Saturday, January 31, 2015

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UK Drug Dealers Love the Nokia 8210

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 09:23 AM PST

In the halcyon days of feature phones, Nokia reigned supreme. Its handsets sold in the kinds of numbers that would even have Samsung and Apple envious and the Finnish company dominated the mobile market for nearly a decade. Those days have long gone, with the advent of the smartphone changing the mobile landscape forever. However, there is a demographic in the UK where the Nokia 8210 feature phone still reigns supreme.
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CompareMyMobile Says iPhone 6 is Most Valuable Smartphone

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST

Trade-in monitoring company CompareMyMobile from the UK revealed its new 2014 report that shows trade in results from the country through last year. The survey shows which devices and companies get the most trade-ins, taking into account such factors as depreciation, and the most valuable smartphones.
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SolidEnergy Makes Battery with Double Life

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 08:41 AM PST

While smartphone manufacturers will tell you that screen, processor, storage, and RAM are the most important factors in a handset. However, while they are of course important to an extent, battery life is now becoming a major thing to look out for. However, it is also one of the things manufacturers are consistently failing with.
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Motorola Shifts 3 Million Smartphones in India through 2014

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 07:13 AM PST

Motorola is starting to make its presence felt in arguably the biggest emerging market of them all, India. Even though Samsung and locals like Micromax are getting most of the sales in the country, Motorola is succeeding too with 3 million smartphones sold in India since February 2014.
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Google's Growth Misses Wall Street Estimates

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

Google managed to increase revenue through the fourth quarter, but the company missed out on meeting Wall Street expectations. The results made the company's shares go through a bumpy day, initially falling 3% after the earnings call and then trending up by 1.44% later in the day.
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Did Spigen Leak the Samsung Galaxy S6?

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

You may not even of hear of Spigen, but the accessory manufacturer has a solid history of leaking smartphones. The company makes cases for up and coming smartphones before they are released and the latest is the Samsung Galaxy S6. So here's the question, is the device modelling Spigen's Galaxy S6 case actually the Galaxy S6?
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ZTE Launches Blade L3

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

ZTE is continuing to release smartphones, with the Chinese company releasing its third Blade smartphone of the month. Following the launch of the Blade S6 yesterday, the company has announced the new Blade L3.
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Google Explains why Nexus 6 is Out of Stock

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 06:21 AM PST

Google's Nexus 6 is the first bona fide flagship smartphone the company has ever released. Built by Motorola the device is a high spec'd with a Quad HD screen and Qualcomm Snapdragon 805. However, it has retained something that other Nexus smartphones have always had, it is not widely available. In fact, it has been in and out of stock sporadically since it launched back in November.
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Friday, January 30, 2015

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Image Leak

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:29 PM PST

There have been plenty of leaks regarding Samsung's Galaxy S6, and by now we have a good idea of what specs the handset will have (including the Snapdragon/Exynos saga) and even how the Galaxy S6 will look. We have seen some prototypes over the last couple of months, but those images have not been amazing quality. However, today we are getting the best look at the Galaxy S6 yet.
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OnePlus Launching new OnePlus One Cover

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:03 PM PST

OnePlus One has posted a new teaser to its Weibo social media page in China and the image shows the company's "Never Settle" moto, while it also says a 10:00am time. As I understand it, we can expect an announcement for the Chinese company tomorrow at 10:00am, but don't go expecting any new smartphones.
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LG Says Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 is not Overheating

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:54 PM PST

While Samsung and Qualcomm are not seeing eye to eye over the Snapdragon 810 processor, LG has actually already announced a device rocking the chip, the G Flex 2. Of course, the company also has the G4 flagship ready to land, but that handset has been has been plagued by issues of the Snapdragon 810 overheating, something that has led to Samsung probably ditching the chipset for its Galaxy S6.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Most iPhone 6 Users came from Android

