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Intel details Medfield based phones!

Intel, the PC giant has today at MWC 2012 detailed their plans for their Medfield based phones. These phones will use the efficient x86 architecture which offers performance improvements over a comparably specced ARM processor. Unfortunately for Intel the x86 architecture is incompatible with a large majority of apps as well as running hot. Intel are determined to succeed after Microsoft, intel's long partn ...

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300million Android Activations total, including 12Million tablets

Andy Rubin today at MWC confirmed Android's success with a total of 300million android activations or 5 times the population of the UK. Awesome! This sure will inspire developers and is an incredible milestone for the Android OS and Google as a whole. Considering that but a month ago the 250million mark was reached, Android's rate of growth is frankly incredible. The juggernaut that is Android continues to ...

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Asus Padfone details!

Asus Padfone details have been confirmed, and the latest news suggests that the phone will be of the 4.3inch variety with a qHD Super AMOLED display. Furthermore the phone packs a punch with a Snapdragon S4 dual-core, which although doesn’t sound much compared to the Tegra 3 offers similar performance due to its far more advanced Cortex-A15 cores.  The phone also features an 8MP camera and an astonishing le ...

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ZTE Era announced, fast but far from the best!

ZTE haven’t quite matched their bitter rivals Huawei with their quad-core Era handset but it comes close. With a 1.3GHz Tegra 3 alongside a 4.3inch qHD screen and an 8megapixel camera this phones is certainly no slouch but the slower clock speed combined with the lower resolution screen put this phone solidly in the mid-range category. The phone also offers an amazingly solid build familiar to HTC owners, w ...

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Phones4U confirm HTC One X plans!

Phones4U confirm that they will be selling the HTC One X, the new king of the smart phones, as to speak, which was announced yesterday at MWC 2012. The phone sales organisation has already created a page showing its various features, allowing you to pre-register to find out when you can order the device later this year. If you’re interested then you should check it out now on their website. A great phone no ...

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Microsoft lowering hardware requirements for Windows Phone

Microsoft is normally stringent with their requirements for Windows Phone, to the fact that all Windows Phones have the same processor, screen resolution and hardware buttons. This of course is a good thing to some extent reducing the problem of fragmentation as seen in the Android eco-system to zero. Thus Microsoft is able to update all of its phones at once without much work required. Recently though its ...

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The Nokia which is more of a camera than a phone!

Today at MWC 2012 Nokia announced a goliath of a camera-phone, featuring as its highlight a Carl Zeiss lens with a 41MegaPixel sensor underneath, and yes you read that right; forty-one megapixels. While any camera fanatic will know that Megapixels do not equate to quality, the Nokia 808 PureView’s camera is at least as good as your expensive point and shoot if not rivalling the lower end bridge cameras. Nok ...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 announced at MWC!

The long rumoured Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 has been announced by Samsung at MWC, sporting a slightly higher clocked processor, at 1.4GHz as well as the great S-Pen, capacitive stylus, which allows for notation and handwriting input. This feature alone is meant to separate and distinguish it from the Galaxy Tab 10.1 2 which offers similar if not exactly the same specs minus the S-Pen. What we're counting on i ...

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Whole HTC One family pictured together!

Straight from HTC's press pack this image stood out and we thought that you should see it too, the HTC 2012 family, highly similar to the family which launched this time 2 years ago and became highly successful for HTC; the Desire, Incredible and Legend. The design tips philosophy and general model of that success have been repeated here in a successful manner. A great image of some truly outstanding pieces ...

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HTC One S official

The smaller but equally powerful brother of the beast which is the HTC One X has just been announced. The phone packs a 4.3inch Super AMOLED display and a qHD resolution akin to the Motorola RAZR, as well as a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 which packs some super efficient and fast Cortex-A15 technology matching the speed offered by the Tegra 3. The phone is made from super resilient Micro-arc aluminium which offers ...

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HTC One X becomes official

The much rumoured HTC One X has finally become official with a Tegra 3 processor, an 8MP camera and a beautiful 4.7inch LCD display as well as 32GB of non-upgradeable storage. The big focus though is on the camera, getting improved software and speed as well as a dedicated image processor as well as an awesome sensor to go along with it. Furthermore HTC Sense has been altered to improve on speed and usabili ...

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HTC announces Sense 4.0

HTC has just announced a major update to its Sense skin for its new "One" line of Android devices. A number of the features were rumored in the months leading up to MWC with a leak back in January, but the announcement makes features like ImageSense, Dropbox integration, and WiFi sync official. ImageSense brings a number of improvements to the camera- shots take 0.7 seconds, the camera detects ambient light ...

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Huawei do a one more thing, and the 10.1 MediaPad is born!

Apple's trademark one more thing speech which was written by Steve Jobs, got a Huawei twist today as the hardware manufacturer announced the 10.1 inch MediaPad tablet, running Ice Cream Sandwich, as well as a 1080p display and its new quad-core processor. What we can tell you is that this was a total shock, but we're excited to see that a company such as Huawei can put out a tablet with these sort of specs ...

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Huawei Ascend D Quad announced at MWC 2012!

MWC 2012 sure is exciting and its just kicked off with the announcement by Huawei, the chinese phone manufacturer that they are going to make their own ARM chips, starting with their new quad core, which features 4 smart-switching A9 cores along with 16 GPU cores, hailing it the most powerful ARM yet. To show it off they've put it in a new phone, the Ascend D Quad, which offers a 720p screen, Ice ...

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