Tag: phone
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Sony Xperia Z4 Compact and Z4 Ultra Specifications Leaked
With the Consumer Electronics Show just around the corner, I’m sure it will come as no surprise that the rumour mill has started turning, and again more news has filtered onto the tech blogs suggesting that Sony are planning on announcing at least two new products at some point in the near future, and this…
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90% of People Will Own a Mobile By 2020
The future as a concept is changing very radically, of late time honored visions of rayguns, hoverboards and other staples from the elder days of science fiction have mostly vanished from the silver screen, or at least been thoroughly revamped – the same can be said of the 80’s-90’s era of ‘grimy future’ stories… all…
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Samsung Bendy Smartphone On the Way
According to Samsung, there could very well be a bendy smartphone in the works – a fully flexible display which is independant of most of the solid bits and bobs found inside modern phones. Whether the device will feature a flexible display attached to a solid component containing hardware, or some other configuration combining both…
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Nokia May Be Building New Android Phone
Nokia’s mobile division was recently bought up by Microsoft, the massive company holding the rights to Nokia’s name and branding on any and all smartphones produced under the partnership for the years up to 2016 – nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that Nokia are not able to go it alone with a smartphone which doesn’t necessarily…
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The Samsung Galaxy S6 rumours begin
With the recent release of the much talked about Samsung Galaxy Note 4, it was only a matter of time before the rumour mill re-started and changed focus directly onto the next flagship device to be produced by the South Korean manufacturer – The Samsung Galaxy S6 It’s thought that the Galaxy S6 is currently…
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Amazon Stands By Poor Selling Fire Phone
The ill-fated Amazon Fire Phone is just not shifting, according to a senior VP at the company. As you remember, the Amazon branded device, complete with 4 camera facial recognition technology and unprecedented access to Amazon stores, just didn’t manage to make it off shelves, potentially due to a lack of marketing and customer interest in…
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Google Modular Phone Trademarked as ‘Ara’
Google’s modular ‘lego model’ smartphone, known as Project Ara, has been making headlines ever since a combination of subtle leaks and media attention brought the phone to the public eye. Finally a copyright for the technology along with a final name for the device has been spotted at the US Copyright office. Project Ara is…
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Nokia brand to be replaced with Microsoft Lumia
It’s quite possible you would have previously read about Microsoft’s intentions to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands last month; however it has been confirmed today that it’s now official. Nokia; a brand recognised across the globe and at one point, the most successful and valuable company too. Over the years it has…
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Rumoured HTC Desire Eye with 13MP front camera with flash
The place to go at the moment if you want your fix of smartphone rumours is via the Twitter account @upleaks – and the latest bit of juicy info arriving from their direction is that HTC are apparently releasing a selfie-obsessed persons dream phone; codenamed HTC Desire Eye. The smartphone itself is alleged to feature…
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Amazon Fire Phone Finally Released in the UK on O2
The Amazon Fire smartphone has at long last begun shipping in the UK on the O2 network. Announced in June, it seems like an age since we first heard word of the online department store’s first entry into the smartphone arena after burning a niche in the e-reader-stroke-tablet market and after the Amazon Fire was…
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Lumia Phones To Drop Nokia Branding
The Nokia Lumia brand has been the flagship for Windows Phone for a good while now, but since Microsoft has taken control of Nokia’s phone side of their business, things are soon to change with regards to what branding appears on devices and in advertising. Apparently, all ‘Nokia’ branding will disappear from the next generation…
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Amazon Fire Phone Coming to UK on O2
Amazon’s new Fire Phone, with its revolutionary set of four face sensing front cameras, is currently only available for customers in the United States since its launch a number of weeks ago on AT&T. The phone is Amazon’s most noteworthy foray into the technology market, and has taken its sweet time to arrive in the…