Microsoft updates Insider app in advance of Windows 10 phone preview, hints at hardware requirements

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The final release of Windows 10 is still months and months away, but Microsoft is happy to give users eager for a preview an early look at the operating system. The PC preview has been out for a while now, and for the past few weeks we’ve been anticipating the start of a similar preview for phones. Earlier this month Microsoft started prepping for its release by publishing its Phone Insider app, and at the Windows 10 event last week, the company

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Google shares latest financial report, talks Nexus 6 shortages

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The parade of companies announcing the details behind their latest financial performance continues on this evening, following the reports we’ve already seen out of Apple, Samsung, LG, Microsoft, and more. Now it’s Google’s turn to let everyone see how it’s been doing, as it releases numbers for not just the past quarter, but also 2014 as a whole.Quarterly revenue hit $18.1 billion, up from $16.86 billion during ...

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Samsung and Apple tied in smartphone global market share for Q4/2014

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Apple and Samsung may be out of the court room with all the patent disputes, but it seems that both companies continue to compete at something. For the longest time, Samsung has overshadowed Apple in smartphone sales, and that does make sense since Samsung serves every single market segment, while Apple only focuses on the higher-end. That being said, even with all the logic behind Samsung’s success, it seems that reality is about to change very soon.Both Strategy Analytics and even the IDC are already revealing their worldwide smartphone figures, and it turns out that ...

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HTC One M8 Lollipop availability keeps spreading, now hitting North America

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Starting a couple weeks back, HTC’s been pushing Android 5.0 Lollipop updates out to more and more of its One M8 handsets. Following initial availability for dev units and unlocked models, yesterday we learned that mass distribution was underway for the One M8 in Europe. That marked a huge number of new users who suddenly saw their One M8s gaining access to the update, and HTC’s momentum isn’t ...

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Foot in mouth: how I learned to love the LG Tone Ultra

Posted on by Michael Fisher

One of the unavoidable pitfalls of covering a field as vast as mobile technology is that sometimes, you get things wrong. It happens regardless of preparation, regardless of time spent with a device, and no matter how many colleagues help copy-edit your work. But it happens most often when you establish an opinion before going hands-on with a product, before incorporating it into your daily life. Out in the real world, that’s called prejudice – and it’s just as damaging to a product review as the myriad ways it’s destructive to broader society. Yes, that’s a ...

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Image Leak

Posted on by Luke Jones
There have been plenty of leaks regarding Samsung's Galaxy S6, and by now we have a good idea of what specs the handset will have (including the Snapdragon/Exynos saga) and even how the Galaxy S6 will look. We have seen some prototypes over the last couple of months, but those images have not been amazing quality. However, today we are getting the best look at the Galaxy S6 yet.
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Saygus reveals pre-order pricing and some early-adopter bonuses for V2 Android

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The Saygus V2 emerged as one of the surprise hits of CES 2015, interesting because of its solid hardware and the presence of dual microSD expansion slots, which when coupled with the phone’s own 64GB internal storage, and a pair of 128GB microSD cards, outfits the phone with an impressive 320GB of data capacity. In the time since, Saygus had begun taking pre-registration for the smartphone in advance of full-on pre-orders, ...

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LG Says Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 is not Overheating

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While Samsung and Qualcomm are not seeing eye to eye over the Snapdragon 810 processor, LG has actually already announced a device rocking the chip, the G Flex 2. Of course, the company also has the G4 flagship ready to land, but that handset has been has been plagued by issues of the Snapdragon 810 overheating, something that has led to Samsung probably ditching the chipset for its Galaxy S6.
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Samsung reports more quarterly losses on Apple’s record-breaking quarter

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

A few years ago, anybody would’ve believed that Samsung’s growth momentum was invincible. The Korean giant not only managed to make more profit than many of its competitors combined, but it is still the biggest cellphone seller in the world. That said, we do know that the company has struggled in its sales figures over the last couple of quarters, and it seems things aren’t getting better.A day after Apple

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More switchers from Android to iOS seem focused outside the US

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Tim Cook spent a good amount of time yesterday telling us how well the iPhone was performing in sales over the last quarter. One interesting point he made during the conference call, is that more Android users had switched to iOS with the launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, than ever before, ...

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Guess which smartphone took these photos (Vol. 7) (Update: answer within!)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

(Update 1/29/2015: the answer now lies at the bottom of this post, so be careful when scrolling if this is your first time seeing this edition of the smartphone guessing game! Also, our apologies for the late update, folks; our lead smartphone reviewer came down with a wicked-bad case of the coughs in this year’s Boston Blizzard, so he’s been out of commission.)When it comes to analyzing the quality of a smartphone’s camera, there are two main approaches. There’s the guided style:“We had a gander at the new [Smartphone] from the fine folks at [Smartphone ...

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How Samsung might dial-down bloat on TouchWiz for the Galaxy S6

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

So much of our discussion of the Galaxy S6 has focused on hardware – whether that’s choice of SoC, external design, or support for accessories – that’s its tempting to gloss over the software that will ultimately run on the upcoming Samsung flagship. After all, shouldn’t it be pretty predictable by now: recent Android build, spruced-up version of TouchWiz, and you’re done? Well, maybe not, and a recent report suggested that Samsung could be trying something radical for TouchWiz ...

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Microsoft introduces new Outlook apps for iOS, Android

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Last week’s Windows 10 event brought us the latest preview of not just Microsoft’s direction for the next evolution of its operating system, but also of some of the key software titles that users will be working with. That means a lot of members from the Office family of products, and while this software may call Microsoft’s own platforms home, the company’s been working towards making more and more of these titles available for users of other mobile ecosystems. Today ...

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