HTC One max will not be making its way to Canada

HTC One max will not be making its way to Canada – at least officially. According to a statement from the Taiwanese manufacturer, “the current HTC lineup of devices is sufficient for the Canadian marketplace”. The lack of subsidized HTC One max in Canada means that users who are interested in the company’s first phablet will have to pick up an unlocked device. If...

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Press image of Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom with AT&T attire leaks

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom with AT&T livery emerged in a press image, courtesy of @evleaks. The camera-centric smartphone will likely hit the carrier’s shelves in time for the holiday shopping season. Curiously, the leaked press image reveals no AT&T branding on the smartphone’s body. It appears that this time around, the carrier’s involvement has been confined...

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T-Mobile outs a trio of budget-friendly smartphones in the US

T-Mobile US quietly announced a trio of budget-oriented Android smartphones. Samsung Galaxy Light, Alcatel One Touch Evolve, and Alcatel One Touch Fierce joined the carrier’s lineup, with the last two already on its shelves. Leading the way is the Samsung Galaxy Flame. The Korean offering packs a lot of punch in its pocket-friendly body. The handset sports a 1.4GHz quad-core...

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Galaxy Round reportedly a prototype, even has a limited run in South Korea

May be Round 1 The Samsung Galaxy Round is available to buy right now in South Korea, even though it looks like an odd-shaped prototype that the company is testing out. Well, truth be told the "world's first curved smartphone" is actually being considered a prototype inside Samsung, according to the dedicated fan blog SamMobile. The report cites an insider...

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Smartphone photography tips and tricks you should know

Smartphone photography, iPhoneography, mobile photography or whatever you want to call it, it's clear that taking great pictures with a phone has become a thing now. What does that mean, exactly? It means that folks are creating works of art from the smartphones, and those pieces also go up in galleries or are made into prints. That's the extreme end, of course,...

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The next big Windows update won't arrive until 2015, says report

Will Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 eventually merge? Windows 8.1, the first major update to Windows 8, will be released tomorrow as a free download for existing W8 users. So what's next? ZDNET's sources said in a report published today that the next big Windows update won't arrive until spring 2015. That puts more than a year between the Windows 8.1 release...

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Report: Galaxy S5 will release in January without powerful new chip

Samsung's Galaxy S4 leads the pack, according to some Yesterday we heard that Samsung's Galaxy S5 will pack a powerful new chip, a 14-nanometer 64-bit Exynos CPU, but word today is that won't happen after all. Unwired View claimed today that there's simply not enough time for Samsung to mass-produce a 14nm chip. That's because, as we've heard before, the...

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HTC outs 5-inch Desire 709d in China

Just two days after HTC announced the One Max phablet, it outed yet another device. This time around it's a China-bound smartphone called HTC Desire 709d. HTC Desire 709d features a 5" qHD Super LCD2 display and runs on the Snadpragon 200 chipset with a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A5 processor, Adreno 203 graphics and 1GB of RAM. HTC Desire 709d Other notable features...

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Vivo breaks the 1080p barrier with the first 2K smartphone

While we're still far from getting 4K displays on smartphones, but the latest news from Asia indicates that Chinese manufacturer Vivo is in production of a display set to feature 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution. Vivo teased its upcoming product today, hailing it as the first 2K smartphone, but wasn't courteous enough to reveal the exact diagonal of the display, or provide...

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Google teases us with Android Kit Kat 'signs'

Is it though? IS IT? We're still none the wiser on the Android 4.4 Kit Kat release date since October 15 has been and gone, but Google's Kit Kat Google+ page is full of hints. We reported earlier that it could be that the US government shutdown is to blame, causing delays in the approval process. If indeed that is the case, it seems like the delay could...

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Is this the Cyan Nokia Lumia 1520?

Why so blue? There is less than a week to go until we jet out to Abu Dhabi to see what Nokia have been shouting about. This means that it is high time for a flurry of leaks and rumours surround just what Nokia might be launching. We're expecting the official announcement of the heavily rumoured Nokia Lumia 1520, the firm's new flagship Windows Phone 8...

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BBM for Android and iOS: when will I get it?

Are we about to see BBM on Android and iOS? The news that BlackBerry's proprietary messaging service is coming across to the two largest mobile ecosystems has been around for a while. The announcement that iOS and Android are both being treated to BBM was made at BlackBerry Live at the beginning of the summer. It seems a little odd that the proprietary...

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Apple asks ITC to broaden Samsung import ban

Apple has filed an appeal, requesting the US International Trade Comission (ITC) to broaden the import ban to include more Samsung smartphones. The Cupertino-based company aims to reverse ITC decisions which allow Samsung to design workarounds for its products thus managing to work around the ban. The ITC has already found Samsung guilty of infringing two patents, but...

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EE confirms it's testing next-gen network this year

Because 4G just isn't fast enough EE has confirmed that it will be carrying out tests this year for the next generation of mobile network, dubbed LTE Advanced. According to the network, the new technology could provide top speeds of up to 300Mbps - double what it's current 4G offering can provide. The tests will be carried out in London, although there's...

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iPhone 5C might be proving a bit of a rotten fruit for Apple

Has iPhone 5C got the blues? The iPhone 5C has only been on shelves for a few weeks but Apple is reportedly cutting orders for the colourful handset. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple has told two of its assemblers – Pegatron and Hon Hai Precision (aka Foxconn) – that fourth quarter shipments of the 5C would be getting a cut. Pegatron has reportedly...

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Windows Phone back button isn't going anywhere

It seems that one of the identifying features of Windows Phone handsets isn't being killed off in the Windows Phone 8.1 update. There have been rumours milling around that the back button was going to be completely dropped, although it seems more likely that the Redmond-based firm is merely dropping the requirement that manufacturers need to include one. That would...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 sales nosedive in August

According the technology market research analysts over Counterpoint Samsung's Galaxy S4 sales have dropped significantly this August hitting their lowest number so far at 5 million units. This is 2 million units less than the flagship's 7 million sales in June. Even though Samsung Galaxy S4 is the best-selling device and topping the charts, the combined iPhone...

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Nexus 5, Google watch may have been delayed by US government shutdown

It could be getting political Original rumours suggested that October 15 would be the launch date for the Google Nexus 5. But would you look at that – it's October 16 and the Nexus 4 is still the latest and greatest of its kind. Now there's a rumour flying around the internet claiming that the US government shutdown has caused a delay on Google getting the...

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Intel's faster, smaller, more efficient Broadwell chip delayed till 2014

He's hard at work, rest assured Intel has had to delay its upcoming Broadwell chip until the first three months of 2014 due to a manufacturing hiccup. Brian Krzanich, the company's CEO, explained the issue while going through Intel's finances with analysts, calling it a "defect density issue" - basically, Intel hasn't made too many broken chips and not...

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