If 2013 is of any indication, HTC should play the same card in 2014 too. On February 19 (note, before MWC 2013) HTC announced the One flagship and on July 18 the company unveiled its smaller sibling, the HTC One Mini. This year, the HTC M8 (the One+, One 2, or another name) is expected to be unveiled sometime during the first quarter of the year, bearing the model number 0P6B120 which we initially
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Facebook Paper, and how it plans to revolutionize the way you interact with the social network. Google is next as we go through its quarter results and learn why it sold Motorola, aside from other rumors of the color-options for the Google Nexus 5. Then we talk about the Galaxy S 5, and new rumors claiming that the phone will include a fingerprint scanner. Microsoft is next as reports have the company naming a CEO next week. We end today’s show talking about Apple’s plans for the iPhone 6 with its new sapphire glass facility ...
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It’s been quite a week for Motorola. We went from talking about a sale on custom smartphones to a sale of the entire company in less than two days. Now, a handful of
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A few hours back, we were talking about Samsung’s new affinity for products bearing the “Neo” name and mentioned the Galaxy Note 3 Neo that we’d been hearing so much about lately. Or at least – we had been, but then about a week ago, the news suddenly dried up. We thought we might be looking at an imminent launch, and then the date January 27 in some press renders sure had us thinking that’s when Samsung might make its ...
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Sony’s current flagship, the Xperia Z1 (or the Z1S here in the States) may only be a few months old, but that hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from already pouring out word of its successor. The Xperia Z2 is said to be a lot of things – bigger, better, more powerful, and the rest of the typical hype-mongering buzzwords – and we’re hearing rumors that is just might show its face as
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Last year was a tumultuous one for Google Wallet, and more than once we wondered if Google might be giving up the good fight and shuttering the service after the ridiculous amount of push-back it saw from certain wireless carriers. Nevertheless, Wallet triumphed, and with the launch of Android 4.4 we saw the service mature into something no longer reliant on whatever entity control’s your phone’s secure element. Following all that work expanding Wallet’s reach, Google is now working to add a few new features, as we hear ...
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The App Store is renowned for all the great applications and games that call Apple’s digital app catalog home. Many new applications are first developed for iOS before being brought to other platforms, and a healthy serving of those applications are gorgeous. All that aside, what are the best applications in the App Store for getting stuff done and taking care of business? We could rattle off dozens of well-know applications we’ve heard of a million times by now – Evernote, Dropbox, Drive, Quick Office, ...
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Lenovo sure does seem convinced that Motorola will be a way to make the company money, but its lack of any specific business plan for doing so is a little bit concerning. Before we can start looking at this all objectively, though, we need some hard figures; just how bad shape was Motorola really in? The last answers we had date back to October, but today we get an update, as Google publishes its Q4 2013 financial figures – and Motorola isn’t looking too hot.
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When you can kick off a tech podcast with a string of expletives taken right from your publication’s teamwide chat records, you know it’s been a crazy week in the news. The Lenovo Motorola deal, announced late yesterday afternoon, threw our whole week -and perhaps our whole world- into disarray, and we’re grateful for the chance to sit down and talk it through on today’s show. But the news doesn’t stop there. Galaxy S 5 speculation is still coming fast and furious, with details like Samsung’s rumored fingerprint scanner beginning to take shape; ...
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Recently we’ve noticed Samsung playing around with new branding – like back at the CES, how there were those new PRO-series tablets. Another move has been a little more subtle, but we’ve been noticing more and more Samsung devices popping up with this “Neo” moniker. You may have heard us discussing the Galaxy Note 3 Neo, and we also saw the Galaxy Grand Neo surface. Thinking back it on it a little, we could even include the ATIV S Neo in this ...
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Yesterday’s Lenovo news was shocking enough, but it wasn’t the only Google story to cross our path this week that came off as really difficult to accept on face value. We got the week started with a rumor that Google was winding-down its Nexus series of hardware, which thus far has been a fixture of the Android landscape. The argument was that a growing selection of Google Play edition devices would provide enough of a Nexus-like alternative to ...
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A lot of us are becoming impatient with the launch of Windows Phone 8.1. With the existence of Android 4.4 KitKat, and of iOS 7, it’s clear that Microsoft missed a lot of opportunities this holiday season against competition. Still, the fact that we get the update is not as important as the fact that we all have a big wish list of things we’d like to see improved, and some leaks confirm that we are. Probably one of the biggest annoyances by all that use Windows Phone is the way the OS handles its volume control. We’ve seen early leaks that Microsoft will provide separate ...
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Last week’s uncertain series of leaks revealing a red Nexus 5 took a welcome turn on Monday, with a number of new images showing up and subsequently alleviating much of our doubt surrounding this model. But even if the red Nexus 5 was indeed real, just how might we see it arrive? Would it get limited availability, maybe as some sort of Valentine’s promotion? We’re still a few answers away from having a complete story, but today we get a valuable new piece ...
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It’s been nearly five months since Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer announced that he would be stepping down for some newer blood to take over. Since then, we’ve seen lots of rumors regarding the possible successor as CEO, but even though some internal candidates are more credible than the external candidates that declined the job repeatedly, the biggest problem is that it hasn’t happened yet. As a result, the company’s future is beginning to worry investors. Inside rumors from Re/code hint to this search for a new leader to have come to an end. Apparently the ...
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We all remember Tim Cook’s remarks about the reason why they bought a manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona. The company is planning to make a big move into the adoption of sapphire into its product line-up, though Cook wasn’t specific on when we’d see this happen. The cool thing is that it’s hard to keep those plans a secret with all the government approval the company has to go through, and these details just surfaced. The project is being dubbed Operation Cascade, and in a nutshell, it seems this will focus mainly on the next-generation iPhone. Reports have it ...
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