Manufacturer articles
May 23, 2013
Here we go again: another phone from Samsung brings another claim of patent infringement from Apple. While the issue Apple has with the Galaxy S4 is essentially the same as they had with the Samsung Galaxy S III and only required an amendment to the existing claim, this amasses a total of 5 direct patent [...]
May 23, 2013
Samsung have just announced that the Galaxy S 4 has already sold 10 million units worldwide in record time, less than 30 days from its official release date. The Samsung success beats their previous Galaxy S III and Galaxy S II sales records by a considerable margin: 50 days for the Galaxy S III and [...]
May 23, 2013
Have you ever felt the pressing need to have a phone that’s the same size as a 7″ Android tablet, and to hold such a thing up to your head to make phone calls? No? Me neither. However, this is precisely what ASUS has unleashed upon us with the ASUS Fonepad, which was announced earlier [...]
May 23, 2013
The Samsung Galaxy train rolls on, this time Phandroid have spotted what appears to be a new Samsung device on benchmarks with the model number GT-N7200 associated. Running a non specific 1.6ghz processor, which would make sense when you sit it along side the Galaxy S 4 quad core version that’s landed in Australia we [...]
May 23, 2013
Today we learnt that HTC’s Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, has left HTC. While in isolation, this may seem insignificant, but combine that with reports of many other employees parting ways with HTC in the past few months and we may be seeing people jumping from the ship before it sinks. On the other hand, we [...]
May 19, 2013
The ill fated Nexus Q was Google’s first attempt at a media player, but the high price and lack of features saw it shelved before actually being made widely available for sale; but it looks as though Google has embarked on another attempt at a media playing device with a new device showing up at [...]
May 19, 2013
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is shaping up to be the best selling Galaxy device to date, with Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun advising that the Korean manufacturer is confident that they will pass the 10 million unit sales mark at some stage next week, making it the fastest selling smartphone in Samsung’s history. Released to [...]
May 19, 2013
It’s been a rough ride for HTC the past few months, with slipping profits and issues securing components for their latest flagship device, but it appears that things are looking up for the Taiwanese based company; according to Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia, HTC will double their production output in May for the [...]
May 15, 2013
After being announced at CES in January, Nvidia has finally announced details on availability for their hand-held gaming console, which up to now has been called Project Shield, the name has been officially announced as simply: SHIELD. The Tegra 4 powered device will go up for pre-order in the US and Canada via retailers Newegg, [...]
May 15, 2013
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 arrived in my life late yesterday morning, I’ve had a chance to play with the device and start setting it up. While a full review is likely around 2 weeks away, I try to share my first impressions of a review device fairly quickly so here we go. The first [...]
May 14, 2013
Sony have today confirmed the rumour we reported at the end of April, the Xperia ZR is on it’s way. The specs that were leaked a few weeks back were pretty much on the money — a standout feature for many users will be the 13MP camera. Just as clothes don’t make the man, megapixels [...]
May 12, 2013
The Android gaming market is rapidly reaching saturation point, particularly in the large screen conversion. Ouya being the first, without a doubt the largest name and despite the fact that shipping has only recently started for their kickstarter backers – the most successful. Bluestacks, the company that has brought a number of games from mobile [...]
May 9, 2013
SamMobile have released some expected release dates for some upcoming Samsung phones that have caused a bit of a stir. Recently rumoured and subsequently confirmed, the Galaxy Mega phones, a “Galaxy S4 Mini” and the Galaxy S4 Activ (a ruggedised version of the Galaxy S 4) have each had their own share of headlines already [...]
















