Archos unveils a duo of affordable Helium series smartphones

Archos took the wraps off a duo of affordable Android smartphones. The Archos 50 Helium 4G and 45 Helium 4G both offer Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and LTE connectivity on the cheap. Design-wise, the 50 and 45 Helium are nearly identical. Under the hood, the two devices feature Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipsets with quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex A7 CPUs, Adreno 305 GPU, 1GB of RAM,...

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Nokia waves final goodbye to MeeGo and Symbian

Nokia announced in October it will be ending all developer support for MeeGo and Symbian on January 1, 2014. Well, the deadline has passed and the Ovi Store won't accept any more apps. Nokia announced the end of the era via the official Symbian Team account on Twitter. That was it; we are officially closed. Thank you all for the past years!— Symbian...

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Samsung curved screen patent might point to Galaxy Note 4 or S5

Could finally give Samsung a reason to flaunt its curves Samsung is so bent on reducing the amount of bezel on its devices, it may actually bend its next Galaxy Note or Galaxy S smartphone. New sketches from the US Patent and Trademark Office indicate that the company is interested in manufacturing a phone with curvature that slopes at the sides. This...

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