Qualcomm is best known for its range of mobile processors, but did you know that the company is also working on its own display technologies as well? Known as Mirasol, Qualcomm’s new displays aim to rival the current crop of OLED and LCD displays with a higher resolution and improved energy efficiency.Although these products are [...]
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Samsung and automation: a new level of smartphone mass production
May 23rd, 2013 
dantekEver wondered how Samsung manages to produce millions and millions of mobile devices while still keeping costs down? Well, Samsung is likely able to bring these costs even lower, as it plans to increase automation in its manufacturing process. According to Korean publication ETNews, Samsung has launched its “Gumi Project” earlier this year, which is [...]
Consumer Reports: Galaxy S4 best smartphone, Galaxy Note 8.0 beats iPad mini in rankings
May 21st, 2013 dantekTwo of Samsung’s latest mobile products, a smartphone and a tablet, have been praised for their performance by Consumer Reports.We’re looking at the recently launched Galaxy S4 (our review here) and Galaxy Note 8.0 (our review here), with both receiving plenty of positive remarks from the publication.The Galaxy S4 is Consumer Reports’ new “top-rated” smartphone, [...]
Consumer preferences towards larger smartphone screens on the rise
May 14th, 2013 dantekAccording to a new report by Strategy Analytics, existing smartphone users in the second half of 2012 were most likely to be interested in devices with a screen size between 4.2-inches and 4.7-inches. These statistics show an increase from a similar study done in the second half of 2011 where the preferred screen size was 4.3-inches.Those [...]
Xiaomi’s Red Rice smartphone aims to redefine budget smartphones, brings a dual-core chip, 720p display and MIUI for $130
May 12th, 2013 dantekAs part of its plan make to a major splash for 2013, Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi is rumored to quietly working on a special smartphone called the Red Rice behind the scenes— a device that could potentially redefine the budget category as we know it. According to tech site IT168, the smartphone is expected to operate [...]
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Which manufacturer should make the next Nexus (Nexus 5) smartphone?
May 6th, 2013 dantekNexus 4 (top) vs Galaxy Nexus (bottom)We’ve seen some amazing flagship devices being released by Sony, HTC, Samsung, and LG this year, but Android geeks, or connoisseurs if you will, are still waiting to see what Google has planned for its 2013 flagship Nexus smartphone. There’s a lot to be excited about when it comes [...]
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What’s with all of these “Mini” smartphone editions?
May 4th, 2013 dantekIt was only a few months after the Galaxy S3 launched that we saw the first Mini handset out in the wild: the Galaxy S3 Mini. Fast forward later into 2013 and we’re hearing about what is reportedly a Galaxy S4 Mini. Samsung isn’t the only one creating Mini versions of its flagship devices though. [...]
The thinnest smartphone in the world is now the Huawei Ascend P6-U06
April 30th, 2013 dantekIf thinnest smartphone are the two words that define what you’re looking for in a phone, the news you’re about to read will most certainly make you very happy, and if they’re not, well, the Huawei Ascend P6-U06 is still a pretty interesting smartphone.The device, which has made its way through the Chinese version of [...]
Oppo R809T officially announced, won’t be world’s thinnest smartphone after all
April 26th, 2013 dantekEarlier this month a rumor cropped up suggesting that Oppo was preparing to break another record by introducing the R809T as the world’s thinnest phone. The mid-range R809T became official today by way of Sina Weibo (China’s equivalent of Twitter), though a record breaker it is not.At the time the rumor suggested the phone would [...]
World first: Braille Smartphone in the works
April 26th, 2013 dantekCredit: Sumit DagarSmartphones and the internet are together making the world a more equal, well informed, and overall better place to live in. With the two technologies put together, almost anyone can gather information, start a company and harness the internet to benefit them in ways that were once unimaginable. But for the visually impaired [...]
