Facebook now has 1.19 billion monthly active users, mobile use is skyrocketing

Facebook is mobilizing China, India and Facebook. If you go by the numbers, Facebook (again) has enough monthly active users to be the world's third largest country. In reporting its Q3 2013 financials, the company boasted its monthly active users hit 1.19 billion as of September 30. That's an 18% increase year-on-year. Last quarter, Facebook notched up...

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Google Nexus 5 spotted out of the box

With the Nexus 5's release looming, this photo seems legit Google's Nexus 5 was spotted out of its box today, hours before the new Android flagship is expected to go trick-or-treating officially with an announcement tomorrow morning. The image of the powered-off Nexus 5 sitting next to its recognizable blue retail box appeared in a Photobucket album, though...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 12.2 specs may as powerful as the tablet is large

Slightly larger than this, believe it or not You know what they say about large tablets... large specs. That's exactly what we are thinking now that the Samsung Galaxy Note 12.2 is rumored to boast some of the most powerful tablet hardware available. The 12-inch tablet has found enough room to pack in a speedy quad-core 2.3 GHz Snapdragon 800 processor and...

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Nokia gunning for HTC One UK sales ban after major patent victory

One and done? HTC is facing the prospect of a UK sales ban on flagship handsets like the HTC One after losing another round of its ongoing global patent war with Nokia. The Finnish manufacturer says it will seek an import ban on the devices, including the HTC One, HTC One SV and HTC Wildfire, following the High Court ruling on Wednesday. Nokia is chasing...

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Amazon phone may arrive in 2014 with 3D gesture and eye tracking

Eye see you There's been plenty of buzz around a possible Amazon phone, and just when we thought the rumours had run out, they pull us back in. The latest word, according to AppleInsider, is that the phone will use 3D gesture and eye-tracking control for input and will arrive in the second quarter of 2014. The phone will apparently have six camera modules,...

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Intel's holdout against making ARM chips comes to an end

Unable to break through with its own mobile Atom chipset, it seems that Intel finally raised the white flag and has decided to begin manufacturing 64-bit ARM chips of its own. The ARM architecture's supremacy in the mobile market has been a result of the varied and competitive core licensing terms provided by ARM Holdings. This has allowed a variety of manufacturers...

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ZTE unveils a trio of Blade Q smartphones

ZTE has announced three affordable smartphones for the European market, which it hopes will help it grow its market share on the Old Continent. The three new additions to the ZTE lineup are the 4.0" WVGA Blade Q Mini, the 4.5" FWVGA Blade Q and the 5.0" FWVGA Blade Q Maxi. All three phones share similar internals. They are all powered by the MT6572 chipset with...

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Google Nexus 5 aces BaseMark X gaming benchmark

If all the rumors and teasers are to be trusted, Google will be announcing the LG-made Nexus 5 this Friday. The flagship has leaked numerous times revealing all there is to know about its design, specs and even pricing. We've already seen official pictures of the Nexus 5 and we know it will come with a 4.95" 1080p IPS display and Snapdragon 800 chipset. What we didn't...

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Xolo Q900 is a quad-core smartphone for €155

Xolo Q900, the company's latest quad-core smartphone, has launched in India. It comes with a 4.7-inch 720 display and is powered by the MT6589 chipset with four ARM Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 1.2GHz, PowerVR SGX544 graphics and 1GB of RAM. The Xolo Q900 has 4GB of internal storage expandable via a microSD slot. There is an 8MP rear camera capable of 1080p video recording...

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5 million Samsung Galaxy Note 3s sold in the first month

Analysts expect the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to take up the slack now that the Galaxy S4 has passed 40 million sales and demand is weakening. According to Korean publication Hankooki (quoting the president of Samsung Mobile), the Note 3 phablet is off to a good start, having sold 5 million units in one month. For comparison, the original Galaxy Note took 5 months to...

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App updates tease arrival of Android 4.4 KitKat and Nexus 5?

...or is it? We hope so! With numerous Google apps all being updated, it seems there is something brewing over at Mountain View, something that could give us a bit of a break. Nearly all of the Google suite of apps are gaining updates, with that number currently sitting at 16, an increase from the original 12 that were spotted. This could signal the imminent...

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Dual-SIM HTC One Max crops up in Vietnam

Before the HTC One Max was officially unveiled, there were a few leaks showing a dual-SIM version. It showed up in Vietnam, although it was supposedly a unit headed for the Chinese market. It cost 21.6 million dong ($1,015), up from 17.9 million dong ($840) for the single-SIM version. The specifications look exactly the same – 5.9" 1080p screen, Snapdragon 600 chipset,...

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Apple concedes that the battery life is dodgy on some iPhone 5Ses

Not perfect after all If you've noticed that your iPhone 5S battery is quick to drain and slow to charge, you could be the owner of one of "a very limited number" of handsets that has a battery defect. Apple has conceded that some of the new iPhones have a problem with their batteries, although it's not saying how many are affected beyond "a very limited...

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Apple admits a battery issue in a small number of iPhone 5s units

Earlier this month while going through our battery test of the iPhone 5s, we noted that on some occasions, the smartphone suffered from quick battery drain. Today, in a statement to The New York Times, Apple has acknowledged that a small number of iPhone 5s devices are indeed affected by such an issue. According to spokesperson from Apple, a manufacturing issue sits...

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'Moto G' makes Motorola site appearance before being pulled

Spotted! (credit: Droid Life) First the Nexus 5, now this - seems companies can't keep quiet on their own websites when it comes to unannounced products these days. Motorola looks to have spilled the beans as a listing for something called the Moto G appeared on its website earlier today. Engadget and Droid Life both made the spot, but the reference has...

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