LG announced its flagship handset for 2016, the G5. The phone represents a re-think from LG, which has altered the design and functionality entirely from earlier G models to help set it apart from competing phones. The G5’s stand-out feature is a removable hatch that opens the battery compartment and also allows modular accessories to […]
Kazam has unveiled yet another Android smartphone at Mobile World Congress, following the Tornado 455L and the pre-event launches. The Tornado 552L is one of the British manufacturer’s higher-specification mobile devices, fitting a 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek processor and a 5.2-inch 1080p AMOLED screen into a metal and glass casing that measures just 5.5mm thick. Just […]
SanDisk announced its new iNAND 7132 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. This speedy storage for mobile devices comes in capacities up to 64 GB and features impressive performance specifications. The diminutive iNAND 7132 measures just 11.5 mm x 13 mm and comes as slim as 0.8 mm. iNAND still packs quite the […]
The Car Connectivity Consortium today announced that the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, and the HTC One M9 support the MirrorLink standard for connecting to cars. MirrorLink is a platform-agnostic tool that allows smartphones to push apps and content to in-dash consoles. It competes with Google’s Android Auto and Apple’s CarPlay. With MirrorLink on […]
MediaTek is slowly introducing a new brand name for its mobile processors. Moving forward most of its smartphone and tablet chips will be branded under the name Helio. The company showed off the first two such processors this week, the Heiio X and Helio P series. The Helio X is being marketed as an “extreme […]
Earlier this year, it came out that the Galaxy S6 would support all three wireless charging standards: Qi, PMA (Power Matters Alliance) and Rezence. Today, Mediatek announced that it’s going to offer the first multi-mode wireless charging ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) to other OEMs interested in having the same kind of support for wireless […]
Alcatel is one of the latest smartphone companies to launch a touchscreen mobile device in North America, with the latest Hero 2+, a six inch phablet that comes with Cyanogen OS 11 pre-installed. “We promised big things for ALCATEL ONETOUCH in North America for 2015, and with our partnership with Cyanogen and the launch of […]
BlackBerry today announced the Leap, a new smartphone with standard slab touch screen form factor. It’s much like the Z10 that launched BlackBerry 10, but with a larger 5-inch, 720p HD display. It includes LTE, an 8-megapixel main camera, 2-megapixel front camera, memory card slot, and a 2,800 mAh sealed battery. It’s powered by an […]
Google said the company will announce Google-branded wireless service at some point in the coming months. The comments were made by Google’s Sundar Pichai, who was speaking at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. Pichai says Google hopes to use the service to highlight newer technologies, not compete with incumbent companies. Google will […]
Today Sundar Pichai, Google’s Senior Vice President of Product, announced that Google is working on an “Android Pay” API for the Android operating system that should standardize how mobile payments work on Android and also make it easier for merchants to be compatible with all Android Pay services. So far Google hasn’t had tremendous success […]
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