Smartphones

A day after it was reported that it would launch the successor to its popular Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next year, Samsung has taken to its official Twitter account to put an end to rumors of a Galaxy S4 unveiling early next year.The tweet, which was posted to the company’s Continue Reading →

While Sprint’s iDEN network is getting the axe in favor of a new CDMA setup, AT&T will soon be sprucing up its near absent push-to-talk services. Targeting a November release with plans starting around $30, Ma Bell’s enhanced PTT will be compatible with smartphones running Android 2.3+, BlackBerry 7, Windows Phone 8 and even Java-powered Continue Reading →

Oppo, a company better known for its high-end Blu-ray players, is quietly preparing to lay claim to another smartphone title. Earlier this year, the Chinese company released the Oppo Finder, which at just 6.65mm thick edged out the competition to claim the title of the world’s thinnest smartphone. Now the company appears ready to take Continue Reading →

Apple today announced that it had sold two million iPhone 5 smartphones in the first 24 hours of pre-orders last week, more than double the previous record set in 2011. U.S. mobile carrier AT&T also said its sales broke earlier records. “iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the Continue Reading →

Apple is a huge fan of Snapseed, the mobile photo editor for iPad and iPhone from Nik Software. So much so, in fact, that Apple named it the 2011 “iPad App of the Year.” But Snapseed has an even bigger admirer in Google, which just bought the German company behind the app, according to a Continue Reading →

There’s nothing worse than watching your mobile device’s battery slowly slip away, and who wants to lug around a phone charger? Those built-in battery cases are typically clunky and heavy too. A new Kickstarter project aims to take frustration out of the equation for female iPhone users thanks to a series of stylish wristlet and Continue Reading →

While Apple surely wants its customers to pay a premium for iPhone 5 dock port adapters from the company store, some savvy third-party manufacturers have already started undercutting Apple’s accessory. 9to5Mac reports that the first third-party iPhone 5 adapters have gone on sale at Amazon and are selling for between $10 and $18, significantly less Continue Reading →

In March we wrote about the launch of UpTo, an iPhone app that attempts to build an event-based social network around your calendar using the iPhone calendar API. Whether you use Google Calendars, Outlook or Yahoo, UpTo goes for agnostic and works with whatever calendar you already have synced with your phone to eliminate friction Continue Reading →

AT&T said Monday that the iPhone 5 has sold faster than any previous model of the Apple smartphone. The network declined to offer numbers on the first weekend of the iPhone 5 going on sale — normally reserved for Apple, in which an announcement is expected in the coming days — but the cell network Continue Reading →

Samsung Electronics plan to unveil the latest in its Galaxy line, the S4, at the Mobile World Congress in February next year, officials of the company and its local parts suppliers told The Korea Times on Sunday. A company official who declined to be named told the daily news site the company is “ready” to Continue Reading →