The Wall Street Journal reports Apple is working on a cheaper, lower end iPhone: Apple is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped. While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing and...
Samsung Electronics, Apple's biggest rival and global leader in mobiles and memory chips, has today announced that the company has earned a quarterly profit of $8.3 billion, selling almost 500 handsets a minute, reports Reuters. While the Korean company has been setting back to back record quarters for over a year now, investors believe that this run may end...
Qualcomm has today announced the all new Snapdragon 800 and 600 mobile processors at its CES 2013 keynote, designed to meet the demands of high-end smartphones and tablets. The company's new flagship processor, the Snapdragon 800, promises to deliver 75% better performance its previous top of the line chip, the Snapdragon S4. The Snapgragon 800, which is capable of speeds...
Netflix is a great streaming content service for TV and movies, but for households with multiple users it gets really messy. Recommendations turn into a mixed bag with so many people watching different shows all the time. GigaOM was able to get access to Netflix's upcoming feature of personalized profiles at CES 2013. Essentially, every...
A fresh report by Taiwanese publication DigiTimes is claiming that Apple is expected to release a cheaper iPhone for emerging markets, such as China, during the second half of 2013. The report further suggests that some sources inside the supply chain have actually seen the low-priced device, that packs the same larger display as the...
Nokia currently partners with Microsoft and their Windows Phone 8 mobile OS, but in an interview with Gizmodo es Español the CEO said "anything is possible" when asked about launching an Android phone: El País: Do you discard launching an Android phone next year? Elop: In the current ecosystem wars we are using Windows Phone as...
Queen’s University Canada in collaboration with Intel and Plastic Logic, has developed a flexible 'PaperTab' display, that could lead to a new generation of super thin, bendable tablets and computers, reports the Daily Mail. Gadgets using such displays may be virtually unbreakable and as thin as a piece of paper. The developers plan to launch the screen...
Nvidia, the global leader in graphics processing units (GPUs), has today announced the world's fastest mobile processor to date, the Tegra 4 for smartphones and tablets at CES 2013. The company claims its quad-core chip will out perform any other mobile processor, including the A6X chipset powering Apple's New iPad. Tegra 4 features 72 custom Nvidia GeForce GPU...
Lego Group is set to unveil the next generation of Mindstorms, the company's robot building system which first debuted 15 years ago, at CES 2013 in Las Vegas (via SFGate). The new Lego Mindstorms EV3 is centered around a redesigned “intelligent brick” that can be programmed even without using a computer. The report details that EV3 has more memory...
What do you do when a thief steals your iPhone, and there's an opportunity to retrieve it? You do whatever it takes, even if that means posing as a bodacious babe on a dating site to lure in the iPhone thief. That's what happened recently in Brooklyn, reports the NY Post: Nadav Nirenberg, 27, of...
Ciccarese Design has posted what it calls its 'iPhone 6' concept based on the iPod nano form factor that runs a fusion operating system of iOS and OS X called iOSX. It’s a possible iPhone 6 version, it is remake from a test [prototype] description. Like Apple style, I show you next iPhone with new...
Apple's latest desktop operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, accounts for 32% of all Mac Web traffic measured by Net Applications. This is the first time Mountain Lion has surpassed the popular Lion OS, which now dropped to 28%, Techcrunch reports. (more…)
