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We’ve known for some time now that Alphabet will be launching two new Pixel smartphones this year – the Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL – but information has recently emerged about a third, much bigger device from Google that may not have the Pixel branding. Codenamed Taimen (the Eurasian giant trout, and…
Financial news corporation, Nikkei, has come out with a credible leak about the upcoming iPhone 8. According to the newspaper, the 10th anniversary iPhone will sport a massive 5.8-inch screen, making it the largest iPhone display ever. What’s more, Nikkei says that it will be the most expensive iPhone ever made, which matches KGI Securities…
After struggling with the fallout related to the Note 7 debacle last year, Samsung has decided to open a new office in Seoul, South Korea, specifically for the purpose of product quality improvement. The company is moving the head of Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Kim Jong-ho, to spearhead the team at the new office. The team…
You’ve been following the news closely about Samsung smartphones, and you’re finally ready to see what the Korean electronics giant will unveil at MWC 2017. But where can you watch it live? Today, Samsung will be closing the day’s media events with a revelation of its own. Is it the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung…
Apple has once again leap-frogged past Samsung to nab the top spot in smartphone market share, according to a report by research firm Gartner. The two companies keep changing places with each other in their quest to be the dominant global smartphone player. Although a similar report from IDC showed nearly the same results, the…
For a while now we’ve been discussing the Surface Phone and how Windows 10 is critical to the product’s success in the market. With all the latest preview builds of Windows 10 Creators Update that have been coming out one after another this past few weeks, it’s important to understand how that fits into the…
LG makes some solid smartphones, but for the first time, the LG G6 coming on February 26, 2017, will get something no Android phone other than Google Pixel has – Google Assistant, the voice-based AI program that currently competes with Alexa, Siri and Cortana. A CNET report shows that the new smartphone model from Korean…
The CES 2017 held earlier this month has unveiled another set of serious tech upgrades demonstrated or launched by more than 3,800 companies. Among them is SoC behemoth, Qualcomm, which launched its latest mobile processor, the Snapdragon 835. The 835 is the successor to the 820/821 which was the chipset used in several flagship phones launched…
The global sales and shipment of mobile phones (including smartphones) and PCs took a hit in 2016. In the case of PC shipments, the decline has been going on for no less than five consecutive years. Last year, smartphones underwent the same phenomenon as well. In this article, we piece together the historical and forecast…
A recent press release by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declares that, according to the Department of Transportation, airline operators in the United States are no longer required to issue the pre-flight warning about carrying Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices on board. The reprieve is a significant one for Samsung, which issued a statement shortly…
During a media event ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show 2017, Qualcomm unveiled the much-awaited Snapdragon 835 processor for mobile devices. The first 10nm mobile processor promises a lot, not the least of which is the ability to bring Windows 10 to mobile devices. “That’s not Windows 10 with an asterisk” is how Qualcomm senior vice president…
Our mobile internet connectivity over the past several years has been defined by mere numbers and letters. 2G brought in text messaging; 3G gave us access to the Internet; and 4G now gives us fairly impressive Internet speeds. 5G is entirely different, and it’s coming this year from the likes of AT&T and Verizon. In 2017,…
Despite reports that iPhone sales during the last quarter beat out all other phones in terms of activations, Apple has decided to cut iPhone production by 10% for the first quarter of 2017, says a report by Nikkei. This isn’t the first time Apple is doing this. When there was a surplus of iPhone 6s…
Smartphones have been getting faster, sleeker, more powerful and much easier on the eyes over the last ten years since iPhone hit the market. But the form factor has essentially remained unchanged during that time. There’s only so much you can do with the body, the screen resolution, the color options, the bezels and all the…
A Supreme Court ruling this morning shows that, although Samsung did violate some of Apple’s design patents vis-a-vis specific components, the violations cannot be applied to the entire product. During the Supreme Court’s ruling on Samsung versus Apple today, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is quoted as saying: “The term ‘article of manufacture’ is broad enough to embrace both…
