Usually, fake smartphones imitate handsets originally made by big companies like Apple or Samsung, but sometimes smaller vendors are also having troubles in this regard. China's Oppo, known for striving to make unique devices, is one of these smaller vendors.Recently, Oppo's been discovering a rising number of fake Find 7 and N3 smartphones. According to SoyaCincau, 644 cases of counterfeit Oppo handsets have been reported in Malaysia alone, and the problem is likely widespread in other Asian markets (including, of course, China).
Obviously, Oppo is looking into this, and hopes ...
It seems that more and more games require internet connection in order to offer a complete gaming experience, but there are still plenty of titles that you can enjoy without being connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network. If you're in search of games like these, we have a list that you should check out.
Google Now is getting ready to show you lots of new cards. The application, which gives you information you need when you need it, will soon have new cards from 40 apps including Pandora, Walgreens, Duolingo, The Guardian and Waze to name a few. A Google Now card can pop up and give you recommendations about which tunes to listen to on Pandora. Or, a card from Waze could alert you to a traffic issue on your regular route.
Please note: this is a tutorial for inexperienced users (beginners).
Want to try the quickest and easiest way to share links from your Android handset to your PC or laptop? If you do, you'll have to check out a brand new app called CaastMe.
Get ready to retch. The average smartphone is 18 times dirtier than a public restroom. One in six even contains fecal matter. But that is why PhoneSoap was created. Started by two cousins, PhoneSoap is a smartphone charging case that uses UV light to sanitize your handset. Available online and at certain Staples locations, the case is priced at $59.99 and kills 99.9% of germs residing on your phone. The company offers other accessories including a portable microfiber cleaning pad for your device ($4.95) and a polish for the screen ($14.95).
The first sub 5xx Lumia model is on the way to the U.S. Microsoft's stateside website now shows the Microsoft Lumia 435. This is expected to be an extremely affordable smartphone priced at less than $80 off contract. Of course, a handset at that price is not going to come with all of the bells and whistles, although it will come with the usual Windows Phone smoothness, Windows Phone 8.1 and Cortana.
If you have an Android phone or tablet, there are really just a couple of ways for you to watch the Super Bowl tomorrow, as the game action is streamed to your device. Those sporting an Android powered tablet should head over to the Google Play Store to install the NBC Sports Live Extra app. The tablet version of the app will allow you to set a reminder to notify you when the game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots is ready to begin.
Business must be great at Mophie. The company is apparently selling a ton of its smartphone cases that feature an embedded battery because after all, a Super Bowl ad ain't cheap. And Mophie is running a spot during Super Bowl 49 as well as offering as much as $1 million in prizes for a contest related to the big game.
Currently one of the world's top five smartphone makers, Xiaomi didn't start by manufacturing mobile phones. Instead, its first product was MIUI, the custom Android ROM that some of you are already familiar with. For those who may not know, Xiaomi is a really young company. It will celebrate its fifth year of existence (and the fourth of selling smartphones) this summer.
Screenshots from a Reddit user reveal that messaging app WhatsApp is ready to introduce the long awaited calling feature to its Android app. Based on the images posted by pradnesh07, WhatsApp plans on using an invitation system where one user with the feature places a voice call to another WhatsApp user, and the latter is then able to make voice calls using the app. In addition to adding support for voice calls, the update brings the Material Design look to WhatsApp.
Earlier this week, Apple reported record-breaking revenues, thanks to the fact that it sold an astonishing 74.5 million iPhones between October and December 2014 (with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus obviously being the stars here). Jeff Gordon, HTC's Senior Global Online Communications Manager, used this occasion to congratulate Apple via Twitter, while at the same time mentioning that he finds the iPhone "terribly boring."
About a week ago, we showed you a video about a new Apple Store opening in China. Apple plans on launching five stores in the country before the start of the Chinese New Year on February 19th, and the Apple Store West Lake location has just been opened. The video we showed you focused on Wang Dongling, an artist who specializes in calligraphy. Wang was using his special talents to decorate the store just before a huge throng appeared to witness the grand opening.
Just a couple of days after the Galaxy Note 3 got its Android 5.0 Lollipop update in Russia, now Russian owners of the Galaxy S4 (model number GT-I9500) can also get rid of KitKat and install the new OS instead - thanks to an official update provided by Samsung.
As reported earlier today, OnePlus is almost ready to unveil its own Android-based ROM, which owners of the OnePlus One smartphone will have the option to install instead of Cyanogen OS (or stock Lollipop - for those living in India, who can't get the Cyanogen version of the handset). The new ROM is called Oxygen OS, and will be officially showcased on February 12. Besides that, OnePlus seems to have taken another step towards consolidating its own brand, rather than Cyanogen's: as you can see on the left, OnePlus One units that have been ordered recently no longer have the Cyanogen logo on the ...
Apple, Google and Amazon have come to an agreement with Italy’s Antitrust and Competition Authority. The latter agency conducted an investigation in coordination with the EU over the marketing of freemium apps. These are apps that are free for users to download, but offer in-app purchases for things like extra powers or extra lives for a video game, that can be charged to a credit card.
The G3 flagship was LG's first smartphone to get a taste of Android 5.0 Lollipop (though the update is yet to be released in the US), and now we can identify the second one: the G Pro 2.
HTC, which in the past has been criticized for blowing big bucks on pointless promotion, has come up with a cool way to promote the brand. A rapper named Doc G has written a song called "Hold The Crown" and if you haven't figured it out, those initials are HTC. As you can imagine, the rap is all about HTC and the HTC One (M8) flagship model.
