As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas It’s that special time again — that time when Mobile World Congress looms, and HTC fans wonder what design philosophy they’ll live with for the next year. We might have just been given a peek at their future. Android Police claims to have a photo and screenshots for the M7, a prototype HTC smartphone that previously only existed in a slightly sketchy 3D render. The design appears to take a handful…
As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr An Asus exec has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that his company is “in talks” with Microsoft to license Windows Phone 8. Talk is cheap, of course, but at this point WP8 is much in need of friends and it’s interesting to contemplate what Asus might do with the OS, given that manufacturer’s penchant for quirky form factors. Speaking of which, the same executive — VP Benson Lin — brought up the notion of a Padfone-style…
As reported on Businessinsider.com by Megan Rose Dickey In light of the news that former Windows head Steven Sinofsky uses an iPhone, Spark Capital partner Bijan Sabet wrote a post asking why former Microsoft employees end up using products from other companies. Sabet noted how some might say Sinofsky is using the iPhone to evaluate the competition. Well, that’s exactly the case, Sinofsky wrote in the comments. “I have owned every iphone released (and every ipad and galaxy and kindle),” Sinofsky writes. “It is far…
As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired LAS VEGAS — Your smartphone is going domestic. In the age of the connected home, your mobile devices are becoming the central command, the brains, if you will, of the entire smarthome experience. It makes sense. Rather than remote controls with menus to memorize and knobs, dials and switches to manipulate, your smartphone or tablet becomes one remote to rule them all. You’ve always got…
As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Smartphones including the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC Sensation XL are consistently consuming more mobile data than tablets, according to a new report by mobile data analytics company Arieso. It’s the third such annual report the company has compiled — gathering data via its own network monitoring technology. The firm looked at the data demands of more than one million distinct subscribers over a single, 24-hour weekday in…
As reported on Engadget. By Deepak Dhingra Can’t wait for RIM’s big mobile refresh? Neither can major US carriers, apparently. Just like Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have confirmed that they’ll be carrying BlackBerry 10 devices at launch, too. Hardly a surprise, considering all threecarriers have stocked RIM hardware in the past — but still an important win for customers betting on BlackBerry. UK carriers announced something similar recently as well. As VP Alec Saunders tells us, BB10’s designed to be different and to move you forward — and going by what…
As reported on Engadget. By Zachary Lutz Samsung just unleashed a new phone into the world, but you’ve probably heard of it before: it’s the Galaxy S II Plus. The handset serves as a modest update to the original Galaxy S II, which contains a 4.3-inch WVGA (800 x 480) Super AMOLED Plus display, a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB RAM and Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). Naturally, you’ll find an 8-megapixel camera on the rear, which is complimented by…
As reported on Businessinsider.com by Jeremy Wagstaff and Lee Chyen Yee Steve Kovach, Business Insider A surprise hit of 2012, it is drawing in more users, more handset makers and is shaping the way we consume content. “We expect 2013 to be the Year of the Phablet,” said Neil Mawston, UK-based executive director of Strategy Analytics’ global wireless practice. While Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has blazed a trail with its once-mocked Galaxy Note devices, now other…
As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Just in the nick of time for the F1 season starting in March, not to mention this year’s other imminent sporting pleasures, an all-new BBC Sport has landed at the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Its creators promise it’ll deliver the latest scores, stats, news and analysis, all mixed in with commentary from Radio 5 Live and on-demand video highlights to help bring events to life. If you’re in the…
As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Think back to the days of Windows Mobile, to when PDAs were a thing, to when HTC barely had enough clout to put its name on its own hardware. That was the last time the Taiwanese manufacturer reported a profit as measly as today’s. Despite Peter Chou’s recent bout of hopefulness, the Taiwanese manufacture says it took home just NT$1 billion ($34 million) in net income in Q4 of 2012…