what makes a good smartphone? we would obliged to think that it takes more than just an intuitive OS. ‘more’ as in the design plays a pretty significant part of the whole package. Windows phone really could get a little in the latter department and to us, the Huawei Ascend W1 Windows Phone might just make the cut. the W1 is the Chinese communication giant’s first…
so you think 5.5-inch handset is BIG? wait till you hear about the Huawei Ascend Mate Smartphone. with its 6.1-inch HD display and a screen-to-body ratio of 73 percent, the Mate officially snags the title of the world’s largest screen smartphone, beating the Note II by a good 0.6″. powered by a 1.5GHz Hi-Silicon K3V2…
the market is certainly not lacking of giant smartphones but as far as us, the consumers, are concerned, it won’t hurt a bit to have more options. one of the latest to join the big phone fray is Chinese maker, Nubia with its Z5 Android Smartphone. officially unveiled in Beijing a day after Christmas, the Z5 looks to be pretty promising in terms of the look department…
we are always excited whenever there is a new smartphone releases but we are not so thrilled if we are required to be tied to a two-year consumer contract. thankfully, there are still makers out there that believe that a phone should be, well, a phone and its users shouldn’t be a slave to big corporate’s huge profiteering plan. the BLU Vivo 4.65 HD Smartphone happens…
fiction: we can teleport ourselves to any place on Earth in an instant. fact: smartphone can actually have two displays – back-to-back – as proven by Russian firm Yota Devices’s YotaPhone (not to be confused with the little green saint-like Jedi master). and it is already off the drawing board and now a real life working…
not content with having just a model or two giant smartphones in its arsenal, Samsung has announced yet another 5-inch monster, dubbed the Samsung GALAXY Grand smartphone. though running on the latest Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, the Grand is not a premium phone by any means. it is a smartphone that’s largely occupied with entry-level specifications by today’s standard: 1.2GHz…
do you love to surf the Internet on the go without being bogged down by the heft of say, a laptop or to some extend, a tablet? yeah. sometimes travel light can go to quite an extreme and we are guilty of that. if so, then a large screen smartphone should do the trick and that being said, what’s better than having one that’s slapped with a 5-inch display? speaking of which, Chinese…
these days, smartphone is growing in physical size and this phenomena is naturally, not everyone’s cup of tea. lucky for those who still prefers smaller screen size, there are still smaller models to go to such as this one from Japan electronics Sony, dubbed the Xperia E. powered by the Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Xperia E is driven by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon…
although we may never be able to lay our hands on the DROID DNA by HTC but that doesn’t stop us from appreciating its beauty. the DROID DNA sports a slim form factor and a deep black, soft-touch back that beckons you to hold it while red accents on the earpiece grill, microgrill patterned sidewalls, main camera bezel and Beats Audio branding breaks the monotony of the…
so what’s the biggest news today? no, it is not the Hurricane Sandy but it’s the products coming out from the Mountain View folks and needless to say, nothing excites us the most than the next generation Nexus phone, dubbed as Google Nexus 4. powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with 2GB of RAM, this newest flagship phone from…
love the Nokia Lumia 920 and 810 but put off by their higher prices? fret not my friends, cos’ the Finnish firm has an answer for you and that’s the new Nokia Lumia 510. marketed as an entry-level smartphone, the 510 is the latest Nokia’s bid to rekindle cost-conscious consumers’ interest in their smartphone line and with that, Nokia indeed took a ‘serious trim’ on the spec…