HTC released a trio of powerful smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in February. The flagship One X, midrange One S, and low end One V, so where does the Desire C fit in? Its made to be HTC’s budget phone, for those who want the smartphone experience without breaking the bank. Vodafone Portugal let the spec sheet slip, showing a 600MHz CPU, 3.5″ HVGA touchscreen [...]

A new colored version of the LG Optimus Vu is now available over at SK Telecoms. This is the whitewashed version of the LG Optimus Vu, offering an improved and stylish looking smartphone that should be perfect for the ladies out there. Aside from that, no other improvements and enhancements were made on the smartphone, carrying practically the same specs [...]

Samsung has just released its Q1 results for the new year, making it the king of mobile manufacturers for the first time ever. Samsung’s victory came with gruesome news for Nokia who had been the largest mobile company since 1998, when they overtook Motorola. So just how good were Samsung’s sales? Spectacular, in only three short months they shipped 93.5 million phones, up [...]

With the HTC Explorer being the cheapest model that HTC of Taiwan has to offer at the moment, the Taiwanese-based company plans to offer something lower soon. This is after HTC and ST-Ericsson signed a memorandum of cooperation to co-develop a special chip that will power the new line of cheap phones which are set to be released by next [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S III is not scheduled to be officially unveiled until at least by May 3 but it seems that some retailers are already getting way ahead of themselves. A product page for the Samsung Galaxy S III has been put up over at Amazon Germany, revealing the official specs of the Samsung smartphone which includes the SRP [...]

The first Intel smartphone has arrived and is set to be available in the coming days. Thanks to a partnership between Lava of India and Intel, the Xolo X900 will officially be the first smartphone from Intel, something that will run on a Medfield Atom Z2460 processor clocked at 1.6ghz and boasting of “Hyper Threading Technology”. The Xolo X900 will [...]

Panasonic will expand its mobile phone business into the global market, targeting at nine million units of overseas sales in fiscal year 2016. Tokyo, Japan – Panasonic announced today that it will expand its smartphone business to the European market in March 2012. At the same time, it announced its aim to bring its overseas smartphone sales to nine million [...]

We thought it would be useful to compile a list of smartphones which have Carrier IQ pre-installed on them (as well as a list of those which don’t): – Sprint, T-mobile and AT&T in the US have both admitted they use Carrier IQ – Apple’s statement: “Apple: We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products [...]

ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih gave the world a peek at the new Transformer model, called Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. He also revealed that the tablet would be fully unveiled on November 9th and that it will carry Nvidia’s quad-core Kal-El chipset. This is big news, not only because the original Transformer was one of the most popular tablets sold [...]

Mozilla’s new ‘Kraken’ Javascript benchmark suite is really designed for PC’s, to allow a comparison between the speeds of the different browsers. It is very intensive, and takes many minutes to execute on current dual-core smartphones. Below are the results of running Kraken 1.1. Scores are in milliseconds, less is better! [Smartphone] Samsung Galaxy S2 with Android 4.0.3 (beta) and [...]