Huawei kicked off the year by introducing its 5-inch Ascend D2 and 6.1-inch Ascend Mate flagships, and after a few months of catering for smaller hands, it’s revisiting larger screens with the A199. The new handset shares a handful of specs with t…
Fancy a phone that’s been styled after Molly Ringwald’s prom dress? HTC has decided to celebrate mother’s day by releasing a Butterfly in a lovely shade of #DDA4B4 — but only for the Ducky Dales of Taiwan. The re-tinted handset is said to drop on Ap…
A new budget-friendly Android is headed to the Now Network. Bearing the carrier’s badging and manufactured by ZTE, the Sprint Force is a low-cost Android 4.0 handset featuring a 4-inch display, 1.5GHz processor, and 5MP camera. It will also reportedly take advantage of Sprint’s ever-growing LTE network. Other specs include 4GB if internal storage, 1GB [...]
LG isn’t looking to keep any secrets for Mobile World Congress as the company has announced yet another new member of its smartphone family. Make that two. The LG Optimus F5 and LG Optimus F7 are outfitted with dual-core processing (1.2GHz and 1.5GHz, respectively), LTE, and run Android 4.1.2. The F5 sports a 4.3-inch display [...]
Sony is starting pre-orders in the UK for its upcoming flagship Android handset, the Xperia Z. First unveiled at CES last month, the Xperia Z has a 5-inch 1080p display, Android 4.1, and is powered by Qualcomm’s 1.5GHz Snapdra…
Research in Motion (RIMM) is scheduled to announce the new BlackBerry 10 operating system and its latest flagship smartphone a press event on January 30th. The BlackBerry Z10 is rumored to come with 4.2-inch HD display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor and an 8-megapixel rear camera. The smartphone is also said to include 2GB of RAM, 4G LTE connectivity, NFC, 16GB of internal storage and an 1,800 mAh removable battery. The not-so-secret device has already appeared in a number of leaked images and videos, and on Thursday it was the subject of yet another leak from Evleaks, which posted two images that it said were press photos of the upcoming handset. BGR exclusively reported that the BlackBerry Z10 will priced under the standard $199
Sharp is hoping to revolutionize mobile displays with their IGZO technology, a new sort of screen that features in the company’s latest smartphones. The Sharp Aquos Phone SH-02E has been available in Japan for a little while now and sports a 4.9-inch 720p display. The handset is powered by a quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro [...]
Huawei (002502) on Monday took the wraps off its colossal Ascend Mate and Ascend D2 smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Ascend Mate is the larger of the two and is equipped with a 6.1-inch 720p display, a 1.5GHz in-house quad-core processor, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a massive 4,050 mAh battery. The smaller Ascend D2 features a 5-inch 1080p display with a class leading pixel density of 443 pixels-per-inch. The smartphone is equipped with the same 1.5GHz quad-core processor as its larger sibling, and includes a 3,000 mAh battery and a 13-megapixel rear camera. The Ascend Mate also includes a “Magic Touch” feature, which provides enhanced screen responsiveness even when wearing gloves, and the Ascend D2
Another week, another batch of purported leaks for Research In Motion’s (RIMM) first BlackBerry 10-powered Z10. BBin claims to have most of the Z10′s final specs confirmed and it is shaping up to be a powerful device. Rumored specs for the Z10 include a TI OMAP 4470 1.5GHz dual-core processor (Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8960 for the U.S. and Canada), a 4.2-inch display (1,280 x 768 resolution), quad-band LTE, 2GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, a 2-megapixel front camera, a microSD card slot, and an 1,800 mAh removable battery. On the connectivity side, the Z10 is also rumored to have NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, dual-band 802.11 a/g/n Wi-Fi, A-GPS, a Micro USB port and a Micro HDMI-out port.
Confusingly announced by Fujitsu, the Toshiba Regza T-02D will settle into a wall of similarly bright-colored, good-looking smartphones in NTT DoCoMo stores starting this week. The (Japan-only) phone’s 4.3-inch OLED screen holds onto a middling qHD r…
