Posts tagged: smartphone
Samsung’s Q1 profit balloons 82% on strong smartphone sales
Samsung managed to top its pre-announced earnings when it reported results for the first calendar quarter of 2012 on Friday morning. The company reported a record operating profit of 5.85 trillion Korean won, up 98%, and a consolidated net profit of $5.05 trillion won, up 82% over the same quarter last year. ...
Philips W635, a Dual SIM Smartphone With Decent Specs
In case you didn’t know, Philips is in the phone making biz and now they’ve even announced a dual SIM smartphone, the W635 model. Seen in the images below, this device has reasonable specs and I’d place it in the mid end segment. It supports 3G HSDPA connectivity and packs ...
Motorola MOTOLUXE Smartphone Gets Launched in Turkey
Motorola has just introduced the MOTOLUXE Android smartphone in Turkey, though the handset vendor did not reveal the phone’s exact release date.However, Motorola mentioned the MOTOLUXE would be available for purchase for a suggested retail price of 749 TRY (425 USD or 320 EUR), probably via leading retailers across... (read ...
Q2/Q3 2012 Verizon Roadmap Leaks, Includes Galaxy S3, DROID RAZR HD and New HTC Flagship Smartphone
Although Samsung Galaxy S3 has yet to be announced, many carriers have already confirmed they will offer the smartphone as soon as it becomes available on the market. Verizon Wireless is one of the operators that will bring Samsung’s “next Galaxy” smartphone to its cu... (read more)
Verizon’s Summer / Fall 2012 smartphone roadmap
While Samsung’s Galaxy S3 has been the star of the rumor show for the past few months — with BGR leading the pack — we now have a clear picture of the smartphone landscape for late summer and early fall this year. BGR has exclusively learned details about most, if not all ...
Samsung Confirms Exynos 4 Quad-Core CPU for “Next Galaxy” Smartphone
Next week we’ll find out everything there is to know about Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy smartphone that will probably put an end to all rumors.Although we’ve got lots of information on the alleged Galaxy S III specs sheet, nothing has been confirmed yet. However, it appears that Samsung made ano... (read ...
Baidu Preparing $160 Smartphone Running Custom Android ROM
Baidu is China’s own Google rival, that started out as a search engine and evolved into cloud services, email and even socializing. In September 2011 the company even came up with an OS (Baidu Yi), that looks and feels like Android, but with Baidu equivalent services. Now they’re preparing a ...
HTC Discusses Smartphone Design During Frequencies Media Summit in Seattle
This week HTC was part of the Frequencies media summit in Seattle, where the Taiwanese company detailed how its smartphones are made. From the rectangular ABS block to the design planning, mockups and studies on the general public, everything was detailed.HTC has to start working on the phone somewhere between ...
Microsoft may be working on a two-sided smartphone display system
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published details on a Microsoft patent relating to a two-sided smart device display system for phones and tablets, PatentBolt reported on Friday. The invention features an integrated second low-power, possibly E Ink, display on the back side of a smartphone or tablet that would contain certain ...
Your next smartphone may be able to see through walls
A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, led by Professor of Electrical Engineering Dr. Kenneth O, have created a technology that could allow future smartphones and cameras to see through walls. The research brought together two scientific advances, one that involves tapping into an unused range ...
10 Tips to Get the Most from Your Nokia Lumia Smartphone
Nokia’s Lumia smartphones, those who run under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, have some great features to deliver to their users, but not all of them are known to all people out there. Many of those who chose a Nokia Lumia device previously owned an Android or an ...