When Samsung announced the Galaxy S III in early May, they showed off two color variants: one was white, the other was blue. That threw a lot of people off since many were expecting to see the same old black/white options that all smartphones have had for the better part of half a decade. Several … Continue reading “Black Samsung Galaxy S III pretty much confirmed, coming next month”
In less than four weeks Nokia is going to hold their annual “Nokia World” event where it’s widely expected that the Finnish handset maker will unveil devices running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system. According to a report from the Chinese website WPDang, HTC is also going to show off some Windows Phone 8 hardware, … Continue reading “Rumor: HTC to unveil Windows Phone 8 devices in late September”
Thanks for the amazing response to the second Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway on FoneArena. We are very excited to announce the answers and the winner of the giveaway.
The HTC Radar has got a price cut in India, and is available for just Rs. 15,799 from online retailer Flipkart. It was launched in India last October for Rs. 23,990. This would compete with Nokia Lumia 710 that got a price cut in January and retails for Rs.15,499 and Omnia W that is also … Continue reading “HTC Radar price drops to Rs. 15799”
Apple has purchased AuthenTec that offers fingerprint security on PCs and mobile devices for $356 million. The company also develops encryption technology, fingerprint sensors and identity management software. Some of their current customers include, Cisco, Fujitsu, HBO, HP, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Texas Instruments.
Samsung, Nokia and Apple are the leading Mobile vendors by shipments once again in Q2 2012, according to a report by Research Firm IDC (International Data Corporation). Mobile phone market grew 1% year over year in Q2 2012 with worldwide shipments of 406.0 million units compared to 401.8 million units in Q2 2011.
As turn by turn navigation becomes a standard feature on more and more phones, there is a growing demand for accessories like car mounts to safely and securely attach a phone to the car. The SuperGrip is one such mount which comes in a fairly small package but is surprisingly solid. Read on for … Continue reading “SuperGrip car mount review”
Ask any Symbian power user and they will have used Nokia Situations at some point of time. The application allowed users to automate profile changes according to various predefined conditions. The two core members of the application developed team have completed negotiations with Nokia and ‘Situations’ is the first app to be made available via … Continue reading “Situations spun off as separate company, Makes a comeback with fresh interface”
Emerging Finnish smartphone maker Jolla has partnered with Chinese distributor D.Phone to bring its devices to the very important Chinese market. D.Phone has the largest retail network in China and has strategic partnerships with China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom.
Symbian Tweet reports that an optional update being pushed out for Symbian Belle devices is bringing support for uploading images to SkyDrive. Users are required to authenticate their phone by entering their Live account details after which they will be presented with an option to automatically send photos to SkyDrive.
Thanks for the amazing response to the very first Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway on FoneArena. We are very excited to announce the answers and the winner of the giveaway.
Fun2Shoot live video broadcasting app from Mobile innovator is now available for Android. This app lets you broadcast live videos in near real-time as it is being recorded. You can also share the videos social network and contacts which can be viewed from the mobile or web browser. The app is already available for Nokia S60, Symbian ^3 and … Continue reading “Fun2Shoot live mobile video broadcasting app now available for Android”
Qualcomm has officially announced that the upcoming Windows Phone 8 devices would be powered by their Snapdragon S4 processors. Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 8 yesterday and have partnered with Nokia, Samsung, HTC and Huawei to bring Windows Phone 8-enabled devices starting later this year. The Windows Phone 7 devices came with Snapdragon S1 or … Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 to power Windows Phone 8 devices”
HTC has announced that their partnership with Microsoft to launch new devices Windows Phone 8 devices. These new phones would be powered by Qualcomm chips and would probably come with a dual-core processors and have high-resolution displays. HTC launched its first Windows-based smartphone in 2002 and launched their Windows Phone 7 devices in 2010.
At the Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft informed devs that the app store has crossed 100,000 apps. With the upcoming shared core between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, we should expect a much more exciting app scene for Windows Phone. Developers are now free to use native code for development making it easier to port … Continue reading “Windows Phone app store crosses 100,000 apps”
