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The smartphone market sorely needs better competition

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

We’re less than two short weeks away from the end of 2013 and it’s hard to deny that this year has been a pretty great one for smartphones. Sure, some players struggled more than others, but the industry’s in a stronger, more mature, and just more interesting place than it was a year ago. For all the progress that’s come our way, though, I wonder if we’re not missing out on even bigger and better things. Because as much as the landscape has grown, we’re still dealing with a small group of ...

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Meizu getting ready to enter US market

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

With such a focus on smartphones for the Americas and Europe, we sometimes find ourselves overlooking products from OEMs that largely keep their wares constrained to Southeast Asia. That’s really a shame, because some of those companies have been putting out some pretty compelling hardware that we only wish we had better exposure to. Meizu is one such manufacturer that’s been on our radar more lately, as we caught wind of its flagship MX3 and plans to join the ...

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LG G Flex torture test, Galaxy Note 3 lite, FTC approves Microsoft+Nokia & more – Pocketnow Daily

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Jaime Rivera

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily a we talk about the Microsoft-Nokia deal, which just got approved by the FTC. Then we talk about Meizu and its new smartphone with a display that exceeds current standards. Samsung is up next as we go through the new color variants of the Galaxy Note 3, along with a possible lite version of the Galaxy Note 3 in MWC. Then we talk about the Oppo N1, its release, and what to expect of the CyanogenMod variant. We end today’s show talking about the LG G Flex, and our first ever torture test. All this and more after the break. Stories: -

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Android OEM teases handset with 5.5-inch, 2560 x 1536 display

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

For a smartphone manufacturer that doesn’t get a lot of attention in the West, Meizu has still been putting out handsets with some pretty high-end hardware. For instance, just a few months back there was that MX3, not only running an Exynos 5 Octa, but offering as much as 128GB storage – something we don’t see enough of. It now looks like Meizu has its sights squarely set on pushing some new boundaries, as we get word that the upcoming MX4G should have a stunningly high ...

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Exynos 5 Octa software update tipped to bring HMP performance

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

This summer, we’ve already seen Samsung introduce a refreshed Exynos 5 Octa, the 5420, with a slightly higher clock speed and a new GPU. We also heard a rumor about another improvement coming to Samsung’s chip, with the suggestion we’d be seeing some variant using all of its big.LITTLE cores at once in heterogeneous multi-processing mode. Sure enough, Samsung confirmed this development yesterday, announcing that an HMP solution would become ...

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Meizu MX3 announced with Exynos 5 Octa, 128GB storage

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Stephen Schenck

Right on the cusp of the IFA, our attention is focused on devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note III or Sony’s Honami, but there are also plenty of new smartphones being announced by companies that don’t typically draw so much of our focus. Often, that’s for geographical reasons, with us devoting less coverage to models that don’t typically find wide sales outside of Asia. Still, that doesn’t stop these manufacturers from putting out handsets with some top-notch-sounding features, like the one we’re hearing ...

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