Tag Archives: Smartphone

Samsung’s latest 8MP cameraphone sensor has backside illumination, zero shutter lag

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Samsung hasn’t shown off all of its new tech at MWC 2012 yet, but one more early announcement is a new “premium” cameraphone sensor, the 8MP S5K3H7. Its new 1.4um CMOS shown above features backside illumination (BSI) technology for better quality in l…


Lumigon’s T2 smartphone wants to control your TV, obey your commands

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Ever notice how often you lose your TV remote, but how rarely lose track of that social lifeline you call a smartphone? So did the folks at Denmark-based Lumigon, that’s why they’ve put their Scandinavian heads together to build the Lumigon T2, a Andr…


Refresh Roundup: week of February 20th, 2012

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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a…


HTC One X photos appear, HTC One V and HTC One S also coming at MWC?

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Greek site FullGSM has published photos and information surrounding what looks to be HTC’s upcoming quad-core flagship Android phone, the HTC One X. It appears that there might also be a lineup of smartphones with the One name, as it’s rep…


ViewSonic announces new smartphones and tablets for MWC

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ViewSonic on Friday announced a slew of new smartphones and tablets set to debut at Mobile World Congress, SlashGear reports. The company’s Android-powered ViewPhone 4s looks to compete directly with Apple’s iPhone, featuring a 3.5-inch 960 x 640-pixel display with 326ppi, Ice Cream Sandwich, dual SIMs, a 5-megapixel camera and a VGA font facing secondary camera. ViewSonic’s two other smartphones, the 5-inch ViewPhone 5e and 3.5-inch ViewPhone 4e, will run Android 4.0, support dual-SIMs and the latter of the two will sport a 650MHz processor. In addition to the three new smartphones, ViewSonic has announced three tablets: the ViewPad G70, the E100 and P100. Read on for more. The G70 features a 7-inch 1024 x 600-pixel capacitive IPS display, 1GB of RAM,


Dropbox app drops the beta: automatic photo upload goes official on Android, coming soon to iOS

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While those lucky beta testers managed to get a healthy lump of extra Dropbox storage for their efforts, the mobile app’s new auto-upload feature has officially arrived. The update is now available on Android devices and we’re promised that the Apple-…


ViewSonic goes dual-SIM with ViewPhone 4s, 4e and 5e, all packing Android Ice Cream Sandwich

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When you’re ready, here’s yet another load of pre-MWC goodness. This year ViewSonic decided that merely slapping Ice Cream Sandwich on its new ViewPhones isn’t good enough, so instead, the company’s just-announced 4s, 4e and 5e also come with an extra…


Samsung Galaxy S II sells over 20 million units in 10 months

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Samsung announced in late September that the company sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones, and five months later the popular handset has crossed the 20-million shipment mark. The smartphone’s predecessor, the Galaxy S, took 17 months to reach…


ComScore report finds 42 percent of US mobile users have smartphones, Android at nearly 50 percent

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ComScore released its annual Digital Future in Focus report earlier this month, offering new findings on things like email and web use, and it’s now out with its latest Mobile Future in Focus report, which provides a year-end wrap of mobile device use…


NEC jumps the gun, debuts its MWC smartphone lineup ahead of Barcelona

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2012 may prove to be a very good year for NEC, which has launched two smartphones and a tablet in the past month alone. Having not missed a beat, the Japanese firm has gone ahead and revealed its lineup for Mobile World Congress a full week ahead of t…