Android rush

It seems that the patent wars are far from over. Years ago, when Samsung's Galaxy product line began to seriously compete with the iPhone, Apple brought the Korean manufacturer to court. In the course of their legal battles, Apple has forked over $60 million in legal fees and expects to be reimbursed for part of that amount: a cool $22 million. The two tech giants are scheduled to begin duking...

Samsung's plans for updating its high-end tier of smartphones have already been unveiled and we know the Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy S4 are getting Android 4.4 KitKat in January. As it turns out, though, the manufacturer is considering also bringing the latest version of Android to its more affordable droids. A leaked internal document shows that Samsung is...

ASUS will allegedly be officially announcing the Padfone Mini at a dedicated event in Taiwan on December 11. The press images of the upcoming device from the company have been leaked well ahead of its unveiling, though. The leaked shots come from the popular tipster @evleaks and show us the 4.3" smartphone and its 7" tablet dock. The smartphone will slide into the tablet in a portrait mode,...

We've already heard that Oppo was working on the Find 7, and that the device is going to have some top-shelf specs. It turns out though that the upcoming handset's hardware might be even more impressive than previously estimated. Under the hood the Find 7 is rumored to sport 3 GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 805 chipset. For context, most of the current top Android flagships boast 2 GB of RAM...

The press image of LG's newest smartphone with slide-out QWERTY keypad, named Optimus F3Q has been leaked, courtesy of @evleaks. LG Optimus F3Q will be exclusively offered by T-Mobile, but there is no word on when the magenta carrier will start selling it. The specification information and the pricing details of the Optimus F3Q are scarce at the moment, but the device is rumored to...

Huawei Ascend Mate 2 has recently leaked revealing design and pretty detailed specifications. We already know the phablet will run on HiSilicon's latest Kirin910 chipset with a 1.6GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 processor, Mali-450 GPU and 2GB of RAM. Naturally the Ascend Mate 2 will launch in China first. There it will be available in two models - MT2-C00 version (CDMA and GSM) for China Telecom and...

ASUS is preparing to officially launch the Padfone mini at a dedicated event in Taiwan on December 11. While the PadFone Infinity boasts a 10.1" tablet and a 5.0" smartphone, the Padfone mini is rumored to consist of a more compact 4.3" smartphone that slides into a 7" slate. The resolution of the displays won't be as high as one could hope - the 4.3" display of the smartphone will...

The latest comScore report on the smartphone market in the USA is out. It reveals minor increases of the Android, iOS and Windows Phone shares among the US subscribers, while BlackBerry's share keeps sliding down. As of October 52.2% of the US subscribers are using Android OS - that's 0.4 points more than July and makes the Google platform the biggest gainer. Apple's iOS and Microsoft's...

The latest App Store statistics released by Apple revealed that 74% of all compatible devices now boot iOS 7. The share of the latest OS version is up 10% since October, thus making iOS 7 the fastest adopted release to date. The numbers from Apple also show that iOS 6 runs on the devices of 22% of all App Store users. The remaining 4% goes to devices running older iOS versions. The...

The China-bound Sony Xperia C could be the right opportunity to smuggle some big-screened, quad-core goodness into markets where those things usually fetch a high price. It's certainly the right size too. Five-inchers don't necessarily have to come...

Google's Director of Engineering for Android David Burke has told in an interview for The Verge that Android 4.4.1 KitKat update is coming and it's bringing several improvement for the Nexus 5 camera. He confirmed that the smartphone's camera will now focus faster and will aim to select faster shutter speeds, not relying as heavily on its OIS as it does now. This means that post-update...

The Nokia Lumia 929 has managed to escape the R&D labs once again and has been caught by yet another camera. The phone is touted as the smaller brother of the Lumia 1520 that's going to debut on Verizon's network in a matter of weeks. Earlier leaks of the Lumia 929 have revealed it will offer a 5.0" 1080p display. The phone is also going to pack a 20MP PureView camera with ZEISS lens...

Pantech has unveiled the Vega Secret Up - a high-end phablet with a 5.6" 1080p display and Snapdragon 800 chipset under the hood. As usual, you'll get four Krait 400 cores clocked at 2.3GHz, Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM. The rest of the specs include a 13MP rear camera, 16GB internal storage and a 3,150mAh battery. The Android version in charge of operations is 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. There...

Having gone unannounced until now, the Samsung Galaxy Win Pro has popped up on the Korean manufacturer's China web portal today. The Win Pro retains the midrange pedigree of its predecessor, the Galaxy Win, but to a lesser degree thanks to its 4.5-inch qHD display. This is a marked step up from the 4.7" WVGA display of the Galaxy Win. Otherwise, the specifications are for the...

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple has struck a deal with China Mobile to officially sell the iPhone on the carrier. The deal is said to have the Apple iPhone devices available on the carrier's shelves later this month - around December 18. The agreement between Apple and China Mobile will open for the Cupertino giant the doors to the largest wireless carrier in the...

The European Commission cleared Nokia's acquisition by Microsoft. According to the EU's executive body, "the transaction would not raise any competition concerns, in particular because there are only modest overlaps between the parties' activities." Microsoft's official acquisition of Nokia will see Nokia's former CEO Stephen Elop return to Redmond as a head of an expanded Devices team....

The sales of Apple's latest tablet, the iPad Air saw a growth of 51% during the past weekend, according to a report from Localytics. The fact that the device has been on sale for just over a month along with Black Friday promotional offers drove the spike in sales of Apple's latest slate. The second place in the overachieve standings is taken by another Apple device - the first generation...

The UK carrier Three brought some great news to its subscribers today. Three has just launched its 4G network across the UK, but its rollout will speed up quite a lot in the next month and finish by the end of Q1, 2014. So, a pretty large portion of the Three UK users will able to enjoy 4G networks next spring at no additional cost. Three has also announced it is now dropping the roaming...

While the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is busy tending to its flagship duties for Samsung, the heir to the Galaxy S4 is making headlines steadily building up the hype. The latest rumors concern its body and some of its specs. According to EMSOne, a Japanese-based website, ODM Catcher Technology (Taiwan), BYD (China) and Ju Teng (Taiwan) has been assigned to make between 10 and 30 million unibody...

We first heard about the YotaPhone a full year ago, when Russian company Yota announced its plans of adding an e-ink display to a smartphone. The final product is now available in Russia and parts of Europe with dual 4.3" displays on either side. The e-ink display on the back of the device sports a resolution of a somewhat paltry 640 x 360 pixels, but enhances the user experience by...