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It’s just over a month before Mobile World Congress 2012 kicks off, and the smartphone rumour mill is in overdrive, with the latest leak suggesting LG will be among the first to unveil a quad-core smartphone at the expo. The new phone, currently known as the X3, will apparently ship with the new Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor under the glass, and a 1280×720 resolution, 4.7-inch display. Images of new powerful smart phone of LG have been leaked on web world and they are showing a slimmed... (more...)

Samsung has unveiled the latest additions to the Galaxy Y smartphone series, Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos new dual-SIM Android smartphones. The two SIM cards indicate that you have got 2 phone numbers at your disposal, for instance: one for work and one for your personal life. You can use data according to your plan, regardless of the SIM. Samsung Galaxy’s Duos and Duos Pro phones run on the GSM technology (850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands) and are armed with Samsung’s TouchWiz... (more...)

Though 50.000 is less than one-tenth of what Apple’s iOS App Store has and also a fraction of the more than 400,000 apps in Android Market, Microsoft’s ascent to 50,000 apps is a solid milestone given the time it took to get there. Windows Phone took 14 months to reach 50,000 apps. Android took 19 months to reach 50,000 apps and iOS took 12 months.  The 50,000 mark, which has been reached sooner than we estimated, is a key milestone, but more important is the accelerating growth of the Marketplace.... (more...)

Here strikes a new entry into the phone market from Samsung, which has released a dual-screen, clamshell Android smartphone known as Samsung W999. The new expensive Clamshell smartphone allow the user to opt either as a full touch screen phone, or you can use it as a regular clamshell phone, Flip to open. W999 is equipped with two OLED 3.5-inch displays, both of them at 800 x 480 resolution, running Android Gingerbread 2.3, powered by 1.2 GHz dual core processor. Samsung W999 Android smartphone measures... (more...)

The app, which pulls information from Facebook and Twitter accounts, turns friends’ updates into nicely formatted, perusal-friendly pages. Flipboard also delivers a couple dozen aggregated content sections (news, finance, music, tech, etc.) selected by Flipboard’s creators. The iPad app is popular for its attractive magazine-style presentation of headlines, story blurbs, and photos. The iPhone app adds a feature called Cover Stories, which Flipboard says learns from a reader’s interactions... (more...)

Motorola has launched its first 720p HD native resolution display based smartphone, Motorola Dinara officially known as the xT928. However, it was currently announced exclusively for China. Well, after Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus with 720p HD native resolution display, it is now with LG Nitro HD 4G LTE and Motorola XT928 Dinara to take the challenge officially. Motorola’s new Android smartphone xT928 is equipped with a 4.5 inch touchscreen display with 1280×720 pixel resolution (manufactured from... (more...)

AT&T stole some of LG’s thunder last week when it unveiled the company’s LTE flagship — the Nitro HD — before the handset’s official coming out soirée. Well, tonight LG’s gone and thrown that fete anyway, introducing us (once again) to its 4.5-incher. But you have to wonder why the company’s even bothering to roll out yet another Gingerbread-baked device when Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is already out of the gate and leading the Android charge with... (more...)

Sony Ericsson announced that its Xperia arc S and Xperia neo V are now available unlocked in the United States from Sony Store locations. The Xperia arc S runs Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) and is equipped with a 1.4GHz processor, an 8.1-megapixel camera, a 4.2-inch “Reality” display and support for 3D and 2D sweep panorama photography. The Xperia arc S is available in white, black, blue and silver for $529.99 without a contract. Sony Ericsson’s Xperia neo V also runs Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread)... (more...)

The World’s Largest Mobile Manufacturer from Finland Nokia Corp. has another successive net loss in the third quarter; although it was better than the earlier quarter and all the credit goes to low end mobile phones. After Apple and Samsung taking over the Smartphone market the other companies are struggling hard to push their line of smartphones sales. Nokia has been one the dominant companies and held the top spot in making mobile phones for more than a decade, but since two quarters the company... (more...)

Panasonic’s line of Toughbook notebooks can handle a whole heap of abuse, and the company is now cleverly expanding into the tablet market with the same basic principles of durability and security. Panasonic on Monday unveiled its Toughpad family of Android-powered devices, with both 7 and 10-inch options. The first model, the Panasonic Toughpad A1, is a 10-inch tablet that features a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of storage, FIPS 140-X compliance, optional LTE or WiMAX connectivity, GPS, a... (more...)

Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android, is likely to ease the fragmentation of the operating system, some device executives said on Thursday. Google unveiled Ice Cream Sandwich last month in the Galaxy Nexus, set to go on sale this month in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The new OS achieves much of what device makers have been trying to achieve by augmenting earlier Android releases on their own, which has created differences among versions on the market, according to some speakers on a panel... (more...)

HTC Corp. edged out Samsung Electronics Co. to become the largest smartphone vendor in the U.S., capitalizing on the Android platform’s popularity and a lull in demand for iPhones to overtake Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. A 10 percentage-point jump in share from a year earlier gave Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC 24 percent of the world’s largest smartphone market in the third quarter, ahead of Samsung’s 21 percent, Palo Alto, California-based researcher Canalys said in a statement yesterday.... (more...)

  The market for new technology hits a peak at Christmas time due to the release of an array of new devices and gizmos. It’s also a peak time for the mobile market with many people buying mobile phones for Christmas presents, or spending their Christmas cash on a new phone. There is always a host of new phones entering the market in the lead up to the New Year with some raising more excitement than others. One of the most sought after mobile phones this year will undoubtedly be the new iPhone... (more...)

  No discussion of current mobile phones would be complete without mentioning the newly released iPhone 4S. As with any new Apple release, there is an insatiable public appetite to be the first to own the latest gizmo. We have become familiar with queues outside the Apple stores, and the frantic clamour from Apple fans to experience the newest technological advances. The iPhone 4S is no different, with the iPhone being a cornerstone of Apples product range and a flagship for their innovations. It... (more...)

RIM is betting the future of its smartphone, tablet, and embedded systems on a new operating system: BBX. But there’s no word when it’ll be available, or what devices it will support. At its BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco, Canada’s Research in Motion officially announced BBX, an new single operating system RIM says will run on all its hardware platforms: smartphones, tablets, and embedded systems. RIM is touting BBX as combining the best elements of its existing... (more...)