its way to Lumia?

Pelican Imaging's unique 16-lens camera module for smartphones could appear in Nokia Lumia handsets as soon as next year, the company has hinted.

The Finnish manufacturer beefed up its investment in Pelican this week and now the imaging start-up's boss says it is in talks with at least one manufacturer to bring the tech to market in a 2014 handset.

Speaking to Engadget, Pelican's CEO Chris Pickett didn't say which manufacturers are testing the tech, but it would seem unlikely that Nokia would pump money into a company only to see others reap the benefits.

Nokia has been very always been very active in pushing mobile camera tech, most recently with its PureView 42-megapixel sensors, which are reportedly coming to Lumia phones.

Could they be combined with Pelican's tech too?

Why all the fuss?

So what's this Pelican camera and what makes it so great? Well, the camera unit features 16 individual lenses, all of which snap pictures when the shutter is pressed, while depth information is captured at every pixel.

This, like the innovative Lytro camera, allows the photographer to alter the focus of the image or even have multiple focus points after the shot has been captured.

Photographers can also "change backgrounds, scale any part of the picture, or combine elements from multiple photos into interesting new images," the company claims.

Photos that are shared by the photographer feature all of the information necessary to download and edit on any device.

The tech is certainly pretty neat and could be the biggest thing to happen to smartphone cameras in a long time.

Source : http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/pelican-imaging-s-16-lens-camera-coming-to-nokia-lumia-phones-next-year--1149300

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Galaxy S4 has a microSD slot, so stop complaining about storage, Samsung says

Galaxy S4 has a microSD slot, so don't worry about storage, Samsung says

The presence of a microSD slot in the Samsung Galaxy S4 justifies software taking up nearly half of the available storage on the 16GB version of the handset, the company has said.

The Korean giant has been criticised by users of their newest flagship smartphone, who switched on their 16GB devices only to find just over 8GB of space for their own photos, music, apps and more.

The rest is taken up by the Android operating system and Samsung's pre-installed apps and software nuances, but it's left many fans feeling ripped off.

However with an additional 32GB available through a MicroSD card, Samsung says there's plenty of room for additional files.

Ultimate mobile experience?

In a statement to CNET, the company wrote: "For the Galaxy S4 16GB model, approximately 6.85GB occupies [the] system part of internal memory, which is 1GB bigger than that of the Galaxy S3, in order to provide [a] high resolution display and more powerful features to our consumers."

To offer the ultimate mobile experience to our users, Samsung provides [a] microSD slot on Galaxy S4 for extension of memory."

However, Samsung does not bundle an SD card with the handset meaning users who paid for a 16GB model and only have 8GB storage at their disposal have to buy an additional card to bump up their options.

Also, as CNET's report points out, users are unable to store apps on the microSD card, and with some of the big hitting games coming in at well over 1GB, users won't be able to store more than a few of those.

Source : http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/galaxy-s4-has-a-microsd-slot-so-stop-complaining-about-storage-samsung-says-1149290

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comScore sees Apple’s Q1 market share up in US

The comScore market analysis group has released its findings for the three month period ending in March of 2013. Apple has seen the biggest point change among all of the manufacturers polled, with a 2.7% increase in market share amongst smartphone OEMs.

Samsung, which is enjoying widespread success in the global market, was the only other OEM which was able to post an increase.

When it comes to smartphone platform market share, the same 2.7% increase is reflected, at the expense of Google and BlackBerry’s own mobile OS’s, which dropped 1.4% and 1.2%, respectively.

Apple now holds 39% of the smartphone market in the US, with some 53.3 million subscribers using Apple iOS devices.

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