There’s a story going around today about the Nokia Lumia 925, and how the T-Mobile version of the smartphone, for which we’ve recently been discussing launch rumors, appears to have just got the thumbs-up from the FCC. Even a cursory look at the documents, though, reveals this isn’t the case. So what’s wrong? Well, what we’ve got here is test documentation for Nokia model RM-892. That number has already been ...
We’re no strangers to seeing companies in the smartphone business offer users trade-in programs, handing over their old phones for discounts on newer models. Whether we’re talking about carriers or about manufacturers, everyone’s been getting in on the action. The latest to announce its own program is Nokia, giving Windows-Phone-curious shoppers the chance to save some money on a new Lumia model. With the
Cellular phones started out as monstrous bricks. The first one I saw was being carried by a man in a suit walking through the mall. It had a handset attached to a coiled cord that went down inside a bulky-looking box with a handle and antenna on the top. It was comical. I laughed out loud. And then I stopped in my tracks. “This guy is talking on the phone — while he’s walking through the mall,” I thought. It was earth-shaking. Something magical happened next: the possibilities of telephones that didn’t need to be tethered to the kitchen wall went rushing ...
Rumors of a Google-made Android smartwatch have been around for months. Back in early 2013, we heard that Google might be working over the details of such a project, deciding whether or not it would move forward on it. Now, sources known to The Wall Street Journal report that Google’s gone ahead with development of the Android smartwatch, but that’s not the only way it’s branching Android out beyond smartphones and tablets. We’ve already seen
When HTC announced there would be a Google Play edition HTC One following Google I/O in May, many existing owners of Ones were upset, and rightly so. They purchased what they thought was exactly what they had been waiting for, one of the best smartphones ever created. And just weeks after purchasing it, it was revealed that it would soon be sold running completely stock Android. I’d be upset, too. I’ve been begging for more stock Android phones for at least three years now. Fortunately, developers ...
Anyone who’s been keeping an ear to the smartphone rumor mill over the course of the last year or so has undoubtedly heard the name @evleaks pop up more than once. Throw his name in our site search engine up top, and you’ll see him as the source for dozens and dozens of leaks, whether those are press renders, camera samples, launch info, or just good old hardware specs. Now @evleaks has decided to drop the anonymity and go public with his story, and we can finally tell you that he’s none other than our former colleague ...
The BlackBerry quarterly earnings call to investors is giving us more than just raw numbers on how the BB10 launch has been going, and we also get a few updates on other aspects of BlackBerry news. Unfortunately, just like those sales figures themselves, there are some more upsets in store here. The PlayBook’s QNX-based OS made it the forerunner of the BlackBerry 10 devices we know today. When full-on BB10 launched back in January, we heard from the company that
There’s been a flurry of news regarding Android 4.3 over the past day or so, and all focused around the Galaxy S 4. We saw signs of it for the Google Play edition GS4, followed later by some actual screenshots. Normally, that’s as far as a leak like this would go, but the team over at SamMobile has managed to get its hands on a dump of that GPe 4.3 firmware and have cooked ...
Ever since BlackBerry 10 launched, we’ve been curious to get an accurate assessment of just how well it is (or isn’t) doing. We’ve heard everything from glowing claims of strong sales to suggestions that the new platform has already flopped; who’s right? Well, today BlackBerry released its most recent quarterly figures, and they don’t paint a particularly strong picture of BB10. These latest numbers look at March, April, and May, so while ...
Microsoft just released a publicly available preview version of the new Windows 8.1 operating system at their BUILD 2013 conference. The preview version is really supposed to be only for people who want to do some testing and work on building new applications for the operating system, however, we had to install it on a Surface Pro right away to see how everything is going to change in the world of Windows tablets… and there certainly is a lot that’s going to change with Windows 8.1. Most of the changes are really refinements, but some are quite different. For example, the ...
