After seeing HTC’s latest and greatest being torn apart, it was just normal (and a matter of time) until we’ve seen the Samsung Galaxy S 5 get the same treatment. Apparently, these two devices not only compete on the market, but also in the degree of difficulty for repairs. While the Galaxy S 5 will not reach most markets until mid-April, Russian website Ferra has managed to get its hands on one, and, of course, tore it apart. However, in the case of the GS5, it is easier to understand ...
Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about AT&T’s continuos teasing of the Asus PadFone X, even though we still don’t have pricing or dates for a launch. Nokia follows the news as we go through a hilarious ad the company has published, which shows just how many apps you can find on the Nokia X. We then talk about the HTC One (M8) mini, which also seems to be in the works according to carriers. Google is next as we go through the progress of Android 4.4.3, and also some possible new requirements for phones to say “Powered by Android” according to ...
HTC absolutely hit the ball out of the park when it comes to retail availability for the just-launched 2014 One. Granted, not every carrier has it in stores just yet, but even making it available to just one on the same day the phone’s announced is a major accomplishment; who among us isn’t sick of waiting weeks if not months between launch day and when we can actually get our hands on these products? But while the new One itself has been for sale for a few days now, the same couldn’t be said about
As of yesterday, Microsoft’s insanely popular Office suite software was officially brought to the iPad. Office Mobile has been available for Android smartphones and iPhones for some time now, but tablets were left out of the equation. Microsoft built Office for iPad from the ground up, with touchscreens and the iPad software in mind. All the while, it didn’t deviate too far from the desktop experience we all ...
HTC introduced its first One back in February of last year; five months later, the One Mini (above) joined it. So, unsurprisingly, for much of the time we’ve been talking about the M8 arriving as this year’s One, the notion of an M8 Mini has been bouncing around alongside it. Earlier this year, those rumors started getting quite specific, identifying part of a model number and later delivering detailed hardware ...
Right now, your top-of-the-line smartphone is going to max out at having 3GB of RAM. And really, despite a couple high-profile Androids launching with such expansive memory at their disposal, the adoption of 3GB has been incredibly slow – far slower than we saw 2GB catch on. Is that because we don’t really need 3GB of RAM just yet? Well, a little thing like that never stopped the tide of progress, and there’s a chance that the first 4GB RAM smartphone could be just around the corner. We’ve been thinking about 4GB of RAM in smartphones since last year. At first, it ...
The new Nokia X family of devices is notable for many reasons, and one of the big ones is this customized fork of Android that powers the handsets. That’s let Nokia really dictate the user experience Nokia X owners will enjoy, giving us something unlike what the majority of Android users are familiar with. But going out on its own like this has brought consequences to Nokia, and its desire to avoid Google’s control has led to an absence of core Google apps, including the all-important Play Store. Nokia has its own Nokia Store, ...
Our relationship with the Nokia Lumia 630 really got a jumpstart earlier this week, as we made the transition from forming our impressions of the phone based on rumors and renders, to seeing actual photos of the handset, flesh-and-bone, as it were. There’s no turning back now, and so we push forward, graduating from still shots to some hands-on video of the phone in action. We didn’t get a great look at the ...
Even with Apple’s level of secrecy, it’s hard to denny that all the iPhone 5 rumors showed us that Apple is getting really sloppy at it. We’ve seen the internet flooded with rumors on the iPhone 6, and these have given us a lot of detail on what to expect from both of the smartphones being planned. We’ve debated the possibility of two larger iPhones coming soon, but recent leaks continue to prove that Apple is off to change its own way of doing things. A Japanese Magazine has just published the probable ...
With so many rumors of Apple bringing a sapphire display into its next iOS device line-up, we’ve heard of the continuous efforts the company is doing in order to guarantee it’ll be able to deliver. The company has slowly begun to incorporate sapphire glass into things like the glass surface of the camera, or the glass surface of TouchID, but these are small steps when compared to ...
Tale as old as time, true as it can be, someone writes a benchmark, then someone goes and cheats. Last year, a minor scandal swept over the smartphone industry, with the discovery that certain smartphones were going out of their way to score highly on benchmark tests. Basically, rather than naturally governing performance (CPU core speed and task distribution between cores) in a way that would reflect real-world operation, manufacturers were hard-coding their phones with lists of known benchmark apps, and
Boundaries between smartphone platforms aren’t always hard-and-fast lines. We’ve got Android apps running on BlackBerry 10, chatter about dual-OS phones (which never seem to get off the ground in the way we might like), and models like the new Nokia X which may be Android at their cores, but sure don’t look or feel like it. Perhaps in an effort to clarify what’s capital-A Android and what’s not, or just to help more firmly ...
AT&T has revealed the specs for Asus' forthcoming phone-tablet hybrid, the PadFone X. Pricing and availability details are still up in the air, however. Video
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