Apple's shares, still enjoying the momentum achieved from an amazing fiscal first quarter earnings report, scored a new all-time high today, peaking at $120. Taking into account a 7 for 1 stock split that took place last summer, the shares hit the equivalent of a $840 pre-split stock price. To put the $120 price in perspective, on June 29th 2007, the day the Apple iPhone launched, the stock was trading at a post split price of $16.66. The shares closed at a post-split price of $32.22 the day before the Apple iPad was launched. Since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on October 5, 2011, Apple ...
Usually when we tell you a story about a $42,000 cellphone bill, it turns out to be an error on the part of the carrier. But not in this case. A Connecticut woman who we will call "Dora" (not her real name, obviously) made a deal with a friend. As long as this friend paid the phone bill each month, Dora allowed him to use the phone number.
A few days ago, a prototype chassis of the Huawei P8 leaked out. The phone is expected to carry a 5.2-inch screen with a 1080 x 1920 resolution and should be powered by a home grown octa-core Kirin 930 CPU. Completing the picture is 3GB of RAM and a 13MP rear camera with OIS. A 2600Ah battery will power up the whole shebang.
Every once in a while we tend to use our smartphones for all the wrong reasons. We visit certain cat websites, or other popular hubs, and we want this to stay a secret. However, if you've got that brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 that so many people are talking about, you're bound to get your friends and acquaintances to ask you to look around it and they inevitably start to poke around in that most secretive of places that is your browser.
2015 is off to a busy start as we have seen CES bring us a lot of new devices in the beginning of the month, and leaks around the most exciting flagship Android phones intensifying, but it was also a good month for Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone apps.
French website NoWhereElse published a set of elaborate Galaxy S6 case schematics sent to them by an anonymous leakster. What we're able to extract from them are the handset's purported dimensions - 5.65 x 2.78 x 0.28in (143.52mm x 70.70mm x 7.19mm). This means the S6 will probably be a little taller, a little less wider, and a full 0.039in (1mm) thinner than its predecessor.
We took a glimpse at what's new and cool at the Play Store in the interface draping department for the past two weeks, and noticed a few launchers and interface tools that you might find useful, or at least funky to try out. Granted, the crop is not very rich, as people haven't been hunkering down on code too much after the holiday hangover, but a couple of interesting takes on your homescreen organization can still be found.
Another set of purported design leaks for the upcoming HTC One M9 has popped up, this time showing the handset in its alleged color schemes. including a golden version, and sizing it up to a One (M8) to spot the design differences.
Apple has found religion. After seeing how raising the screen size on the Apple iPhone could put a charge into demand, Apple plans on doing it all over again with the Apple iPad. It is a simple mathematical process. Going from a 4-inch screen on the Apple iPhone 5s and Apple iPhone 5c, to a 4.7-inch display on the Apple iPhone 6 and a 5.5-inch glass on the Apple iPhone 6 Plus, helped Apple ship a whopping 74.5 million iPhone units for its first fiscal quarter. That was up from 51 million units shipped the previous year.
Remember Nokia's Z Launcher, which recently launched as an open beta on Google Play and graces the interface of the Nokia N1 tablet? The streamlined launcher was among the more innovative that we've seen of recent - all in all, you get a single home screen with a clock widget, a short list of your recently-used apps, and a regular dock at the bottom of the screen. The main selling point of this home screen replacement is that you can search through your apps by writing their names directly on your home screen.
Here is an interesting story out of the U.K. It seems that there remains strong demand for a certain Nokia featurephone from a specific demographic. Because older handsets don't track where you are every second of the day, drug dealers have been looking to purchase old school phones. The model of choice is the Nokia 8210.
By increasing the size of the screen on the Apple iPhone 6 and Apple iPhone 6 Plus to 4.7-inches and 5.5-inches respectively, Apple went after the large-screened Android phones that were taking sales away from the company's iconic smartphone. The strategy worked perfectly, and it is Apple that has rebounded strongly with a calendar fourth quarter that saw it beat all Wall Street estimates with 74.5 million iPhones shipped from October through December.
Seeing that Sony operates the world’s second largest record label and other major music publishing businesses, it is a remarkable turn of events to see the company announce that its separately operated streaming music service, called Music Unlimited, will shut down at the end of March.
Although it faces fierce competition from local companies, as well as from Samsung, Motorola is quite successful at selling smartphones in India.
Earlier today, we told you that Microsoft had launched Outlook Preview for both iOS and Android. Google countered by offering another Inbox Happy Hour. That is what Google calls the time period when it sends out invitations for its Inbox app to those who request it. Google is going to allow this Happy Hour to run 24 hours, so if you've been wanting to download and install Inbox, now is your opportunity.
Here is a riddle for you. Two BlackBerry handsets received the iF Design Award 2015 and were each awarded the iF label. Yet, only one phone had a design attributable to BlackBerry. How is that possible? Here is a clue. The two models are the BlackBerry Passport and the BlackBerry Z3. Still not sure? The answer is that the BlackBerry Z3 was the first phone to be delivered under a partnership between BlackBerry and contract manufacturer Foxconn.
Here is a riddle for you. Two BlackBerry handsets received the iF Design Award 2015 and were each awarded the iF label. Yet, only one phone had a design attributable to BlackBerry. How is that possible? Here is a clue. The two models are the BlackBerry Passport and the BlackBerry Z3. Still not sure? The answer is that the BlackBerry Z3 was the first phone to be delivered under a partnership between BlackBerry and contract manufacturer Foxconn.
Ever since its release back in November last year, the Google Nexus 6 has been constantly in and out of stock. Customers wanting to buy the handset via Google Play were often unable to do so. Earlier this month, Motorola (the manufacturer of the Nexus 6) started offering the smartphone via its own website, but that didn't really solve the problem (right now, the 64 GB Nexus 6 is out of stock anyway).