Motorola wants YOU to design the Moto X, touts device's homegrown cred

Be free! Motorola has hinted buyers will be able to customise the design and hardware specs of the still mysterious Moto X handset in a new advert scheduled to appear in U.S. newspapers over the 4th of July holiday. In a new ad, revealed by AdAge, the company promises the device will be "the first smartphone you can design yourself" while boasting that the...

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MediaTek might launch a low-cost octa-core processor this year

MediaTek's new chip could be some serious competition for Qualcomm Samsung might not be the only manufacturer in the eight-core processor game for much longer if new reports are to be believed. According to a leaked company roadmap uncovered by Sina Weibo, MediaTek is fast-tracking development of its own octa-core chip, which it hopes will be ready by November...

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A Q3 arrival for HTC One mini and Galaxy S4 mini?

The minis are marching in There are minis coming in all across the market, and a new report yesterday claimed that devices from Samsung, HTC, Huawei, and Lenovo are on their way to store shelves this year. The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini - which already launched in the U.K. - will hit shelves elsewhere in the third quarter of 2013, Taiwanese manufacturers told...

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China Mobile's Oppo Find 5 upgraded with Snapdragon 600

Oppo has upgraded the Find 5 flagship for China Mobile with a faster chipset. Previously the Oppo Find 5 was powered by the Snapdragon S4 Pro with a quad-core 1.5GHz Krait processor and Adreno 320 graphics with 64 ALUs (arithmetic logic units). Now Oppo has replaced the S4 Pro chipset with Snapdragon 600. It has four cores of the upgraded Krait 300 architecture clocked...

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HTC ships the One S into no more updates land

Off to the clouds HTC can't seem to stop showering the love on its flagship One, what with the whole Nexus version and all, but one phone is being pushed to the has-been bin. The company confirmed today that its mid-range One S will stay stuck on Android 4.1, never seeing Android 4.2 and beyond. "We can confirm that the HTC One S will not receive further...

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Hackers enable leaked Sony camera app on Xperia devices

Honami mod comes to Xperia (credit: XDA-Developers) Sony fans may be salivating over new features coming with the company's next Android build, but enterprising hackers have already found a way to port some of its features to existing devices. Xperia Blog reported Monday that Sony's next custom build of Android 4.2.2 is already being put through the paces...

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HTC France: No Android 4.2 Jelly Bean or Sense 5 for One S

Bad news, HTC One S users. Despite HTC never mentioning anything about it after the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, it's now official the smartphone will stuck on this version of the OS forever. Unfortunately, HTC is breaking its promise of delivering the Sense 5 UI to the mid-range smartphone. HTC France has responded to a question from Facebook user that the HTC...

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Lava launches Xolo Q600 in India, quad-core dual-SIM for $150

Lava has introduced its latest Android smartphone and has even made it available for pre-order. The quad-core Xolo Q600 is up for grabs now for the price of just INR8,999 INR or about $150. The Lava Xolo Q600 The Xolo Q600 has dual-SIM support with dual stand-by and sports a 4.5" FWVGA (854 x 480) display resulting in around 217 ppi. A quad-core Mediatek 6589M chipset...

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Nokia's former sales exec is now Huawei's top marketing guy

Former head of Nokia's sales department, Colic Giles has now a new employer in the face of Huawei. The Chinese company has appointed Giles as the Executive Vice President of its Consumer Business Group division. This means the former Nokia exec will be in charge of Huawei's consumer sales and marketing. Giles has 20 years of experience, and was lastly responsible...

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Windows Phone 8 emulator hints at a Full HD future

HD - highly desired Some code spotted in the Windows Phone developer kit suggests that the next generation of devices will come rocking full 1080p HD. One plucky dev eked the files out of some newly-released updates to the Windows Phone 8 Visual Studio 8 emulator beta. Windows Phone 8 currently supports up to 720p HD, but these developer files speak...

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Microsoft wants to know how you're feeling with mood-sensing phone

Steve Ballmer mood status: Rapturous Thought phone tech was reaching its apex? It hasn't even started. A newly discovered research paper by Microsoft Research in Asia shows that the company has been playing around with the idea of a smartphone that can detect your mood - and has even built a prototype with a 66 per cent accuracy rating. No, we have no...

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Emulator files confirm 1080p support for next WP8 build

The latest version of Visual Studio 2013, which, among other things, allows developers to emulate Windows Phone in order to test applications, had been found to contain files that enable fullHD 1080p emulation. The discovery comes courtesy of Justin Angel, a former Microsoft and Nokia employee. Good news everybody! WP8 emulator files in Visual Studio 2013 reveal 1080p emulator! Resolution 1080x1920. #bldwin @ pic.twitter.com/CJJYfMMNUn— Justin Angel (@JustinAngel) July 1, 2013 The findings in Visual Studio 2013, which...

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Motorola Droid Ultra page shows up on Moto's website

Motorola has been silent for quite a while – the most action we've had on that front is leaks of the Moto X phone. Now we get another leak about the Droid Ultra phone (which may or may not be the X) straight from Motorola's own site. "THINK THIN" is the tagline of the phone, which will be available in "a bunch of glossy colors" and feature a Kevlar body. We've seen...

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Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie release date, news and rumors

Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie has started baking Google's showing no signs of slowing its pace of Android development, with Android 4.0 appearing on the Galaxy Nexus late in 2011, followed in July of 2012 by the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean release that arrived powering the super Nexus 7. But, forward-looking, update-obsessed people that we are, we can't help but...

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Motorola Droid Ultra pops up on Moto website, advises you to Think Thin

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels Size zero phones are going nowhere if the latest Motorola leak is anything to go by; the company's website promises a device called the Motorola Droid Ultra and tells us to "think thin". It's not clear if this is part of a well-planned whisper campaign on Motorola's part, or simply that fat fingers have accidentally...

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AT&T's LTE expansion continues with 20+ new markets

AT&T launched its LTE network over 8 new markets on June 26. Those include Hot Springs, Arkansas; Visalia, California; Brainerd Lakes, Minnesota; Jackson County, Georgia; Mount Vernon, Ohio; Minot, North Dakota and Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Today AT&T's LTE network expansion continues in 20 new markets - Sherman-Denison, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Searcy,...

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Trio of colourful cases claim to belong to the budget iPhone

Back to plastic (credit: Weiphone) The budget iPhone (or perhaps not-so-budget) is expected to touch down alongside the iPhone 5S later this year, and a trio of colourful cases have just surfaced that could be the biggest indicator of what the cheaper handset will look like. While there's no evidence to support that these are the real deal, the green...

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Android 4.2.2 OTA update hits the HTC One in Taiwan

It arrived a bit later than initially promised, but the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update for the international HTC One has finally been launched over-the-air travel to happy owners in Taiwan. The update is quite beefy, at 465 MB, and updates the software to version 2.24.709.1, as well as bumps the API level to that of Android 4.2.2. HTC has been quite busy with this...

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