Author Archive: Melissa
More liquid-cooled smartphones to be introduced this year
Apple, Samsung, and HTC are considering the introduction of liquid-cooling technology in their handsets, according to a report published by Digitimes. Smartphones featuring the technology will reportedly be released as early as the fourth quarter of the year. Such liquid-cooling technology will make use of slim heat pipes with liquid coolant that will work to [...]
HTC announces Desire 200 low-end smartphone
HTC has officially announced the Desire 200, an offering for those in the market for a low-end Android smartphone. The device appeared just yesterday in a leak, which already revealed some of the smartphone’s specifications. Many of the leaked specifications are exactly the same as those which surfaced today, so this list would offer few [...]
Huawei introduces Ascend P6, the world’s slimmest smartphone
Huawei has taken the wraps off the Ascend P6, the smartphone which holds the title of being the world’s thinnest smartphone as of now. Measuring only 6.18 mm thin, the device is also ultra-lightweight, tipping the scale at just 120 grams. The device made its first public appearance in a Huwei event in London, UK. [...]
Rumor: Oppo Find 7 to arrive this fall with 4,000 mAh battery
The Oppo Find 7, which is the supposed successor to the Oppo Find 5, is rumored to be arriving around the middle of September. According to the rumors, the Oppo Find 7 will sport a 5-inch 1080p Full HD touchscreen display. The “7” in the name may be deemed a bit confusing, as it had [...]
Sony i1 Honami cameraphone photo and specs leak
The Sony i1 Honami appears to be a cameraphone that will aim for the same kind of consumers as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom and the Nokia EOS. The Sony i1 Honami is expected to be the first device in the One Sony line. Such product line is the brainchild of CEO Kaz Hirai, who [...]
Rumor: Verizon to release limited-edition Galaxy S4
A limited-edition version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones will be arriving on Verizon, according to a post by famous leak source @evleaks. Attached with the information is an image of a web page which bears the tag line, “a phone that’s as limited edition as you are.” From the image, it appears that the [...]
“Tweet,” “mouseover,” “follower,” and “crowdsourcing” meanings enter Oxford English Dictionary
The social media meaning of the word “tweet” is now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). As per the entry, the transitive or intransitive verb “tweet” refers to the act of posting on Twitter, whereas the noun means a post on the same website. John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary notes [...]
6-inch 1600 x 2560 pixel displays may be coming next year
2014 may be the year of 6-inch mobile LCD panels with resolutions of 2560 x 1600 pixels (WQXGA) and pixel densities of 500 pixels per inch. This information comes from Korea’s ET News, which cites industry insiders from Korea and Japan as its source. Such LCD panels are an improvement over the 5-inch 1080p displays [...]
Apple publishes customer privacy statement, reveals getting 4k+ requests for data from government
Apple maintained its commitment to customer privacy in a fresh statement regarding the company’s implication in the NSA issue about customer data requests from government agencies. Apple said that it came to know about the government’s PRISM program around the beginning of the month when news organizations questioned them about it. However, the company denied [...]
HTC Desire 200 leaks online, sports low-end specs
The HTC Desire 200 is reportedly a new Android device to expand the phone maker’s product line. A hands-on video of the device which appears like it has been filmed in Vietnam has been published online. Such video reveals some of the alleged specifications of the handset. Among the specifications are a 3.5-inch LCD screen [...]
HTC One buyers get $25 Google Play credit
HTC is offering a promo of $25 free Google Play credit for consumers who purchase the HTC One between the dates of June 14 until July 15, 2013. Such credit may be used on any item in the Google Play Store, save for devices. To get the credit, one simply has to register the purchased [...]
Nokia phablet and lower-priced version of Lumia 920 could arrive this fall
A more pocket-friendly version of the Nokia Lumia 920, as well as a phablet by the Finnish phone maker are purportedly coming sometime between September to October of this year. It is, however, still unclear if they will have the same launch date. The first of these two devices will purportedly pack a design that [...]
French startup develops solar-charging displays
A France-based startup called SunPartner Group is reportedly working on a technology that will allow the displays of mobile devices to draw power from solar energy or artificial light sources to boost the devices’ battery power. SunPartner uses a technology called Wysips Crystal which involves placing what is known as a photovoltaic layer bonded to [...]
