Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the fact that it seems that the Nokia Lumia 1020 has not sold as well as we expected. Still, there are rumors of the company working on its own Windows RT tablet, even though these rumors aren’t quite new. ASUS follows as the company’s Chairman doesn’t seem happy at all with Windows RT and is planning to not offer it on future tablets. The Samsung Exynos processor follows, as there are some benchmark realities to talk about. We end today’s show talking about some leaks of the Amazon Kindle Fire line-up for 2013, ...
If I were to guess how many times I’ve given Windows Phone a fair chance, it would be somewhere in the lower double-digits. I’m a sucker for an underdog. I pulled for webOS in its darkest days, and I held onto my BlackBerrys well into 2010. I’m also currently pulling for Jolla’s Sailfish OS and the YotaPhone, though the odds ...
Does a model RX-108 ring any bells for you? Don’t worry if you’re drawing a blank, because it has been a seriously long time since we talked about the device. It popped up back in February as a possible Nokia Windows 8 tablet, but literally all we had was that model number – at the time, it wasn’t clear if we were talking WinRT or full-on Win8. Fast-forward five months, and while the RX-108 remains a mystery, a close relative is back in the news, with Nokia model RX-114 showing up in a benchmark database. ...
Normally, when we tell you about some crazy expensive boutique smartphone, it’s largely due to curiosity or a desire for completeness, rather than suggesting that it’s actually a model any of us will go out and purchase. That’s what makes the Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 so interesting: it’s actually managed to sell respectably and establish a high profile for itself – if ...
I’ve always been a huge fan of the Matrix Trilogy, and I’m sure many of you are as well. There’s one thing I always remember the Oracle telling Neo when things began to get rough, and it was: “Everything that has a beginning must have an end”. And it’s true, regardless of where you heard the phrase, it’s a fact of life that what goes up, must come down at some point. It happened to Apple in the early 80s, to IBM early last decade, to HP just a couple of years ago, to Palm in that same time period, Nokia, you name it. It’s hard to determine ...
Windows RT has emerged as the proverbial red-headed stepchild of the tablet ecosystem, cursed by under-performing launch devices, a less than impressive app library, and the ever-present specter of much more capable Windows 8 Pro-based tablets looming over it. We’ve already seen Microsoft take steps to make its own Surface RT more attractive to consumers, but for some other manufacturers, it may already be too late. ASUS chairman Jonney Shih has just been talking about his ...
Last week, we talked to you at some length about the problem with benchmark tests, and why they aren’t very useful as real-world indicators of phone performance. We touched upon the warning that some manufacturers have been spotted gaming the benchmark system, tweaking the performance of their devices in order to deliver inflated results. A new report accuses Samsung of just such deception, artificially boosting system performance when benchmarks are being run. Analysis of
We only just heard from Samsung that it had sent its Exynos 5 Octa SoC, one of the chips powering this year’s Galaxy S 4, back to the drawing board in order to beef it up with a new GPU and other enhancements. This new component is the one we expect to see in upcoming Samsung flagships like the Galaxy Note III, but could Samsung already be at work to outdo even this new Exynos? A new rumor suggests that the company is crafting an octa-core Exynos that doesn’t ...
Android 4.3 wasn’t announced all that long ago, and it’s still making its way across the internet to update phones and tablets over the air. Some of us hoped we’d see some mention of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie when Android 4.3 was announced, but we didn’t — or did we? On the surface, Android 4.3, “a sweeter flavor of Jelly Bean“, could easily be mistaken for any other version of Jelly Bean. However, a lot has changed under the hood. What’s new? What has ...
LG continues to act in a very weird manner as it works its way towards the launch of the G2. We’ve already heard the company confirm the phone’s Snapdragon 800 SoC, and then just a couple weeks ago it went and announced the G2′s name. Is there anything it’s actually saving for the phone’s August 7 launch event? We now continue with this pattern of inexplicably early announcements, with LG revealing ...
