Advertisements Imagine a smartphone in which you could just pop-in or out parts, add a new camera or extra RAM or new application processor. Well, if Motorola is successful, your imagination might turn out to be real. Motorola today unveiled Project Ara, its ambitious free and open-source modular smartphone hardware platform. With Ara, the company […]
Advertisements Looks like XOLO isn’t going to be the only home-grown smartphone vendor to release a 4G LTE smartphone this year. According to a report in The Economic Times, Micromax is also planning to launch a 4G LTE smartphone by December and it will support voice-over-LTE. “We want to establish ourselves on LTE and offer […]
Advertisements Over six months after it started investigating Samsung over allegations of hiring students to attack HTC and recommend Samsung products online, Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has fined the local unit of Samsung. The FTC noted on in a statement on its website Samsung had organized an Internet campaign in violation of fair trade rules […]
Advertisements Reports originating from South Korea reveal that Samsung co-CEO JK Shin stated at a local press event that the company has shipped 40 million units of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone since the launch earlier this year. To remind you, Samsung Galaxy S4 went on sale in in late-April this year. This revelation comes […]
Advertisements Reports coming in from Wall Street Journal and Reuters suggest that HTC is planning to move some of its smartphone production to contract-manufacturers as seeks ways to save money. The Taiwanese manufacturer, which reported its first quarterly loss in Q3, has been in talks with FIH Mobile and Wistron contract manufacturers to outsource smartphone […]
Advertisements HTC and SRCH2 have announced that they have teamed up to bring lightning fast search on future HTC smartphones. The Taiwan-based smartphone maker will be including SRCH2’s advanced search capability in its next-generation devices. For those of you unaware of SRCH2, it is an enterprise search start-up founded by Xooglers. “Search-as-you-type on a handset […]
Advertisements Just two days after Financial Times reported HTC is working on a wearable device, more details have come out via Bloomberg. The news outlet reveals that this wearable device is going to be a smartwatch and will be released sometime in the second half of 2014. According to Bloomberg’s sources, pricing and other details […]
Advertisements HTC is reportedly working on a tablet and a wearable device, as it looks to expand beyond smartphones. It is not the first time the company is planning to launch a tablet, it released two tablets – Flyer and Jetstream – back in 2011 but has since stayed away from the segment. HTC has […]