Samsung Galaxy Fame review

Samsung Galaxy Fame review The Samsung Galaxy Fame is a phone that comes with a celebrity name, but certainly no celebrity price tag. Available SIM-free and unlocked from around £180/US$200 and free on UK contracts starting as low as £10 per month, the Samsung Galaxy Fame will certainly not drain your bank balance. It is unsurprising that Samsung has the most prolific...

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Korean consumers upset over the faster LTE-A Galaxy S4

A few days ago Samsung's co-CEO J.K. Shin confirmed an LTE-Advanced version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 is in the works. As it turns out this version will run on the Qualcomm's most powerful chipset to date - the Snapdragon 800. The new hardware will make the LTE-A model of the Samsung Galaxy S4 the new benchmark champ dethroning the current generation of Galaxy S4 smartphones...

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Sony Xperia ZU

Is the Xperia Z about to be super-sized? Sony is apparently working on a super-sized smartphone - a phablet if you will - over in Japan as it eyes up the market currently dominated by the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. The handset originally leaked as the Sony Togari, but since January it's blossomed into the Sony Xperia ZU, and even more recently the Xperia Z Ultra...

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iOS 7 will run steamroller over older apps

Don't like it? Tough, flat is the new 3D Turns out that iOS 7 appears to be pretty intent on keeping everything on screen as flat as possible, as Apple looks to clean out any dimensional attributes. The folks over at 9to5mac have noticed some of their iOS 6 app icons lacking a distinctive level of depth on the beta version of the new software. According...

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HTC CEO: 'There's no need to freak out'

Calm down dear, it's just another resignation The recent spate of resignations coupled with supply issues to its flagship HTC One smartphone has rocked the boat over at the Taiwanese firm, but its chief doesn't think it's at panic stations just yet. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, HTC CEO Peter Chou explained that the company is doing just fine and...

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Yet another Samsung Galaxy Note III photo leaks

The Samsung Galaxy Note III seems to pose for every camera it sees – yet another photo of the upcoming flagship phablet hit the web and it shows off the Galaxy S4-like design. Unfortunately, the Note III was wearing a cover, we have yet to see the back of the device (there should be a 13MP camera on there). Samsung Galaxy Note III leaked photo At least the new photo...

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Iron Man may become HTC's powerful new alloy

Buy our phones or Iron Man will hunt you down Iron Man might be about to downgrade to aluminium as Robert Downey JR is reportedly set to become the new face of HTC phones. Downey Jr will have "final say over creative elements", according to Bloomberg, and he'll be pocketing a cool $12 million (about £7.75m, AU$13m) to be seen holding HTC phones in the advertising...

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iPhone 5S snapped with dual-LED flash?

Apart from the new flash, there's not a lot to see here (credit: MacRumours) This could be the closest we've got to the iPhone 5S yet. Some new pictures of the device have apparently been handed over showing the device flaunting a particularly notable new feature. The exterior picture shows a handset almost identical to the iPhone 5, except with a vertical...

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Sony Xperia Z Ultra screenshots reveal an updated launcher

While the other day's screenshots of the Xperia Z Ultra (Togari) confirmed the device's specifications, today's batch of snaps reveal the changes made to the Sony launcher in its Android 4.2.2 version. Sony Xperia Z Ultra screenshots The screenshots were acquired by an acquaintance of a member of the XDA-Developers forum, who confirms they are the real deal. As...

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Hands on: Samsung Galaxy S4 Active review

Hands on: Samsung Galaxy S4 Active review Samsung might have shot itself in the foot here – the new Active version is a champion in its own right. We've understood, for the most part, the idea behind the new members of the Samsung Galaxy S4 family. The S4 Mini for the budget, the S4 Zoom for the camera lovers. Makes sense, and they're suitably dulled down in certain...

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Smartphones are a source of information risk

Steve Durbin sees malware threat to mobiles Steve Durbin says that smartphones are posing one of the biggest risks to business's information security, and it's the smaller firms that are finding it hardest to cope with the threat. The Global Vice President of the Information Security Forum (ISF), the international body on cyber security and information risk...

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