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:37 PM PST

Apple is riding the crest of another huge wave with the announcements that the iPhone sold 73.4 million iPhones and recorded the best ever quarterly profit in business history. According to Cupertino CEO Tim Cook, the huge success of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus did not come from Apple fans, but instead came from Android users.
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Apple Catches Samsung at the Top of Smartphone Market

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:33 AM PST

This time last year it would have been unthinkable for Apple to match Samsung in the smartphone market, but that has happened through the calendar fourth quarter. An astonishing turn of events where Samsung's sales have declined and Apple's iPhone sales soared meant that both companies sold 74.5 million smartphones through the October to December quarter.
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Apple Catches Samsung at the Top of Smartphone Market

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:33 AM PST

This time last year it would have been unthinkable for Apple to match Samsung in the smartphone market, but that has happened through the calendar fourth quarter. An astonishing turn of events where Samsung's sales have declined and Apple's iPhone sales soared meant that both companies sold 74.5 million smartphones through the October to December quarter.
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Facebook Maintains Profit and Mobile is the Reason

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:10 AM PST

Facebook as a web company is a tired notion at this point as the social network is very much a mobile giant these days, or at least it is in terms of how it makes its money. On the whole the company increased revenue by a massive 49% through its fiscal fourth quarter to $3.58 billion. From that Facebook raked in $701 million in clear net income, with much of the revenue and profit coming from mobile advertising.
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Moto E Renders, New Motorola Handset?

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:56 AM PST

Motorola's Moto E is nearing a year old, which of course in the smartphone world means it is due to be refreshed. The affordable but well spec'd handset is still doing well in the entry level market, but Motorola has been known to be working on a replacement for some time. Android Police has now uncovered two renders of the Moto E 2, and it looks as though the company has not strayed too far away from the original.
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Samsung Profit Slide Continues

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:17 AM PST

Samsung's drop over 2014 has been well documented, but it is now in black and white and it does not make for pretty reading. Samsung recorded its third straight quarterly decline through Q4, a period that included the roll out of the Galaxy Note 4 and the busy holiday period. The company could not turn around its fortunes and profits have now fallen by 64% over the last three quarters.
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Apple App Store Dominates Google Play in Revenue

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:24 AM PST

In terms of the amount of app downloads, Google Play is well out in front, dominating Apple's App Store by a significant amount. That's hardly a major surprise considering Android is way and ahead as the most used mobile platform in the world. However, when it comes to making money, Apple's store is still the one to beat, and by a lot too.
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LG Grows Smartphone Sales by 24%, 59.1 Million Sold

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:50 AM PST

LG was one of the companies to capitalize on Samsung's waning fortunes last year, the success of the G3 flagship was proof of that. The company has hinted at significant growth through last year before, with impressive quarterly results. The end of year results also reveal LG is positioning itself among the smartphone heavyweights, with a 24% increase in smartphone sales.
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Nokia Impresses through Q4 with Big Profit

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:28 AM PST

2014 was a year of change for Nokia. The company sold its Devices and Services division to Microsoft, said it may never make smartphones again, launched a tablet, and also rolled out some impressive software. So, how is Nokia doing post Microsoft? Very good is the answer and the company confirmed that with its latest earnings call.
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Huawei Reveals 2015 Roadmap

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:05 AM PST

Huawei is coming off a record breaking 2014 for the company, with smartphone sales of over 70 million and revenue and profit at its highest. We already know that the Chinese company is going to launch a device at the Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona at the beginning of March, but what about the rest of 2015? Well, the company has revealed its roadmap for 2015, and it will be a busy year.
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Qualcomm Note Supplying Snapdragon 810 to ?One Top Flagship)

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:26 AM PST

Qualcomm, the premier smartphone chip manufacturer, announced its fiscal first quarter 2015 results today. While the company announced a solid period, the outlook is a little modest because the Qualcomm says that its latest high end processor (Snapdragon 810) will not be arriving on one of the top flagships of the year.
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