Samsung applies to register ‘Finger Scanner’ as a trademark in major markets
At the Unpacked event yesterday, Samsung unveiled their new flagship phone, the Galaxy S5 and one of the key features discussed was the Finger Scanner built into the home key. This feature is important to Samsung, as it opens...
Samsung launches the Exynos 5422 and 5260 mobile processors and 16/13MP sensors
Samsung apparently had more products to launch after their Unpacked 5 event yesterday, today launching two new mobile processors the Exynos 5422 and the Exynos 5260.
Both the Exynos 5422 and 5260 are capable of rendering 4K video, an option...
LG on staying ahead of the curve
The humble mobile phone has been around since the early to mid-80s and, since its introduction as a super large brick shaped device, it's seen many design iterations. But the design has been obsequiously slabbish since the launch of...
Moto X to launch in Australia – Moto Maker service could extend internationally starting...
The Moto X was a subject of much contention when it launched as a US/American exclusive, but it's slowly rolled out to other markets of late beginning in the UK at the start of this month. Now it seems...
[MWC 2014] HTC ‘Power to Give’ lets you use your phone’s idle CPU time...
Distributed computing projects are nothing new, but so far none have leveraged the ubiquity of the modern smartphone. During their press conference at MWC this morning, HTC announced the 'Power to Give' programme, which will initially target unused CPU...
[MWC2014] Qualcomm’s new chips, Snapdragons 610, 615 and 801.
Not content with just one announcement, Qualcomm has pulled a few announcements out of the bag overnight, unveiling the new flagship Snapdragon 801, and two 64-bit chips based on the Cortex A53, the Snapdragon 610 and Snapdragon 615....
Samsung Galaxy S5 – Australian carrier availability
This morning saw the launch of the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S5, it's bigger, faster and has more sensors on it than ever before, like the 200 Million customers who've already purchased a Samsung Galaxy S series product, there's...
[MWC 2014] LG introduces 2 new F series LTE smartphones
After pre-announcing their L Series III range of phones in the lead up to Mobile World Congress, LG has shown off even more devices over night but this time with two new F series mid-range LTE devices, the F70...
HTC takes on Samsung in snarky tweet, look foolish
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S 5 at Mobile World Congress earlier this morning, and HTC's social media team immediately took to Twitter to cash in on the buzz for Samsung's new device with the (admittedly pretty funny) image above.
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[MWC 2014] HTC announces two new Desire handsets – the Desire 610 and 816
Despite the fact that their 'Big' event is planned for the 25th of March, HTC is still at Mobile World Congress and took to the stage overnight to announce some new products, but in the Desire range rather than...
[MWC 2014] Samsung launches the Galaxy S5 – available April 11 in 150 countries
Samsung has just launched its next flagship phone - the Galaxy S5 - at its Unpacked event at Mobile World Congress. The new phone will launch in 150 countries on April 11 and features a 5.1 inch 1080p Super...
[MWC 2014] Samsung launches the Gear Fit smartband
At their Samsung Unpacked 5 launch event this morning, Samsung showed off their Galaxy S5 with a whole host of S-Health inclusions, some of which tie into other devices like the previously announced Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo,...
[MWC 2014] Sony unveil their new Xperia Z2 flagship
The Sony Xperia Z2 has just been unveiled by Kunimasa Suzuki, the CEO and President of Sony Mobile Communications. The new bigger brother to the Xperia Z1 doesn't have a large hardware improvement over its predecessor, although there are...
[MWC 2014] Sony’s new SmartWear Experience – Lifelogging, flexible SmartBand and Life tools
Sony have just made launched their next endeavour into wearable smart devices with the SmartBand, a flexible fitness tracker that's designed to pair with smartphone using Bluetooth via NFC to log health statistics.
The SmartBand is being touted by the...
[MWC 2014] Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet officially launched
At their Mobile World Congress event, Sony have officially launched the newest member of their Android tablet range, following up last years ultra-thin Xperia Tablet Z with the Xperia Z2 Tablet, and let me say, this tablet looks stunning.
The...