Google Nexus 5 hopes, iPhone 5S choice, iPad Touch ID comments & more – Pocketnow Daily Recap

Pocketnow Daily gets an average of 300 to 500 comments a day, and sometimes even a thousand. We’d like to thank you all for participating in our question of the day, and we love your feedback so much, that we decided that since we can’t respond to ever single one of your comments, we should at least feature a couple in a weekly video. This is the Pocketnow Daily Recap. Since we only have 3 minutes on every Daily video to go through the hottest news, the weekly recap will serve as a more extensive discussion where we also include your thoughts on the subject. Sadly, for the sake of ...

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BlackBerry Z30 FCC certification reveals LTE bands

On September 18 BlackBerry announced its Z30 phone, a follow-up to the Z10, which, as we’ve heard, didn’t go as well as the company hoped. The announcement contained press renders, specs, and everything, except pricing and availability, especially for the US. Thanks to the recent FCC filing, we know know that a GSM variant of the phone has been certified with 4G-capable bands (1,700MHz and 2,600MHz). This could make it a perfect candidate, and compatible phone, for carriers like Telus, ...

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Nokia tablet gets FCC certification as RX-114

We first heard about a certain RX-114 codenamed Nokia tablet back in July with the occasion of some benchmark results, and we advised everyone to treat the info with caution, knowing that these results can be faked. Towards the end of August, the same model number Nokia tablet popped up in reports, again, this time alongside some other model numbers from the Finns (and said report accurately predicted Microsoft’s ...

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Galaxy Note 3 vs Galaxy Note II (Video)

Back at IFA 2013 in Berlin, Samsung announced its biggest, baddest, most bodacious smartphone/tablet hybrid ever, the Galaxy Note 3. After getting some hands-on time with the world’s beefiest phablet, we were keen to get it into our labs for some one-on-one testing … and thanks to Negri Electronics, we’ve been able to do just that. The SM-N900 version of the Galaxy Note ...

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Android 4.3 update for Galaxy devices and its timeframe hinted, Samsung Q4 marketing budget estimated

French carrier SFR has posted the table above containing information about updates for the phones it carries on its line-up. Of these, the Samsung Galaxy S 4 is expected to get Android 4.3 during next month, the S III and Note II during November/December, according to the carrier. Please note that we’re looking at specific carrier units from a certain country, so other regions, as well as unlocked phones, might receive it earlier (or later). On a side-note, Samsung is estimated to spend $4.5bn in the last quarter of the year for marketing activities. The amount has been estimated by ...

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