The Meizu M2 is here and it’s a lot of phone for a shockingly affordable full retail price of less than $100. Meizu is one of the growing stars in the phone industry: a brand from China, it has quickly expanded its presence throughout most of Europe, and while it has not conquered the United States yet, you can still …
Selling smartphones has become a low margin business for LG, based on its latest earnings report. The company posted an operating profit for the second quarter of just $172,000 for its mobile business. During the three months, the company shipped 14.1 million units, a 3% decline from last year’s second quarter figure. But the most incredible number is the 1.2 …
Down in Android land, it looks like battery capacity is the new max clock frequency. Ambitious Chinese manufacturers such as Elephone, Doogee, and the well-established Lenovo have steered the Android arms race towards fitting increasingly bigger batteries inside mid-range models. In fact, Doogee has devoted an actual sub-brand, HomTom, to making smartphones with big, huge batteries. The first handset from …
A new kind of memory technology is going into production, which is up to 1,000 times faster than the Nand flash storage used in memory cards and computers’ solid state drives (SSDs). The innovation is called 3D XPoint, and is the invention of Intel and Micron. The two US companies predict a wide range of benefits, from speeding up scientific …
Samsung has officially announced that its next Unpacked event will take place on August 13th at the Lincoln Center in New York City. The company has also confirmed that the event will be live streamed on YouTube. The press invite for the event suggests that the brand is planning to launch a device with a curved display, most likely the …
In May this year, a new selfie smartphone from Sony codenamed Lavender surfaced online. The phone is rumoured to launch as the Xperia C5 Ultra in the coming weeks. Now, an alleged manual of the Xperia C5 Ultra has leaked online, which reveals a bezel-less display for the phone, which was also suggested by the earlier leaks. As per the …
In September last year, Google launched its Android One initiative in India with three smartphones – the Micromax Canvas A1, Karbonn Sparkle V, and the Spice Dream UNO Mi-498. At the same time, the search engine giant announced Lava, XOLO, and Intex as its new Android One hardware partners. Today, Lava has unveiled its first Android One smartphone, the Lava …
While Samsung is busy upgrading monitors with wireless charging, and perhaps working itself to the brink of insanity in preparations for the Galaxy Note 5’s August launch event, lucky leaksters are stumbling upon the phablet in the wild and taking pictures of it as if they saw a unicorn! The latest batch of Samsung Galaxy Note 5 photos sees Sammy’s …
According to Strategy Analytics, the Apple Watch owned 75.5% of the global smartwatch market in the second quarter. While the 4 million units that shipped might have disappointed some Wall Streeters who thought another iPhone had been launched, it is way too early to call the timepiece a failure. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that for its first quarter after …
Rumors of a metal-clad 4-inch Apple iPhone 6c are everywhere. Just yesterday, we showed you an image of a battery that was allegedly earmarked for the model. The 1715mAh juicer would have a 14% higher capacity than the cell employed by the Apple iPhone 5c. In May, there was talk that Apple was monopolizing the purchases of Sony sensors for …