Meizu and BQ Readers will ship Ubuntu phones this year

Canonical announced its first hardware partners which will manufacture Ubuntu smartphones. Meizu and the Spanish manufacturer BQ Readers will ship Ubuntu handsets globally this year. Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth pointed that the initial partners were chosen because of their expertise in penetrating emerging markets. More established manufacturers are expected...

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Windows Phone 8.1 wants your prints! Added feature tipped for next update

Windows Phone 8.1 release is at the tip of our fingers Pieces of the Windows Phone 8.1 puzzle continue to fall into place with reports claiming the big mobile OS update will bring fingerprint scanning technology into play. WindowsPhoneLovers has been trawling through the latest Windows Phone 8.1 SDK and found evidence that Microsoft plans to match the iPhone...

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Nokia X caught using a 5MP camera in leaked photo

We can't see a flash... can you? The question over what camera will be gracing Nokia's Android handset, the Nokia X (aka Nokia Normandy), may have just been answered with a leaked photograph. Whilst the shot is wholly uninspiring - just a phone, monitor and can of Pepsi - it's the EXIF data that is proving to be a bit more revealing. If this really is...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 screenshot shows on-screen buttons

The Samsung Galaxy S5 leaks are a steady, mostly consistent stream, but a screenshot of the AnTuTu benchmark brings some conflicting information. First off, there are on-screen buttons visible in the screenshot, which suggests the Galaxy S5 will be the first in the line with no hardware buttons. Most rumors until now agree that there will be physical buttons, the thing...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 to come dust and waterproof as standard

Say goodbye to the Active range There's less than a week to go until MWC 2014 and news about what we can expect from one of the hottest handsets of the year, the Samsung Galaxy S5, is streaming out as leaks spring up everywhere. According to sources in Korea, talking to ZDNet, the Galaxy S5 will be the first fully-fledged Samsung flagship to feature the...

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Gionee Elife S5.5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world

Gionee has announced what the company claims is the thinnest smartphone in the world. Aside from boasting the most impressive 5.5mm waistline, the Elife S5.5 runs an Android-based Amigo OS, sports a quad-core 1.7 GHz processor, 2GB of RAM and a duo of 13 MP and 5 MP cameras (back and front). The device also has a 5" screen, 2,300 mAh battery that should go a...

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Galaxy Note 3 gets an update, fixes accessory compatibility

Many users were complaining about broken compatibility with third-party accessories since Samsung launched the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Galaxy Note 3. Apparently most of the S View-like third-party cases stopped working after the update. Samsung has recently acknowledged the issues with non-Samsung accessories and promised a fix. Well, the fix is...

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