iPhone 6 Optical Image Stabilization, Galaxy Note 3 Neo, Sony US Phones & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Sony’s new strategy to attend the US market, which the company chose to abandon just a couple of months ago, aside from more rumors of a Sony Windows Phone as well. Then we go through Samsung’s new leaks of Android 4.4 KitKat for the Galaxy S 4, and some disappointing facts about it. Meizu and Ubuntu are next as new leaks prove the MX3 to be the next Ubuntu mobile phone. Apple takes the stage after that since its new patent proves some Optical Image Stabilization love for the iPhone 6. We end today’s show talking about ...

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Will Meizu deliver the first Ubuntu phone? OS spotted on MX3

If 2013 was the year we saw the arrival of Ubuntu software for smartphones, 2014 will be the year we get some proper Ubuntu hardware. After first getting confirmation that at least one high-end Ubuntu phone was in the works, we recently heard from the company that it’s talking to a number of additional OEMs, potentially setting the stage for the release of multiple Ubuntu-running handsets in the months to come. But just who would be creating this ...

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Exynos 5 Octa software update tipped to bring HMP performance

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

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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